Marketing

True Crime Podcasts Can Win Advertisers – As Long As The Discourse Stays Civil

True crime podcasts are incredibly popular with listeners. But they’re a hard sell with advertisers. Roughly one quarter of the most-listened-to podcasts in the US are in the true crime genre – the most of any genre, according to a 2023 study by Pew Research. And 34% of American podcast listeners say they regularly tune

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Will Social Video Kill The TV Star? Vevo Exec Rob Christensen Says It’s Complicated

Music video network Vevo has evolved a lot in six years. After shutting down its consumer-facing website and mobile app in 2018, it embraced CTV with its own free ad-supported channels for different music genres, including pop and country. Rob Christensen joined Vevo in 2019 as EVP of global sales and to oversee its FAST

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Digiday+ Research: The state of social media marketing (spoiler: Instagram came out on top in 2024)

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. This year has marked yet another in which social media has been a dominant part in the conversations about marketers’ strategies and spending. To find out just how the year turned out for the various platforms, Digiday+ Research looked

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AI Briefing: Amazon’s new Nova models boost AI model efficiency, accuracy and variety across AWS

One of the most buzzy bets in Las Vegas this week had nothing to do with poker or slots. At the AWS Reinvent cloud conference in sin city, Amazon debuted a suite of six foundation models called Nova. The new models include a text-to-text model designed for speed, and three multimodal models that can understand

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