"Only ad networks/exchanges showed lift," reads an analysis from Standard Media Index, which shows video sites crashing 9% due to year-ago comps with Winter Olympics sales.
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.
Eighty-three percent of UK marketers say attention metrics are important in reducing digital ads' environmental impact, and 58% believe attention metrics provide a better online experience for
consumers, a study by Teads in collaboration with Censuswide found.
With a focus on data interoperability and working with firms once considered rivals, Spherical can drive value from known and unknown first-party data for customer engagement and acquisition.
The cost of social will rise the most, according to Criteo's report - The Advertiser's Guide to New and Emerging Channels in 2023.
Nearly 18% of local media buyers say they anticipate cutting back on legacy TV, followed by newspapers with 17%, magazine media buying at 15% and radio at 14%.
This most likely is the most anticlimactic Agency of The Year award profile I will ever write. That's because I called GroupM as our probable holding company-level entity of the year at the mid-year
mark back in July, based on what it had already accomplished by that point. I added that it was GroupM's to lose, and challenged its peers to step up and prove me wrong.
Year-to-date, Standard Media Index estimates U.S. ad spending still is up 2.4% due to exceptionally strong first-quarter ad spending. The analysis shows top ad category share eroding over time.
More marketers plan to increase rather than decrease ad and marketing budgets in 2023, according to a study spanning B2C and B2B from NP Digital.
Marketers also face uncertainties as consumer privacy becomes a bigger issue, leading to an eventual disappearance of tracking cookies.
To date, 84% of Apple's total social-media spend has gone to Twitter, reports MediaRadar.
The 44% of media buyers not even considering such investments cite the metaverse's newness, lack of standards, and lack of budget, among other concerns.
Borrell Research on Wednesday released data projecting that local advertising will experience growth of a mere 0.6% next year.
The digital ad industry could be on the cusp of a major transition with the decline of traditional search advertising, trapped in the headwinds of a significant increase in retail search, according to
data.
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.
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.
OTT spending is forecast to exceed $2 billion -- drawing strength from multiple business verticals, including political advertising. From 2022-2026, OTT will grow at a 14.3% compounded annual growth
rate, second to digital TV owned-and-operated streaming and website advertisements sold by local broadcast stations.
Magna points to "robust growth" of 19% in keyword formats including search and retail media during first-half 2022, and forecasts retail media advertising will increase from $31 billion this year to
$42 billion in 2023. Out-of-home, another strong area, has seen 30% growth.
While a majority (56%) of agency execs believe "sustainability" is now more important than the cost of buying media, only a minority (46%) of advertisers believe so, according to new research.
Insider Intelligence believes search media is the channel least likely to see budget cuts, while CTV, digital video and linear TV will be the most vulnerable.
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.
Consumer trust in a brand is crucial to purchase decisions. Some 51% of consumers say online content adjacency influences their trust in a brand, and 69% say their level of trust influences their
decision to engage with a brand's products and services.
MRI-Simmons is one of the main sources for data, insights and consumer trends used by advertisers and agencies to plan media buys.
"The overall mix of advertising shifts possibly in favor of brand rather than performance," suggests GroupM's Brian Wieser, adding: "Isn't that an interesting observation?"
The study shows viewability is device-driven -- determined by how and where the ad gets loaded on the screen -- while attention is human-driven by how the viewer responds to the ad served on the
screen.
While 75% of procurement execs say their role managing media has been successful, only 26% of marketing execs say so, according to a new ANA study.
The upfront TV marketplace, including broadcast and cable TV nets, posted "modest" gains -- up 5.8% to $20.1 billion, according to estimates from Media Dynamics. While broadcast and cable nets grew
similarly in volume -- up 6.4% (to $9.9 billion) and 5.2% (to $10.2 billion), respectively -- broadcast showed strength when it comes to prime-time 30-second commercials in terms of the
cost-per-thousand (CPM) viewers.
The NFL launches NFL+ today, as the NFL posted another TV ad record -- surging 14% to $4.3 billion, according to Standard Media Index. NFL+ is a subscription service that includes live, out-of-market
preseason games and local and prime-time regular-season games, playoffs games (phone and tablet only), among other content.
GroupM will release an alpha version of the new media carbon-reduction calculator in the next few weeks and release it generally in the fourth quarter.
CTV and streaming mostly play a supporting role compared to linear TV buys, Advertiser Perceptions and Hub Research find in a new survey. Slightly more than 51% of advertisers plan their linear TV
buying first as their "primary" buy, with CTV a "support" to that bigger linear TV buy.