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  American adults streamed almost 142 billion hours of content during the week of May 11, up roughly 43% from a year ago, according to Nielsen. And The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green predicted during the company’s Q1 earnings call that reach on CTV will “rival and even surpass” linear TV in the near future. But […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Going Dark If you noticed your Instagram feed flooded with black squares, it was because of Blackout Tuesday, a collective protest against racism and police brutality. Started by the music industry, major retailers and brands such as Nordstrom and Madewell soon got involved, reports […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TV Pullback Television ad revenues will drop 12% this year, according to MoffettNathanson – a loss the research firm WARC pegs at $25.5 billion. Despite a surge in viewership, with people stuck at home, advertisers have slashed budgets by more than 40%. Lowe’s, for […]

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Much of JT Batson’s career has focused on bringing tech and automation to bear on the agency-publisher relationship. He was an early employee at Rubicon Project and a senior executive at Donovan Data Systems during the period when […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Are You Committed? Advertisers want more flexibility in upfront deals this year. Cancellation options are a big topic, with buyers pushing for the right to cancel a higher percentage of their commitments closer to air date, agency executives tell Digiday. Advertisers also want “expansion […]

Joe Hogan and his wife flew to the far corner of northwest Florida in early March for a long weekend. They’ve been there ever since. “If we’re still working from home in a month or two, we’re going to suffer through the heat of the summer here, I’m sure,” said the EVP of sales and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Short Stint The average tenure of CMOs in the United States dropped again in 2019, to 41 months from about 43 months in 2018. That’s the lowest number on record since 2009, according to a report from executive search firm Spencer Stuart. The […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. On Again, Office Again Agencies are starting to plan for office returns. Omnicom is developing a three-phase return strategy based on local government guidelines, Campaign reports. Phase one involves returning offices to 25% occupancy with social distancing rules in place, such as wearing masks, […]

YouTube is expanding the amount of inventory it’s availing in the upfront this year through a new offering called YouTube Select, the company said Tuesday. YouTube Select grows the pool of inventory advertisers can purchase on a guaranteed upfront basis by bringing more channels into Google Preferred. The new channels, called “emerging lineups,” are organized […]

Samsung Ads is making its CTV video inventory available programmatically for the first time to buyers, via the supply-side platform SpotX. Previously, the only way buyers could access Samsung Ads-represented inventory was through an IO. Tests started last year and continued though Q1 with a major buyer. Although Samsung Ads hadn’t intended to add programmatic […]

Consumer electronics sales are usually a bellwether of consumer confidence and the broader economy. But this year, all bets are off. Although worldwide mobile phone shipments have been declining for several years largely due to market penetration and higher prices, the drop in 2020 is expected to be far more extreme, down to 1.57 billion […]

Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. There is a mix shift underway caused by COVID-19 that will affect channels differently, according to Angela Steele, CEO of Carat USA. The best positioned media sellers can provide a clear line of sight into TV and video […]

NBCU said Monday it has added inventory from Sky to One Platform, its ad offering where brands can plan, buy, optimize and measure across all of the media company’s linear and digital inventory. Adding Sky’s inventory extends One Platform’s reach to half a million monthly viewers across 160 countries. Buyers can access Sky’s global IP […]

The Trade Desk earned $160.7 million in Q1 2020, up by a third from a year ago, with connected TV ads powering its growth and its growth prospects this year, according to the company’s earnings report Thursday. Linear television had been decelerating at a steady 3-4% clip for the last five years, said The Trade […]

There’s no traditional upfront season this year, but Facebook is still looking for its seat at the table. And it comes bearing gifts. On Friday, Facebook said it will extend its full set of native targeting capabilities to a small group of test advertisers using Facebook Reserve (previously called Facebook Showcase), its tool for buying […]

