Take a video game staple, combine with a dash of Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones and throw in a heavy dose of media blitz and you get the newest trailer for Square Enix’ Final Fantasy Universe. The company lays out the land in the spot, combining elements of a movie (which stars Aaron Paul, Lena Headey and Sean Bean) with anime and games. Final Fantasy XV will be out on Sept. 30.
Skydance, the name for the combined Paramount-WBD merger, officially announced its senior executive leadership team on Monday. Also: Disney is still seeking between $10 million and $12 million for its 30-second ad spots.
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison declared Friday on X that the combined company name will be shortened to just Skydance. Paramount Motion Pictures Co-Chairs Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg will continue to lead the company’s film division while James Gunn and Peter Safran remain the heads of DC Studios.
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos acknowledged the platform isn’t growing quickly enough. Sarandos also said it remains to be seen how much of a threat the mega-merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery – which is now allowed to proceed, per a US district judge – will pose.
Most brands have a YouTube presence. Far fewer have a YouTube strategy. Nobody’s looking at the whole picture, says Norm de Greve, former CMO of General Motors.
Supply path optimization (SPO) has become industry shorthand for aggressive fee-cutting and stripping out intermediaries. According to Tom Wolfe, Senior Vice President of Programmatic Strategy and Partnerships at Locality, that’s only half the equation. Wolfe’s point on this episode of AdExchanger’s Inside the Stack is that a shorter path is better, and it’s even better […]
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