In the next couple of years, digital video is going to continue to grow—that’s a given. According to eMarketer, we’re looking at double-digit rates: it’s estimated that through 2020, U.S. digital video ad spending will continue to grow at a pace that exceeds TV advertising. By contrast, T.V. ad spending growth will be at rates [...]
A guy walks in to his doctor’s office and says, “Help, my brother thinks he’s a chicken.” The doctor replies, “Why don’t you turn him in?” The man replies, “Because I need the eggs.” This joke – which famously bookends Woody Allen’s Annie Hall as an encapsulation of our need for romantic love – is [...]
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There are some things that humans do better than machines. Finding creative solutions to problems, making unusual mental connections and offering deep empathy come to mind. Then there are things like buying and selling media, where computers do a much better job than humans. That explains the rise of programmatic advertising over the past few years. [...]
As the IAB’s 2016 Video Ad Spend Study points out, marketing investments in original digital programming have more than doubled since 2014. And one-third of these dollars are going towards native ad opportunities. Anecdotally, the trend makes sense: marketers across verticals consistently cite increased ROI as the top driver for growth. Thanks to cross-platform targeting [...]
