“Nobody reads advertising. People read what interests them, and sometimes it’s an ad,” said Howard Gossage, innovator and OG from the Mad Men era of advertising. We all know that brands with a powerful story to tell (and products to...

September 20, 2024

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

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

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

Performance Marketing is Thriving on Connected TV The economy may be in uncertain waters, but the same can’t be said for Connected TV advertising. The outlook is rather rosy for this fast growing ad channel—especially if you’re a performance marketer....

February 1, 2023

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

When it comes to capturing consumer attention, big-screen ads are still the ones to beat. New research from Omnicom finds 50% of consumers notice ads on television, more than social media, YouTube, or any other channel. Connected TV also leads...

June 26, 2026