Sure, inflation has had a major impact on consumer behavior, but try telling the 2023 holiday season that — sales last year reached a record $964.4 billion, a 3.8% year-over-year (YoY) growth. And 2024’s holiday season is likely to be even...

August 16, 2024

April showers bring May flowers, or so the adage goes. It holds true for many home and garden brands, as well — if by “showers” you mean “ad spend,” and by “flowers” you mean “great marketing outcomes.” To get a...

April 18, 2024

These days (unsurprisingly), young audiences are all about Connected TV. Magna and Samsung recently did a deep dive into the ad preferences of younger TV viewers and found that  60% of Gen Z and 56% of Millennials think CTV ads...

April 4, 2024

For most brands, the winter holidays are key to increasing business, but there’s a lesser-known seasonal event gaining momentum with advertisers and consumers alike: Spring Black Friday (SBF). Unlike its predecessor, SBF isn’t just one day. Instead, it encompasses all the...

March 28, 2024

Performance marketing is a fast-growing strategy for CTV advertisers. To illustrate this, we measured how performance marketers fared during the most important time of the year: Q4. We tracked the industry trends and analyzed our own first-party MNTN Performance TV...

January 26, 2024

The winter holiday season is typically heralded as the prime-est of prime times for brands of all shapes and sizes. From Black Friday through Christmas, advertisers run various promotions, and historically, consumer spend is sky-high. But December 1 through January...

November 21, 2023

Q4 is upon us. For marketers who don’t yet have their holiday strategy tied up with a bow, we dug into MNTN’s first-party data and used it to outline the ideal (data-backed) schedule to maximize your Q4. Below is a...

October 6, 2023

You’re on your way out the door for your OOO, so you probably think you’re off the hook for holiday campaign planning. It is only summer, after all. But Q4 will be here before you know it—and the research says...

August 10, 2023