Category: Industry Buzz

NBC News Kills the Demographic, Personifies Its Viewers Instead

03 October 2012 | Industry Buzz

MediaPost by Joe Mandese: In a bid to shift advertisers and agencies away from what it claims is an archaic way of defining TV and video news audiences — the demographic — NBC News Digital this week will begin pitching a new audience targeting scheme based not on the classic age, sex and income descriptors [...]

The Digital Advertising Ecosystem

25 September 2012 | Industry Buzz

The IAB has a cool infographic up illustrating how the digital advertising ecosystem works. While the TV advertising ecosystem isn’t exactly the same, there are increasing similarities. http://www.iab.net/data/ecosystem.html

Google is Shutting Down TV Ads

22 September 2012 | Industry Buzz

Business Insider by Bill Wise With Google sunsetting its TV Ads program, it’s worth asking what really made Google pull out of that line of work—so we can get real answers on who, if anyone, might be best positioned to take up the mantle of using technology to finally monetize unsold TV inventory. Read more: [...]

TV Ads Lift Online Sales Conversions (Really!)

17 September 2012 | Industry Buzz

MediaPost by Jeff Zwelling: Want to increase your online revenue per click? Try television. I’m not kidding. We just ran a series of tests that show conclusively that television advertising boosts revenue per click for online and offline marketing channels, even social media & affiliates. Overall, the studies revealed a definite positive halo effect of [...]