Author: John Haggard

AT&T Launches Data Service for Outdoor Advertisers

Ad Age Reports that “advertisers will be able to learn the number of people who pass by a billboard or display, as well as stats about that group of people…” Neat idea! Details here. […]

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Color Meaning and Symbolism: How To Use The Power of Color in Your Branding

From DesignSchool.canva.com. See how important the choice of color is in your branding and advertising. “A brand’s logo and visual identity will comprise a number of visual cues, such as shapes, symbols, number, and words. But the number one visual component that people remember most is color…” Details here. […]

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Nielsen Research for Facebook Shows It Now Edges TV in Reaching Millennials, Hispanics

Advertising Age Magazine says the “wide-ranging study using Nielsen’s Homescan panel of consumers and audience-measurement tools shows buying Facebook alone now reaches more of each group than running ads on the 10 most watched TV networks combined…” Details here. […]

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Facebook to Sell 100% In-View Ads, Let Brands Fact-Check Video Ad Views

From AdAge.com, but there is a problem: “The lack of a time limit could water down the option’s value to advertisers”…details here […]

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PANDORA Believes in TV

From Kurt Hanson’s RAIN News: “With no fanfare or PR announcement behind it, leading online radio service Pandora has apparently launched a major TV spot schedule…details here. […]

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PANDORA Opens 37th Local US Sales Office

How big is PANDORA getting? From Tom Taylor NOW: Pandora opens a highly-visible sales office in downtown Minneapolis. It’s leasing a 5,000-square foot space in “the city’s most recognizable office tower, the IDS Center,” says the Star-Tribune. The paper also has the local color, about what started out as a “small local sales team” in the Twin […]

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Is TV Going the Way of Radio? Record Subscriber Losses.

Ad Age Magazine says, “Cord-Cutting Ramps Up as Pay TV Sees Record Subscriber Losses. Services Lose 625,000 in Subscribers During Biggest-Ever Quarterly Drop.” This is another sign of the times as people go Internet and mobile to get the content they want the way they want it. Details here. […]

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AdAge says Yahoo to Let Brands Fact-Check Its Viewability, Fraud Numbers

Ad Age magazine reports: “The move to third-party verification brings more transparency to the issues of ad viewability and ad fraud. By addressing advertisers’ concerns over whether real people — as opposed to non-human bots created to mimic a site visit in order to juice traffic stats and ad revenue — are actually seeing their […]

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What a YouTube Celeb Pulls In

This is an amazing amount of cash being earned! Could this be a better way to reach consumers than traditional media like radio or TV? Ad Age Magazine tells the story here. […]

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How Much Longer Will Terrestrial Radio Be Around?

Record high stream listening in March led by Pandora and Spotify. More and more, listeners are grabbling what they want, when they want, where they want, and how they want…as opposed to be controlled by mass radio feeding them. Details here. […]

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