The social media platform is revolutionising bookshops and galvanising publishers. Enjoy it while it lastsThe bestselling book in the UK last week, and of the year so far, is an American novel that was published in 2016. If that sentence sounds implausible, the odds are you have not yet caught up with the latest social media sensation. It is called BookTok and it is a strand on the video-sharing platform TikTok that was started by young book lovers at the height of the Covid pandemic.One of its standout successes is Colleen Hoover, a 42-year-old former social worker from Texas, whose young adult romance It Ends With Us has sold an astonishing 427,000 copies in the UK so far in 2022, according to the market analyst Nielsen BookScan. This outnumbers any other book in any format or genre. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2022-09-04 17:25:02 UTC ]
Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson's Pinch of Nom (Bluebird) has sold one million copies to date, with last week's 7,067 copies sold pushing it into seven figures through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-05 13:55:45 UTC ]
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Direct-to-consumer marketing is picking up steam, as readily accessible data makes it easier than ever for brands to reach their customers. But are companies using this data effectively? Sean Surdovel, media product specialist for Taboola—a technology company that drives brands’ marketing... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-31 16:45:00 UTC ]
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Embattled ad tech company Criteo has tapped 15-year Nielsen veteran Megan Clarken as its new CEO -- described a smart operator who 'gets stuff done.' The post ‘She gets stuff done’: Why Criteo tapped a Nielsen vet to turn around its business appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-10-31 04:00:58 UTC ]
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The Nielsen company says the five games so far of the Washington-Houston matchup is the least-watched World Series ever Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2019-10-29 21:44:42 UTC ]
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Welcome to the another edition of Ad Age Sports Media Brief, a weekly roundup of news from every zone of the sports media spray chart, including the latest on broadcast/cable/streaming, sponsorships, endorsements, gambling and tech. Rock for Light The World Series tonight returns to the... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-25 21:12:59 UTC ]
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Nearly 13 years ago, Netflix launched the first subscription-based streaming service for “Hollywood content,” laying the foundation for a massive paradigm shift in the way we access and watch movies and TV. Hulu followed suit soon after, but Netflix again changed the game in 2013, releasing the... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-24 19:52:28 UTC ]
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In today’s information-rich, mobile-centric world, people are more distracted than ever. Marketers used to be able to rely on TV ads or billboards to get in front of consumers. Now they must think mobile-first. Earlier this year, we hit a remarkable milestone: According to eMarketer, Americans... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-22 15:19:20 UTC ]
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The former United States Secretary of Homeland Security is attending the event in Washington D.C. and a number of people are not pleased. Power is an intangible commodity with a fluid definition. Among the participants in Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington DC this week are CEO’s... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-10-22 14:45:41 UTC ]
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Two years after Nielsen rolled out its SVOD Content Ratings to measure viewership for Netflix programs, the company is expanding the service to also cover Amazon Prime Video. The SVOD Content Ratings tool will now measure audiences for Amazon Prime Video content through connected televisions and... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-10-21 16:54:19 UTC ]
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Anheuser-Busch InBev is putting more marketing muscle behind Natural Light Seltzer as the brewer tries to make up ground in the hot-selling category dominated by White Claw and Truly. The line extension, which hit stores in August, will run its first TV ads starting this weekend during college... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-18 21:39:48 UTC ]
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Welcome to a special calamity edition of Ad Age Sports Media Brief, a weekly roundup of news from every zone of the sports media spray chart, including the latest on broadcast / cable / streaming, sponsorships, endorsements, gambling and tech. Welp Perhaps the primary function of sports, that... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-18 21:21:01 UTC ]
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Journalist and author Tim Marshall talks to us about the upcoming abridged and illustrated version of his bestselling book on geopolitics, Prisoners of Geography, which is aimed at children. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-17 02:12:42 UTC ]
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Philip Pullman's The Secret Commonwealth (Penguin/David Fickling) has maintained its number one spot in the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction top 20 for a second week, while the current UK Official Top 50 number one through Nielsen BookScan's TCM, Bill Bryson's The Body (Transworld), also held... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-15 17:51:08 UTC ]
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Welcome to the another edition of Ad Age Sports Media Brief, a weekly roundup of news from every zone of the sports media spray chart, including the latest on broadcast/cable/streaming, sponsorships, endorsements, gambling and tech. The Undoing Project One day soon, when we’re living in some... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-15 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Philip Pullman's The Secret Commonwealth (Penguin/David Fickling) has soared 15 places to top the Amazon Charts Most-Sold: Fiction chart, in the same week it sold 54,301 copies in hardback through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-09 20:59:35 UTC ]
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A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for Sept. 30-Oct. 6 Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2019-10-08 21:42:01 UTC ]
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Nielsen unveiled an expansive overhaul of TV measurement in its 208 local markets that will substantially expand its audience panels while also adding out-of-home measurement in several markets. The company said the local TV overhaul, which has been in the works for three years, will deliver... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-10-03 10:00:35 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our daily newsletter. You can also get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. The FBI’s... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-03 10:00:00 UTC ]
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If the sky isn’t exactly falling on the broadcast TV advertising model, it certainly seems to be a lot closer to the ground than it once was. The ongoing flight of younger viewers from linear television has made a hash of what’s traditionally been a week for sampling new shows and revisiting old... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-02 20:09:24 UTC ]
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The 2020 elections are expected to see an unprecedented amount of advertising spending. Projections from Group M estimate a record-setting total of $10 billion, so the stakes for buyers and sellers have never been higher. As marketers map out their advertising plans leading up to the election,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-02 13:42:00 UTC ]
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