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Future of TV Briefing: How the TV, streaming and digital video industry spent its summer

This week’s Future of TV Briefing recaps a summer that saw streaming seize the reins of the broader TV industry. The summer of streaming YouTube overtakes Disney’s TV watch time share Glossy launches a YouTube channel YouTube is TV, The Trade Desk wants to be a CTV platform and more The summer of streaming Remember […]

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How Ben & Jerry’s has found the balance between activism and advertising

A decade ago, e-commerce marketing was burgeoning. To manage that type of marketing, ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s looked to its online social activism work to inform the company on how to pivot. “All of the activism media buying we had done [online at the time] was all about acquisition where you’re buying cost

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Attention metrics step forward in guidelines — as their value is questioned

Last week, Karen Nelson-Field, the founder of one of the attention metrics firms in the marketing landscape — Amplified Intelligence — posted an enthusiastic note on LinkedIn, saying that the IAB and the Media Rating Council (MRC) have “agreed to collaborate on the Attention Task Force,” which will lead to the drafting and development of

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How This Analytics Startup – A Spinoff Of GumGum – Tackles Sports Sponsorship Measurement

Measuring TV commercials is complicated enough – let alone measuring the impact of sports sponsorships. Relo Metrics is one of a handful of companies capitalizing on this niche measurement gap. It specifically measures sports sponsorships on TV and in digital channels, including brand and logo placements visible during a televised sports game. Relo Metrics first launched

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For AI Systems To Deliver On Their Potential, DEI Must Be Ingrained – And Enforced

Inherent bias is embedded in all AI training data. This bias is perpetuated by nondiverse teams determining who gets access to it and how it’s used. That bias is then accelerated by the competitive nature of high-power investors whose primary goals are dispersing software and tools to generate outputs for clients and revenue for themselves.

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Amazon Wraps Its First Upfront; DV360 Earns Less Than The Trade Desk

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon Leads On Upfronts Amazon has officially wrapped its first-ever TV upfront. Amazon didn’t disclose a total amount of ad commitments. (We’re sensing a trend.) But buyers say they allocated a good chunk of change to Amazon in their upfront negotiations this year,

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Marketing Briefing: Why holding companies are taking a ‘platform’ approach to pitch more cohesively

Holding companies are taking a more cohesive approach to pitch advertisers.  Omnicom is the latest to make structure changes to solidify this shift. Last week, the holding company revealed a new structure for its creative agencies, deemed Omnicom Advertising Group, with TBWA Worldwide CEO Troy Ruhanen at the helm. The move is an effort to

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