The Black Market For Facebook Customer Service; Caught Up In Case Law

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rise And Dream Brian Krebs, the publisher of Krebs on Security, has a wild tale to tell. It involves high-profile hackers and internet criminals – with some reality TV and social media crypto influencers used as bait – plus a bunch of crooked […]

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Future of TV Briefing: How Telemundo is using TV, digital and streaming originals to program its live 24/7 FAST channel

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at Telemundo’s programming strategy for its 24/7 streaming news channel.

  • The 24/7 news stream
  • DirecTV plus Dish, Paramount minus Nielsen, Sky versus WBD and more

The 24/7 news stream

Programming a live 24/7 streaming channel is no easy feat. That’s 168 hours to fill each week. So NBCUniversal’s Spanish-language network Telemundo has sought to be savvy with how it programs Noticias Telemundo Ahora, the live 24/7 free, ad-supported streaming TV news channel it debuted in May.

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Roblox is starting to take programmatic advertising more seriously

After a gradual start in 2024, Roblox’s programmatic business is finally gaining steam.

At the moment, Roblox is hiring for eight advertising roles across the company that would support that endeavor, including ads-focused job postings on the Roblox website for a director of engineering, principal software engineer and principal product manager. Across the board, listed salaries for the jobs begin at roughly $200,000, going up to $440,000 for the most senior roles.

A Roblox spokesperson told Digiday that the company is continuing to fine tune its programmatic offering based on client feedback, and that the hires are intended to support Roblox’s ads team, “including in partnerships, product and engineering — both to build ad offerings, tools and partnerships, as well as to innovate in the new immersive media space.”

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Digiday+ Research: How food and beverage startups are leveraging pop-ups for product marketing

This report is adapted from Digiday’s sibling publication Modern Retail.

To stand out and overcome mounting competition in retail, pop-up shops have become part of marketing strategies for brands looking to deliver unique experiences to customers. 

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In the wake of Unilever’s media agency assignments, whatever happened to streamlining?

Unilever’s assignment of media duties following a comprehensive global media review feels a bit like an episode of Oprah: you get an assignment, and you get an assignment, and you get an assignment! 

On Monday evening, the consumer packaged goods giant announced the distribution of its global media business to pretty much each of the Big Six holding companies: WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, IPG, Dentsu and Havas.

Interestingly, such a diffuse set of assignments seems to fly in the face of discussions in recent years of multinational giants — those participating in the “mediapaloozas” of the past — looking to simplify or reduce their roster of agencies. And the holding companies have spared no effort or expense to add any number of services, from commerce media to influencer marketing to handle all of a marketers’ needs. 

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Snap survey: How brands’ retail media strategies are maturing

This story was first published on Digiday sibling ModernRetail

As retail media grows in popularity, marketers are expecting more bang for their buck.

That was the overarching theme at Digiday Media’s Retail Media Strategies event held in New York City last month. There, leaders from brands like Bayer, Mondelez and Clinique spoke about how they approach different retail media channels.

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Donald Trump Cancels 60 Minutes Interview

Former President Donald Trump is no longer on the clock. CBS News announced today that Trump has cancelled a planned appearance on its long-running newsmagazine, 60 Minutes. Vice President Kamala Harris will still sit for an interview, set to be broadcast on Oct. 7. 60 Minutes announced Trump’s decision to drop out on X, formerly…

Week of September 23 Evening News Ratings: World News Tonight Is First as New Season Begins

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir started the 2024-2025 broadcast season in its usual first place position in both total viewers and the advertiser-coveted demo of Adults 25-54. It’s the ninth consecutive year that WNT opened the season as the most-watched evening newscast. In addition, the program extended its winning streak in total viewers…