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While I can’t speak to the legitimacy of the accusations herein, this is still a worrying situation for advertisers everywhere. Publications whose reputations are staked on their image of legitimate business are not what many may expect to be perpetrators of MFA Ad fraud. That being said, we can better understand ad fraud by looking at the incentive changes on the supply side of these AdTech deals. Ad fraud particularly harms multicultural publishers, as their reach and impact receive decreased impact when improperly assigned to Ad spaces. #AdFraud #AdTech #ProgramaticSupplyChain

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A busy morning in the podcast world as the IAB has released the 2023 podcast advertising study & iHeartMedia reported Q1 earnings. Let's dive in! First: IAB The headlines are simple: - Podcast ad revenue grew by 5% in '23, just shy of $2b (US). Yes, this is slower growth than we have seen previously (I can hear those misinformed headlines being typed as we speak!). If you look at the major players and their quarterly earnings over the last year, they all saw growth. So, what slowed down overall revenue? Simply, it was the middle & lower tier of podcasting. Brand dollars went to Spotify, iHeartMedia, SiriusXM, etc., increasing the delta between those platforms & the independent publisher. - But wait, there's more... Podcast revenue is projected to more than double its 2023 ad revenue growth rate in 2024 and is tracking to a total spend of $2.6b by 2026. So what does this mean? This means that podcasting remains very healthy and the best revenue growth opportunity in digital media for the foreseeable future. We're seeing increased revenue growth from all the big players, and those dollars do trickle down to the mid-tier, especially as they tap into existing marketplaces. All is good. https://lnkd.in/eCGxgnUs --- Now, onto iHeartMedia: Overall, the company made $799 million, down YoY by 1.5%. If you take out political revenue, they're down 2.5% (and the stock reflects that, down ≈31% today as of writing this... eesh). Their Digital Audio Group saw revenue of $239m, up 7%. Not bad! Thankfully, iHeart breaks out their podcast numbers, which were $91m, up 18%! If you remove podcast revenue, the digital group is only up 1%. So, like with SiriusXM, we see podcast revenue as the tide raising all boats. So what does that mean? It's the same story as SXM: a declining business focused on radio that is desperately trying to grow its digital initiatives to offset losses from its bread and butter. And podcasting is the only digital venture that is working—and it's working well! But will it work quickly enough? That's a tough one. Podcasting now makes up 11.3% of the overall revenue, which is tremendous growth but needs to be bigger to offset the rest. So, what happens? While the company tries to grow digitally as quickly as possible, it is also creating quite a valuable asset that could be attractive to an outside buyer. $400-500m/yr in revenue with an extensive podcast network, ad marketplace, and technology could be quite the bundle for larger companies that have yet to enter the podcast space... 👀 Never a dull moment! --- I'm the CEO and founder of DWNLOAD Media, a fund focused on acquiring majority stakes in podcast companies. With continued audience and revenue growth, podcasting continues to be the most under-valued medium, making it time to invest in audio. If you're interested in investing in the podcast space, DM me! #podcasts #audio #investing #podcasting #iheart #radio

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Watch Jonathan Nelson of Omnicom Media Group Digital in conversation with Neeta Nair, Editor, IMPACT where the digital expert talks about trends dominating #CannesLions2024, the new structure of the agencies, and the power of data in marketing. For all the latest buzz on the 71st edition of the Festival of Creativity keep following IMPACT on all our social media channels. #ImpactAtCannesLions2024 #IndiaAtCannesLions2024

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A pragmatic approach that asks the industry to "reinforce the foundations of a digital advertising ecosystem that values authenticity and penalizes deceit." It's time to go back to the future and demand that advertising is placed alongside quality content.

