The TV market’s vanishing impression problem is even more concerning than the numbers indicate. But maybe a little impression scarcity is a good thing.
Despite forceful calls for a shakeup of the digital ad business from the main stage at the Possible conference in Miami this week, the online ad industry remains locked in a harmful holding pattern.
The US ad market is set to grow this year, according to a Magna forecast released Thursday. Streaming and political advertising play outsized roles in that growth.
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Aiming for one thing and being measured against another is absurd. But this is how the multibillion-dollar TV industry has operated for decades.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cannot Fulfill This Request Generative AI products continue to fail in obviously foreseeable ways. The latest: Amazon listings that appear to have used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate product names and descriptions feature an identical error message, The Verge reports. Who doesn’t want to […]
The shift in ad spend from linear TV to CTV isn’t correlated to audience time spent. It’s because CTV offers entirely new possibilities to advertisers.
GroupM and Magna release their global year-end industry growth forecasts, sharing their 2024 outlook for CTV, retail media and the advertising industry overall.
23andMe’s holiday campaign is its first real foray into CTV, which the company plans to make a key channel in its post-cookie marketing mix.
TVision and Playground XYZ announced a partnership to measure attention on YouTube’s CTV app and fill in some data blanks for advertisers.
On Monday, PMG acquired Camelot, an independent media and marketing agency that specializes in buying video, OTT and CTV. This acquisition marks PMG’s first since its founding 13 years ago.
US media advertising sales surged 4.4% in Q2 after two weak quarters, beating June expectations of 3.6%. Full-year spend for 2023 is expected to increase by 5.2%, according to a Magna forecast released Monday.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. To The Core Nielsen is trimming its workforce – again – and by quite a lot this time, Ad Age reports. On Wednesday, the TV ratings giant announced plans to cut its global personnel by around 9% “in an effort to bring costs […]
Plenty of Fish is trying to establish itself as a relatively genuine, low-stress dating service. That’s why the company did a full rebrand and changed up its media mix last October.
In a wildly exciting and inventive sector, YouTube is merely meeting the status quo – with scope for so much more.
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With a feared recession yet to materialize, GroupM is feeling somewhat optimistic. The holding company predicts in its midyear forecast, released on Monday, that global advertising is on track to grow 5.9% in 2023, in line with its projection from December.
Cadent will integrate EMX’s SSP tech into its TV buying and selling platform. Some EMX employees who worked on the SSP will be hired by Cadent as part of the deal.
Despite a sluggish macroeconomic environment and jittery consumers and businesses, US media ad spend is expected to increase by 3.4% in 2023, according to a Magna forecast released Monday.
Ask most industry experts about the advantage of advertising on streaming platforms, and chances are they will tell you “better targeting.” It’s true that streaming TV offers much better targeting than traditional linear. The only problem is that most major TV advertisers don’t want better targeting; they want massive reach and frequency – and an effective […]
Arete Research’s Richard Kramer and Rocco Strauss predicted a reckoning in the year ahead for companies that depend on digital ad revenue, which they expect to decline by 5% to as much as 10% in 2023, thanks to “demand destruction.”
For advertisers itching to use automatic content recognition (ACR) to target their messages to gamers on their CTVs, 2023 may be their year. The expected expansion of in-game advertising to console games this year should unlock more applications of ACR data in gaming.
Advanced TV presents a robust set of opportunities for data-driven advertising and measurement. But does that mean ATV will supplant linear in buyers’ marketing strategies? Well, it’s more complicated than that – and buyers need to understand how to successfully manage and optimize across both linear and streaming.
The MRC is taking on the task of accrediting media mix modeling. But the industry needs to agree on definitions at the very least, then align on methodology. In the meantime, Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction breaks down how to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of existing models.
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Like most DTC companies, smart ring startup Oura spends a lot of money on paid social, but it’s also been boosting its organic marketing efforts and experimenting with search and linear television. Last year, Oura started working with Rockerbox to validate its investment choices.
The lines between traditional and connected TV are getting blurrier. YouTube’s Brandcast event will be the same week as the Upfronts. Is it a move to declare the end of traditional TV? Probably not, writes Lauren Douglass, Channel Factory’s SVP of global marketing – perhaps it’s YouTube’s way of asking everyone to “stop treating CTV and linear TV as two completely separate entities.”
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Historically, many industries and verticals have tended to overrepresent white men. Finance is one of them. Voya Financial, an investment company that helps its clients prep for retirement, is trying to bridge that gap by making the messaging in its ads more inclusive. On January 13, Voya launched two new commercials, both in thirty-second and […]
Something is rotten in the state of CTV. If you’re a fan of streaming, you probably have a few pet peeves that take you out of the zone, like repeat ads or interruptive ad breaks. Nothing ruins a good show more than thinking it’s trying to sell you something. These problems were solved with a […]
