New YouTube
If you missed the earlier announcement, YouTube on Tuesday, November 17, launched a new audio ads platform for advertisers, the latest Digital offering in the audio marketplace. This offering will now compete with Pandora, Spotify, iHeart, and all other audio streaming platforms, giving advertisers even more choices to deliver targeted messages to prospective customers. Digital […]
Digital Ad Spend Up Nearly 20% in Q2
According to Broadcasting & Cable Magazine, Digital advertising spend increased almost 20% during the second quarter, while traditional advertising remained flat, according to MoffettNathanson Research’s Ad Tracker report. Details here. […]
Google Says Killing the Cookie Has Consequences
Ad Age Magazine reports some of the effects from the new push on privacy in terms of how the policy affects marketers. 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 […]
Why is iHeart Radio not growing? And why is Cumulus down 22%? And CBS? (according to Edison Research)
Clearly, online streaming is not working for terrestrial radio group operators, at least not for iHeart (formerly known as Clear Channel), Cumulus, and CBS. Here is an article from The Infinite Dial, Thoughts on Internet Radio metrics, from Larry Rosin of Edison Research. Click here. Highlights and quotes from the article: So the question is: “Why?” It […]
Click Fraud in Advertising
From Media Life Magazine, “…the two biggest issues facing the online advertising market today, and they are inextricably linked: viewability and fraud.” Details here. […]