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Why LinkedIn is spotlighting the average watch time metric to support its video push

After promising growth in 2024 and early 2025, LinkedIn is doubling down on video with new tools and metrics. As of yesterday, creators on LinkedIn are able to track the average watch time of their videos. LinkedIn rolled out the new video metric amid a range of new features — such as improved video search […]

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Future of TV Briefing: Separating signal from noise when it comes to CTV advertising’s content signal complaints

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how noisy content signals are confounding CTV’s contextual advertising opportunity and what makes the situation even more confounding. CTV’s noisy signals Paramount’s new Nielsen deal, Nielsen’s new network spat, the Super Bowl of AI advertising and more CTV’s noisy signals Remember those old-fashioned bunny ears that used

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The Alphabet Moneymaking Machine Grows Despite All Challenges

Alphabet is beset on all sides. Antitrust suits across the world portend potential major breakups of the business. Google’s collecting nine and 10-digit fines like they’re going out of style. Its iron grip on the global search market might be loosening at last. All of which is to say, Alphabet’s earnings are absolutely unaffected. The

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Why Celebrities and the Super Bowl Aren’t Likely to Part Ways

There was a time when most Super Bowl commercials didn’t feature a celebrity. No Serena Williams. No Payton Manning. No Martha Stewart. In 2010, only about one-third of Big Game spots included a well-known actor, athlete, or musician, according to television analytics firm iSpot.tv. This changed in 2018, when famous faces appeared in the majority…

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