Digital News Daily Editions for August 2020
- Digital News Daily - Monday, Aug. 31, 2020
- Upfront Deals May Not Be Sealed Until Q4
- Prime-Time Shows Get Some Fall Start Dates -- Will TV Advertisers Move To Buy?
- OTT Now The 'Default' Source For Most American TV Viewers, Conventional TV Becomes An Also-Ran
- UM's Primis Finds Video Consumption Stabilizing, But Engagement Rates Soar
- Apple Rejects Facebook App Update
- AT&T Trying To Sell DirecTV -- Again
- Comcast Looks To Integrate X1 In Smart TVs
- IAB: The Impact Of COVID-19 On Data Spending
- TiVo DVR Users Lose HBO App Access Today
- Zuckerberg Apologizes For Facebook's Part In Kenosha Violence
- Back-To-School Ad Spend Falls 70%
- Most Consumers Will Not Shop In Stores This Black Friday
- Narrative Snares $8.5 Million In Funding, Launches Data Service Platform
- Media Kitchen CEO Barry Lowenthal Talks TikTok
- Brands, Consumers, Look To Balance Duality In Pandemic Life
- Kraft Heinz Awards Carat Media Duties Outside The U.S.
- How Technology Brands Can Stand Out In The New Normal
- Small Business Everyday, Facebook Sponsors Campaign Using Google-Backed Venture
- Digital News Daily - Friday, Aug. 28, 2020
- Peacock Debuts Voice-Activated Ads From Big Brands
- Trump's Social Media Crackdown Violates Free Speech, Voter Groups Say
- TikTok Bid: Walmart Reportedly Teams Up With Microsoft
- TV Audience Drops For RNC's Third Night, Trails DNC Average
- TV Set Usage Soars, Attention And Viewability Decline During COVID-19, Study Finds
- CTV: The Next Walled Garden?
- WPP Takes $3.5 Billion Impairment Charge; Q2 Organic Revenue Falls 15%
- Google Shares Data: Agencies Fear Personally Identifiable Information Is Included In Reports
- Amazon Launches Health-And-Fitness Tracker
- Interest Piques For 'Customer Delight,' 'Data-Driven Marketing,' 'Intent Data'
- As Pro Sports Teams Protest, TV Advertisers May Start To Worry
- Consumers Want Brands To Reference Current Events, COVID-19 In Ad Messages, NBCU Study Finds
- How About Never, Is Never Good For Consumers Sharing Data With You?
- Dashlane Says The Secret Word, Finds Value In A Super Bowl Buy
- Data Hermits: Consumers Are Wary About Sharing Information, Study Finds
- Let's Hold Ad Platforms 'Strictly Liable' When They Sell Fraudulent Ads
- Chicago Loses 30,000-Person Convention As Cancellations Creep Into 2021
- Digital News Daily - Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020
- TikTok CEO Resigns After 3 Months
- Facebook: Advertising To Be 'Severely Impacted' By Apple's iOS 14 Privacy Updates
- Netflix, Roku Stocks Jump On Bullish Analyst Takes
- NBA Playoffs Stopped On Wednesday After Blake Shooting, TNT Airings Cancelled
- Networks Devote Half Again More Coverage To RNC Vs. DNC
- RNC's Second Night Viewing Up 14% From First Night
- Nielsen Creates New Cross-Media Role, Taps Scott Brown To Lead It
- Xandr Intros Programmatic Political Buys Across WarnerMedia Digital
- Facebook Adds Features To Personalize Messenger Rooms
- NHL Sponsors Activate Around Stanley Cup Playoffs
- Transparency, Data, Control Drive Marketers' Programmatic Trading Models
- Ericsson Emodo, CKDelta Partner To Improve Data Accuracy In Mobile Advertising
- Agency Translation, Disney Ad Sales In Pact To Make Ads That Better Connect With Diverse Audiences
- DoubleVerify Launches Publisher Division
- Media Two Hires Mark Bayzath As Its First CMO
- Winning Approaches From Two Great Minds
- Are We Blindly Following Data?
