Marketing

Infographic: A Future Without Pharmaceutical Ads on TV?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a longtime critic of pharmaceutical companies running commercials on television. Now that he’s been appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services, he has an opportunity to do something about it. Last year, drug manufacturers spent $34.7 billion on advertising, with just over one-third going to linear TV. A potential ban…

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To Compete With Walled Gardens, The Open Web Needs More Collaboration

It’s obvious that publishers and advertisers have a lot to offer each other. And yet, based on the way advertisers have dealt with publishers over the years, you’d think they were sworn enemies. This is far from how things play out with major walled gardens like Meta and Google. There, ingenuity and openness prevail. The

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Future of TV Briefing: How TV networks’ streaming and linear ad businesses fared in Q4 2024

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at what TV network owners’ latest quarterly earnings reports indicate about the state of the TV and streaming ad business. Fourth and long YouTube’s original programming, A+E Networks’ new name and more We want to hear from you. Take this quick five-minute survey to help Digiday learn how to make

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Digiday+ Research: YouTube usage drops as fewer brands put a large amount of marketing spend toward the platform

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. It’s been just over two years since YouTube started a revenue share program for Shorts. Last year saw a growth in brands’ usage of YouTube, but this year usage has dropped off. At the same time, more brands are

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Advertisers put SSPs and curators under the microscope in sell-side push for ad tech fee transparency

Marketers are probing deeper on ad tech fees.  Their long, almost Sisyphaen quest to figure out how much ad tech vendors are pocketing from their programmatic dollars has taken yet another turn. “The big push from agencies at the moment is fee transparency,” said Matt Sattel, chief revenue officer at OpenX.  Continue reading this article

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