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Is SGE going to ruin SEO for lots of business and agencies? Probably! 😨 Thanks to John P. Mello Jr. for including me in his insightful article for TechNewsWorld. 💡 I thought Joe Karasin made a salient and pithy point about where things are going: "SGE is the next phase in Google’s attempt to create a zero-click search experience." #SEO #SGE #AI https://lnkd.in/ga5MffHq

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From my perspective, it seems as though adjusting media types does little to combat Ad fraud. Instead, what makes this problem so prevalent is the lack of accountability in the programmatic supply chain. Firms leaning into advertising without any sort of accountability measures are met with an impossible Catch-22 wherein spending more leads to less impact and spending less delivers the same. #AdTech #Innovation #AdFraud

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💡 #Brands Take note how the #NYPost mitigated #cookiepocalypse risk by using Aqfer's identity resolution tech, informed by Prohaska Consulting. In a post 3rd party cookie 🍪 world killer content and segmentation hooked to an adtech #frankenstack results in risk & loss. Pubs and brands need their own 1st party IDR systems to avoid fragmented customer views that result from multiple ID providers & other partners who are all hooked to each other in an attempt to create their own scale. This many-to-many-middlemen scenario has plagued adtech from the start. The result is redundancy, media waste, inconsistent customer experiences and inaccurate measurement. Think of Aqfer IDR like Data tech’s version of SPO 😉 #DPO, enabling clients like the NYPost, to get a single, deduplicated, omnichannel view of their customers. More here - https://lnkd.in/ggjDGWn5 https://lnkd.in/gTNURTu2

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So This is Fascinating and I am very pleased. This week I posted that we needed responsibility to come back into programmatic. Because otherwise everyone blames others and we end up with a polluted ecosystem (fraud, bad content, MFA, hate etc). I have been talking about this in different ways for years. We need some level of walls to keep out the bad actors. We need some level of responsibility to maintain standards. Its clear that TTD and Jeff Green agree. This is at the nub of the push to the premium internet. With TTD taking some level of responsibility for what happens on their platform. Its also worth saying that the easy option is to do nothing. Many platforms make millions out of poor content in the short term. We need more action like this for the long term. For thats the point. This is not altruistic but acting to secure the long term viability of the channel.

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https://lnkd.in/gSNGxFQp The Spencer Stuart annual CMO Tenure Study offers compelling insights into the evolving role and stability of CMOs, particularly noting the tenure stabilization at 4.2 years for Fortune 500 CMOs. It's intriguing that B2B CMOs tend to have longer tenures compared to their B2C counterparts, with 4.5 years versus 4.0 years respectively. This difference likely reflects the distinct challenges and market dynamics each sector faces. The study also highlights the increasing trend of CMOs taking on broader responsibilities and the significant number of first-time CMOs being promoted internally, suggesting a strong emphasis on leadership development and succession planning within organizations. It is great to see that women now represent half of Fortune 500 CMOs. I believe it's important now for companies to turn their attention to improving development and support systems for diverse high-potential leaders. #CMOtenure #B2BMarketing #Leadership #WomeninMarketing

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Magnite's CEO, Michael Barrett, recently spoke about the benefits of Clearline and how it's directly integrated into platforms like MediaOcean to help clients execute better. In a recent interview with BeetTV, Barrett highlighted Clearline's progress and the evolution of SSP. To learn more about how Clearline can benefit your business, check out the link below. [Link to article]

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How Adelaide is helping publishes like the NYT realize the value of their inventory.

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Ever curious about what's under the curtain? Dailymotion has just unveiled Auto Path, a groundbreaking high-impact creative tailored specifically for the Auto Industry. By leveraging our Predictive Targeting audience insights and vast scale, we've crafted activations that resonate with car buyers, all while providing measurable in-ad actions with OLV and CTV. Key Standard Features: - Custom Multi-touchpoint elements envelop your video creative - Product feature hotspots seamlessly integrated within the video environment to capture attention - Outbound click features to enhance data collection, site traffic, and conversion rates Experience an exclusive peek behind the scenes... Let us guide you on a test drive and engage seamlessly across all screens! Hit me or our exceptional sales team Brenda Rodriguez Valeria Basmagi Edivaldo Junior to introduce you to this exceptional innovation in Latin America #autopath #Dailymotion #creativeinnovation #predictivetargeting