- Inventing An Audience: Lionsgate Hunts For The New Moviegoer
- Identity As A Strategy: Planning The Cookie-less Future
- Digital News Daily - Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020
- Virtual RNC First Night Scores 17 Million Viewers -- Down 14% From Same DNC Night
- After Successful U.S. Launch, Facebook Sets Global News Rollout By 2021
- DNC Wins First Night Of Convention Ratings, But Has Greater Rate Of Erosion From 2016
- Facebook Debuts Facebook Shop, Ups Ecommerce
- TiVo+ Adds 18 Loop Media Music Video Channels, Library
- CBS News Launches Diversity-Focused Cross-Platform Franchise, Village
- Health-Care Focused DSP DeepIntent Starts CTV Marketplace
- Verily, Alphabet's Life Sciences Unit, Gets Into Health Insurance Using AI, Data
- CVS Aggregates Two Decades Of Data To Run Its Newly Launched Media Network
- Amid A Postal Crisis, Biden Campaign Says It's Relying Heavily On Snail Mail
- It's A COVID-19 Christmas: Shoppers Expect To Spend Less This Year
- Rethinking Relevance, Messaging And Context Beyond The Crisis
- Consumers Age 65 And Older Are Attracted To Non-Brand Terms
- Case Study: The Method Is The Message
- Absolutdata Joins Nielsen's Network For CPG Industry
- Mocean Hatches Strategic Social Media Firm O2
- The Irony Throne: First Lady Uses Rose Garden To Troll All Former First Ladies, The Media Too
- Google AdSense Reports For Visualizing Data
- Will The Email Address Replace The Cookie As An Identifier? Experts Weigh In
- Digital News Daily - Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020
- Summer Viewing Gains For Six Of 41 Prime-Time Shows
- Disney Projected To Yield 19% Of Total Sales From Streaming This Year
- CTV Gains Stronger Foothold In Subscription Services And Free, Ad-Supported Platforms
- EMX Adds Inscape Data To Link Linear, CTV For Buying, Reporting
- Google Search Data Challenges How People Trend Through COVID-19
- Verizon Media Launches Contextual Targeting Solution
- Holiday Season 2020 Hot Items Point To Building Materials, Spirits, Groceries, Per IBM Data
- No Matter How You Add It Up, Cross-Platform Measurement Is In Demand
- Brands And Influencers: Reemerging Emphasis On Driving Sales
- General Atlantic, Sequoia Reportedly Driving Bid For TikTok
- How Political Views Of College Students Influence Their Media Consumption
- Car Shoppers Change What They Are 'Googling'
- SEO Stuck In Gender Inequality
- Upfront Ad Market Awaits: Place Your TV Bets
- Wix Debuts Cross-Channel Customer Support Platform
- Theatrical Movies' Less Dramatic Return: 'Unhinged' Scores $4 Million In U.S. Box Office
- Economists' Outlook Dire As Congress Fails To Act On New Relief Package
- Digital News Daily - Monday, Aug. 24, 2020
- TikTok To File Suit Against Trump, Possibly Today, As GOP Convention Kicks Off
- Twitter Flags Trump Tweet About Voting Mail Drop Boxes
- Starcom Retains $578 Million Kraft Heinz U.S. Account
- Chamber Of Commerce Backs Bid To Block California Net Neutrality Law
- NBCU Adds Free NBC Sports Channel To Peacock
- 3D Search, Physna Readies A Google Ads Auction-Based Model
- Streamers Still Watch Lots Of Linear... But 5% Of OTT Viewers Get No Linear Ads
- Movie Studios Slowly Ramp Up TV Spending On Theatrical Films
- Average CPM For Location-Based Audiences Might Surprise Marketers
- Millions Are Earmarked For TV Political Ads - But Where?
- Google Seeks Dismissal Of Privacy Suit Alleging It Tracks 'Incognito' Users
- How Jack Daniel's Parent Brown-Forman Proves Content Performance
- Facebook Elaborates On Its Data Portability Measures, Pushes For Legislation
- Diversity Data Shows Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook Fail To Deliver
- The Yawning Gap: Index Shows Lapses In Email Performance By Retailers
- Amazon's Retail Chief, Whom Bezos Calls A 'Tutor,' Is Leaving In 2021
- News Publisher Trade Group Asks Apple For Better Deal
- What Do You Get When You Mix Brick, Mortar And Live Streaming?
