If 2024 was the "Year Of Attention Metrics," it's ending with a bang, including news this morning that Nielsen is partnering with Realeyes.
The top 10,000 query terms drove 46% of all searches and 148 of those made up nearly 15% of total volume for queries with at least 100 searches during a 21-month period, according to findings released
this week.
The framework released this morning by the ARF divides TV into six clusters that can be combined into two new mini universes representing "linear" and "pay."
Maybe they're not garbage in/garbage out, but to coin yet another new industry acronym, maybe they are MIIMIO: misaligned incentives in/misaligned incentives out.
It used to be that if you guessed a young woman was liberal, you'd be wrong seven out of ten times. Today, it's six of ten. Better, but still off-target.
"We've reached a tipping point where AI has shifted from a nice-to-have to a must-have for marketers," says long-time ad exec and consultant David Berkowitz. "As these technologies continue to advance
and more marketers build AI capabilities, we expect to see AI become deeply embedded in marketing processes and increasingly shape strategy and decision-making."
Dubbed the "Ad Insights Hub," the service launches with 20 key reports, as well as an interactive advertising forecast dashboard.
I began covering market intel/measurement tech firm Skai as Kenshoo when Aaron Goldman, now Mediaocean CMO, ran marketing. VP of products Crissi Cupak has worked at Skai since 2013.
The reality is that publishers and TV networks cannot guarantee sales -- all they can do is provide a good advertising environment.
Programmatic was supposed to be about economic and efficient planning and buying, but a new ANA study finds it's mostly related to "bad things."
In case you're looking to segment American consumer audiences based on their streaming subscription preferences, the Middleburg Managers at Magid and Claritas will have a new tool for you starting
with the New Year.
Erwin Ephron taught me there is no perfect form of media research. And as good as neuromarketing, biometrics, and computervision are in unlocking some of the mysteries of our brains may be, we still
need to apply our brains to interpret what those outputs actually mean.
If you guessed sponsorships, you probably also figured out that it may represent a big opportunity for people already familiar with managing and measuring the ROI of media.
A study by Magna Media Trials and Samsung Ads explored Gen Z and Millennials' CTV viewing habits, and suggests search may have a connection with next-generation campaigns.
Publicis Media helped develop the new service and is working on integrating it into its planning and buying systems.
Amazon Web Services has announced data-matching capabilities for advertisers using AWS Entity Resolution through integrations with LiveRamp, TransUnion, and Unified ID 2.0.
Ad Net Zero provides a roadmap for the advertising industry. But will it work?
New research indicates a net 27% of U.S. TV viewers aware of Hollywood strikes plan to watch less TV this fall.
Only 14% of media buyers said they consider X a preferred partner, compared with 37% for social media more broadly.
"On a societal basis, it is going to be even more disruptive. I think for the ad industry, it's going to be about the same, because what HTML did was create a whole new model for advertising. Online
was a completely new ad platform that created inventory that didn't exist before."
Brand traits -- such as consumer loyalty, market share and brand penetration -- are responsible for 21% of incremental sales, up six percentage points since 2017.
Google has been touting automation in advertising for years. Marketers initially rejected the notion of less control of campaigns, leaving the processes up to technology. All that has changed.
Amid uncertainties about economic growth, some marketers expected to boost budgets by 50% or more.
A new report doesn't answer that, but it shows Twitter is the top place they share professional content, while LinkedIn is No. 1 for consuming it.
Basis Technologies, provider of cloud-based workflow automation and business intelligence, has now been added to the list of ad-tech companies laying off employees.
The TelevisaUnivision agreement starts in Jan. 2023, and includes Nielsen Marketing Cloud and Gracenote's Advanced Discovery suite. It offers measurement and advanced planning across
TelevisaUnivision's national, digital, local and audio affiliates as well as its streaming service, ViX.
Building on its deal with Yahoo as its exclusive demand-side platform, DirecTV advertising has expanded the deal to include set-top-box data.
Advertisers' increasing reliance on first-party data will materially change media planning, buying, and selling and re-establish foundational values that have been downplayed in the programmatic era.
Eventually, it will put publishers on a level playing field with walled gardens, according to 68% of advertisers that Advertiser Perceptions interviewed in June.
Marketers with the ability to quickly alter media budgets are 25% more likely than non-agile marketers to report their performance as stronger than industry competitors. And 48% state their marketing
performance exceeded internal expectations and marketing key performance indicators (KPIs), compared with 33% of marketers who do not follow this practice.
Thinking more like a patient than a clinician opens a marketer's imagination to more engaging ways of depicting the healthcare experience. Few brands have been more entertaining and unconventional in
focusing their patient outreach than Rodeo Dental. By focusing on outcomes and experiences, deploying jazzy editing and graphics, and shifting media spending away from TV and into social and search
channels, Rodeo did more than grow brand and patient acquisitions. Rodeo Dental's Director of Growth Marketing, Dr. Richard Ly, shares how they were better able to measure the impact of their media
spend and improve patients' relationship with the brand.