NewFronts Day 4: Meredith, Target and YouTube cap the week

We’re in the home stretch of the Digital Content NewFronts. We’ll start the day with Meredith in its first NewFronts presentation since selling off Fortune and Time. (In April, Meredith took Money magazine off the market and discontinued its print edition. Sports Illustrated is still up for sale.) The publisher will host two back-to-back presentations this morning at its offices in downtown New York City. Target is presenting this afternoon. The big-box retailer, which is making its first foray into the NewFronts, has kept its plans hush-hush. On Wednesday, rival Walmart unveiled a new video ad network that it claims will reach half of U.S. households. And capping the week is YouTube, which once again enters the NewFronts saddled with questions surrounding brand safety. This year the digital video platform found itself in hot water after it was discovered that sexual predators were leaving comments on some YouTube videos. On the content side, it’s expected YouTube will focus less on costly originals and more on videos from its most popular stars. This year the company shifted away from its subscription strategy for original content and said it would offer originals for free. As with our previous live-blog installments, today’s series of dispatches come to you from Ad Age’s Jeanine Poggi, Ilyse Liffreing and Garett Sloane. 2:15 p.m. It's magic Digitas opens its “Trust Me” NewFronts with an act from an illusionist, who talks about the subtle art of misdirection and... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]

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