A Young Girl Discovers the Power of Storytelling in HP’s Touching International Women’s Day Film

Get ready to feel a lot of emotions thanks to a touching six-minute film from HP. The brand released “Paro,” a film designed to inspire young women to tell their own stories, on International Women’s Day. “At HP, we believe in the power of stories. Told vividly and authentically, stories can change minds, inspire action…

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AT&T Advertising’s Talent Bench Takes Shape

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Ever since AT&T hired GroupM honcho Brian Lesser last August to lead its new advertising and analytics business, he’s been on a hiring spree. And many of the recruits share one thing in common: They’ve earned their programmatic stripes in some capacity. Time will tell how the AT&T Advertising & Analytics division will develop shouldContinue reading »

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Podcast: Goodway Seeks A Better Way To Do Programmatic

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Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Jay Friedman, our podcast guest this week, came up with the concept for a recent AdExchanger comic depicting a marketer running on a “brand safety” treadmill while scarfing down “cheap CPM” cupcakes. The point: You can’t have it both ways. In this week’s episode, FriedmanContinue reading »

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Q4 TV Affiliate/Retrans Revenues Up, National Ads Down

Total broadcast retransmission revenues and cable network carriage fees grew 8.5% to $10.93 billion in the fourth quarter of last year.

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Most Ad Execs Eschew Political ‘Activism,’ What Happens When You Can’t Avoid It?

At a time when some brands are beginning to take more aggressive political positions on volatile subjects, the results appear to be mixed. The majority of ad executives surveyed in February by
Advertiser Perceptions felt political “activism” has no impact on their performance, while those that believe if helps (22%) or hinders (25%) were about evenly split. That’s nice in an ideal world,
but as we’ve seen in recent weeks a number of brands have been forced to take positions — pro or con — on politically sensitive issues due to news events, social media campaigns, and grassroots
activism by consumers.

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SourceMedia Introduces Branded Content, Native Ad Options

The company’s clients are now able to add a layer of performance and data targeting to their native campaigns, allowing for greater scale and even more productive outcomes.

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FCB Forms Health, Consulting Units

Interpublic’s FCB is launching two new units including a healthcare-related branding operation and consulting service alingned with a Canadian agency.

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Discovery Eyes Direct OTT Offering, Legacy TV Firms Lock In Streaming Strategies

A Discovery OTT service would enter an increasingly crowded field. Viacom will launch a direct-to-consumer OTT offering built around library content later this year. Viacom CEO Bob Bakish, speaking at
a conference last week, said his company’s OTT service would “complement what we are doing in the MVPD space,” rather than compete with it.

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Google Plays Up Gender Equality-Related Searches for International Women’s Day

Google–which has notoriously struggled with its own sexual harassment issues–is trying to turn the narrative around gender equality today with a campaign that leans on search data. Google released a slew of Google Trends data showing the uptick in searches specific to gender equality. Google’s data is indexed to 100, which represents the maximum number…

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