By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Women’s college basketball is giving men a better run for the money not only in popularity on the basketball court, but also in generating revenues for the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Disney announced last week that it had sold out of ad inventory for the Final Four and […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Sports fans may still be scratching their heads over this announcement last week: ESPN, Fox and Warner Brothers Discovery will launch a joint, sports-heavy streaming service later this year that will include each company’s content from sports that also appear on linear or traditional TV. For fans who […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. More of the Clydesdales, a bright-blue drink, M&Ms and a mustachioed man: These are among the ingredients that the food and beverage industry are mixing for TV ad watchers when Super Bowl LVIII kicks off Feb. 11 in Las Vegas. CBS, which is airing the game between the […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Connected TV, an increasingly popular programmatic ad buy in 2023, may well continue its meteoric rise in 2024 — thanks to Amazon Prime Video’s plans to slash its CTV ad rates soon. Amazon plans to launch Prime Video with ads at the end of January with CPMs (the […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Advertisers are exploring a number of ways to prepare for Google’s cookie deprecation deadline sometime later in 2024, including such ideas as working with partners that have first-party data and capitalizing on newer generative AI tools. Whatever strategy advertisers choose for the day that third-party cookies finally crumble […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. Not only does connected TV continue to link itself to more and more viewers, it’s continuing to click as an attractive opportunity for advertisers as well. By the end of this year, advertisers in the United States will spend $25 billion on connected TV (CTV) ads — an […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. If small business ad spending follows the trend of larger companies’ ad spend, as it is wont to do, expect some tightened pockets for advertisers and marketers alike in 2023. Granted, ad spend by businesses both large and small will rise globally in 2023, according to recent reporting […]
By Jay Bemis | Advertising Systems Inc. What is AVOD? On one hand, you could say that AVOD is rapidly becoming something that advertisers and marketers simply cannot avoid. But, literally, AVOD is advertising-based video-on-demand, or streaming platforms whose content includes ads: Think the likes of YouTube, the Roku Channel and an increasingly number of […]