Every weekday, we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new and trending TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, a company that catalogs, tags and measures activity around TV ads in real time. The new releases here ran on TV for the first time yesterday. The Most Engaging ads are showing sustained social heat, ranked by SpotShare scores reflecting the percent of digital activity associated with each one over the past week.Among the new releases, Starbucks' barista Raelene raves about the Cascara Latte; Kelley Blue Book appeals to protective parents in a funny spot featuring a couple letting their teenager begin to drive; AdoreMe.com promotes its $24.95 lingerie set offer; and Outback Steakhouse serves up the Loaded Bloomin' Onion appetizer, which is topped with cheese fries.Finally, Billabong features a nostalgic montage of surfers riding waves and showing off their skills. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jody Gerson is having a good year.The CEO and chairman of Universal Music Publishing Group recently closed a deal for Bruce Springsteen's catalog andyears after discovering a 14-year-old Alicia Keysbelieves she has found the next big thing.You likely saw her handiwork at the Grammy's this year... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hispanics account for almost half of annual U.S. population growth, largely through U.S. births rather than immigration (25.8% of kids aged 9 and under are Hispanic). Totaling 57.5 million people, Hispanics are 17.8% of the U.S. population and growing.That's some of the key information in Ad... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A lucky 13th week for The Handmaid’s Tale—it has rebounded back into the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one spot, after Helen Fields’ Perfect Prey briefly toppled it a week ago. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After years of complaining about digital media fraud, brand safety and other problems, the Association of National Advertisers hopes to do something about it, starting a six-month pilot with what it hopes will be 35 marketers and more than $50 million in spending for 30 premium online... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Denver advertising technology company Altitude Digital has merged with Genesis Media, a New York City-based maker of analytics software for online publishers. The combined company will be based in New York City under the Genesis Media name, but it will keep the former Altitude Digital office in... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2017-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Good morning. Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, and digital-related news. What people are talking about today: The romance between Netflix and Disney is unraveling, or as Quartz puts it, "Disney is just beginning its conscious uncoupling from... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Caffeine Nights Publishing has signed world rights to a collection of "dark and surreal" horror stories from comedian Joe Pasquale. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A 1.5% increase in trade sales wasn't enough to offset declines overall industry sales in 2016. which saw a 5.1% fall. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital media means user experience often is compromised for aggressive monetization tactics. We took a temperature check to find the biggest issues. The post Top publishing execs say interstitial ads are the worst user experience trade-off appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Handmaid's Tale has once again taken over the Weekly E-Book Ranking’s number one spot, gripping the list with the might of a totalitarian regime for a third non-consecutive week. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With ad-blocker penetration approaching 25 percent in North American and 40 percent in Europe, restoring publisher rights and revenues has become a top of mind issue for most digital media and advertising executives. Join a panel of executives from leading publishers for an informative webinar.... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple is said to be making it easier for publishers to place ads in its News app and even solicit micropayments, raising concerns about user experience. Today Apple’s News app is relatively uncluttered by ads. Actually there are very few ads anywhere. Part of the reason for that is that... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2017-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Martina Cole's Betrayal (Headline) has swiped the UK Official Top 50 number one spot from Ian Rankin's Rather Be the Devil (Orion). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Wednesday introduced an ad format for its Facebook Audience Network mobile ad network designed specifically for game publishers. The social network said in a blog post that McKinsey projects ad spending by the gaming sector to reach $6.9 billion by 2019, adding that research from game... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unless you have been living under a digital rock, the mounting outrage about fake impressions is quickening, commensurate with a deepening understanding of ad tech fraud among advertisers. Recently, Forrester confirmed advertisers' suspiscions in a study titled "The End of Advertising As We Know... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The World’s Worst Children 2 (HarperCollins Children's) has claimed a fourth week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 24,974 copies for £191,767. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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MediaRadar is a cloud-based intelligence platform which uses data science to give ad sales advice on millions of brands. The company published a trend report on Tuesday, Vertical Video Market Snapshot: Q1 2017, which analyzed the use of vertical video advertising by media properties in the first... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Video publishers on Facebook and Instagram now have a new measurement option, as the social network announced that video view metrics for those two platforms will be added to CrowdTangle starting Thursday. Facebook said in a release that publishers will now have another way to track emerging... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Instagram Wednesday introduced a clearer way for users to determine when posts by influencers or publishers are the results of commercial relationships with the businesses they are posting about. The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network said in a blog post that users will begin seeing... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brands advertising on Facebook will soon have more control over where their ads appear. The social network is rolling out several tools aimed at providing more transparency before campaigns go live. The latest additions, announced today, will provide advertisers with a list of publishers up... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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