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CTAM’s Mark Awards For Marketing Excellence

To see the winning DISTRIBUTOR entries, please click here. To see the winning NETWORK and CONTENT PROVIDER entires, please click here. Congratulations to the 2010 Mark Awards winners. The Mark Awards is the premier competition for recognizing marketing excellence in…

CW Says Study ‘Dispels Myth’ About Aversion to Ads in Online Video

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age In the infant business of streaming TV shows online, media companies have long been wary of putting digital viewers off with too many ads. But in what could become a tipping point, a new study finds…

The Real Reason the Networks Are Blocking Goggle TV: It’s All About Ad Rates and Protecting the Integrity of the Multiple Billion Dollar Ad Revenues the Networks Get For Ads on TV

In this very insightful piece by Michael Learmonth, the Digital Editor at our sibling publication, Advertising Age, we learn the very real business reason that the networks are blocking Goggle TV.  A must-read. By Michael LearmonthAdvertising Age The Wall Street…

From Ad Age, the Annual List of What the Broadcast Nets Are Getting From Advertisers For Each Primetime Show This Season

To see the full chart that list all the new season shows and what they are getting per :30 second ad, click on chart.pdf. By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age Simon Cowell may be gone, but "American Idol" isn’t feeling his loss….

The Further Narrowing of the Mass Audience

Today a very insightful piece about the future of how consumers will get media. Basically the thesis here is that consumers will continue to demand that they get very specific media delivered to them, as opposed to mass media. All…

Google, NBC Universal End TV Ad-Sales Pact Early; Agreement Allowed Google to Sell Cable Inventory

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age Google and NBC Universal have dissolved an intriguing ad pact they established in 2008 nearly a year before it was set to expire, dealing a setback to Google’s ambition to become a big player in TV…

October NewsPro: Environmental Journalism

An astonishing number of breaking stories so far in 2010 have been about the environment. TV viewers and newspaper readers were bombarded by dramatic pictures and accounts of the environment run amok, from the coal ash spill in West Virginia;…

Actually Getting Cross-Platform Media Deals Done; Plus Getting Closer to the Consumer

Two wonderful, enlightening pieces today, courtesy of our sibling publication, Advertising Age. The first is by Ellen Oppenheim, who is the founder of Oppenheim Media Consulting and one of the smartest people we know. For most of the past decade…

Why the Advertising Community Still Needs CNN

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age Does anyone really need CNN? In these times of personalized Google alerts, political radio and news-with-attitude, the straight-shooting CNNs of this world seem to have less relevance in a media landscape choked with Drudges, Huffington Posts…

Game 3 of the World Series Will Start Earlier–Thanks to Chevy

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age Thanks to a 1970s ad jingle, General Motors Co.’s Chevrolet has long been associated with baseball, hot dogs and apple pie. Now the auto marketer intends to cement that alliance further with a bold sponsorship that…