Spotify Becoming a Major Player in Reaching Ad-Supported Targeted Audience
RAIN News reports that “Over 100 new segments are being brought to the U.S. advertising market, many of them sharpened by Spotify’s first-party data collection of listener behavior…” This means that we can target more than just age, income, sex, and geographic areas for more precise ad results and less waste in spending to reach […]
Major Advance in Ratings for Local Radio Internet Streams
This is one of the biggest advances in the measurement of online radio audio since radio ratings began over 50 years ago. From Inside Radio: “Buying online radio in local markets is now easier, courtesy of media buying and selling platform STRATA…audiences can be targeted geographically and by demographic, including age and gender…across 278 local […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]