- Digital News Daily - Friday, Aug. 21, 2020
- U.S. Advertising Falls 14% In July, Most Moderate Rate Of Erosion Since March
- Trump Tells Supreme Court He Has Right To Block Critics
- Consumer Home Entertainment Spend Up 26% In 1H, SVOD Up 37%
- DNC's Third Night Sees Sharp 19% Increase To 22.8 Million TV Viewers
- Dentsu Launches 'Comprehensive' Business Review, Reports 17% Q2 Organic Revenue Drop
- California Should Ban Use Of Contact-Tracing Data For Ad Targeting, Watchdogs Say
- Kids TV Viewing Lower On Legacy TV -- Even In A Pandemic
- WFA: Most Marketers Now Using In-House 'Brand Trading Desks,' Reaping Full Transparency
- Facebook's $650 Million 'Faceprint' Settlement Moves Forward
- Ad Blocking Wanes, Though Ad Relevance Is Still A Top Complaint
- Galloping Personalization: Ecommerce Brands Rush To Meet COVID-19-Driven Surge
- Survey: 74% Of Movie Theater Customers Ready To Return In A Month
- Weather Channel Appoints Former Charter Exec Bucher As CMO And SVP
- Fraud Follows Connected TV Boom
- 'Leads' Lead Marketers' Attention, 'Conversational Commerce' Rises Too
- How To Use Low-Production Video In Tougher Times
- TikTok Creators Try To Influence Gen Z Voters
- Compliance Will Create An Investment Opportunity: Analysis
- Digital News Daily - Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020
- Will Apple's Record Value Attract Unwanted Attention?
- Facebook Steps Up Action Against QAnon, Other Dangerous Fringe Groups
- OTT/CTV Ad Spend Up 60% In Early August Vs. Early April
- MSNBC Tops DNC Virtual Event For Day 2, Biden, Trump Ramp Up National TV Buys
- Netflix Tests Function That Automatically Chooses Programming For Users
- Pandemic Pushes Podcast Advertising, Messages Consumers Want To Hear
- Pluto TV Expands, Reorganizes Channels
- Weather Company Resolves Location Privacy Battle In Los Angeles
- White House Seeks New Hearing In Battle Over Journalist's Press Pass
- COVID-19 Has Changed Media Sales Forever
- Case Study: Waking Up To Gaming
- Why Oracle, Not Microsoft, Should Buy TikTok
- 3 Lessons From The TikTok Controversy
- A Five-Step Program For Deciding The Best Email Frequency
- Free Gmail And YouTube May Be At Risk In Australia, Google Warns
- Digital News Daily - Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020
- NBCU Vice Chairman Ron Meyer Exits After Disclosing Affair, Private Settlement
- Kirk McDonald Exits Xandr For GroupM; Mike Welch Named New Xandr Chief
- D2C Brands' 1H TV Ad Impressions Up 14%, Despite 3% Ad Spend Decrease
- U.S. Cable Network Affiliate Revenue Down For The First Time In Q2
- ViacomCBS Exploring Sale Of CNET To Red Ventures
- Facebook Sued For 'Censoring' Posts About Vaccines
- Share Of CTV Video Impressions Down In First-Half 2020, Mobile App Use Climbs
- Facial-Recognition Company Says Injunction Would Violate First Amendment
- Virtual DNC Telecast Earns 19.75 Million Viewers, Down 20% From 2016
- Former AMC Networks, Dish Addressable Ad Executive Gaynor Joins Vizio
- Slope Agency Acquires TikTok-Focused Abacus Growth
- Facebook Patent Shows How Technology Can Increase Ad Performance
- TEGNA And Beasley Media Group Enhance Local Broadcast With Esports
- Horizon Finds Three-Quarters Of Americans Support TikTok Ban, But Encourages Brands To Begin Using It
- Embattled TikTok Launches Ad Blitz
- Digital News Daily - Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020
- California Privacy Regulations Gain Final Approval, Enforcement Begins
- Lawsuit Claims Google Monopolizes App Distribution Market
- Havas Media Becomes 1st Agency To Back Prebid.org
- Audio Content Remains Strong Among Remote Workers As Local News, Radio, Podcasts, Music Thrive: Nielsen
- Humongous 1st-Party Platform Integrates With Google Data Hub, Enables 1-to-1 YouTube Matching
- Verizon Wireless Sweetens The Pot, Offers Free Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu Streamers
- Summer TV Promo Airings See Skyrocketing Growth, Led By Cable Networks
- Hulu Starts Creative Services Effort For Small, Medium-Sized Businesses
- Internet Brands Inks Deal With AnyClip To Match Online Video With Content
- TransUnion Acquires Signal, 'People-Based' Data Firm
- How Wi-Fi Data Forecasts A Return To 'Normal' Amidst COVID-19
- Quibi Shifts Media Assignment From W+K To UM
- Most Consumers Want Their Health Data Shared Only With Permission Or Not At All
- Back-To-School Flip-Flop: Mental Health Effects Of Pandemic Surface In Search Queries
- Fortnite Game Maker Thinks Like A TV Network Group
- Q2 Video Views Up 64% In North America, 40% Globally; CTV Leads Growth
- Why eMarketer Forecasts U.S. Programmatic DOOH To Reach Nearly $534 Million By 2022
- CCPA Takes Full Effect: Here's What It Means
- Email Providers For Consumers Tired Of Gmail
