Category: Thought Leadership

In this interview MediaCat’s Editor Mike Piggott chats to Helen Needham, Senior Communications & Corporate Affairs Manager at MoneySuperMarket Group, and Kim Lambert, Group Insights Director at UM, about ‘Money Talks‘, a project between MoneySuperMarket, media agency UM and suicide prevent charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), which looks at how the cost of living

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Audio agency Ad Results Media this week launched an audio buying offering to increase programmatic ad-buying access to streaming and podcasting. With the new platform, ARM Pro, brands can access a custom suite of audio solutions for purchasing their target audiences. The audiences are vetted by ARM’s teams for direct and programmatic deals, with the

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DoubleVerify and Roku have uncovered a CTV ad fraud scheme that has taken fraudsters’ traditional domain spoofing tactic to a new level. Discovered late last summer and still active, the scheme — dubbed “CycloneBot” — may be costing advertisers as much as $7.5 million per month in fake impressions. … “Ad fraud has not historically

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Walmart’s rumored plan to acquire Vizio went from theoretical to reality this week, with the retail giant set to pay $2.3 billion for the smart TV manufacturer. The move will bolster Walmart’s retail media offering, Walmart Connect, adding streaming capabilities that will help it attract more brand marketing ad dollars. The deal will also allow

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Amp Meter: The best ads from Super Bowl 2024—and the ones people will still remember long after the Big Game Until the fourth quarter and overtime that saw the Kansas City Chiefs repeat as NFL champions, most of the action at this year’s Super Bowl was in spotting the celebs, from the proverbial “bleachers” (cue

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More than two-thirds (69%) of consumers think brands “should play a key role” in the cost-of-living crisis, according to new research by UM, Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and MoneySuperMarket. Nearly six in 10 (57%) surveyed said brands “could do more”, while more than half (60%) said they wanted brands to show “increased sensitivity to

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