JOE MANDESE

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- OpenAP Unveils Standardized 'Converged' Streaming Identity Solution in
MediaDailyNews on
04/15/2025
During its upfront pitch this morning, the networks-owned data and technology developer announced new data integration deals with DeepSync, Experian, LiveRamp and TransUnion, as well as a pre-existing one with Interpublic's Acxiom.
- Horizon's Night Market Taps Publicis' Colon As Commerce Media Chief in
MediaDailyNews on
04/14/2025
Jason Colon joins from Publicis and fills a void created when Mara Greenwald left in January to join IPG Mediabrands' Kinesso unit.
- Targeting AIs And Filtering Invalid Human Traffic in
Media 3.0 on
04/11/2025
How was your week? Mine began by me asking agency execs what percentage of their 2030 media buys would be targeting AI agents, and ended with me asking MRC if they've started thinking about standards for filtering out human traffic for buys targeting AIs.
- MRC Rebuts Sensational 'Fraud' Report, Says It Failed To Grasp How Brands Filter Ads Served To Bots in
MediaDailyNews on
04/11/2025
While the analysis focused on detecting bots when ads were served, the ad industry's standard is to filter them after the fact, for important reasons Adalytics did not take into account.
- There Ain't No Such Thing As A Cheap, High Volume CPM in
Planning & Buying Insider on
04/09/2025
Ad buys are a lot like lunch. There ain't no free ones. Or in the case of the burgeoning CTV ad marketplace, there are no cheap, high volume ones either. That was the big take takeaway from the CTV ad fraud panel that closed out Tuesday's CIMM East conference in New York City.
- 2025 NewFronts Agenda Unveiled: Focus On Streaming, Journalism in
MediaDailyNews on
04/09/2025
The IAB this morning released the official agenda for the 2025 NewFronts, with an emphasis on "what's streaming next," as well as a special main stage discussion spotlighting the role of credible ad-supported journalism.
- Nielsen Dominating Upfront Currency, Once Again in
MediaDailyNews on
04/08/2025
That was the consensus at CIMM East this morning, which also suggested the U.S. JIC has emerged a little too late to be meaningful and the MRC remains the ad industry's gold standard.
- Comscore Accredited For Demos, Becomes New Gold Standard For Local TV Ratings in
MediaDailyNews on
04/08/2025
With the demo accreditation in hand, Comscore measurement chief Frank Friedman says it's now going for the "hot sauce" -- persons-level accreditation.
- Following Double-Digit Gains, Ad Growth Decelerates Again In February in
MediaDailyNews on
04/04/2025
While it's not exactly the kind of crash Wall Street's financial markets have been experiencing recently, the U.S. ad market expanded at one of its lowest rates in February since the last ad recession -- rising just 2.8% from February 2024.
- Branded Meats Marketer Buddig Consolidates Media, Creative At Havas in
MediaDailyNews on
04/03/2025
Work for the brands, which include Buddig, Old Wisconsin, Kingsford and others, will break this summer.
Comments by Joe All comments by Joe
- Targeting AIs And Filtering Invalid Human Traffic
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Joe Mandese
(Media 3.0 on
04/11/2025)
@Shirley Marschall; Thank you for publishing that. You were prescient.
- In Identity We Trust
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Joe Mandese
(Red, White & Blog on
03/20/2025)
@Thomas Siebert from BENEVOLENT PROPAGANDA: Interesting perspective. Party politics aside, you don't think the rights of tiny constituencies are equally as important to protect as those of larger constituencies?
- The Dispirit Of The New America
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Joe Mandese
(Red, White & Blog on
02/28/2025)
@Leo Kivijarv: Thank you for clarifying. Nice to know that data still exists and is constantly being updated.Any thoughts on what a "free press" share of media is today?
- Now They're Just (Hiccup) Trolling Us
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Joe Mandese
(Red, White & Blog on
02/17/2025)
@Dan Ciccone: I've asked you in the past to refrain from personal attacks on other people, because that -- and hate speech, spam and inanity -- are the few rules we have for comments on MediaPost.And I don't mind that you direct your invectives @Mandese, but I'd prefer if you could do so civily. You can disagree -- ideally citing actual, fact-based retorts -- or even just your feelings or personal opinions, but please don't be toxic about it. There are plenty of other places you can go to do that.
- Now They're Just (Hiccup) Trolling Us
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Joe Mandese
(Red, White & Blog on
02/17/2025)
@Dan Ciccone: You can assert whatever you want, but that doesn't make it fact. Which is why I posted the video -- not from social media, but from CSPAN's coverage -- so readers/viewers could judge for themselves what Hegseth was sipping. To my eye, it was a couple of fingers of amber liquid in a small glass, not a glass full of water, or a bottle of water.Barring additional facts, the rest is in the eye of the beholder.You can see it here:https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5153836/user-clip-pause-refreshesAs for the rest of your comment, its just conflation.But you're entitled to your opinion.
- Move Fast And Break Democracy
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Joe Mandese
(Red, White & Blog on
02/07/2025)
@Ben B from Retired: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/357340/this-just-in-from-the-mars-news-channel.html
- The Media Planner Is Dead, Long Live The Platform
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Joe Mandese
(Planning & Buying Insider on
02/03/2025)
@Ed Papazian: I think that's what Brian Wieser is saying. I think it's true insofar as using digital platforms are concerned, becasue they continue to build out media planning tools enabling anyone -- even businesses without agencies or media planners -- to plan media buys.I think the issue is planning across mixes that include analog media, but biggies like Google are now even accounting for those too (see story on its release of its Meridian marketing mix model, etc.).From Wieser's POV, the art of media planning is no longer planning across media (what he calls line items), but across platforms.I'm thinking you probably don't agree with him, but it's a point of view.But as Wieser also notes, there's still plenty of room for strategic planning, etc.
- How Trump Blamed His Own Policies For This Week's Deadly Air Crash
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Joe Mandese
(Red, White & Blog on
01/30/2025)
@Dan Ciccone: Fact-checking you here. You are incorrect that the FAA's DEI employment promotion did not begin until the Biden administration. It began under the Obama administration and continued throughout the first Trump administration. That was the whole point of using Internet Archive: There is an indelible record showing exactly what the Trump adminstration's FAA DEI policy was. But you're entitled to believe whatever you want.
- ANA Spins Off Cross Media Initiative As For-Profit, Wants It To Fly Like An Eagle
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Joe Mandese
(MediaDailyNews on
06/12/2024)
@Amy Mckeever: Great question. Thank you for suggesting it. We will ask. Stay tuned.
- Apropos Of Nothing: Sieg Heil
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Joe Mandese
(Marketing Politics Weekly on
01/21/2025)
@Dan Ciccone: We appreciate your engagement, but our policy is to moderate comments that could be construed as personal attacks. Please keep yours civil here and not directed at individuals, or we'll have to remove them.For what it's worth, I will always retain my pace when it comes to speaking up against fascism, hate speech or the gesture Musk made. It used to be considered anti-American by our nation's collective mind. Maybe not so much, anymore.

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