Author: Scott R Turner

Pay TV companies are increasingly worried about password sharing when it comes to streaming apps and platforms of TV networks and other services.

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ESPN is joining NBC Sports in adding new streaming rights to NFL games on its mobile platforms. ESPN announced Wednesday that it had signed a deal with the league to offer authenticated pay-TV
subscribers access to games on smartphones.

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Tom Hardy was the year’s most mesmerizing actor in our pick for 2017’s best show: “Taboo.”

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In 2017, the predictive ability of artificial intelligence (AI) powered many new tools and platforms. So what does 2018 have in store for AI?  I asked some marketers to find out.
Speak up, Alexa
Gregg Johnson, CEO of Invoca, a call tracking and analytics service, says that 2018 will be “the year the voice trend becomes undeniable.”

“As people increasingly trade typing for talking, we’ll see more companies invest in developing for voice interfaces,” Johnson said. “Most focus on Amazon’
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It’s game over for the traditional customer journey.

Today’s consumer has fragmented the ancestral sales funnel by wandering freely across channels and devices in search of the best product or deal. The average consumer owns more than seven devices, using more than three each day, of which marketers typically only see one, according to the Data & Marketing Association’s 2017 Statistical Fact Book.

To put it a different way: The path to purchase has evolved from a two-dimensiona
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Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, Marketing Land and other places across the web.
From MarTech Today:

IAB releases its newest Podcast Measurement Guidelines
Dec 20, 2017 by Barry Levine
This second version, offered as a draft in July, tightens up standards to measure ads and audience for this booming medium.
Adobe Campaign to roll out enhanced email functionality
Dec 20, 2017 by Robin Kurzer
The company also sees AI-p
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2017 was the biggest year in media and marketing since 2016. Whether it was the duopoly increasingly controlling the digital ad market, digital publishers and traditional media companies fighting back against the duopoly, advertisers pressuring the duopoly to improve its advertising and measurement products or things that had nothing to with the duopoly, the duopoly reigned supreme. But Google and Facebook weren’t winners on all fronts. Here are Digiday’s biggest media and marketing winners and losers of 2017:.

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In Digiday’s Confessions series, we trade anonymity for honesty from individuals in media and marketing. Our best Confessions from 2017 touched on topics spanning from The New York Times’ editorial layoffs to influencer fraud and agency culture.

Confessions of a New York Times copy editor
Less than a month after Times staffers’ walkout in June to protest layoffs expected to affect copy editors, a copy editor from the Times shares how the job has changed since the paper restructured the copy desk system about a year ago: “I had eight stories on a recent night, and I was just buried. I could hardly get up to go to the bathroom. The shift has been to get it up as quickly as possible and catch things on the fly. That isn’t the way The New York Times used to do it. Now, we’ll just give it a read, and off it goes. Then, you find out a name is misspelled. Or there isn’t a first reference to a name. Or a fact is wrong. When we shifted to this new system, people started spotting little things that were getting in the paper.”

Confessions of an ex-brand global media chief
A former global media head of a multinational brand argues that media owners are disconnected from clients and don’t understand how client-agency contracts work: “I call agency pitches the dance of prostitutes. The pimps at the back dictating the pitch are the agency-buying houses, and their individual agencies are the girls in the shop window. Because clients are driving the pricing process, the agency guarantees the client a fixed price based on using certain media partners. They’ll win the pitch, so that’s then locked in. So if a major broadcaster starts running a new show and a client wants to be involved in it, the agency won’t necessarily go for it because of how their bonus is set up.”

Confessions of a new mother at an ad agency
A new mother at an agency shares what it’s like to return to work after having a baby: “Working at an agency, it’s meeting apocalypse all day. There are legit meetings on a normal day that are scheduled for 5.30 p.m. or 6 p.m. at night. That’s fine if you don’t have a need to be home. That doesn’t work for everyone — especially parents who can’t afford to have a nanny at home all day and into the night.”

Confessions of an Instagram influencer
An Instagram fashion influencer reveals how brands pressure influencers to use bots to artificially inflate their engagement: “As the brands are being more pushy about influencers and agencies want them to grow their followers, they push them to use a bot that likes photos for you. A few years ago, everyone was growing organically. After brands started paying for things, these people realized they can sell followers to people. The brands use these fucking bots, too.”

Confessions of an agency millennial
A young employee at a digital and media agency delves into the culture at agencies: “Nobody wants to help each other. As an industry, we’re always at each other’s throats, or at least at each other’s collarbones. There is a culture of gossip that’s hurtful. Agency people are incestuous. The gossip follows people around. There are people who go to eight agencies in five years and come out with negative stories. People are real assholes.”

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Christmas is not an official holiday in Japan, nor a widely observed religious holiday, but it is celebrated nonetheless in its own unique way. Here’s some data that highlights Christmas in Japan.
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<p>Less than 20% of the US population will use one next year New York, NY (December 21, 2017) – Smart speakers will likely beat out wearable devices as the electronic gift [&#8230;]</p><p>The post <a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://www.emarketer.com/newsroom/index.php/wearables-mass-adoption/”>Wearables Still Far from Mass Adoption in US</a> appeared first on <a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://www.emarketer.com/newsroom”>eMarketer Newsroom</a>.</p>
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