JOE MANDESE

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• Big 3 Media Holding Cos Got A Little Less Big In 2019, Billings Slid 4% in Research Intelligencer on 07/01/2020
  

  Last year wasn't a good one for the Big 3 agency holding companies media services divisions in terms of U.S. billings growth. Their combined billings fell nearly 4% to $55.1 billion, according to final tallies released today by Comvergence. Most of the erosion came from Omnicom Media Group's 10.6% slide, while Publicis Media declined 1% and GroupM rose 1%, suggesting the big winners were the long- and mid-tails of the U.S. media services industry.

• Facebook Employees Worried About Ad Boycott, But Most Still Support Zuckerberg's Leadership in Research Intelligencer on 07/01/2020
  

  Forty-two percent of Facebook employees are concerned about the burgeoning boycott by big advertisers, and 17% do not trust CEO Mark Zuckerberg's leadership. Those are two of the top line findings of an anonymized survey of Facebook employees conducted by anonymous professional network Blind late last week.

• OMD Remains No. 1, But Carat Had Best Billings Gains Of 2019, Moving To No. 2 in MediaDailyNews on 07/01/2020
  

  Omnicom's OMD remained the top U.S. media agency in terms of media billings volume, but Dentsu Aegis Network's Carat had the best year overall, jumping from No. 3 in 2018 to No. 2 in 2019, thanks to an 18.5% gain, according to final estimates released today by Comvergence.

• Study Finds Consumers Feel They Are More Dependent On Media Tech, But It Makes Life More Complicated in MediaDailyNews on 07/01/2020
  

  Consumers are expressing an increasing paradox about the impact of media technology -- they feel more dependent on it, but it makes their lives more complicated -- according to a multinational study conducted by GlobalWebIndex for Worldwide Partners, a network of more than 70 independent, owner-led agencies. The study also drills into a variety of influences, especially the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the acceleration of new consumer experiences -- particularly tele-health, retail, travel and tourism -- as well as the need for more human interaction.

• TV Shows To Binge This Summer in Research Intelligencer on 06/30/2020
  

  This is the era of Peak TV+. In addition to broadcast and cable, we a bounty of major streaming services: Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video and more recently, Disney+, Apple TV+, HBO Max, and (soon) Peacock. Add in numerous smaller and more niche and targeted streaming services, and there's a lot -- possibly too much -- for most people to choose from. As someone who analyzes TV and streaming content for a living, here are my recommendations for the best shows to binge on this summer.

• Big Brands Back Non-Ad-Supported, All-News Audio Network For Blacks in MediaDailyNews on 06/30/2020
  

  The Black Information Network (BIN) is a new 24/7 national and local audio news service focused on coverage "with a Black voice and perspective."

• U.S. Ad Market Drops 31% In May, Third Consecutive Monthly Decline in MediaDailyNews on 06/29/2020
  

  The U.S. ad market had another steep decline in May, falling 31% from the same month a year ago, according to the latest data from the U.S. Ad Market Tracker. May follows a 35% decline in April, and an 11% decline in March, indicating that demand for advertising may not yet have hit bottom. The tracker, a collaboration of MediaPost and Standard Media Index, is based on the change in a composite index value of all the media-buying data processed and modeled by SMI from the major agency holding companies.

• FreeWheel Only Supplier To Earn An 'A' Grade On All Three CTV Platforms in MediaDailyNews on 06/29/2020
  

  Comcast's FreeWheel is the only supply-side platform to score an "A" grade for its handling of inventory on the Big 3 CTV ad platforms, according to a unique new analysis released today by programmatic ad fraud and compliance tracker Pixalate. The new method uses an index derived from assessing quality factors including reach, share, percentage of invalid traffic, ad-serving transparency and channel integrity.

• Gnats On An Elephant's Back in RTBlog on 06/28/2020
  

  Rishad Tobaccowala once famously described the ad industry as cockroaches. He meant it as a compliment, but today I'd like to compare it to gnats, in a not-so-flattering way.

• Horizon Media Study Finds Racial Injustice Dominating Pandemic Conversations, For Now in Research Intelligencer on 06/26/2020
  

  "As we enter the third week of mass protests across the US, the number of people going out and speaking against racial injustice has only grown," Horizon Media analysts write in the latest edition of a weekly study tracking a variety of American crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, an especially contentious political environment surrounding the U.S. election campaigns, unemployment and radical injustice.

