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In the space of just a few weeks, a group of Madison Avenue heavyweights has made public guarantees of ad money for some of the industry’s smaller media outlets, all owned by Black entrepreneurs.
Examining ad-campaign outcomes and their drivers is a fundamental requirement for brands, which Marketing Mix Models address extremely well if the data inputs meet stringent standards.
According to an RTDNA survey, a new record of 1,116 TV stations aired local news in 2020, up 18 from last year’s all-time high. 34.5% of TV stations reported they increased the amount of news they aired in 2020, 7.3% more than in 2019.
Despite the growing number of CTV subscribers, media buyers would be wise to look at the context and the current limitations of the digital ad space, rather than universally shifting budgets away from linear and into digital.
The pressure continues on Nielsen as data from rival Comscore contradict Nielsen’s metrics showing that TV usage went down during the pandemic.
News Press & Gazette Broadcasting, a family-owned company has no plans to get swallowed up in the industry’s consolidation trend and is very interested in picking up more stations itself.
In a letter to TV networks and other clients, Nielsen said it is still working to “resolve outstanding maintenance needs” and will likely not complete that work until the end of May.
Leaders of the Black-Owned Media Matters movement will gather to showcase programming and talk about economic inclusion in the U.S. advertising industry during the Black-Owned Media Upfront 2021.
TEGNA announced its expanding its fact-checking VERIFY franchise to reach across the country. Evolving it beyond a product that lives primarily on TV and station websites, to being a national platform that exists on both TV and digital.
Six television stations in Grand Rapids, Mich. —WOTV, WOOD, WXSP-CD, WOLP, WWMT, and WXMI —became the latest in the nation to begin broadcasting with NextGen TV, also known as ATSC 3.0.
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