Baseball Gets Big Opening Numbers, Then Drops The Ball

On Monday, it was revealed that 14 Miami Marlins players and coaches have been infected with COVID-19. Over the weekend, the Miami team played a 3-game series with the Phillies, and infections could
have been transmitted to them.

Women’s Sports and Esports Offer Biggest Opportunities for Marketers Right Now

After just one weekend of baseball, the possibilities for live sports are again in question during the era of Covid-19 as more than a dozen Miami Marlins players and coaches tested positive for the virus. So what are sports marketers (and sports fans) to do? According to Shizuka Suzuki, assistant vp of sponsorships and experiential…

Bezos, Cook, Pichai, Zuckerberg Face Congressional Antitrust Grilling

Tomorrow’s the day for the hearing, which some expect will find the industry “has skirted federal competition laws because the protections haven’t kept pace with the digital age.”

A Review Of Key Terms And Emerging Best Practices In Connected TV

This article is sponsored by Xandr. Recent growth in streaming video viewership around the world has been stunning, leading many advertisers to question how and where to reallocate or complement linear TV budgets, or extend digital display and video into streaming video. But the landscape is rife with confusing acronyms, layers of opaque content licensingContinue reading »

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OpenAP Marketplace Inks Deal With iSpot.tv For TV Measurement, Attribution

Advanced ad marketplace OpenAP has inked an agreement with iSpot.tv giving agencies and advertisers real-time TV attribution and OTT measurement.

NBC Sports Study Shows Just How Much Viewers Missed Sports, as Games Resume

After four long months, the country’s major sports leagues are finally roaring back to life. The MLB season began last week, the NBA resumes play on Thursday and the NHL returns on Saturday. As the dormant sports ad sales marketplace heats up–with billions in sports revenue up for grabs once again–NBC Sports is sharing the…

Google Forecast To Report Better-Than-Expected Results From Search: Merkle

Merkle on Tuesday will release its Q2 2020 Digital Marketing Report. Its digital marketing forecast estimates the market fared much better than most anticipated. “The big story for the quarter is
Amazon turning off their advertising in late March,” said Mark Ballard, vp research at Merkle, and keeping it off for 12 weeks through mid-June.