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Streaming services have transformed content consumption, offering flexibility and diverse choices. Despite this, the financial sustainability of streaming poses a challenge. Streaming platforms must evolve revenue models to thrive, potentially integrating more advertising or exploring new subscription bundles. Traditional cable is indeed facing a decline as more consumers embrace streaming. However, cable companies are not sitting idle. They are embracing streaming technology and offering bundled services to retain their customer base, showcasing their adaptability. Future Business Models: - Hybrid Models: Integrating subscription-based services with ad-supported content may become more common following the success of platforms like Hulu. - Strategic Partnerships: Collaborations between content providers and tech companies, such as Comcast's partnerships with Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, offer value and convenience akin to the old cable model but with modern flexibility. - Content and Experience Differentiation: The key to standing out in a competitive market is to provide unique content and enhanced user experiences. Investments in original programming, interactive features, and personalized recommendations are crucial in this regard. - Global Expansion: With domestic markets saturating, streaming services will expand globally, tailoring content to local preferences to capture new audiences. - Technological Integration: Advancements like AI and machine learning will enhance content delivery and user engagement, making services more efficient and personalized. The future of streaming and traditional cable will involve a combination of old and new strategies. By innovating and learning from each other, both industries can thrive in the changing digital landscape. 🚀 What do you think about the future of these media giants? #startups #streaming #advertising #subscriptions #business Rob Sacks

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So This is Fascinating and I am very pleased. This week I posted that we needed responsibility to come back into programmatic. Because otherwise everyone blames others and we end up with a polluted ecosystem (fraud, bad content, MFA, hate etc). I have been talking about this in different ways for years. We need some level of walls to keep out the bad actors. We need some level of responsibility to maintain standards. Its clear that TTD and Jeff Green agree. This is at the nub of the push to the premium internet. With TTD taking some level of responsibility for what happens on their platform. Its also worth saying that the easy option is to do nothing. Many platforms make millions out of poor content in the short term. We need more action like this for the long term. For thats the point. This is not altruistic but acting to secure the long term viability of the channel.

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Ever curious about what's under the curtain? Dailymotion has just unveiled Auto Path, a groundbreaking high-impact creative tailored specifically for the Auto Industry. By leveraging our Predictive Targeting audience insights and vast scale, we've crafted activations that resonate with car buyers, all while providing measurable in-ad actions with OLV and CTV. Key Standard Features: - Custom Multi-touchpoint elements envelop your video creative - Product feature hotspots seamlessly integrated within the video environment to capture attention - Outbound click features to enhance data collection, site traffic, and conversion rates Experience an exclusive peek behind the scenes... Let us guide you on a test drive and engage seamlessly across all screens! Hit me or our exceptional sales team Brenda Rodriguez Valeria Basmagi Edivaldo Junior to introduce you to this exceptional innovation in Latin America #autopath #Dailymotion #creativeinnovation #predictivetargeting

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Jounce Media's newly published State of the Open Internet Report explains the industry’s chronic bidstream congestion issue and how to address it. This latest research highlights the trend toward consolidation we are seeing on the supply side and is a must-read.

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Money talks in all forms of media and sports media is no different. Well, for these past few years, and especially this year for women’s basketball, money revenue has been powerful. Women’s advertising revenue and overall revenue have skyrocketed. Viewership is up in a big way thanks to stars like Caitlin Clark and recording-setting attention is being delivered. Glad we are seeing women’s sports receive the attention they deserve. After seeing Caitlin Clark's rookie contract value last night, here's to hoping this revenue potential begins to positively influence WBNA earnings in the same way. #WomensSports #Sports #Advertising

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❄ Bundle Up. ❄ While summer is upon us, expect streamers to continue leaning into a cross-rival bundle up strategy to drive new sub growth while limiting churn. ⛄ Per research gurus Magid, “predictive rates of churn [were] 16% lower due to the increased availability of bundle plans. Bundles also boosted customer intent to keep a subscription longer than six months by 15%.” ⛄⛄ Also interesting - all this bundling will elevate some of the smaller, even more niche services (ie, AppleTV+, Crunchyroll, Shudder are cited) that will be included into specific bundle offerings to target specific user types and/or differentiate bundles from one another. https://lnkd.in/gmHgPWdZ

