eMarketer principal analysts Mark Dolliver and Debra Aho Williamson, senior forecasting analyst Oscar Orozco and vice president of content studio at Insider Intelligence Paul Verna discuss the latest TikTok news, how much current events should be referenced in ads, Peacock's new voice ads, a local TV station streaming service, Amazon getting really close to drone deliveries, how far we are from actual flying cars, and more.

“We saw a 9% increase in member conversation about supporting local businesses, and 63% of members claimed that they were going to frequent their local business,” she said. “I think that ‘return to local’ is a theme that’s going to stay. Local businesses pivoted quickly to stay relevant, and that innovation out of necessity became a real thing for them.”. Key Takeaways.

Western Europe showed a strong increase in SVOD platform adoption in recent years, a trend that is driven by US players such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, as well as newer streaming services and local players entering the market. The streaming wars are about to hit Western Europe, driving exponential growth in both subscription OTT and Netflix adoption.

As chief marketing and innovation officer of Diageo North America, Edward Pilkington is responsible for maintaining some of the largest spirits brands in the world—among them Captain Morgan, Crown Royal and Smirnoff. While TV and out-of-home (OOH) advertising still play a large part in the mix, Pilkington has strongly embraced digital to help fit these global brands within the context of a local audience.

The pandemic led to lower TV ad spend and increased connected TV viewing this year. The shift in TV viewing means TV audience measurement gaps must be addressed to keep pace with how, what, and where consumers are watching TV.

These increases are common to what happens at local TV companies during election years, where the bulk of political ad spending is concentrated in the last eight weeks before the election. At demand-side platform (DSP) Centro, CTV accounted for 25% of the programmatic political ad dollars that went through its system between January 1 and October 5, 2020.

Meanwhile, national advertisers are looking to expand their search for addressable TV, exploring options outside the crowded 2-minute local TV window. The notion of tapping the 15 hourly minutes of national TV inventory for addressable TV advertising has been in play for a number of years.

It shared more details about its One Platform advertising product, which is designed to allow marketers to centralize their TV and digital video ad buying across NBCU properties. And it launched a new advertising group to sell streaming video ads for its local TV stations. Comcast also acquired the ad-supported streaming video service Xumo.

Growth estimates and the key near-term drivers for addressable, programmatic, and over-the-top TV.

In this report, we take a look at growth estimates and the key near-term drivers for addressable, programmatic and over-the-top TV.

That’s particularly true for traditional TV, which will continue to dominate political ad spending in 2020. We expect political advertisers to dedicate 69.0% of their total ad budgets to TV, with most of that money going to local broadcast and cable/satellite TV. Understand the Political Ad Guidelines.

Underlining the depressed state of print, 189 local newspapers have shuttered in Canada in the past decade, according to the Local News Research Project from the Ryerson University School of Journalism in Toronto. Here are our definitions for how we categorize activities in our time spent forecasts:.

Our ad spending forecast for Canada shows a slim majority of ad dollars funneling to digital, fueled by the duopoly’s massive impact on the local market.

If the event is to be especially local this year, what is the state of media habits in Japan? TV remains the dominant source of media consumption in Japan: According to our April 2020 estimates, time spent with TV will continue to grow this year, rising 0.6% to about 3 hours, 28 minutes. That accounts for 44.9% of the average time spent with media, which is a slight downtick from 2020’s 45.5%.