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Explore the intricate dynamics of brand support in today's news ecosystem. 📰 Hear from industry leaders The Rebooting's Brian Morrissey , GroupM's Kate S., Outbrain's David Kostman, and Johanna Mayer-Jones from The Washington Post: https://lnkd.in/eFW7pquP They highlighted the importance of viewing news as a diverse category, segmented into different verticals for more effective advertising. The shift towards performance marketing and the need to prove value to advertisers were also key topics. This conversation underscores the crucial role of trusted journalism in our society and the potential for innovative approaches in news advertising. _ #GroupMCannes

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In TVREV, Magnite's SVP of Platform Revenue, Mike Laband, discusses the importance of user experience in TV advertising and how new ad formats like tiles and pause ads complement the streaming interface.

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✅⬇️ AdExchanger (5/24): “To some degree, the digitization of TV marketing is inevitable. Wall Street investors prefer advertising and media companies with the most promising long-term profitability. One way to get there is for streaming companies to access shopper data and strike partnerships with retailers to court advertisers with the promise of performance and attribution. Publishers want to relabel connected TV as a performance channel, (an analyst) said. But if that happens, she continued, “CTV will lose its cred” among buyers and brands as a viable replacement for legacy linear commercials. Say what you will about linear, but it’s a mass reach vehicle. And if CTV doesn’t provide the same reach opportunity, Wall Street may cool on public companies with a CTV advertising business, (the analyst) said. The reality is, upper-funnel channels, like streaming, have a strong downstream impact on outcomes even if they don’t directly drive a purchase. For example, CTV’s ability to drive mass reach and brand awareness is why more retail media spend is moving to streaming, said Max Willens, a senior analyst at eMarketer, also speaking at Programmatic I/O this week. According to eMarketer, the proportion of retail media spend going to CTV should grow from 12% this year to 20% by the end of 2027.” ⬇️ #shoppabletv #streamingtv #programamtic #ctv https://lnkd.in/eu7AbtTU

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Earlier today, Omnicom announced that it will be the first holding company to integrate into the new Instacart Developer Platform (IDP), a publicly available API program that leverages Instacart's industry-leading online grocery platform to supercharge third-party digital experiences. Our Chief Experience Officer, Clarissa Season, noted: "This integration legitimizes influencers as a media channel even more because of the clarity it provides. We view this level of outcomes-based measurement as a significant step forward." You can read the full Digiday piece here: https://lnkd.in/gm7DbAY5 #OmnicomCannes

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"Retail media is relevancy meets reach meets conversion." Jacquelyn Baker, CEO at Omnicom Commerce offers a deep dive on the transformation of the retail media industry in Rokt's Beet.TV Leadership Series. Watch her video and read more insights on our blog ↓

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For those who have been poring over data about what consumers really want, the decline of TV advertising seems long overdue. But in many ways — talking about TV is like talking about telephone poles. It's just the delivery mechanism. Who caught this fascinating Suzanne Vranica The Wall Street Journal article over the weekend? (Linked it here: https://on.wsj.com/3UyJaJK) While it’s interesting to see major brands like Oreos shift to new media platforms (cutting TV ad dollars entirely on recent campaigns) — successful modern marketing is not simply moving dollars from TV to OTT, CTV or streaming services… It requires a FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT in strategy, creative, and the way that brands tell their stories to empower their audiences. Advertising has been based on interruptive techniques and a reach and frequency model: A brand creates one great campaign and repeats it over and over again. Consumers don’t want that — not on TV or elsewhere. They want brands to carry them through their journey with MEANINGFUL CONTENT that meets their very granular needs throughout their journey. This content can be EMOTIONAL, inspiring people to be a better version of themselves. It can be very FUNCTIONAL as people look for specific features, functionality, differentiators and reasons to buy. Consumers want brands to SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS and help them make SMARTER PURCHASING DECISIONS. Shifting away from traditional TV is just one small step forward. There is a MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY for brands to capture market share through a data-driven, journey-based approach while most corporations remain addicted to antiquated advertising techniques. Agree? Disagree? Let me know your thoughts!

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