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💡 #Brands Take note how the #NYPost mitigated #cookiepocalypse risk by using Aqfer's identity resolution tech, informed by Prohaska Consulting. In a post 3rd party cookie 🍪 world killer content and segmentation hooked to an adtech #frankenstack results in risk & loss. Pubs and brands need their own 1st party IDR systems to avoid fragmented customer views that result from multiple ID providers & other partners who are all hooked to each other in an attempt to create their own scale. This many-to-many-middlemen scenario has plagued adtech from the start. The result is redundancy, media waste, inconsistent customer experiences and inaccurate measurement. Think of Aqfer IDR like Data tech’s version of SPO 😉 #DPO, enabling clients like the NYPost, to get a single, deduplicated, omnichannel view of their customers. More here - https://lnkd.in/ggjDGWn5 https://lnkd.in/gTNURTu2

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✅🖥️ CNBC (5/13): “It does feel like this is a moment, a moment in terms of what the next year, two years will bring," Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said during the company's earnings call last week. "I said a while back that this is a generational disruption.” Media companies just finished reporting quarterly earnings, which showed traditional TV is still lagging behind streaming and digital when it comes to ad revenue. Traditional TV ad buying during Upfronts is expected to increase about 1% to $18.79 billion this year, according to data from eMarketer. This is an improvement from last year when it was down about 4% to $18.64 billion. Meanwhile, digital advertising spend during the Upfronts and Newfronts — which take place a few weeks ahead of the traditional media events — is expected to increase nearly 32% to $16.45 billion this year, according to eMarketer. There was a general improvement in traditional TV ad revenue last quarter, down 8% as opposed to nearly 16% in the same quarter last year, according to a note from Macquarie senior media tech analyst Tim Nollen. Streaming advertising was up 22% across media companies, and now makes up 18% of total advertising.” ⬇️ #streamingtv #upfronts #newfronts #ctvadverting

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Explore the intricate dynamics of brand support in today's news ecosystem. 📰 Hear from industry leaders The Rebooting's Brian Morrissey , GroupM's Kate S., Outbrain's David Kostman, and Johanna Mayer-Jones from The Washington Post: https://lnkd.in/eFW7pquP They highlighted the importance of viewing news as a diverse category, segmented into different verticals for more effective advertising. The shift towards performance marketing and the need to prove value to advertisers were also key topics. This conversation underscores the crucial role of trusted journalism in our society and the potential for innovative approaches in news advertising. _ #GroupMCannes

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✅🖥️ New York Times (6/22): “Streaming has long been hailed as a promising business, because companies like Netflix can add additional subscribers at little extra cost. The more paying subs a service has, the more the company’s costs can be spread out over a large base, lowering the cost per sub. But those want lots of options, and the costs of making enough programming can be enormous. As a result, a streaming service’s profitability depends in large part on how many paying subs are needed before those TV shows and movies become cost-effective. There was a time when industry execs hoped that number might be as low as 100MM. But now the consensus among many of the executives interviewed is that the number is at least 200, and possibly more. “If you’re going to be a full entertainment service with live sports and tent-pole blockbusters today, 200MM is a number that can give you the scale with the hope for growth over time,” Amazon (execs have) said. Bob Chapek, Disney’s CEO until 2022, also agreed that 200 was the number that meant “you’re big enough to compete.” Netflix has reached that, and then some, with about 270MM paying subs. Moreover, those pay an industry-leading average of more than $11 per month. Netflix is highly profitable, with operating margins of 28 percent. In the first quarter of 2024, Netflix reported revenue of $9.4B, and $2.3B in net income. No one else comes close. Disney and Amazon are the only other streaming services with more than 200MM subscribers.” ⬇️ #streamingtv #ctvadvertising #avod #svod #ott #fast #upfronts

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Netflix streaming was one of Amazon Web Services (AWS) early success stories and proofs of concept (I'll drop a link in the comments). "Amy Reinhard, the company’s president of advertising, was clear: Netflix will roll out a proprietary ad tech platform by next year." Could Netflix in-house #adtech be the next Netflix <> AWS collab? There's history there and this could be a major win for proving the value of AWS for Advertising out in the wild... #adtech + #cloud = 🔥

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Earlier this week, I had the privilege of joining a panel at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity hosted by T-Mobile Advertising Solutions. Alongside Alice Colarusso, Stephani Estes, and Jeffrey Frantz, we delved into crucial topics surrounding Data Defeatism. Our discussion revolved around key points: - Exploring why cookie deprecation presents an opportunity for enhancing marketing strategies. - Identifying the solutions and tools that show immense promise in fortifying addressability. - Predicting the evolution of measurement and attribution in the industry. - Analyzing the pivotal role of AI in navigating these transformative changes #PanelDiscussion #DataDefeatism #CannesLionsFestival #MarketingInnovation

