Streaming scatter revenue is expected to decline to $10.14 billion from $10.64 billion. The big winner is expected to be streaming inventory sold in the upfront — poised to rise to $18.61 billion.
Travelers Just Want To Spend
Getting ready to travel and being on the road puts people in a shopping mood – and not just for buying travel-related products. According to research released by TripAdvisor last month, 84% of travelers are actively in the market for electronics, streaming services, food, booze and financial services. This tendency creates a unique opportunity for brands […]
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YouTube’s Rulings on Gaza War Videos Spark Internal Backlash
Insiders have shared YouTube’s playbook for handling the Gaza crisis. They argue that it shows inconsistent enforcement.
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How Old-School Retailers Like Academy Are Getting Hip And Adapting To Digital-First Sales
Hey Readers, Welcome back to the AdExchanger Commerce Media newsletter. This week, we’ll do a quick dive into a brick-and-mortar business in transition. Academy Sports and Outdoors, a sporting goods chain founded in 1938, is trying to get trendy. Its camping business is growing on the strength of Yeti and Stanley, a drinkware brand with […]
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TV Buyers And Sellers Are Still Haggling Over CPMs; Meta Is (Back) On The Hot Seat
Upfront negotiations might take longer than normal this year. Plus, Meta is already in hot water with the EU’s new digital regulations.
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Digiday+ Research: Are cookie concerns, MFAs holding back publishers’ digital revenue?
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Publishers are finding the digital landscape to be a complicated one lately, what with the blurring of Google’s phase-out of the third-party cookie and the proliferation of made-for-advertising sites, among other issues. So, believe it or not, many publishers still depend on revenue from traditional channels in addition to digital ones, and fewer publishers get most of their revenue entirely from digital channels than they have in years past.
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How fast-food chain Carl’s Jr. is pushing CTV to become a performance channel
Connected TV is maturing, taking up more and more ad dollars as advertisers look to it as a means to boost brand awareness while simultaneously driving performance.
For the last year, fast-food restaurant Carl’s Jr. has been spending more on the channel — more for performance than anything else. Over the last year, the restaurant chain has increased its CTV spend from 15% of its budget in 2023 to 20% of its budget this year. (The company did not disclose specific dollar figures.)
“Store visits is what we really want to measure as we start to view CTV as a performance channel,” said Jennifer Tate, CMO at CKE Restaurants, parent company to Carl’s Jr. “We view CTV as both important for awareness and brand messaging, but also critically important that it’s driving store visits.”
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‘A joint effort’: How Wells Fargo sets expectations for how it works with influencers
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As the creator economy grows, the very definition of what makes a creator or influencer changes. It has expanded to be inclusive of everything from college athletes under the name, image and likeness (NIL) policy change in 2021 to the latest crop of virtual influencers, springing up alongside generative AI advancements.
For Nicole Dye Anderson, svp, head of media relations and influencer strategy at Wells Fargo, influencers can extend to anything from celebrities to media personalities.
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Marketing Briefing: Marketers race to use generative AI tools, find ways to make humans ‘smarter, faster, better’
CMOs have long been pressured to do more with less.
The push for that efficiency continues — despite squeezed budgets, an evermore fragmented media landscape and an evolution of the CMO role that’s made it more difficult. How CMOs are posturing themselves to the industry was clear in how the showed up at Cannes. It’s easy to see how the pitch of generative AI tools to help brands do more with less could be appealing to marketers. It remains to be seen whether these tools actually deliver on that pitch.
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