According to several US forecasts, 2024 promises to be a banner year for advertising. Last December, IPG Mediabrands predicted that ad spend would grow 8.4% this year, but last week, its research arm, Magna, raised its forecast, saying revenues would grow 9.2% to reach $390 billion.
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According to ESPN, Super Bowl LVIII averaged around 123.4 million viewers, and advertisers pay top dollar to feature their ads during the Super Bowl every year because they know they will reach a large audience. But the real question is, who took the advertising crown? According to AdImpact's viewership data…
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In 2020, AdMonsters launched the Wrapper Newsletter. Our aim: To summarize exciting news items that catch our eyes and link them to wider developments in digital media and advertising. This list is a compilation of readers' favorite Wrapper stories from 2023.
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AdMonsters YOY traffic has grown immensely. To mark this milestone, we're sharing a list of some of the most-read AdMonsters articles from 2023. From the challenges of Seller Defined Audiences, to data monetization in an era of ID deprecation, to a path to net zero, to how publishers can safely…
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The ANA’s Programmatic Media Supply Chain Transparency Study finally elevates the role that systemic “information asymmetries” play in allowing programmatic waste to persist.
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While there have been some positive developments, as highlighted in a recent study by the ANA’s Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing (AIMM) in collaboration with MAVEN/Media Framework, LGBTQ ad spend nearly doubled from 2020 to 2022, reaching $15 million. However, there is still room for improvement.
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TransUnion discusses the state of the economy in their survey, Trading Down: Inflation Impact on Consumer Spending in July 2022. Inflation may be at an all-time high, but Consumers are still spending and pushing the economy forward. How much longer the consumer can keep up their spending power is up…
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The industry coined the term "ad spend slowdown" to highlight how advertising spend has decreased YOY due to the ad recession. While some may do this to help mitigate revenue, research shows that cutting back on advertising is a major mistake. Karla Jo Helms, CEO and Founder of JOTO PR Disruptors,…
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In honor of Women's History Month, we spoke with Laura Boodram, CRO, FatTail, about how she started in ad tech, her experience being a women executive, and how her new role as CRO has allowed her to grow.
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When Mark D. Walker, Co-Founder and CEO, Direct Digital Holdings, started in the media business in the 90s, he heard murmurings that the consumer landscape was evolving to become more ethnically diverse. Black Americans drove culture and wielded immense spending power, birth rates for Hispanic Americans were rising, and LGBTQIA+…
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