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✅⬇️ AdExchanger (5/24): “To some degree, the digitization of TV marketing is inevitable. Wall Street investors prefer advertising and media companies with the most promising long-term profitability. One way to get there is for streaming companies to access shopper data and strike partnerships with retailers to court advertisers with the promise of performance and attribution. Publishers want to relabel connected TV as a performance channel, (an analyst) said. But if that happens, she continued, “CTV will lose its cred” among buyers and brands as a viable replacement for legacy linear commercials. Say what you will about linear, but it’s a mass reach vehicle. And if CTV doesn’t provide the same reach opportunity, Wall Street may cool on public companies with a CTV advertising business, (the analyst) said. The reality is, upper-funnel channels, like streaming, have a strong downstream impact on outcomes even if they don’t directly drive a purchase. For example, CTV’s ability to drive mass reach and brand awareness is why more retail media spend is moving to streaming, said Max Willens, a senior analyst at eMarketer, also speaking at Programmatic I/O this week. According to eMarketer, the proportion of retail media spend going to CTV should grow from 12% this year to 20% by the end of 2027.” ⬇️ #shoppabletv #streamingtv #programamtic #ctv https://lnkd.in/eu7AbtTU

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Reddit, Inc. went public earlier in March, and it's first earnings call CEO Steve Huffman attributed this growth to an increase in Reddit’s daily active user base due to a boost in search traffic from Google. I found this interesting because as a juxtaposition, many companies are crying foul over Google's Search Core Updates which are now pushing traffic to certain larger publisher sites. The main issue is a lack of transparency of what's changed and why in the eyes of many SEO consultants https://lnkd.in/gqVnjkAD Regardless, it's clear Reddit is a winner 🏆 of these changes. "Huffman said the bump in logged-out traffic came disproportionately from search. It was prompted not by the partnership with Google that Reddit announced in February, but by improvements the platform has made to its page loading speeds, which improves its Google Search rankings." While this maybe true, I think there will be conspiracy theorists out there who will be skeptical given that partnership agreement which allows among other things, Google to license Reddit's user-generated content for model training.

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🌟 Huge thanks to Dan Gallagher, WSJ Heard on the Street, for joining our latest 'Meet the Media' session with Brands2Life! 🌟 It was great to have Dan share his thoughts on the evolving #AI industry and the future of #streaming, exploring topics such as AI's gradual real-world impact and media consumption trends. Thanks again Dan for a fantastic session! #AI #Media #Technology #WSJ #Investment #Streaming #MeetTheMedia

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Lauren Lamb, Desiree Mejia and myself had the honor of attending our THIRD Meta Performance Marketing Summit in San Francisco this month! 🛩 We got to spend a few days nerding out with some of the most talented performance marketers in the game discussing the latest and greatest from the Meta ecosystem of products. We recapped our top learnings from the Summit to share with YOU for free! For those who attended, what were your standout learnings from the event? Let's keep the conversation going! #metaperformancemarketingsummit #metaads

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Curious about how to navigate the ever-changing influencer landscape? Join me tomorrow at Morning Brew's NYC event, "Perfecting Your Influencer IQ" where I'll be speaking with Mae Karwowski, Founder & CEO, Obviously & Kyle Hagge, Chief of Staff, Morning Brew about: 🌟 Consumer Sentiments: Understand the current attitudes and behaviors about influencers. 💡 Maximizing ROI: Strategies to leverage influencer partnerships effectively. 📈 Trends: Discuss the latest trends shaping the influencer landscape and how to stay ahead. It's not too late to register: https://lnkd.in/dwvaDSiZ #InfluencerMarketing #ROI #ConsumerInsights #MarketingTrends #MorningBrew

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This is such a wonderful news to learn that Connected TV is gaining traction in this marketing world. Honestly, everytime I see a brand buying the tiny bottom footer of the top header banners with illegible fonts and images on mobile, I cringe and almost want to scream. Cheap CPM and CPC is not about sacrificing your brand image to chase the reach figure. A reach is nothing to your potential customer is you can’t even communicate your message clearly and standout from the crowd. Time to rethink everyone? What metrics matter most? Ultimate is always the revenue and margins, not your reach and frequency figures. When will we shake off this mindset?

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