BuzzFeed’s Struggles Continue As It Banks On Gen AI And Long-Form Video
As stiffer competition between social media companies shuts out publishers that depend on social traffic, BuzzFeed’s ad revenue drops 35%.
As stiffer competition between social media companies shuts out publishers that depend on social traffic, BuzzFeed’s ad revenue drops 35%.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CMax, LOL Criteo reported earnings on Wednesday. It wasn’t a blockbuster – gross revenue ticked down from $495 million in Q2 2022 to $469 million this year – but Criteo clawed back to about even in terms of profitability after dipping into the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Searching Elsewhere “Google” has become a verb that’s synonymous with “search.” But Google isn’t the only place to go to find content and products. Google’s own internal research shows that 40% of young people use platforms like Instagram and TikTok as a de […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Long Story Short Short-form video content is often thought of as tangentially competitive to traditional TV broadcasters and entertainment studios. That’s partly because short, user-generated social content (TikTok in particular) doesn’t compete directly with TV studios for ad budgets, writes Doug Shapiro, a broadcast […]
Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. If there was any doubt that short-form video would play a massive role in the future of media and communications, […]
Twitter introduced a new video ad buying model on Monday that only charges advertisers once 50% of their ad is in view for at least six seconds. The purpose of the bid type is to encourage more advertisers to optimize toward short-form video ads while also giving them the “security” of being able to transact […]
TikTok isn’t developed enough yet to be a fully-fledged contender for ad dollars, but it’s growing like #area51, and advertisers have finally noticed the short-form video app. Roughly 60% of the app’s 26.5 million monthly active users in the US are between 16 and 24, according to a TikTok pitch deck circulated to US ad […]
Despite being a universally recognized name in health and fitness wearables, Fitbit turns to paid media whenever it releases a new connected wristband. Because Fitbit is a lifestyle product, it wants to find ways to insert its brand into consumers’ fitness regimens – not just hammer them over the head with basic banner ads and […]