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Why You Should Wait Before Buying Amazon’s New TV

With Amazon now manufacturing its own smart TVs, it seems inevitable that they'll eventually give them away as part of a bundled service of Prime and others of its products.

Cookiepocalypse Now? Not Necessarily for TV Advertisers

Google’s third-party cookie-blocking has left digital publishers and advertisers struggling to adjust their data strategies to address consumer privacy concerns while still collect

The TV Ad Industry’s Chance to Kill the Gross Rating Point Is Finally Here

If we're lucky, the kerfuffle between Nielsen, the Video Advertising Bureau and the MRC will kill the GRP as the primary planning, buying and measurement metric for TV advertisers

What We Do In Advertising Matters in a Polarized World

All of us in advertising and media must continue to grapple with the multi-pronged challenges of an ongoing global pandemic, an increasingly digital world that creates both extraor

The New Currency for Video Games

There is only one advertising model that recognizes players as true contributors to game economies, turning their time and attention into a valuable currency for them to “spend” on

Advergaming 2.0 & the Metaverse

Thanks to the success of “Vans World,” we may soon see an explosion of high-quality game experiences brought to players for free, courtesy of brands, on metaverse platforms like Ro

What’s Lost When Teams Communicate Only By Video?

This pandemic has proven to us that teams can accomplish extraordinary things working remotely, heavily supported by amazing technological innovations. That said, there are some re

Future of Media Measurement Includes Nielsen... and Others

Nielsen’s TV measurement is not going away. But digital-born players with media measurement products in line with where media consumption and ad spend are going will pick up a lot

Putting Viewers First in Video Ad Delivery Needs More Work

We’re in the midst of a massive shift from linear TV viewing to streaming video viewing. One would hope that as we enable viewers to watch studio-produced premium content in an on-

Build Video Game Economies by Giving Players What They Want

In-game advertising is often considered to be a scary proposition. But surveys of console and PC gamers across the top premium and F2P games reveal that over 77% of players welcome

Is Everything You Thought You Knew About TV Outdated?

If you’re relying solely on digital to meet your needs, you’re not really trying to build a brand, widen the top of the funnel and bring more people through it. That’s where the po

What Exactly Is the Metaverse? Get a 'Crash' Course

Mark Zuckerberg has declared that Facebook will reorganize from a social network into a metaverse company within five years. But what, exactly, does metaverse mean? And where does