Short-Form Video Surges Beyond Social, Study Finds
Pity Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood mogul whose Quibi, a mobile-first video service, was way ahead of its time. The idea was to serve short-form video less than 10 minutes in duration to people as they were waiting at the bank, the post office, the doctor’s office or anywhere else where they might have a few […]
Dave’s Hot Chicken Tops Yelp’s Most Loved Brands
Consumers are cautious, still spending, and they love what they love. Yelp Most Loved Brands of 2025 report provides a snapshot of loyalty to certain brands and why and where enthusiasm is strongest. Dave’s Hot Chicken is the Nashville-style spicy chicken QSR that began in a Los Angeles parking lot and has since drawn a […]
Innovid Offers Reliable Measurement for Live Content
As live content continues its migration to streaming, marketers are demanding the same trust and precision they expect from traditional broadcast. Innovid, the independent software platform specializing in ad creation, delivery, measurement, and optimization, is stepping up to meet that challenge. The company recently unveiled its Live Content Certification Program, an initiative designed to ensure […]
OOH Advertising Hits $2.13B in Q3 Revenue
The advertisers that helped push record-high revenues in the OOH channel in Q3 include digital-first brands such as Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Uber, HBO, FX, and Paramount+. At $2.13B in Q3 revenues, OOH advertising delivered its strongest third quarter on record, according to new data from the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA). Year-to-date […]
Plymouth Rock Launches Campaign for Northeast Region
Plymouth Rock Assurance, which provides homeowners and car insurance to customers in the Northeast, has a new ad campaign in which it advises customers to “keep calm and rock on,” a fairly reasonable directive, considering the vertical. North Carolina ad agency McKinney, created the campaign that is meant to support the idea that living in the Northeast […]
StackAdapt Enhances the DOOH Process
StackAdapt has a new DOOH experience that replaces spreadsheets and static lists with real-time mapping that integrates Programmatic Guaranteed inventory access through both Broadsign and Vistar. Most DSPs typically integrate with only one. Under the improved system, advertisers will have greater transparency about pricing and availability to launch for reserved screens directly on the platform. […]
‘Short-Term Rental’ Season Is Upon Us
Have you ever just borrowed something from a store instead of outright buying it? Apparently, this behavior is widespread and known in the trade as a “short-term rental” or STR. The practice involves consumers buying goods such as houseware, electronics, and clothing, fully intending to return them for a refund from the store after use. […]
Locality Launches Audience Engine
Has Locality re-engineered the foundation of local advertising to deliver performance, precision, and transparency, at scale, for advertisers? That is certainly the objective of the local video solutions provider, which launched its Locality Audience Engine in collaboration with Lovelytics, Newton Research, and Databricks. Locality and its strategic partners seek to engage local audiences by integrating […]
Buckle Up for the OOH Ad Gravy Train
Starting next year, the United States will be the center of am OOH sports bonanza. In 2026, the annual Super Bowl game kicks off in February. Then, FIFA World Cup matches will be played in 11 locations. And last but not least, the Summer Olympics returns to Los Angeles in 2028. DOOH advertisers and platforms are […]
Genius Sports Limited’s New-Found Audience Granularity
Who are your fans? More specifically, who is your fan? Genius Sports Limited’s recent acquisition of Sports Innovation Lab, promises to make both scale and granularity possible when building an audience. Sports Innovation Lab is a data, analytics, and insights leader. Its research on fan behavior through its Fluid Fan™ Graph has helped global brands, […]
In-Game Ads Play the Long Game
Just because someone is an avid gamer doesn’t make them impervious to DOOH advertising. In fact, it’s a great channel in which to reach them via geotargeting and complements the in-game advertising experience across devices. As always, DOOH is non-intrusive. So why does only 5% of ad spend target the immersive, highly focused user platform […]
Translation Needs the Right Turn of Phrase
Phrase is a language technology platform that combines advanced AI translation tools, workflow automation, and creative collaboration within a single environment built to answer the need for any and all global content needs across a business. Phrase has released a new wave of product innovations across global markets. Capabilities like Auto Adapt, Phrase Studio, the […]
Survey: Voters Feel ‘Worse Off’ Compared to Early 2025
President Donald Trump has a personality problem, according to the latest Voters Trend Report from Resonate, a technology company combines big data and psychographic survey studies to develop an understanding of consumer motivations. Survey responses found that half of respondents expressed dissatisfaction with his personal behavior. Only 13% are satisfied, leaving more than a third […]
Amperity Gets Personal with Seahawks’ Fans
The Seattle Seahawks are celebrating their 50th anniversary. A lot has changed in marketing over those years, with sophisticated systems that can reach fans at various touchpoints in their ticket-buying journey. Amperity, a customer-data platform, is enabling the Seahawks’ back-office to unify fan information from ticketing, retail, digital, and other systems to create a single, accurate […]
Study: OOH Ignites Sports Fans
Sports fans respond enthusiastically to humor, especially when they are reached with an OOH message inside the venue of an event. That’s according to a new report from the OAAA in conjunction with The Harris Poll, which found that those same fans tend to spend locally. According to the findings, sports fans act on OOH […]
Survey: Marketers Lean-In to Personalization, Performance
We’re well into H2, and omnichannel ad platform Mediaocean has released its 2025 H2 Market Report, a compilation of responses from a global survey of hundreds of marketing professionals. It looks like experimentation is out, and execution is in when it comes to using AI, advertising on CTV, and verifying identity as the foundations of […]
Swiftly’s Campaign Studio Can Empower Local Grocers
When ad historians look back on the evolution of DOOH advertising, they may well say of the present time, “self-service was the rage.” (Apologies to Anatole Broyard.) And just as Broyard opened a used book store in Greenwich Village in the 1940’s and got to know his clientele very well, so too do local grocers […]
For DOOH: Start with Where the Screen Is
Democracy has come to DOOH media. Anyone with a credit card, basic computer skills, and five minutes of free time can set up and run a DOOH campaign thanks to AdOmni’s self-serve ad platform. Jonathan Gudai, CEO of AdOmni, said that for too long the process of planning and executing a campaign has been a mysterious […]
Blis AI Platform Offers Deeper Targeting
Blis, recently acquired by T-Mobile, has launched Blis AI, a platform that uses foot traffic data and other real-world signals such as in-store sales to help brands with audience building and media planning. If a brand wants to reach moms during back-to-school shopping season, they can enter KPI parameters such as “foot traffic,” and Blis […]
Swiftly Program Enables Circle K and its Brand Partners
Retail technology platform Swiftly has partnered with Circle K, a mobility platform, to make it easier for alcohol buyers to get cash back rebates, eliminating the friction and time waste involved in traditional mail-in ones. Swiftly’s Alcohol Cashback platform works with a Circle K app that enables targeted, real-time promotions by product, category, and geography. […]