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.
"This is about us providing more granular data that's available to help lean into the MMM models that CPGs and retail advertisers have leaned into during the past few years," said Asaf Davidov,
director, head of ad measurement and research at Roku.
Marketers spent more than half of their budgets on digital media channels, but expressed reservations about measuring their effectiveness.
"Alternative currency is not just a question of research and methodology. It's about operationalizing it."
"We're actually planning, optimizing and buying against it," Chief Investment Officer Cara Lewis said.
Developers at Qualtrics XM believe they have developed a process to tie the digital experience to the company's bottom line.
The deal will offer insights on the real-time performance -- second-by-second measurement tracking attention -- of commercials on its networks, EVP of Ad Sales and Digital Media at Crown Media Ed
Georger said in a statement.
The technology provides a scorecard to identify racial bias and risk factors in content, analyzing how brands score with multicultural audiences. It was developed by Larry Adams, CEO of AI-powered
company and platform X_Stereotype.
Searching for the best snacks to enjoy on Super Bowl Sunday? Instacart this week launched its first social Super Bowl brand campaign.
When the history of audience measurement gets written, 2022 will be remembered as the year we lost our minds.
Email marketers must cope with shifting consumer demands and even shopper identities, judging by a new study from Atlantic Brand Partners.
Contextual advertising awareness has a steep hill to climb. But brands like Frito Lay, which has tackled the challenge, have found success, GumGum data shows. James Clarke, Frito Lay senior director,
media strategy and CRM, believes success in contextual advertising is less dependent on the brand being advertised and more so on the strength of alignment between messaging and creative with the
surrounding environment in which the ad is placed.
Consumers put far more stock in emotional values beyond basic product function, according to the Brand Keys study of consumer brand loyalty.
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Media veracity watchdog NewsGuard published its annual list of best and worst informers of the year, including the top 10 "misinformers" generating the most engagement.
"We are greatly concerned that 'Nielsen One' is being built atop a broken and defective measurement and currency foundation," charged VAB chief Sean Cunningham.
SEO has long been recognized as one of the most impactful, highest ROI marketing channels. Search is the starting point for 68% of online experiences, and ROI of SEO can be over 12-times greater than
other types of marketing spend.
Mobile video, in particular, is poised for growth. "As more consumers shift from remote work to hybrid lifestyles, mobile video streaming is on the rise, and 86% of media experts see it as a key
opportunity in the year ahead," reports Integral Ad Science, based on a new survey of digital advertising and media execs.
Morgan Stanley estimates U.S. box-office revenue in 2022 at $8.02 billion, down 29% from 2019's $11.4 billion take.
Analysis of internal documents reveals how employees abuse customer data, stalk celebrities, and do little to plug major leaks. The clearance would reduce or eliminate some instances of data
mishandling.
NBC sketched out six key areas of segmentation: audience measurement, audience verification, brand measurement, incrementality measurement, sale impact, multi-touch attribution and business-outcome
guarantees.
Every marketer working with data to run campaigns should know something about Microsoft's SQL language built to manage and store information, says Steven Urgo, data insights analyst, Goodway Group.
The pilot will test various approaches to the use of Virtual ID (VID) for television, with the goal of identifying the most accurate model for ad-campaign reach and frequency metrics.
While more attention leads to increased recall, shorter ads were more attention-efficient and did more work in a shorter period of time. Dentsu's "Attention Economy" research program is focused on
measuring the true value of attention across channels, platforms, and formats, to reroute the way the ad industry judges an ad's real success.
Veteran media research exec Vijoy Gopalakrishnan has joined iSpot.tv as chief research officer, largely to further the media research company's "currency" initiatives.
The ad industry has realized that "device metrics" that were proxies for attention and standards like viewability do not necessarily equate to a true "opportunity to see," according to Joanne Leong,
vp, global media partnerships, dentsu international.
Centro rebranded to Basis Technologies on Friday, and next week will add research and benchmarking tools to its automated software offering for enterprise marketers.
Global organizations across the industry are continuing the journey to future-proof technology and data stacks against coming privacy changes and build out a "cookieless measurement stack."
Industry folks discuss cross-platform measurement, now a hot topic along with the MRC's de-accreditation of Nielsen metrics.
If we are lucky, the conflict between Nielsen, the VAB and MRC will kill the sex/age, demo-defined gross rating point as the primary planning, buying and measurement metric that drives virtually all
U.S. television ad spend -- the real nemesis to modernizing the TV and video ad industry.