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National TV ACES 2019-20 TV Season: Upfront TV Network Cost Efficiency Estimates
National TV ACES 2019-20 provides newly updated estimates of cost-per-thousand (CPMs) and cost-per-rating points (CPPs) for the 2019-2020 upfront. It presents our proprietary CPM and CPP projections for all three forms of national TV—broadcast networks, syndication and cable—by daypart and demographics on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
Since reports of this nature require considerable explanation and interpretation, we invite interested parties to review the prospectus.
Publish Date: August 2019; 36 pages
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CPD 2019-20 ALERTS BY DATE
2/26/19: Is Social Media Activity Dominated by Young Adults?
3/12/19: Digital Gains in Branding Dollars, but TV is Still the Champ
3/26/19: Are We Media Watchers, Readers or Listeners?
4/09/19: Are Social Media Users TV Ad Receptive?
4/23/19: How Valid are Reach Estimates Across Media?
5/07/19: Are Podcasts & Online In-Car Listening a Threat to AM-FM Stations?
5/21/19: TV is Key to Reaching Those who Shun the Internet
6/04/19: When Comparing Media, it’s Sales Motivation that Really Counts
6/18/19: Which Works Best: Creative or Media/TV or Digital?
7/09/19: Selling Your Medium? Talk Marketing to Advertisers
7/23/19: The Neverending Question of How Much Frequency is Too Much or Enough
8/06/19: Daily Media Reach: A Highly Fragmented Scene
8/20/19: New Study Says TV Clobbers All Other Media in Ad Effectiveness
9/03/19: Radio's Reach Story is a Good Start, but More is Needed
9/17/19: Once Again, Consumers Say They Try to Avoid More Online Ads Than Those for Other Media
10/01/19: Reach of Traditional Media Websites
10/15/19: Where Do Adults Usually Get Their Local News?
10/29/19: 2019 Branding Campaign Spending by Medium
11/12/19: Is Duration Weighting A Bridge Too Far?
12/03/19: Radio's OOH Audience Isn't Just in Cars
01/07/20: TV & Digital Video Buying Methods: Will the Twain Ever Meet?
01/21/20: How Profitable Are Media Ad Sellers?
CPMTrack provides considerable detail for national TV (network types, dayparts and, from 1994-95 on, demographics). Significant changes in magazine publishing genres over the years preclude this degree of differentiation, but CPMs by demographics from 2002-present are included for a number of editorial categories, in addition to more general adult CPMs for the top 150 publications. For radio, national spot and network adult CPM estimates on an all-daypart basis are provided.
Publish Date: September 2019; 58 pages
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2020 edition to be fully revised and updated; more information TBA
The industry's comprehensive source for evaluating the media as advertising platforms
Media Dynamics, Inc. is proud to introduce a new annual report designed to help make realistic evaluations of the audiences and advertising efficacy of TV, digital, radio, print and out-of-home on a comparative basis.
It’s impossible to understate the impact the new and emerging platforms have had on traditional media over the past two decades. Cross-Platform Dimensions is our attempt to quantify these changes and analyze how each of the media perform as advertising vehicles in this new environment. It also interprets what this all means from a media planner's standpoint, and delves into much-discussed areas like how to develop comparable audience metrics across media.
CPD19 comprises data previously covered in Intermedia Dimensions—audience, time spent, demographics, reach & frequency, CPMs, ad exposure and ad impact—but reassessed for the digital age.
Click here for key topics covered in Cross-Platform Dimensions 2019
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Published: February 2019; 140 pages
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JUST RELEASED: TV Dimensions 2020
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Since 1982, the industry's premier resource on TV as an advertising medium
TV Dimensions provides the only independent and objective analysis of what's happening in television today. It covers all relevant aspects of the medium's performance, ranging from audience fragmentation, program type appeals, viewer attentiveness, and ad impact metrics to how the TV industry is adapting to ensure its continuing profitability, the competitive inroads made by subscription video on demand (SVOD) and how the upfront time buying process works and can be improved.
Many analyses are exclusive to TV Dimensions, including how many ads the consumer really sees, estimating ad awareness by GRP level, and upfront ad revenues, as well as our most requested dataset: our annual upfront CPM estimates and trending. Click here for what's new and revised in the 2019 edition.
All subscribers to TV Dimensions receive Alert reports of new developments and new research, delivered by email on an ongoing and timely basis. These are brief, single subject articles designed to keep you informed as events break or new information becomes available. A complete listing of articles to date is available here.
Published: January 2020; 228 pages
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Over the past six decades of my career, I have either witnessed or been a participant in all of television's many evolutions and transformations, all the while remaining a fan to this multi-faceted medium. My background is sufficiently varied, so as to enable me to appreciate the many nuances and tradeoffs that are involved in both the business of television and how audiences respond to both ads and programming.
This book focuses on two pivotal aspects: the first is the evolution of the medium's programming and how audiences respond ("How we use it"); and the second concerns the business side—how programs are created, how time is bought and sold, how ads are created and how they function ("How it uses us"). In both cases I have tried to tell it like it is, while still being as objective as possible, despite strong personal feelings I may have about some of the events and practices the book covers.
Published January 2016, 270 pp.
