The Google Political Content Policy now has new settings and policies for digitally manipulated or synthetic content in audio, pictures, and videos, as ad platforms and agencies release partnerships,
services and technology to support campaigns.
Global analysis of more than one trillion ad impressions in display and video show a direct correlation between high-quality digital ads and lower carbon emissions. Google has been pushing
authenticity in ads and content for years.
The EU's investigation of TikTok's compliance with the newly enacted Digital Services Act will focus on "the protection of minors, advertising transparency, data access for researchers, as well as the
risk management of addictive design and harmful content." The DSA went into effect last week and applies to thousands of digital platforms and services in the EU.
Experts in academia crunch the data to determine the fair market value that Meta and Google should pay U.S. publishers for the use of their content.
Here's one more reason to say goodbye to tracking browser cookies.
The global restrictions will take effect by early 2024 in time for elections in the U.S., India and South Africa. Google said it would use AI more to serve voters and campaigns related to these
elections.
Demand for marketing content grew by one and a half times this year, but marketing teams were only able to meet that demand 55% of the time.
Suspicions may be warranted because of the possible negative consequences of AI on a brand's reputation.
Meta's new AI code AudioCraft combines three separate AI sound-creation models, which are expected to appeal to musicians, creators and advertisers.
Even younger versus older Millennials show markedly different preference patterns.
Snapchat is testing a new way for users to play around with AI creation through a feature the company is calling "Dreams" -- using generative AI technology to deliver otherworldly scenes instead of
written answers.
Facebook's Q3 Widely Viewed Content Report shows just one in the top 20 posts qualified as engagement bait, vs.100% a year earlier. For the first time since the report has been produced, none of the
top 20 posts violated platform rules. The Widely Viewed Content Report aims to provide transparency and context about what people see on Facebook by sharing the most-viewed domains, links, Pages and
posts for a given quarter on Feed in the United States.
The average time spent online is eight hours a day, engaged in activities with a smartphone, tablet or computer.
OOH used to be a glorified real estate business where location and road-side visibility was the unique selling proposition. Programmatic then emerged as a transformative equalizer to the conversation.
With a complete "through-line" view into what people consume beyond their home, brands have started to leverage the future of OOH and its connection to broader programmatic ecosystem. Walton
Isaacson's Managing Director of Digital Innovation, Albert Thompson, illustrates how brands have executed within the programmatic marketplace to stitch together a "connected experience" of ad
exposure. Physical Proximity is the driver as the consumer moves from gas stations, retail stores, business offices, public transit, biking paths, and ridesharing - all through OOH.
More than half of marketing decision-makers said social media content is valuable, though there are differences in individual industries.
Cosmo Media Labs, a production studio focused on content, gaming, Internet Protocol and brand partnerships, announced its launch today after securing investment from The Sandbox, one of the leading
decentralized gaming virtual worlds.
Evolving from a product to a brand at speed through digital content. Super Coffee's Senior Manager of Content and Influencer Marketing, Hilary Lemonick, shares how the healthy coffee brand doubled its
email and social media engagement rate in less than 6 months.
The all digital wireless carrier, Visible, developed a top to bottom approach for market infiltration via data and market research. The challenger brand's head of brand marketing, Pearl Servat, shares
with us how they leveraged a marketing mix of digital and traditional channels to introduce prospects to the brand at various touch points and drive consumers to its digital storefront. Learn how
Visibles repeatable & scalable marketing strategy is reshaping what meaningful experiential activations looks like for a digital-first brand.
Retail Media Networks (RMNs) have added new inventory, targeting, sales and measurement opportunities...and headaches, to the digital ad market. Kim, who manages media buying for Mindshare CPG
clients, maps the terrain. How are the RMNs from Walmart, Target, Kroger, etc. plugging into existing infrastructures, offering new and difference metrics of success, creating new challenges for
marketing teams?
Hunter Douglas has been on a five-year journey of bringing ever more of its media buying and planning in-house, first search, then social, and now Video and programmatic and branding. But as Tiffany
Leung explores, this has been more than an operational shift. It required not only changing KPIs, staffing and messaging but a cultural shift to value a data-driven approach to all aspects of
marketing, internal organization and event onboarding customers.
While Gen Z spends more time on social media than ever before (51% on IG weekly, 48% on TikTok, 37% on Snapchat) and less (15%) watching cable weekly or more, marketers need to rethink their video ad
dollars. Meanwhile, Millennials are still more likely to say they've watched a TV series (69%) and movies (70%) in the last week than social media videos (58%). At MediaPost's TV & Video Insider
Summit, media agency Good Apple's VP, Media, Hyun Lee-Mill, shares their recent tests that identified the most effective ways to balance social media video and CTV spend. How do we optimize across the
current menu of video options?
Some 80% of people say they are more open to advertising or branded content when a piece of content is relevant to them, while about 88% of people say YouTube helps them expand their perspectives or
ways of thinking.
KERV Interactive COO Marika Roque describes the reasons that advertisers are tied into programmatic buying, the best channels that work with CTV, how search can support CTV campaigns, and the promise
of shoppable ads.
Well-researched content improves the likelihood that a purchasing manager will take a sales call from a vendor.
Brands that improve viewability, brand safety and ad-fraud prevention are more likely to see gains in their conversion rates.
More than half of consumers in a recent study said the ability to read comments is their favorite feature offered by publishers.
More than half of marketers said their audiences tend to engage more with UGC than branded content.
In 2020, The New York Times added a record 2.3 million digital-only subscriptions, bringing its subscriptions to digital products and print newspaper to more than 7.5 million. By focusing on improving
the reader experience, the Times has built stronger relationships with its subscribers and knows what type of information and storytelling resonates with their influential audience. Hear how The Times
is focusing on fewer higher quality ads and using its first-party data to offer targeting, based on emotional states and reader motivations, to provide more powerful ad experiences.
Brands that advertise next to positive articles about environmental issues are more likely to be perceived as eco-friendly.
Comcast and Disney spend the most on content, including scripted content and live sports.