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CBS will nail down about $2.5 billion in upfront business, according to a source, up slightly from the $2.45 billion it secured in last season’s upfront.
The network pulled CPM increases between 7 percent and 9 percent, AdAge writes.
The networks are essentially sold out of upfront inventory. NBC booked $1.9 billion for prime time, which includes Sunday Night Football. ABC wrote $2.5 billion worth of business for prime time, including Saturday night college football games. Fox is expected to pull more than $1.95 billion, while the CW sold just $350 million to $375 million.
CBS, which doesn’t include ad time sold for sports in its upfront total, sold the same amount of inventory it did last year, while most of the other broadcast networks sold more volume to increase their take, according to the article.
TargetSpot has acquired online streaming ad rep firm Ronning Lipset Radio in a move that will form the largest audio advertising network and streamline the buying of online radio spots, the companies say.
TargetSpot is an online system for creating,…
FT Group, publisher of the Financial Times, saw total revenue leap 11% for the first nine months of 2008. Circulation and ad revenue grew, as did revenue from interactive data.
Ad revenue was up 1% over the first nine months…
Location-based services that allow marketers to connect with consumers wherever they are have long been considered the ideal in advertising. eMarketer is predicting that the opportunity will grow significantly in coming years, with the number of consumers using such services…
Comedy Central is building on the success of its two wildly popular fake-news programs, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show, adding a show called Chocolate News.
The new show will star David Alan Grier as the pompous host of…
Prices of list rentals are declining across the board and – for the first time ever - show a downward trend in every B2C and B2B category tracked, according to Worldata’s Fall 2008 List Price Index (see table), writes MarketingCharts.
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Custom publications are being increasingly produced by specialty editors and designers (73%) rather than by those in communications roles, according to a study conducted by the Custom Publishing Council (CPC) in cooperation with Publications Management, writes MarketingCharts.
The survey, “Staffing and Compensation:…
