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jpiacenza@morningconsult.comJoanna is a senior reporter for Morning Consult.
By Joanna Piacenza Top Stories Facebook Inc. removed 837 million pieces of spam and disabled 583 million fake accounts on its site in the first quarter of 2018, according to the company’s Community Standards Enforcement Report, which covers actions by Facebook’s review team and was appended to its Transparency report. The company also removed 2.5 million […]
By Joanna Piacenza Top Stories CBS Corp. is suing parent company National Amusements Inc. for breaching its “fiduciary duty,” a move designed to stop a proposed merger with Viacom Inc. The lawsuit contends that the recent actions of Shari Redstone, president of National Amusements, which has 80 percent voting share in both CBS and Viacom, pose […]
By Joanna Piacenza Top Stories As TV upfronts kick off this week, broadcasters face a growing challenge: National television adverting sales were down 2.2 percent last year from 2016, and they are expected to continue to decline at least 2 percent each year through 2022. Popular television shows also tend have older viewers, with the top 10 […]
By Joanna Piacenza Week in Review Advertising Digital advertising brought in a record-breaking $88 billion in 2017, according to the latest Interactive Advertising Bureau report prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, a 21 percent increase from 2016. Mobile brought in more than half (57 percent) of all revenue at about $50 billion, an increase from $36.6 billion in 2016. […]
By Joanna Piacenza Top Stories Digital advertising brought in a record-breaking $88 billion in 2017, according to the latest Interactive Advertising Bureau report prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, a 21 percent increase from 2016. Mobile brought in more than half (57 percent) of all revenue at about $50 billion, an increase from $36.6 billion in 2016. (Advertising Age) […]
By Joanna Piacenza Top Stories Five months after Matt Lauer’s firing from NBC News after a report of sexual misconduct with a subordinate, NBCUniversal Media LLC said its legal team found that the network’s leadership did not mishandle the case and was not aware of any complaints about Lauer’s behavior before Nov. 27, 2017. NBC opted not […]
By Joanna Piacenza Top Stories Five more top executives have left Nike Inc. as the company conducts an investigation into workplace misconduct, bringing the total to 11 senior managers who have exited Nike as it grapples with allegations of gender discrimination and sexual harassment. The investigation, which CEO Mark Parker has said would be completed this […]
By Joanna Piacenza Morning Consult has published the latest edition of its monthly Trump Tracker, showing the president’s approval state by state, month over month. See it here. Top Stories Comcast Corp. has lined up around $60 billion in financing in case it decides to make a hostile all-cash bid for 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets, […]
By Joanna Piacenza Top Stories Food giant Nestlé SA will pay $7.15 billion and continuing royalties for the rights to sell Starbucks Corp.’s retail products, which generate $2 billion in sales every year, in grocery stores and other outlets globally. Such a move could allow Starbucks to concentrate on in-store sales, which have slumped in the United […]
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