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Recent Blog Posts

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  MediaRadar Unveils Major Expansion of CTV Universe Across Streaming, Live Sports and Local Markets

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  POSSIBLE 2026: Where Big Ideas Met Real-World Execution

  Industry events tend to follow a familiar pattern: bold predictions on stage, quieter truths off stage. At POSSIBLE, that gap was especially ...

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  Winning in Sports Advertising Means Playing a Different Game

  Reaching sports fans used to be straightforward: show up during the game, reach a massive audience, and call it a day. That was the old playbook. ...

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  Winning Down-Ballot in 2026: Where Political Ad Dollars Are Moving Next

  While federal races still command headlines, state and local campaigns now account for nearly half of total political ad spend, and more than half of ...

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  MediaRadar Launches the First Market-Level View of the Advertising Ecosystem for Media Owners

  Building on MediaRadar’s Competitive and Commercial Intelligence solutions, the new Market Intelligence offering delivers a strategic market view for ...

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  Putting Customers at the Center of Innovation: Inside MediaRadar’s Early Adopter Program

  At MediaRadar, innovation starts with the people who use our products every day. This year, we’ve been formalizing that belief through our new Early ...

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  Signal Shifts: How Finance Advertisers Are Quietly Rewriting the Media Mix

  For years, financial services advertising followed a predictable formula. Big TV budgets, broad reach, and brand-led messaging dominated the ...

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  MediaRadar Expands Live Streaming Sports Coverage to Include Formula 1 Advertising

  With F1’s move from ESPN to exclusive streaming on Apple TV+, MediaRadar delivers critical visibility into one of the first major global sports to go ...

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  How Pop Culture Partnerships Are Powering the Next Wave of QSR Marketing

  Quick-service restaurants have always moved fast. But in 2026, the pace of innovation is accelerating—and the earliest signal isn’t always sales data ...

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  What the National Sports Forum Tells Us About the Current State of Sports Advertising

  Sports is no longer operating in its own lane. The same macroeconomic and advertising shifts reshaping the broader media landscape are now fully ...

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  How New-Wave Innovators Took on Historic Big Spenders at Super Bowl LX

  In a K-shaped economy, Super Bowl LX reveals a divided market—where growth sectors accelerate and legacy brands recalibrate.

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  The Brands Betting on Team USA: The 2026 Winter Olympics Kick Off

  The 2026 Winter Olympics are officially underway, marking one of the most high-stakes advertising moments of the year, and notably sharing the ...

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  Live Events Aren’t What They Used to Be — And the Super Bowl Proves It

  Live events are having a unique moment. With Super Bowl LX and the Winter Olympics occurring on the same weekend, advertisers are not just competing ...

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  What Advertisers Need to Know in 2026: The Key Shifts Shaping Strategy

  As advertisers look ahead, one thing is clear: the old playbooks aren’t working the way they used to.

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  Why Interoperability Is the Future of Marketing Intelligence

  Introducing MediaRadar Data Cloud Marketing intelligence is entering a new era. AI is accelerating how decisions are made, how insights are generated ...

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  Are You Ready for February? Super Bowl, Winter Olympics, and So Many Ways to Watch

  February 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most consequential months in sports advertising history. In what feels like a modern-day collision of ...

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  From Tools to Systems: What CES 2026 Revealed About Getting Real Value from AI

  AI didn’t just speed everything up. It pushed advertising into a new operating reality. At CES 2026, that acceleration showed up in the most human ...

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  Powering Advertising Research: Inside the University of Oxford’s Environmental Ad Library

  Nearly three decades ago, a new wave of advertising took shape as brands began reimagining how they communicated their commitments to corporate ...

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  MediaRadar Launches Data Cloud: Powering AI-Ready Marketing Intelligence, Everywhere

  MediaRadar’s Data Cloud unlocks direct access to AI-ready Marketing Intelligence, connecting into the data warehouses, modern marketing stacks and AI ...

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  Smarter, Faster, Proven: Where Market Signals Shape Healthcare Strategy

  Pharma and healthcare marketing moves fast—but under tight scrutiny. Between evolving payer dynamics, shifting patient behavior, crowded condition ...

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  Smarter, Faster, Further: How Travel & Tourism Marketers Compete With Creative Intelligence

  Travel and tourism marketing runs on momentum—and momentum changes fast. Demand shifts with seasons, pricing and promos evolve overnight, and your ...

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  Smarter, Faster, Sharper: How Tech & Telecom Marketers are Activating

  Tech and telecom marketing is a game of timing and signal. Product cycles are tight, competitive launches can pop up overnight, and small creative ...

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  A Complete View of Sports Advertising: Now Covering 25 Regional Sports Networks

  Connecting local viewership to national and streaming insights so teams can see where brands are investing across markets.

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  Smarter, Faster, Tastier: How Restaurant & QSR Marketers Compete With Creative Intelligence

  Restaurant and QSR marketing has turned into a sprint: brands compete on speed—how quickly they can spot shifts, respond to new launches, and get ...

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  Flipboard Expands Premium Partnerships with MediaRadar Intelligence

  While social platforms and programmatic networks chase scale, Flipboard proves premium storytelling and trusted environments deliver deeper brand ...

