JOE MANDESE
Joe Mandese is the Editor in Chief of MediaPost. You can reach Joe at joe@mediapost.com.Articles by Joe All articles by Joe
- MRC Releases Invalid Traffic Update, Includes Property-Level Reporting in
MediaDailyNews on
04/24/2024
The new guidance reflects rapidly emerging forms of invalid traffic that already is setting the stage for future discussions and updates, including potentially qualitative ones.
- CMO Survey Finds Gen AI Already Has Had A Profound Impact On Marketing in
Media 3.0 on
04/24/2024
Despite only being deployed in an estimated 7% of marketing activities, marketers say it has already boosted sales and customer satisfaction, while reducing overhead costs.
- Yet Another Geopath President Steps Down in
MediaDailyNews on
04/23/2024
To some, the timing is reminiscent of Kym Frank's ouster three years ago, and raises new questions about the JIC's path forward amid a supply-side push for impressions-based ad measurement.
- Shouting Fire In A Crowded News Cycle in
Marketing Politics Weekly on
04/19/2024
A week stuffed full of FART jokes, sleep-inducing Trump trial news, and prospective juror doxing ended in what was an apparent self-immolation outside the New York City "hush money" trial courthouse. And the trial hasn't even started.
- Guess Who Just Endorsed Red, White & Blog? in
Red, White & Blog on
04/19/2024
Hint: He's a bigly one.
- Three -- Or Four -- Planning & Buying Issues Worth Arguing About in
Planning & Buying Insider on
04/18/2024
That's what my colleague Steve Smith just asked me as we begin finalizing an agenda for our first-ever Planning & Buying Insider Summit. Full disclosure: I'm not an industry insider, I'm just a journalist who writes about them. So I'm asking you.
- IPG Mediabrands Steps Up Misinformation Guardrails in
MediaDailyNews on
04/17/2024
The effort includes new custom algos developed by its Kinesso unit, as well as an expansion of an ongoing relationship between its Magna unit and safety platform Zefr.
- UTA Stays Pat On MediaLink Management Team in
MediaDailyNews on
04/16/2024
The press release was timed to take some thunder from former CEO and Founder Michael Kassan's keynote interview at the Possible conference on Wednesday.
- IAB Revenue Report Reveals Back-Half Expansion in
MediaDailyNews on
04/16/2024
While 2023 delivered comparatively slower growth, the second half outpaced the first by more than two to one, with Q4 expanding the most of any quarter.
- O.J. Sidebar, Not Really in
Planning & Buying Insider on
04/12/2024
There I was covering the trial for Ad Age when I received a call from Mark Weiner asking if I wanted to know how much it was worth to brands.
Comments by Joe All comments by Joe
- Three -- Or Four -- Planning & Buying Issues Worth Arguing About
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Joe Mandese
(Planning & Buying Insider on
04/18/2024)
@Ed Papazian: We're talking about two different things in this thread. I was only responding to your comments about universe estimates when I referred to your TV centricity, not to outcomes-based measurement. Apologies if that wasn't clear.But all your comments affirm the goal of my column, which was to see if these are planning & buying issues worth arguing fruitfully about.I'd love to know what others think.And I'd love to know if there are other issues you think would be worth arguing about at MediaPost's upcoming summit on the subject.
- Three -- Or Four -- Planning & Buying Issues Worth Arguing About
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Joe Mandese
(Planning & Buying Insider on
04/18/2024)
@Ed Papazian: I think you're missing the point, because you are thinking in a TV-centric way. The point is the industry would be shifting from a TV-centric -- or a digital-centric -- way of thinking about the media universe to one based on the actual population.Whatever the margins of difference might be vis a vis a medium's universe (including ones yet to come, ie. the metaverse, Web3, who knows what), the point is creating an indivdual persons-centric framework based on the population of people who use media.That is the goal of the new standards.Adding this link so you can see the MRC's crossmedia measurement standards framework:https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.mediapost.com/uploads/CrossMediaMeasurementStandards.pngThe point isn't to create a new crossmedia universe, but to shift from a media-centric framework to an individual persons framework.
- Three -- Or Four -- Planning & Buying Issues Worth Arguing About
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Joe Mandese
(Planning & Buying Insider on
04/18/2024)
@Ed Papazian: Historically, TV audience estimates were derived based on the percentage of total TV households that are viewing television during a given period (households using television % = household rating). Ditto for PUTs (persons using television) % = # of persons viewing TV.The new cross-media measurement standards call for real, individual people projected to the total U.S. population (or relevant geo), not TV or digital populations.
- Kassan Out At MediaLink, Legal Actions Filed
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Joe Mandese
(MediaDailyNews on
03/13/2024)
@Lily Robins: On the bright side, UTA spent a lot less for MediaLink than Ascential did:https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/369505/ascential-sells-medialink-to-uta-for-125m-origin.html
- MRC Accredits Comscore For Both National And Local TV Ratings
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Joe Mandese
(MediaDailyNews on
03/20/2024)
@Andy Berman: This is what we reported: "for household and average audience estimates for both its national and local TV audience measurement services.*
- Making A Lower Case
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Joe Mandese
(Red, White & Blog on
03/18/2024)
@Kevin Killion: Let's hope they vote that way.
- OOH Ad Demand Surges, Especially Among National Advertisers
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Joe Mandese
(MediaDailyNews on
03/11/2024)
@John Grono and Ed Papazian: Guideline did not release totals, but based on other sources (GroupM for quick reference), out-of-home's baseline is a little more than John's allowance: $35 billion worldwide and $8 billion in the U.S.
- Warning: One In Three Republicans Won't Believe This Week's Analysis
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Joe Mandese
(Red, White & Blog on
02/16/2024)
@Dan Ciccone: I'm sorry you're having difficulty reading the cross-tabulation showing the percentage of Republicans who said they believe a covert government operation involving Taylor Swift actually exists, so I added it in its entirety to the bottom of the article.It explicitly shows that 32% of Republicans responding to the survey believe it exists, not 18%.If you need me to delineate any other data, please let me know. Otherwise, please stop misstating the findings, because it might misinform other readers.Thank you.
- Warning: One In Three Republicans Won't Believe This Week's Analysis
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Joe Mandese
(Red, White & Blog on
02/16/2024)
@Dan Ciccone: Because you didn't read all of it, therefore you are misinformed.Check out page 3 of the cross-tabs showing responses by party affiliation:34. Do you think that a covertgovernment effort for Taylor Swiftto help Joe Biden win thepresidential election actuallyexists, or not? 32% of Republicans responsed "exists."
- Ageism's MeToo Moment
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Joe Mandese
(Red, White & Blog on
02/09/2024)
@Mark Sutton & Dan Ciccone: Did you read the special counsel's report and its conclusion? If not, here's his sum-up:"In summary, the innocent explanation the retention the classifieddocuments in the EYES ONLY envelope at the Penn Biden Center 1s not onlyplausible, it is a better explanation than one of willful retention. There 1sinsufficient evidence to support charging Mr. Biden or anyone else willfulretention of the documents in the EYES ONLY envelope at the Penn Biden Center."The report uses the word innocent eight times. You can check it out here:https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf
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