Change is the status quo. It never stops. And yet, often anchored inside of that change like a rock in a river, is a stubborn system of power that prevents Read More
Let’s cut to the chase. These are as crazy times. With a pandemic wreaking havoc on millions of lives, the economy in tatters and a toxic political climate fracturing our Read More
Laughter, as the cliche goes, is the best medicine. Literally, negative thoughts set off a chain reaction that weakens your immune system. That’s especially true now for those who are Read More
People like to moan about the media industry and blame them for so much of our social ills. And much of it, frankly, is justified. Sound bite journalism in a Read More
TV has a gun problem of its own. Not the violence on CSI, that’s whatever. We’re used to that. Not the hunting channel, where animals get stalked and killed and Read More
Privacy is boiling over right now, and perhaps rightfully so. The novelty of big data and better, more addressable content, music, videos, posts, news, and food recommendations may be wearing Read More
As you’ve likely heard, Warner, the pioneer member of Open AP, announced it would be withdrawing from the consortium on a Passover/Good Friday/Mueller haze drop. The announcement comes as a Read More
The biggest news in TV this week could be Hulu’s continued ad innovations, or Viacom working with T-Mobile or Comscore’s executive exodus — (though that is a massive ad tech Read More
Trust is the talk these days inside and outside the business world. Bots or humans? Collusion or conspiracy? Who owns the data? Who polices the algorithm? Is my phone microphone Read More
As someone that works with networks and their marketing and sales teams, with measurement companies, ad tech companies and major advertisers directly, I understand the urgency to transform TV advertising Read More
We may all be addicted to our phones, and we surely have NO IDEA how that is changing our cognitive functions, our relationship to our community, let alone how it Read More
On September 28, Facebook revealed a breach of personal data for some 50 million users, which also included data from whatever sites users authenticated in using Facebook. Just a few Read More
There is so much made of how divided America is– but there are things we all have in common. We watch TV, we post on social media, and we express Read More
TV doesn’t just have to compete with social platforms, mobile screen time and them ad-skipping bastards. Now it has to compete with machine learning — brain-twisting engines tweaked to induce Read More
Remember when the cloud concept came along and everyone joked about it meaning nothing and then it transformed the way everything is done in like 3 years? Those jokes were Read More
“Crazy Rich Asians’ made a splash at the box office in week one — but it ends up the advertising strategy wasn’t as “crazy” as it was just “smart.” Read More
Remember the dawn of social TV when pioneers like @MarkGhuneim @Trendrr were walking the old TV horses to water to feed off the real time, data-driven web and 2nd Screen Read More