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As upfront negotiations near, buyers chart path through complex sports market

Hopping between streaming services and TV networks to follow your favorite team’s ups and downs has become an inconvenient and expensive fact of modern life.  Fans wanting to follow along their team’s progress throughout the regular NBA season, for example, will have to access ESPN/ABC, NBC/Peacock and Amazon Prime Video to catch every game.  Earlier […]

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From page views to propensity: How the Daily Mail is retooling for a zero-click world

The Mail still plays in the big-numbers league. But inside the newsroom, the dials are quietly being reset. Page views, once the dominant metric on every dashboard, are being pushed aside in favor of time spent, repeat visits and what Mail executives call a “golden metric” of quality engagement. The urgency behind that reset is

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Hot Take: YouTube Shouldn’t Rely On Creators To Convince Brands It’s TV

Platforms using talent to corroborate sales pitches is nothing new – the TV upfronts have always included publishers peacocking their talent to impress buyers. But YouTube arguably juggles an additional obligation to act in accordance with its self-imposed competitive differentiator: authenticity. The post Hot Take: YouTube Shouldn’t Rely On Creators To Convince Brands It’s TV

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