Tag: Media

August 27, 2020

When Bernard Acoca was named CEO of El Pollo Loco in 2018, the restaurant chain was still spending 98% of its media budget on TV and print media — years after digital media had disrupted the marketing landscape. With a […]

August 4, 2020

Privacy regulations and changes to the ways browsers and operating systems — namely those by Apple and Google — handle ad targeting and tracking are causing upheaval across the digital ad ecosystem. To address these challenges, and push back on […]

June 11, 2020

Advertisers have been pushing for changes to the upfronts and the broader media buying ecosystem for some time, with such calls becoming more prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic. This new initiative is noteworthy for bringing together some of the world’s […]

January 17, 2020

Media plan ROI will take center stage as more dollars move to digital in 2020. Previously, linear budgets were often allocated based on content adjacency and GRPs, with measurement coming in the form of share of voice and years-long media […]

January 17, 2020

With the longest U.S. economic growth span on record, one might think the wheels may be about to come off of the economy — and marketing spend along with it. Not so, says Bruce Biegel, senior marketing partner at The […]

January 7, 2020

Facebook updated its policies on deepfakes and manipulated media following conversations with over 50 global experts with backgrounds in tech, policy, media, legal, civics and academics. However, the video that helped shine the spotlight on deepfakes—a doctored video of Speaker […]

December 4, 2019

Facebook has 2.45 billion monthly users. Given that reach, it’s hard to classify Facebook as anything other than a mass media outlet. Compare Facebook’s reach to some of the most-viewed television broadcasts: 600-650 million people worldwide watched the Apollo 11 […]

October 21, 2019

Whether you’re deleting an app that’s buggy, draining your battery or taking up too much precious phone space, Facebook wants to know. According to archived developer documents from the company and confirmation from multiple sources with knowledge of Facebook’s internal […]

June 20, 2019

An astonishing 91% of right-leaning Americans have lost faith in the media, according to a study from the Reuters Institute of Digital News and the University of Oxford. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism […]

June 13, 2019

Programmatic advertising offered the promise of having systems of processes govern media buying, to ultimately allow for time and resource efficiencies. This would naturally increase innovation in a growing industry and give way for more opportunity. The goal was advanced […]