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The Sun doubles video’s share of digital revenue to 18% by betting on original programming

As Google’s AI Overviews threaten to chip away at publishers’ search traffic, The Sun is betting big on something harder to displace: original long-form video. Over the past nine months, video’s share of the publisher’s digital revenue has nearly doubled, climbing from 9 percent in January to 18 percent today, as advertisers shift spend into

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Sports rights owners are embracing YouTube creators as their next media partners

From YouTube broadcasters to credentialed TikTokers, sports rights owners are embracing creators — and rethinking what a media partner looks like. In recent weeks, Germany’s Bundesliga became the first top-tier league to award live match rights in the U.K. to YouTube personalities like Mark Goldbridge, whose “That’s Football” channel boasts millions of subscribers. In Brazil,

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Media Buying Briefing: With Aquila testing its wings, media agencies pay close attention to their clients’ work

Cross-media measurement has long been a sort of Holy Grail for the media and marketing industries — long sought but never found in its perfect form. Could it be that, like the giant eagles that come to the rescue of Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee at the end of Lord of the Rings, that Aquila

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Three Predictions That Everyone At CIMM Thinks Will Be Fact By 2030 (And One They Didn’t)

Tuesday’s CIMM schedule concluded with a panel called “Fact Vs. Fiction: The Futurist POV on Media in 2030,” where the audience weighed in on predictions about what the ad tech industry will look like in five years. The post Three Predictions That Everyone At CIMM Thinks Will Be Fact By 2030 (And One They Didn’t)

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