Marketers will spend more than $485 billion on US advertising this year, but new EMARKETER data suggests some of that budget is chasing the wrong screens. Converged TV (CTV plus traditional TV) now commands 38.5% of daily media time, more...

July 31, 2026

The share of viewers who value low prices above everything else when it comes to streaming has nearly doubled in a single year. New data from Hub Research shows 21% of U.S. broadband households now call low prices the most...

July 28, 2026

Prime Day has quietly climbed into the ranks of summer's biggest shopping moments, and 2026 made the case louder than ever. In our summer Prime Day 2025 recap, we found that Amazon's biggest shopping event had evolved into a performance...

July 22, 2026

Q4 is one of the highest-stakes stretches on the retail calendar. Shoppers spend months researching gifts and planning ahead. Much of that now happens at home in front of the biggest screen in the house: they stream a holiday movie...

July 21, 2026

Major League Baseball is massive. Everybody knows it, and the numbers prove it. The 2024 World Series drew an average of 15.81 million viewers across platforms, the most-watched Fall Classic since 2017. The 2025 regular season posted year-over-year viewership gains...

July 20, 2026

Connected TV budgets keep climbing. According to a new survey, half of senior brand and agency marketers say they're spending more on the channel year over year, and 70% would push those budgets higher still if measurement, attribution, and outcome...

July 17, 2026

In a new world of AI-driven discovery, brands are encountering unique challenges to finding and winning customers. When Google serves an AI Overview, 83% of those searches end without a single click, choking off the traffic and conquesting power that...

July 13, 2026

Most travel advertising is built around someone who already knows they want to go somewhere. The keyword is purchased, the booking funnel begins. That's a reasonable place to put your ad spend. It's just not the only place — and...

July 8, 2026