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  Smarter, Faster, Safer: The New Era of Financial Marketing

  Financial marketers operate in one of the most competitive, scrutinized, and fast-moving categories in advertising. Banks, credit card issuers, and ...

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  Holiday Advertising in 2025: How Brands Are Standing Out This Season

  It’s holiday advertising season, and creativity is in full flight. In 2025, brands are turning up the volume on festive storytelling, delivering ...

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  With Expanded Coverage, MediaRadar is Solving the Video Everywhere Challenge

  MediaRadar connects data from every video environment—uniting sight, sound, and motion across CTV, linear, and social video into a single source of ...

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  Pharma Ad Strategies in Flux: How Proposed FDA Updates Could Impact Channel Mix, TV and Digital Spend

  Pharmaceutical advertising has long been one of the most influential—and heavily scrutinized—categories in U.S. media. Now, with federal agencies ...

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  The Fastest Race in Fast Food: How Real-Time Ad Insights Are the Secret Weapon in QSR Competition

  In the quick-service restaurant (QSR) industry, competition has always been fierce but today it’s evolved into something more like a sprint than a ...

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  A Gerrymandering Arms Race Amps Up the Ad Dollars

  This past June President Trump called on Texas to enact a redistricting plan intended to produce a more GOP-friendly electoral map ahead of the 2026 ...

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  Advertising Week 2025: How Data, AI, and Creativity Are Rewriting the Rules of Advertising

  Advertising Week 2025 revealed a defining truth: the most successful marketers aren’t choosing between creativity and technology — they’re blending ...

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  The State of Sports Advertising: Navigating a Seismic Shift in the Streaming Era

  As the sports advertising landscape continues to evolve at breakneck speed, the intersection of live sports, streaming technology, and brand strategy ...

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  From Originals to Live Sports: What MediaRadar’s New Amazon Insights Illuminate About the Evolving CTV Landscape

  MediaRadar has expanded its coverage to include Amazon’s Prime Video—shedding light on the competitive and creative strategies of advertisers ...

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  Succeeding in Social: Is Your Advertising Strategy Blending In or Breaking Through?

  Measuring social media advertising effectiveness isn’t rocket science. On the surface, it’s actually quite straightforward. Social teams can quickly ...

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  MediaRadar Expands Into Live Streaming Sports to Power Smarter Advertising in $100B Market

  First-to-market technology tracks ad creative and spend across Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, and more—helping advertisers and media companies to ...

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  Stop Blocking, Start Performing: A Marketer’s Playbook for News Media

  Avoiding the news has become a reflex. It’s also a mistake. High‑quality journalism delivers unduplicated reach, affluent and influential audiences, ...

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  The Rise of Retail & Commerce Media: Why Advertisers Can’t Afford to Ignore It

  The advertising ecosystem is rapidly evolving and one phrase keeps coming up in boardrooms and trade publications alike: retail and commerce media. ...

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  Dems Draw First Blood in Virginia Gubernatorial

  Up until this month, the 6 unique advertising creatives in the Virginia governor’s race tracked by our Political Ad Intelligence solution were ...

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  Advertisers Double Down on Netflix in TV Upfronts

  Netflix has doubled its TV upfront commitments, according to Adweek—a clear sign that its ad-supported tier is rapidly becoming one of the most ...

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  Political Advertising Intelligence: Winning the 2026 Cycle

  In the world of media sales, timing is everything—especially when it comes to political advertising. With the 2026 midterms set to be a landmark ...

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  MediaRadar Brings Social Media Marketing Intelligence to the Canadian Market

  Marketing Intelligence Leader Provides Canadian Advertisers with Competitive Intelligence Solutions Spanning Canada’s Largest Social Media Networks

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  Why MediaRadar is Doubling Down on Sports Ad Intelligence

  Live sports have always been the gold standard for “appointment viewing.” Whether it’s a Sunday afternoon kickoff or a prime-time showdown, the ...

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  Instacart Scales Off-Platform Partnership Opportunities Across Streaming TV, Social & More using MediaRadar

  Instacart Scales Off-Platform Partnership Opportunity using MediaRadar

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  The Colbert Effect: A Decade of Advertising on The Late Show

  A Farewell to Late-Night’s Top Performer In July 2025, CBS and Paramount made it official: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will wrap in May 2026, ...

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  NBA Playoff Ad Spend Surges: MediaRadar Unpacks the Big Wins for ABC, TNT, and ESPN

  When the NBA Playoffs begin, the stakes go up—not just for teams, but for advertisers too. MediaRadar’s latest data reveals a surge in NBA playoff ...

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  Medicaid on the Chopping Block

  Whether it pertains to President Trump’s recently passed “Big Beautiful Bill" [BBB], US House, Senate, Governor or state supreme court races or who’s ...

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  The Decline of Ad Spend on X: A Closer Look at the Numbers

  In recent years, the social media landscape has undergone seismic shifts, none more striking than the declining advertising revenues of X (formerly ...

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  Unprecedented Ad Spend Grows in the Garden State