At Cannes, Comcast urges TV industry to expand addressable advertising

Over 1,000 Cannes attendees woke up Tuesday morning to find brochures hanging on their hotel doors with a message from Comcast on the need to expand the ability for marketers to deliver commercials on a household basis—which is known as addressable advertising. This week on the French Riviera, Comcast is announcing, along with Charter and Cox, that it will turn on more addressable inventory from programmers.   Currently, most pay-TV providers are utilizing the two-minutes of local commercial time per hour they sell in cable programs to deliver addressable ads, but according to Marcien Jenckes, president, advertising, Comcast Cable, it's not enough. “A lot of marketers who advertise on a national basis want national addressability and more volume than what programmers can do with inventory today,” says Jenckes. To this end, Comcast is using Cannes as a podium to announce that it is willing to work with programmers to find arrangements to make this possible. It is looking to deliver addressable inventory across linear, video-on-demand and digital. The brochures hanging on the doors are a call-to-action for others in the industry—marketers, content owners, measurement companies and tech providers—to deliver a scalable addressable solution, Jenckes says. The message of unity and a coming together of TV companies to allow for greater targeting and more efficient measurement is expected to pervade Cannes this week, as the industry continues to fight against the digital... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

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October Was a Rough Month for Publishing Industry Sales

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The PW Publishing Industry Salary Survey 2022

Our first salary and jobs survey in three years found that the publishing industry’s lack of racial diversity and gender pay gap haven’t improved much. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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From Magic to Minecraft: DK Expands List with New Licenses

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Publishing Industry Sales Down 4.5% Through September

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Two-thirds of UK’s biggest advertisers to cut television spend

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