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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Long-Tail Retail Walmart Connect and Target Roundel are the two retail media players with the biggest adoption outside of Amazon, according to a recent Digiday survey. But both lag far behind Amazon’s 76% adoption rate. Twenty-four percent of those surveyed used Walmart Connect’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Safe Bet Which is “unsafe,” really: the tech or the media? Advertisers think of “brand safety” as an adjacency issue.  Is there a picture of a car crash? Maybe not Toyota.  Other brands avoid keywords like “gun control” and “abortion.” But there’s […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Toyota Juggles Five Rings Toyota pulled its television advertising in Japan to avoid blowback, because the Olympic Games are widely opposed in the host country, especially after a recent spike in COVID-19 cases. It’s a bitter pill for Toyota, which is one of a […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Give It The Ol’ Rip And Replace Nielsen recently updated its panel-based currency to include data from smart TVs and set-top boxes – but an even bigger change is on the horizon. According to The Wall Street Journal, Nielsen will completely replace its TV […]

When a Toyota commercial airs, Vinay Shahani, the company’s North America VP of integrated marketing operations, knows that most people who see it aren’t in market for a car. So the company looks at search activity to assess the value of its TV ad spend. Using data and analytics company EDO, Toyota can measure web […]

Toyota needed to put out a wide-reaching message to raise awareness about its hybrid vehicles in Turkey, a market where the concept is new and not widely adopted. To do so, it turned to the broadest reach medium there is: out of home (OOH). But Toyota wanted to introduce some targeting to reach its intended […]

Toyota is putting video behind the wheel. On Monday, Toyota, working with VaynerMedia, launched an online video-centric ad campaign to promote its 2017 Toyota 86 sports car to millennials – a generation more associated with Uber than car culture. But millennials are still buying cars. People ages 21 to 38 bought around 4 million vehicles in […]

Virtual reality is in its infancy, but USA Today Network thinks growing brand interest in 360-degree video will lead to greater VR adoption. The publisher network, which includes USA Today and 109 other Gannett-owned local media properties, on Thursday rolled out a weekly VR news series called “VRtually There.” YouTube has exclusive distribution rights to […]

Toyota Motors is a big TV spender. It bought, according to Kantar Media, three minutes of commercial airtime during Super Bowl XLIX –trailing only Anheuser-Busch and Fiat Chrysler. Although Toyota will continue to invest in big TV tent poles, it’s test-driving more digital video activation, and is sponsoring premium NBCUniversal video running on AOL’s network. […]

Although national automotive ad budgets are often planned three years in advance, the successes in digital media and marketing on local campaigns have brand managers rethinking those appropriations more frequently. Such was the case with Toyota’s Scion line, a brand designed for younger auto buyers. “Come March, we will likely have discussions as for how […]