Eager as ad buyers were for major sports like the NBA and NFL to return to TV, many were anxious about how the volume of sports on TV going from famine to feast would affect viewership. So far, the results have been a mixed bag. Live sports on TV remains the best option for advertisers
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Digiday recently reported that Discovery, Inc. had informed ad agency executives they would be launching a direct-to-consumer streaming service in early 2021. Although there has been no official announcement, it is expected to be called Discovery+. (The Information reported that Discovery filed a trademark for Discovery+ on July 10.) According to the report, Discovery+ will offer subscribers an
The TikTok U.S. spinoff saga continues to rambunctiously roll on. At the time of writing, U.S. President Donald Trump gave his “blessing” to a proposal that — on the face of it at least— doesn’t appear to satisfy the requirements in his August executive order. TikTok’s Chinese parent company Bytedance said on Monday that the new
TikTok advertisers are now in a state of limbo, much like the app itself, which was close to a deal to continue operating in the U.S. until the Trump administration issued a new order today that would essentially hobble its future. Advertisers, agencies and marketing partners were sent scrambling to figure out what the latest Trump order
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By UM’s Graeme Hutton, SVP, Group Partner, Media, Research Creating brand awareness is often the foundation of many ad campaigns, but equally such a KPI can be deceptively simple since there are several pitfalls to avoid. Creating or reinforcing awareness seems a clear goal, but our expectations can be based on unproven assumptions about exactly
Connected TV usage among consumers has been sky-high through the Covid-19 pandemic, but many viewers are still struggling to find what to stream. That dilemma can become a brand marketer’s goldmine if they prioritize brand experiences that encourage content discovery, according to new research. The study, from Magna and IPG Media Lab and commissioned by Roku,
This month’s issue of Pulse is a guest post written by Richard Yao, Manager of Strategy and Content at IPG Media Lab. @ryaoipg The ongoing pandemic has had a strong yet complicated impact on the development of ambient computing, which refers to the contextually aware software that can serve users without requiring explicit commands. Things like
Since the Facebook ad boycott there has been a push to civilize social media, with renewed focus on brand safety, but there is only so much platforms can do to eliminate all the potentially offensive and misleading material surging through their pages and videos. The best brands might hope for on social, it seems, is a well-lit
A new brand-safety product from Integral Ad Science is off to a less than ideal start after the company promoted the tool’s technical chops through an open demo on its website last week. The product, dubbed Context Control, is critical to IAS’s long term future, but its launch went south after IAS rival Check My
