The pandemic-driven sports hiatus will accelerate audiences’ and advertisers’ shift to streaming, but production shutdowns may have the broadest impact.
March 18, 2020

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The pandemic-driven sports hiatus will accelerate audiences’ and advertisers’ shift to streaming, but production shutdowns may have the broadest impact.
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As coronavirus changes business across the globe, travel influencers say campaigns are being canceled and that work is gone. But influencer marketing experts expect influencer marketing will be on the rise in the coming weeks.
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According to new research, ads that cause exhilaration and amazement are more likely to create effective results. Advertisers at the 2020 Olympics are preparing to calibrate their content and distribution strategies accordingly.
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Ad-industry employers are looking to address their employees’ mental health and attempting to ensure they feel supported during the fast-changing pandemic.
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New research finds that iOS Safari had the highest rate of malicious ads of any web browser in 2019. On the other hand, low-quality ads like in-banner video were more common on Chrome and Edge for Windows.
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Like all crisis, coronavirus is causing a rethinking of how we live and work. What changes to our everyday lives stick and which do not remains to be seen, but the dislocation we’re experiencing is likely to accelerate trends — remote work, for example — already kicked off by young generations.
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