Roku isn’t immune to advertiser pullbacks during the pandemic. Platform revenue, which includes advertising, grew 73% year over year in Q1 and now represents almost two-thirds (73%) of Roku’s revenue. But campaign delays and cancelations increased in early March as stay-at-home orders were implemented, especially in hard-hit verticals such as travel, quick-serve restaurants, cinema and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. YouTube Flexes YouTube represents a quarter of all AVOD and SVOD viewership in the United States, growing 80% year over year, per Comscore. Among ad-supported services, YouTube has the highest reach and streaming hours, the company said in a blog post. Time spent watching […]

Anyone down for a road trip? Travel brands including Disney Resorts, Wyndham and Hilton are looking toward regional and local travel experiences as a way to generate some demand as the coronavirus plays out. “We’re retooling our approach to go-to-market … to be much more about local business and, in the beginning, drive to business,” […]

In its first quarter call as a combined company Thursday, ViacomCBS hailed its strength and said the coronavirus pandemic would accelerate its plans for subscription streaming services. Advertising revenue grew 2% to $2.5 billion, excluding the impact of last year’s Super Bowl and the canceled NCAAA tournament. Otherwise, advertising declined 19% year over year. Pluto […]

Roku said Tuesday it rebranded dataxu, the DSP it acquired last October, and is introducing it as a programmatic ad-buying platform called OneView, with capabilities powered by Roku’s first-party data. OneView was the name of a dataxu’s cross-device identity graph, which is joining with Roku’s data from 39 million US households to combine programmatic performance […]

Disney Parks are closed. Broadcast and TV advertising is down. Movie releases and Broadway shows have no theaters to play in. Cruise ships are docked. Live sports have been canceled, decreasing ESPN viewership. Disney retail stores are closed, and film production has halted. Many companies are weathering the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic because […]

While the coronavirus pandemic hit all of Comcast’s businesses in Q1, its impact on ad revenue differs across NBCU, Sky and its Xfinity cable unit, the company revealed Thursday. And as with every other company in the world, Comcast expects to experience much more severe effects in the next quarter. Higher prices stems NBCU’s losses […]

AT&T said Thursday it will combine TV ad tech division Xandr with WarnerMedia. Xandr Chief Business Officer Kirk McDonald will continue to lead the group and report into WarnerMedia Chief Revenue Officer Gerhard Zeiler. Zeiler reports to John Stankey, AT&T’s new CEO. “Xandr and WarnerMedia have always worked hand-in-hand to benefit our incredible advertising partners,” McDonald said in a statement. […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Clair Bergam, associate director at The Media Kitchen. At a time when dismal numbers dominate the national conversation, one of the few exceptions are those being generated by the TV and over the top […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Primed For TV  Amazon beefed up its ad-supported OTT ranks with the hire of Maggie Zhang, former EVP of video research and insights at Dentsu Aegis Network. At Amazon, Zhang will develop reach and measurement products for Prime Video advertisers in a role that […]

  Is COVID-19 the beginning of the end for upfronts? Buyers and sellers have long questioned the necessity of flashy presentations, especially as the broadcast TV business declines. Disney chairman Bob Iger recently predicted an end to the antiquated upfront process altogether as a result of the economic crisis. Ad buyers have been pushing to […]

So much chips and salsa is slowly growing stale, beer and soda going flat. If you think the average American TV viewer misses live sports, consider the desperation for brands that target sports advertising. The NFL Draft is seeing clearly enough, with a surge of demand from advertisers that are itching for the return of […]

With no live sports on the schedule, AT&T lost nearly 900,000 paid subscribers across its premium TV business, which includes DirecTV, U-verse and AT&T TV. That’s nearly double the number of Q1 2019 paid subscriber losses, which were around 544,000. Total pay TV revenue was $10.5 billion, down 7.2%. Sports have long been considered paid […]

News flash to no one: The economy is going up in flames … but Netflix is on fire. Millions of people around the world are under stay-at-home orders, and lots of them are signing up for Netflix, which had its biggest quarter for user growth in Q1 with the addition of 15.77 million new paid […]