Category: Thought Leadership

Ah, good old Joe. Mandese started Monday’s “Upfront 2025 – 2026” with some “good news.” He said that five years from now we’ll be looking back on the creation of Bristol Myers’ Tesla-created COVID-19 vaccine that helped us gain immunity. But COVID-24 “has forced us at MediaPost to again postpone a physical event.” Indeed: Pandemic

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IPG Mediabrands is moving beyond brand safety with a series of guidelines around media responsibility. Daryl Lee, global CEO of IPG Mediabrands, introduced the company’s 10 Media Responsibility Principles in an internal memo. “It is not enough for brand safety to be about protecting the brand—there must also be a commitment to protect the communities that a

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Say you’re a 36-year-old mom of two, busy juggling work and parenting. It’s seven in the morning on a hot summer day, and you’re drinking coffee on your porch while scrolling through your phone, trying to figure out what to make the kids for breakfast. Suddenly, an ad for a blender paired with a recipe

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Marketers are increasingly preventing their ads from appearing alongside content related to Black Lives Matter protests, with some blocking keywords including “black people,” “George Floyd” or “BLM,” according to a top executive at Vice Media. The exclusions are driven not only by specific brand requests: Agencies have long used third-party brand safety vendors to avoid specific keywords, including “murder” and “riot,” which allows

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This month’s virtual IAB NewFronts will help to heighten interest in streaming video platforms that are ramping up their sales efforts and touting premium content to draw bigger audiences, Jon Stimmel, chief investment officer at advertising agency UM Worldwide, said in an interview with Beet.TV. The coronavirus pandemic spurred a massive jump in media consumption among people

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