Digital Publishing: After Years of Tinkering with Paywalls, Publishers are Creating the Right Funnel to Find Digital Subscribers – Editor & Publisher

Digital Publishing: After Years of Tinkering with Paywalls, Publishers are Creating the Right Funnel to Find Digital Subscribers – Editor & Publisher “Just 10 percent of your readers could make or break your company’s digital future. That’s the opinion of Ken Doctor, the media analyst who has been breaking down the “Newsonomics” of our industry … Continue reading Digital Publishing: After Years of Tinkering with Paywalls, Publishers are Creating the Right Funnel to Find Digital Subscribers – Editor & Publisher

2018 Update: What Happens In An Internet Minute by Lori Lewis | Merge | AllAccess.com

Radio listening remains strong; Nielsen’s Comparable Metrics Report reveals radio reaches 93% of the U.S. each week. The audience relies on us at work, at home and in the car. They trust we’ll curate the best music, and keep them entertained and informed. We also know they have other choices. And some of those choices … Continue reading 2018 Update: What Happens In An Internet Minute by Lori Lewis | Merge | AllAccess.com

YouTube’s 30-second ad ban not exactly working | Digital – Ad Age

YouTube viewers have to sit through 30-second ads on videos from the site’s biggest partners despite the ban on the long-form commercials. YouTube video clips in shows from NBCUniversal, Viacom, Turner and other networks still run some 30-second pre-roll ads, even though the Google-owned site said it would stop serving them. Brands, including Time Warner, … Continue reading YouTube’s 30-second ad ban not exactly working | Digital – Ad Age

How do you optimize content for a voice-first world?

Want to know how to optimize your content for voice search? Contributor Sherry Bonelli shares how to incorporate smart SEO tactics to increase the chance of being heard. — Read on searchengineland.com/optimize-content-voice-first-world-291782

In a programmatic media world, it’s easy to lose sight of context as advertisers chase audiences wherever they are. But heightened brand-safety fears among advertisers, triggered by ad fraud and other bad practices highlighted throughout the year, are slowly but surely swinging the pendulum away from reach-driven, audience-only targeting, toward valuing the context of the environments.

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Six-Second Commercials Are Coming to N.F.L. Games on Fox (…just catching up with digital advertising)

Seems television is trying to catch-up with digital video advertising. According to a recent NY Times article, “A new kind of advertising is coming to N.F.L. games and other programming on Fox Sports this fall: the six-second television commercial. Fox Networks Group will offer the bite-size slots alongside its standard 15- and 30-second ads for … Continue reading Six-Second Commercials Are Coming to N.F.L. Games on Fox (…just catching up with digital advertising)

Internet mysteries: Why does last-touch attribution persist? Digiday

“…“By [using last-touch], they (advertisers) spend too much on customers who were going to buy anyway and not enough on customers in the decision-making process…”

New IAB Standards released. Think L.E.A.N.

The 'N' in LEAN: Non-Disruptive Ad Experience "Disruption of the content consumption by advertising has been a major complaint from users as well as a motivation to use ad blocking tools. This guidance lists current ad experiences and identifies disruptive ad experiences that MUST NOT be used as well as provides guidance on acceptable experiences. … Continue reading New IAB Standards released. Think L.E.A.N.

Facebook Is Giving Advertisers More Control Over Where Their Ads Appear

“Brands advertising on Facebook will soon have more control over where their ads appear. The social network is rolling out several tools aimed at providing more transparency before campaigns go live. The latest additions, announced today, will provide advertisers with a list of publishers up front to show where ads might appear via Instant Articles, … Continue reading Facebook Is Giving Advertisers More Control Over Where Their Ads Appear