Intellectual curiosity and a well-tuned BS detector. If the students in his digital marketing seminars come away with both, independent training consultant Steven Golus says he’s done his job. “You’ve got to have people who can do sniff tests in this industry, and to do that, you need a really good sense of the mechanics,” […]
The best-laid media plans of mice, men, buyers and sellers often go awry. On Tuesday, advertising data automation company PremiumMedia360 launched a solution that reduces revenue leakage, payment issues and general reconciliation-related agita for broadcast advertising buyers and sellers. Ad tech middlemen and agencies know the pain of slow payment. They place ads for their […]
Marketron wants to help the 6,500 or so broadcast radio stations that use its revenue management software to transact spot radio in a programmatic fashion. The company has rolled out an offering, dubbed Mediascape, allowing stations to see their sell rates and inventory avails, and then select those avails and publish them to Marketron’s cloud-based […]
Mobile isn’t desktop. That might seem like an obvious statement – but just because something’s obvious, doesn’t mean it’s being put into practice. “Some people don’t get it, and for a time, that was us,” said Michael Cukyne, SVP of digital media at Meredith Corporation, where he and his team focus on broadcast stations in local […]
Digital media could be the No. 1 ad category in the US by 2017 with $72 billion in spend, outpacing TV by about $1.5 billion, according to a MAGNA Global quarterly Advertising Forecast released Tuesday. The report attributed the shift partly to “the advent of programmatic buying in digital media and the stabilization of cost […]
