Don’t Trust Your Ad Buy Was Run Properly
Don’t trust that the terms and conditions of your ordered media (the “buy”) are followed by terrestrial radio or television stations especially if you have a condition on your buy such as, “No competitive spots can run in the same spot set as this client” or “No competitive spots can run inside this program purchased.” […]
Twitter Jumps In and Offers Advertiser Guarantees on Delivery
More and more, advertisers want proof that they money that they spend is actually being delivered and viewed. Twitter now offers advertiser guarantees like television, a good move for buyers of media. Twitter has been working closely with Dentsu Aegis Network to develop its first guaranteed ad product, which lets brands order a set amount […]
Evolutionary Ratings Measurement On the Way
This could be a major breakthrough for the ability of media buyers to get access to rich media ratings and data to enable even better negotiations and selection of media for their clients. From the July 22, 2016 edition of Tom Taylor Now: “Groundbreaking new audio measurement solution” from Shazam doesn’t require encoding. iHeart’s supporting […]
What is Terrestrial Radio Afraid Of?
According to RAIN NEWS, Nielsen Audio (who recently bought the Arbitron Ratings Company) has already developed the app to deliver streaming radio ratings. “Broadcasters as a group might not be eager to widen the competitve field by introducing integrated metrics that allow ad buyers to agnostically build campaigns on both sides of the fence.” So, […]
Are You Getting Snookered on Advertising Rates with “Political” Rhetoric?
Is the media you’re buying playing “political rate games” with you by saying your rate is too low because the rate would “violate the lowest unit rate rule for qualified political candidates?” While your offered rate may be too low in some cases, in other cases your rate would NOT place the station in jeopardy […]
Catching Another Case of Media Vendor Unfairness
This can happen in any market (and does): “jam and cram” scheduling of commercials. Because we ask for all of our clients’ commercial spot times in advance of airing in all markets, we can catch these careless or “unintentional” blunders before they bill and get the spots more evenly spaced or moved. If the program […]
Unfair
See what media advertising vendors do to their own clients here. […]
Don’t Miss TV Rating Points Owed You By Not Removing the Skew
Nielsen Ratings has released 2014 Winter Olympic Exclusion Data that takes the market survey and removes all of the Olympic programming from all stations where the Olympics were shown. Where there was Olympics programming, the time slots will be blank and reported as 0 ratings/imps. This data should be used to Post (comparing the rating points […]
Rating Council Lifts Lid On ‘Viewability,’ Establishes Common Online Ad Currency
From MediaDaily News, this is a significant advance in what establishes viewable impressions for the purpose of media buying. Read the article here. […]
How to Know if a Make-Good Media Offer is Fair to You
When commercials are ordered to run across across varied platforms like TV, Radio, Cable, Online Audio or Video, invariably some commercials will not run as originally ordered. This can happen due to a variety of issues including technical glitches, or even more likely, your commercial being “bumped out (pre-empted)” for an advertiser who is willing […]