U of Digital Newsletter: January 29, 2025 (free)
Nielsen to End Panel-Only Ratings That Have Measured TV for Decades🔒 - Nielsen's standalone panel-based TV ratings will be discontinued in the fourth quarter.
Nielsen to End Panel-Only Ratings That Have Measured TV for Decades🔒 - Nielsen's standalone panel-based TV ratings will be discontinued in the fourth quarter.
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Learn what matters to CMOs from a veteran marketer! View the recording and get the deck from U of Digital's Live Learning Event on 12 November 2024.
Habu's interoperable data clean room tech allows companies to share and match their first-party data in a privacy-safe way. The platform is integrated with a bunch of companies, clouds, and platforms, including Google Cloud, Google Display & Video 360, Microsoft Azure, AWS Clean...
More Q4 EarningsWarner Bros. Discovery (👎): Q4 revenue was down 7% to $10.28B, missing estimates. Linear TV advertising fell 14%, but WBD became the first Hollywood conglomerate to have a profitable streaming unit, with Max delivering $103M in 2023 profits.Streaming subscribers reached 97.7M....
After much speculation last week, Walmart has made its move on Vizio. The acquisition would give Walmart Vizio’s SmartCast operating system—which has grown 400% since 2018 to 18M active accounts—and all the data those accounts generate.
The recorded version of this event is available here. Big changes might be looming for digital media. TikTok faces a possible ban in the United States and Google is fighting off regulators who want to break it up. 😬 In the...
Mark Read will exit his role as WPP's chief executive by December, ending a seven-year run that saw the British agency holding company lose its crown as the industry's revenue leader.
The Trade Desk will buy programmatic metadata startup Sincera for an undisclosed price tag. Launched in 2022, Sincera will continue to operate independently, according to Sincera CEO Mike O’Sullivan, providing advertisers, publishers, and ad tech vendors with data from the...
Customers of The Trade Desk, the industry's largest independent demand-side platform (DSP), will be able to target Roku's audiences and buy Roku inventory through private deals.
TV has undergone rapid change in the last few years, with new platforms, new rules—and an entirely new language.
Criteo's testing of Google's Privacy Sandbox found that publishers would lose 60% of their revenue on average in Chrome if third-party cookies were deprecated today.
CES 2024 kicks off with the rapidly expanding impact of AI on media and marketing front and center - The 2024 conference season officially got underway this week with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Meta (👍): Revenue was up 22% to $47.52B, beating estimates. Ad revenue was up 21% to $46.56B, driven by higher ad prices, strong demand, and AI-driven efficiency gains.
Yesterday was a crazy news day with 3 MAJOR STORIES, so we felt compelled to send a mid-week update. The common theme is industry consolidation → industry maturation.
Amazon has been all over the news in the past week, with developments related to its demand-side platform (DSP), streaming TV, and content. We’ll use the top slot this week to summarize it all.
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View the recording from U of Digital's Live Learning Event on 4 October 2024 and download the deck that explains what might happen to ad budgets in event of disruptions to TikTok and Google.
Cadent, an addressable TV advertising company, will buy all outstanding shares of AdTheorent, a digital advertising demand-side platform (DSP), for $3.21 per share.