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This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the question of how TV and streaming audiences watching in a bar or other public places should be counted — and, more importantly, charged for — compared to people watching at home.
Counting the crowd noise
Let’s talk CTV in NYC
Streaming overtakes all TV watch time
Disney...
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A few years ago, Twitter Beach was one of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity places to be. Before it became X, the platform brought marketers from the Palais to the beach for daytime panels featuring Chrissy Teigen, a celeb the company once dubbed the mayor of Twitter, and a nighttime party with performances by Ciara and Steve Aoki....
Having decided that the value of live — be it live sports, live shopping, live-streaming, live events or live conversations — is of essential importance to its clients, Omnicom is partnering with several major platforms and publishers to harness live’s power.
DIgiday has learned that the holding company today is announcing partnerships with payment platform PayPal as well as with X, in hopes...
Bradley Keefer, Chief Revenue Officer, Keen Decision Systems
Consumer sentiment just hit its lowest levels since 2022 as tariffs and the threat of rising inflation cause shoppers to think twice about making purchases. As brands navigate these economic headwinds, they might need to modify their business plans to protect their bottom lines. Marketing budgets, even if reduced, can be a valuable...
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For a brief moment, it felt like the old Cannes was back.
Olympic icon Michael Johnson was spotted over at Dentsu beach. Sir Martin Sorrell held court above the Croisette, delivering his usual readout on the state of the holding companies. Jamie Olivier was grilling. The sun was out, the rosé was cold and everything...
Reddit is quietly becoming a more important source of referral channel for some news publishers.
While the traffic Reddit is sending to publishers’ sites is still very small and isn’t going to replace declining search referral traffic anytime soon, it’s growing enough for publishers to put more resources into the platform and tweak their strategies to tap into the communities on the social...
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority has opened a consultation on potentially releasing Google from Privacy Sandbox commitments imposed in 2022. Some are concerned this represents ‘a W’ for corporate conjury.
The move, announced June 13, follows Google’s April decision to drop plans to prompt Chrome users to block third-party cookies, a shift seen as reducing potential competitive harm...
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On the second official day of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, Amazon continues its charm offensive on advertisers, announcing a partnership with Disney Advertising that brings its demand-...
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If there was any doubt that everything is an ad network, this year’s Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity proves otherwise.
Ad networks, retail media networks and the bevy of ad tech companies that support them seem to have carved out a bigger space for themselves along the Croisette. For example, Chase Media Solutions has cozied up on ad tech row,...
Lobby group Movement for an Open Web has issued fresh calls for the Justice Department to coordinate its proposed remedies to address Google’s monopolies in the ongoing separate search and ad tech cases.
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