(8/2019) Exclusive! 4-week adult reach tables by GRP level and by demos
INTRODUCING THE 2020 EDITION--AVAILABLE NOW!
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This report tackles a long-overdue need: revisiting and revising TV reach tables to accurately reflect today's TV viewing environment.
Because of the increasing rating fragmentation affecting all sectors of linear TV, plus the impact of cord cutting (a more recent phenomenon), MDI has revisited its TV Reach Finder report and fully updated its tables to reflect the current 2019-2020 situation.
It has been evident for some time that long held assumptions about TV's reach capabilities need to be rethought in light of today's audience definitions, rating fragmentation and the constant increases in commercial loads that are causing people to avoid ad messages by skipping commercials and spending more time with ad-free TV. This report analyzes the situation, including comparisons with old TV reach tables, and presents our independent estimates of what TV reach tables should look like today.
Using a variety of sources, including our own estimates, the bulk of this report presents 4-week adult reach tables by GRP level, starting with 1 GRP and rising one point at a time to 500 GRPs, after which we extend the tables to 1000 GRPs in 100 GRP intervals. Tables are provided covering early AM, daytime, early fringe, primetime and late fringe, for 18 basic demos (adults/men/women aged 18+, 18-34, 18-49, 25-54, 55+ and H.H. income $150,000+).
We have also included a formula for combining reach estimates across dayparts, which will be of interest to users of this report.
Detailed information, including the introduction and table guide, is available by clicking on the button to the left.
Editorial Note:
Media Dynamics, Inc. is the source for TV Upfront Report, based on decades of experience and careful review of all of the available research on TV viewing habits, the growth of broadband-only users, and the increased penetration of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services, such as Netflix and Hulu. We also have had the opportunity to review actual reach tabs made recently and compared them to what the often-outdated reach tables show—some of the contrasts have been shocking, especially for the 18-34s and the affluent segments. Ultimately, we synthesize all of this information into our independent estimates.
Published August 2019; 245 pages
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TVD 2019-20 ALERTS BY DATE
2/05/19: Did TV Dramatically Trim its Ad Loads this Season?
2/13/19: Where do Out-of-Home TV Sports Viewers See their Teams in Action?
2/19/19: How People Get their TV Matters to TV Programmers
2/26/19: Another Study Using Eye Tracking Compares TV Commercial Lengths
3/04/19: Profiling TV’s Connected Audience by Age & Time of Day
3/12/19: Digital Gains in Branding Dollars, but TV is Still the Champ
3/19/19: Cord Cutting Continues, but Where is it Going?
3/26/19: The March of Time: Aging & Its Impact on TV Consumption
4/02/19: Second Screen Access While Watching TV Increasing Only Slightly?
4/09/19: Are Social Media Users TV Ad Receptive?
4/23/19: TV Commercial Effectiveness by Length
4/30/19: Local News Access is Strong
5/07/19: Examining TV’s Imbalance of Content Access & Usage
5/14/19: Is Co-viewing a Plus for Advertisers?
5/21/19: Millennials’ and Boomers’ Favorite TV/Video Shows & Networks Aren’t as Different as You Might Expect
5/28/19: Pay TV “Nevers”…but not Forever?
6/04/19: Surprise, Surprise: Primetime TV Ad Clutter Remained the Same as Last Year
6/11/19: A Proposal to Change TV’s Upfront for the Better
6/18/19: TV's Rising Ad Clutter Problem and a Possible Solution
6/25/19: TV's Solitary Viewing on the Rise
7/09/19: What Happens If Netflix Decides to Sell Ads?
7/16/19: Netflix Subscribers Gravitate Mainly to Non-Netflix Original Fare
7/23/19: The Neverending Question of How Much Frequency Is Too Much or Enough
7/30/19: Let's Upgrade our National TV Ratings so They Mean Something
8/06/19: How Substantial is Linear TV's Digital Audience Lift?
8/13/19: Assessing the 2019-20 Upfront
8/20/19: New Study Says TV Clobbers All Other Media in Ad Effectiveness
9/03/19: OTT & Linear TV: Not an Either/Or Proposition
9/10/19: How Fast is TV Losing its Audience?
9/17/19: The Evolution of TV Program Sources & Their Impact Over Time
9/24/19: What Do Streamers Watch?
10/01/19: Advertisers Spend More to Reach Viewers in Sports and News
10/08/19: TV Commercial Exposure
10/15/19: How Important are Sports & News to "Pay TV"?
10/22/19: The U.S. Government Finds that "TV" Viewing is on the Rise
10/29/19: 2019 Branding Campaign Spending by Medium
11/05/19: Non-Linear TV Content Streaming Is Not As Extensive As Believed
11/12/19: New Data On Subscription TV, Plus What’s Ahead
11/19/19: Which TV Genres Benefit The Most From Delayed Viewing?
12/03/19: New TVision Take on Commercial Attentiveness by Daypart
12/10/19: The State of The Broadcast Networks: Don’t Count Them Out
01/07/20: TV & Digital Video Buying Methods: Will the Twain Ever Meet?
01/14/20: Does Anyone Really Watch TV Commercials?
01/21/20: How Profitable Are Media Ad Sellers?