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Behind the News
From Across the Pond: How The Independent Is Capturing U.S. Readers
In the past year, The Independent experienced a 120% increase in reader engagement and 50% increase in U.S. readership. What’s the secret? The Independent creates a trusted, curious audience at the right moment.
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CTV Roundup
What Would Local TV Broadcasters Do If It Weren’t For Political Advertising Revenue?
You probably didn’t need me to tell you that things aren’t looking super great for the local TV broadcast industry these days, financially speaking. But just in case you need quantitative proof, consider the fact that many of the largest broadcasting companies are considered a credit risk.
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Most Read
Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman celebrates 15 years of Rent the Runway with return to founder mentality
At Shoptalk Fall, the co-founder discusses operating at the pace of a startup, Rent the Runway’s new subscription tier and how the fashion industry has changed over the past 15 years. It’s all about the pace of innovation and change, said Rent the Runway co-founder and CEO Jennifer Hyman in her keynote address at the […]
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Brands and Women’s Sports, Harris Visits Fox News, Social Media Gifting
This week’s PR Roundup features a look into brands’ commitment to women’s sports, how Vice President Kamala Harris fared on Fox News and how influential social media is regarding gifting.
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AI
5 Big Ideas We Took Away From CIMM Summit — Identity Resolution Was the Biggest
The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) Summit 2024 delivered fresh perspectives on identity resolution, audience fragmentation, and the evolving TV ecosystem. Here’s what we learned and why it matters to the future of media measurement.
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Programming
What We’re Listening to: “Take Command: A Leadership Podcast”
After more than 40 years with the Consumer Technology Association, CEO Gary Shapiro doesn’t show signs of slowing down.
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Cynsiders
Reinventing the CTV Ad Unit by Getting Social
By Deborah Hall, CEO and Co-Founder, DIVE, which brings social content to DOOH and CTV devices. 2025 is just around the corner, and it’s set to be a year that sees Connected TV continue to transform how brands engage audiences, by blending social media’s dynamism with television’s reach. The current wave of CTV innovation—driven […]
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Data-Driven Thinking
The Industry Pullback From Cookie-Based Tech Proves Cookies Are Already Dead
The cookie is already gone. The budgets have shifted. All the howlers screaming about Chrome’s road map for deprecation are akin to the last soldiers standing on the battlefield clinging to the flag of a fallen nation. In short, it’s over. But we can’t measure the downfall of cookies by looking at the bidstream. There […]
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Media Relations
PR Lessons Learned: Tactics and Pivots of the Vance-Walz VP Debate
There is no greater magnification of performance than the race to become the next President (or Vice President) of the United States—and the PR lessons gleaned from political candidates can serve as powerful reminders for communications professionals.
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Media Relations
The PR and Marketing Effort Behind Chinese Laundry’s Taylor Swift Effect
Chinese Laundry CMO Sarah Zurell is on a mission to make the fashion footwear brand cool again—as it was in the ’80s. And that, in her mind, meant they should be cool enough for Taylor Swift. Thanks to a coordinated PR effort on the part of Zurell’s PR agency CLD, some creative marketing tactics and a symbiotic relationship between marketing and PR, that dream was realized. We caught up with Zurell to discuss the PR-marketing partnership that made her pie-in-the-sky goal a reality.
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