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04.12.17 Good morning. It’s Wednesday April 12, 2017 and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
Location-Based Advertising: Location-based advertising is form of marketing that integrates mobile advertising with location-based services. Location-based advertising technology is used to pinpoint consumers’ location and provide location-specific ads on their mobile devices.
Instagram’s assault on Snapchat is showing no let-up. The Facebook-owned social platform has now placed ephemeral photo and video messaging on the same platform as permanent messaging within Instagram Direct, its messaging platform. Instagram initially launched ephemeral messaging in November, but kept the feature in its own section. Now users will be able to use a combination of traditional permanent text and image messages and ephemeral messaging in the same chat threads. The new feature actually does differ a bit from anything Snapchat has to offer. Namely, Snapchat’s ephemeral messaging feature – while it does let users save specific messages – defaults to deleting all content.
Say hello to the new Boomerang SVOD service. Equipped with thousands episodes of classic and current cartoon series, the new service comes from Warner Bros. and Time Warner’s Turner. The service won’t supplant Turner’s linear Boomerang network, which will continue to be distributed to pay-TV operators. The Boomerang service, which is ad-free, draws its content from the Warner Bros’ animation library. It starts at $5 per month.
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Facebook is urging a judge to dismiss a class-action lawsuit from six marketers, initiated early this year, stemming from the company’s 2016 admission that it had vastly overstated the average view time spent on Facebook video ads. Facebook argues that the lawsuit shouldn’t be able to proceed since the plaintiffs – including the now-bankrupt tech incubator Quirky – never actually said in their initial complaint that they had relied on Facebook’s video metrics when they bought ads. "Not a single plaintiff – let alone all of them – alleges that he or it ever viewed either [metric] and then spent money on video ads because of an alleged misrepresentation," Facebook argued. The argument ain’t pretty, but it may well get the job done.
Looks like Facebook aims to monetize its messenger app the same way it monetizes everything else. As detailed in a new story from Recode, Messenger’s leadership has been focusing less on payments and commerce, and more on advertising. What’s notable is that this runs counter to the approach that most observers thought Facebook would take, largely because messaging apps like WeChat and Line have built their businesses around commerce and payments. “We’re not going to take cuts of payments,” Messenger chief David Marcus flatly told Recode. “The one thing we traditionally do, and is a decent business for us, is advertising. So we’ll continue focusing on that.”
The Singtel-owned marketing technology company Amobee announced that it has completed an acquisition of Turn, a demand-side platform and data management platform. Amobee says it spent $310 million on the purchase.
Is Instant Articles in a tailspin? The Facebook product, which lets publishers post fast-loading mobile articles, launched with much fanfare in 2015. But as detailed in a new report from Digiday, many of the program’s publishers are growing disenchanted. Specifically, many of them are finding that Instant Articles don’t monetize as well as links that simply take readers to publisher’s own sites. The New York Times, for instance, has left the program altogether. The social giant has responded by launching new features, including call-to-action units that allow publishers to serve messages in Instant Articles stories that invite readers to like their Facebook pages or sign up for a newsletter. The company is also reportedly testing trial subscription signups and mobile app install promos within Instant Articles. You can check out the report here.
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Even NASA is getting in on live video. In an event co-produced with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the space agency will present a 4K Ultra HD live-streamed video from space – the first time it’s ever so. The event will originate from the International Space Station. Astronaut Dr. Peggy Whitson will speak remotely with AWS exec Sam Blackman. (The CEO of the AWS-owned video services company Elemental, Blackman will be very much earthbound.) Taking place on April 26, the event will be presented at the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas. It’ll also be available to the public for free at live.awsevents.com/nasa4k.
The call for entries for our Cynopsis Kids Awards is open! Best Mobile Marketing Campaign, Shortform Content, Virtual Reality Programming, and OTT Series are just a few of the categories available to enter.
The VR industry grew more slowly than many expected last year, but according to a new report from Greenlight Insights, global virtual reality revenues will hit $7.17 billion by the end of 2017. And by 2021, I’ll be clos to $75 billion. The market research firm finds that more than 65% of VR revenue will come from headsets this year, while content will account for 12 percent and cameras will count for 11.6 percent. But between now and 2021, Greenlight expects changes. Specifically, the firm thinks that enterprise – for instance, VR used for education or construction companies – will achieve a greater share of the market, accounting for 24.2 percent of VR revenues by 2021. The firm also thinks that location-based virtual reality in movie theaters and malls will become a significant part of the industry, generating almost $1.2 billion in 2021. All this being said, keep in mind that these are just estimates, and in the long run they could prove to be off. One issue: The major headset manufacturers have so far declined to release sales numbers. Needless to say, that makes life harder for firms like Greenlight.
Expedia thinks virtual reality could be a travel-industry game-changer. The company says that it’s currently working on creating VR versions of its listings, allowing potential customers to virtually explore hotel rooms and other locations. "If you’re going to make the decision of [booking] a cruise, wouldn’t it be cool if you could check out the ship [virtually] before you spend that much money?” said Expedia exec Arthur Chapin during a demo of the technology.
RESEARCH
To determine the TV ads generating the most digital response, attention analytics company iSpot.tv measures digital actions across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and all major search engines. Here, a look at the brands that advertised during the season finale of New Girl on Fox.
“If this was truly the end of New Girl (still TBD), advertisers were ready to score one last time before the show potentially goes away. Volkswagen owned 68.4% of all online activity prompted by commercials that aired during the show. Its tongue-in-cheek spot Luv Bug, about expanding families and the cars they need to fit everybody, was a hit in terms of digital share of voice (DSOV). Though far from the high mark that VW posted, Apple Watch earned a respectable 14% of DSOV, while Target, Verizon and TRESemme closed out the top five.” – iSpot.tv
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The ListenFirst Television Interest (TVI) Rating (TM) is a standardized measurement of the most buzzed-about TV programs on linear TV and streaming services. A complement to ListenFirst’s other syndicated data products (such as the ListenFirstDigital Audience Rating – TV), the metrics included in the rating capture organic actions that are largely unaffected by paid media. Programs that surface on the TVI leaderboards are the most hashtagged on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Tumblr, as well as most searched for on Wikipedia (used as a proxy for organic search volume).
Streaming Series (4/3/17 – 4/9/17)
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Source: ListenFirst. The TVI Rating aggregates metrics that measure organically generated activity by fans of the TV show. The metric includes total volume of official hashtag mentions on Facebook, Twitter,Google+, and Tumblr, along with Wikipedia page views (as a proxy for organic search volume) for a show as a percentage of the total volume of the same activities for all shows.
Our Last Trivia Question: Julie Klausner created and co-stars in what Hulu series? Answer: Difficult People. Kudos to Louis Lewow-Lewow Media Group/GA, Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg M and S Entertainment/CA, Fawn Sullivan-Chief Media/NY, David Westberg SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/CA, Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/CA, Anjali Desai-Departure Films/NY, Aaron Paquette- Screen Engine/ASI/TX, and Andy Pittman-TAMU/TX
Follow-up: What other well-known comic actress star serves as an executive producer on Difficult People? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and state.)
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DIGITAL SPOTLIGHT
John Legend, virtual reality star? The music star is voicing one of the main characters in Rainbrow Crow, an upcoming VR series from Baobab Studios. Oh, and he’s also executive producing the series. The series premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival later this month; you can check out thee trailer here.
See you tomorrow,
David Teich
04.12.17
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