Comments by Joe All comments by Joe

• 'Washington Times' Overtakes The 'Examiner' As Nation's No. 2 Right-Wing News Site by Joe Mandese (Marketing Politics Weekly on 05/27/2020)
  

  @Ed Papazian: This is how Comscore describes it:Unique visitors is a measure of how many unique (i.e. different) individuals visit a site over some period of time. This is an appropriate metric to quantify the size of the unduplicated audience a site reaches. Combining the unique visitor metric with the frequency of visits, you have a measure of both reach and loyalty.https://www.comscore.com/ger/Insights/Blog/A-Metric-for-Every-Reason

• Opinion Done Wrong: Researchers Find Fox News Hurts Stay-At-Home Compliance by Joe Mandese (Red, White & Blog on 05/27/2020)
  

  @Ed Papazian: You can review the methodology and findings yourself and weigh in on its veracity if you want. It's downloadable from the article or via this link:https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.mediapost.com/uploads/FoxNewsPaper.pdf

• 'Washington Times' Overtakes The 'Examiner' As Nation's No. 2 Right-Wing News Site by Joe Mandese (Marketing Politics Weekly on 05/27/2020)
  

  @Thomas Pick: If right wing is a pejorative, then why do conservative media brand themselves that way? As I noted, The Washington Times uses it in their tagline.Or Fox News' Fox Nation too:https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/fox-news-unveils-fox-nation-slogan-opinion-done-right-1202958247/

• 'Washington Times' Overtakes The 'Examiner' As Nation's No. 2 Right-Wing News Site by Joe Mandese (Marketing Politics Weekly on 05/27/2020)
  

  @Thomas Pick: That's TheRighting's classification, not ours. It's also how other objective sources (ie. Wikipedia) classifiy them. The Washington Times' own tagline says it's "the Right opinion."

• Surprise Byproduct Of Pandemic: A Reprieve For Broadcast TV by Joe Mandese (MediaDailyNews on 05/20/2020)
  

  @Douglas Ferguson: Literally, the definition of reprieve:re·prieve/rəˈprēv/Learn to pronounceverbcancel or postpone the punishment of (someone, especially someone condemned to death)."under the new regime, prisoners under sentence of death were reprieved"Similar:grant a stay of execution topardonspareacquitgrant an amnesty toamnestylet offlet off the hookrespiteOpposite:chargepunishnouna cancellation or postponement of a punishment.

• Data In, Garbage Out: How To Avoid Turning Your Targets Into Trash by Joe Mandese (RTBlog on 05/18/2020)
  

  @Ed Papazian:Show producers, who had legally rigged the games to increase ratings but did not want to implicate themselves, the show sponsors or the networks they worked for in doing so, categorically denied the allegations. After the nine-month grand jury, no indictments were handed down and the judge sealed the grand jury report in Summer 1959.[4] The 86th United States Congress, by then in its first session, soon responded; in October 1959, the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, under Representative Oren Harris' chairmanship, began to hold hearings investigating the scandal. Stempel, Snodgrass and Hilgemeier all testified.[12] Van Doren, initially reluctant, finally agreed to testify also. The gravity of the scandal was confirmed on November 2, 1959 when Van Doren said to the Committee in a nationally televised session that, "I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception. The fact that I, too, was very much deceived cannot keep me from being the principal victim of that deception, because I was its principal symbol."[13]

• Data In, Garbage Out: How To Avoid Turning Your Targets Into Trash by Joe Mandese (RTBlog on 05/18/2020)
  

  @Ed Papazian:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s_quiz_show_scandalshttp://mediaratingcouncil.org/History.htm

• Madison Avenue Vs. The Keyboard Warriors by Joe Mandese (Red, White & Blog on 05/15/2020)
  

  @David Scardino: I consider that source far more than I probably should. It's one of my biggest regrets. But I can't help myself.

• Madison Avenue Vs. The Keyboard Warriors by Joe Mandese (Red, White & Blog on 05/15/2020)
  

  @John Grono: Statistical probabilistics also says an infantile monkey will be reelected President.The odds of a monkey typing the first letter of "Hamlet" correctly are one-in-26. The odds of typing the first two letters correctly are one-in-676.It would be odd for an infantile monkey to be reelected President.

• Half Of Ad Execs Say Ad Spending 'Hit Bottom' In April, Others See Recession Continuing by Joe Mandese (MediaDailyNews on 05/11/2020)
  

  @Eric Nelson: Pivotal noted that it's sample was not necessarily representative of the entire marketplace, and we reported that:"Noting that its sample likely skews toward agency respondents and under-represents advertisers who don't work with agencies."

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