• Native Advertising

MediaRadar CEO, Todd Krizelman, hosted two panels at The Folio: Show in response to the question: is there still room for native to grow? The panels focused on what publishers should do when it comes to native buying in order to identify native advertising and win those types of advertising opportunities. The panelists all spoke actively about the opportunities and challenges with native in 2018. Here are the 6 essential takeaways.

• Addressable TV
• TV Advertising

To innovate and maintain the same pace as other evolving ad formats, the television industry has made a number of notable strides. One of the largest strides to rise to the surface recently has been the incorporation of addressable television advertising. Let’s take a look at the many benefits that make addressable TV advertising one of the most prevalent trends in the industry.

• Ad Tech
• Sales Tips

Ad tech companies focus on brands too, yet they also aim to uncover new opportunities outside of their programmatic scope and capitalize on shifting digital advertising budgets. These are the 4 questions that ad tech companies should be asking themselves about their prospects before a sales call.

• Digital Advertising
• Media Companies
• Retail Advertising

The Fuse Media: The Convergence of Technology & Media conference is the only hosted buyer event that brings together leading media executives. The seminar is held for those with titles, such as CDO, CTO, CMO, VP of Digital, and VP of eMedia, so that they can discuss how to adopt technology in media quicker and more efficiently. The summit was held in Center City, Philadelphia, PA from Monday, October 1st to Wednesday, October 3rd. Here are the 3 top takeaways from the event.

• IGTV
• Video Advertising
• youtube

On October 4, 2018, the last day of Advertising Week, MediaRadar hosted a panel to discuss the future of long-form video advertising. Here are the 3 major takeaways...

• Snapchat

Snapchat started serving ads in 2014. While the growth of the mobile messaging and social media app slowed in March 2017 after going public, Snapchat regained steam, beginning in the fall of 2017. Recognizing the key benefits of Snapchat, major brands started jumping on the many different customized and high-CPM ads formats, sponsored lenses, and videos offered by the app.

• TV Advertising

From August 2017 to July 2018, the top three TV advertising product categories were Tech, Media and Entertainment, and Pharmaceuticals. Just outside the top three were the Automotive and Restaurant categories. Let’s look a little deeper at each category and exactly how much they advertised on TV within that time frame.

• TV Advertising

The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony aired on September 17th, 2018 on the NBC television network. While the Emmys do not make it into the top four TV events or even into the top ten events of the year by ad revenue, according to MediaRadar’s In-Depth Look Into the Current State of TV Advertising, the ceremony is still widely known and enjoyed. There’s a reason it has lasted for 70 years, so we thought we’d take a look at the top seven parent brands that spent the most in total advertising during the 2018 Emmys.

• Sales Tips

In sales call planning, background research can turn poor pitches into perfect ones. Even doing just a little homework before can help any ad sales executive close more deals. But, everyone’s homework is not the same. National consumer media companies, for instance, choose to focus on brands. These are the questions that national consumer media companies should be asking themselves about their prospects before a sales call.