Forecasters expected tariffs would impact advertising growth projections. But that was before we knew exactly how steep these tariffs would be – and now that we do, it doesn’t bode well.
What does it take to serve midsize brand clients? How is AI transforming media buying? And why, for the love of god, is measurement still so messed up? Mediastruction CEO and Founding Partner Marilois Snowman has a few thoughts.
Trap More Flies With Honey Honey, a free browser extension that automatically finds and applies discount codes, is being accused of defrauding its users and the online content creators who championed it. That’s according to a YouTube tech investigator who goes by MegaLag. He alleges that the PayPal-owned Honey effectively steals the credit for online […]
The democratization of media mix modeling is the main idea behind the launch of marketing analytics platform FutureSight.online.
The Department of Justice wants to break up Google’s ad tech stack. But how would separating Google’s publisher technology into a standalone entity affect the ad ecosystem? There are pros and cons.
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.
Managing digital campaigns for the mid-market is hard. Mid-marketers need to consider speed, smarts, scale and spend. But pick three, writes Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction.
The advertising industry is taking a few hits these days. Legislators are looking hard at treating ad platforms like utilities. Nefarious state actors have hacked our political discourse and even our understanding of facts. But this isn’t the first time the ad industry is facing choppy waters. The ad world is in desperate need of a new position: the Chief Morality Officer, writes Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction.
Half of the $200 billiion ad market pie is funded by mid-market and long-tail advertisers that keep the global ad engine running. But despite representing such a massive chunk of the marketplace, mid-market advertisers face many constraints with few tools to answer the most basic existential questions in advertising, writes Marilois Snowman, CEO & Founder of Mediastruction.
Media industry influencers wrote books about the impact of reach and the importance of reach over frequency. Even today, as media agencies share strategies to combine live/linear with streaming, the discussion often centers on “incremental reach.” But here’s the thing. Just about any reach calculation you see is an illusion, writes Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction.
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction. Nearly two decades ago, a group of top brand CMOs met secretly in the Procter & Gamble conference room. The topic: How do we change the arbitraged system […]
