Metadata can be a news team’s superpower
My dive into asset management continues with this story for Avid’s blog:
Asset Management Tips: Helping News Teams Find Footage Faster
Category: Digital media
ATSC 3.0 and Local TV Stations
How local stations can copy the playbook of national broadcasters to take advantage of the interactivity in ATSC 3.0, the new standard.
With ATSC 3.0 on the Way, Interactive Ads Can Inspire Local TV Advertisers
Bot Fraud Keeping Pace with Ad Growth
Digital advertising continues to expand, and ad fraud is growing right along with it. The Association of National Advertisers found bot traffic keeping pace with digital spending — and says it’s on advertisers to fix this.
Are Media Companies Cannibalizing Ad Sales by Publishing to Social Media?
Twitter Moments recently went live for me, providing a curated selection of top tweets. And very soon, Twitter will test “promoted moments,” that is, brand content, according to Venture Beat. With Facebook providing APIs to let publishers including the New York Times publish directly via Instant Articles, it seems media companies are anxious to harness the power of social medial. But what about their business model of showing ads against content?
Helping Advertisers Make Sense of Bing Search Data
I frequently work with the Bing Ads team writing web copy. In this case, I took a welter of interesting stats and actionable insights that the team had gleaned from search data and created an engaging blog post.
NewFronts and Upfronts Converge
As the line blurs between television and digital, with consumers watching all kinds of content on all different screens, the ad industry still turns out for two major events: the Digital Content NewFronts and the TV Upfronts. I polled buyers on what they were expecting and how the media landscape is changing in two stories for Portada:
Maturing Marketplace: Digital NewFronts 2015
(The second one will publish next week.)
Brand Writing for BlueHornet on Email Marketing
I created four bylined articles for email marketing provider BlueHornet, working with their subject-matter expert and pulling from company assets:
8 Email Lessons in the Art of the Winback Campaign
5 Keys to Building a Quality Email List
Can Native Advertising Be Programmatic?
My editor liked this idea because it contained not one but two ad-world buzzwords. Programmatic content is also a concept that scares us journalists and content creators to death, stinking as it does of robots and the bad old days of content farms.
However, programmatic native advertising has been with us since, arguably, the earliest days of AdWords. This article for Campaign US explores in depth where programmatic makes sense for native advertising, how it’s already being used and whether premium publishers will be able to keep raking in premium rates for native articles on their sites.
Why Virtual Reality on the Web Is Important (and cool)
Seems like virtual reality is about to blow up. Mozilla and Google plan to implement browser APIs that will let VR developers make their virtual worlds accessible via the browser. Users still will need headsets, however.
Facebook’s Google Ambitions
Last week, Facebook reported Q3 earnings. Revenue exceeds analysts expectations, stock falls, blah blah blah. What was interesting about the call was how much like Google Facebook is sounding, not least of which is its ambition to catalog, well, not all the world’s knowledge, but all the world’s Facebook content — which is coming close to equaling the size of Google’s index.