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Why car dealerships should advertise on CTV: enhanced targeting, attribution, and optimization.

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

7 min read

Automotive advertisements are meant for the flat-screen. With their compelling, cinematic video frames embellishing the elegance and features of the vehicle, a phone or tablet screen just can’t do i...

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Connected TV wrapped: 2024 highlights and 2025 predictions

By Ashley Finlayson

January 7

5 min read

Your CTV Wrapped has arrived! As we bid farewell to 2024, let’s take a moment to celebrate the evolution of Connected TV (CTV)—with a nod to one of our favorite audio advertising partners, Spotify...

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Connected TV Trends and Predictions

Deterministic Vs. probabilistic attribution: What’s the difference?

By Ashley Finlayson

December 9

3 min read

The proof is in the pudding—and for marketers, the pudding is deterministically attributed sales outcomes. One of the biggest challenges in today’s advertising ecosystem is accurately measuring...

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What is Determ?inistic Attribution

Why your streaming video ads belong on Connected TV, not mobile.

By Ashley Finlayson

December 3

3 min read

It’s Sunday night, and you’re choosing a movie to wind down. Are you watching on your mobile phone or your TV? If you are one of the 88% of U.S. households with a Connected TV, chances a...

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CTV outperforms mobile

How local dealerships can benefit from CTV advertising.

By Ashley Finlayson

November 20

2 min read

Large-scale Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) have traditionally held the advantage in traditional TV advertising (via cable and satellite), leaving smaller, budget-constrained dealerships at a ...

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Small Dealership Advertising

Exclusive streaming ad inventory does not exist.

By Ashley Finlayson

November 11

4 min read

When you’re buying concert tickets, you have a wide array of options: official ticketing platforms like Ticketmaster or a venue’s box office, third-party resale platforms like StubHub and SeatGeek...

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Exclusive Streaming Inventory

Connected TV is the affordable, targeted alternative to traditional TV advertising.

By Ashley Finlayson

October 29

3 min read

What if we told you that your dealership could advertise on one of the highest-performing ad channels—at half the cost? It's not too good to be true. Connected TV (CTV) advertising combines the powe...

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Cost Effective TV Advertising

Why cutting streaming ad inventory supply is a bad idea, mostly.

By Ashley Finlayson

October 24

5 min read

Imagine you are a health lover selling a new juice product you created and only allow Sprouts Farmers Market to carry and distribute this product. Sure, all the Sprouts shoppers who enjoy juice will d...

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Cutting Inventory Supply

What marketers should know about CTV fragmentation.

By Ashley Finlayson

October 15

5 min read

Connected TV (CTV) fragmentation has become a hot topic lately, both for consumers and marketers. If you're not sure what's changing, curious about the details, or completely new to the idea of market...

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Connected TV Fragmentation

How rising streaming subscription fees are benefiting advertisers.

By Ashley Finlayson

September 26

4 min read

Many of today’s advertisers are worried about the continuous streaming subscription fee increases and unhappy subscribers. While this worry is understandable, advertisers should actually be celebrat...

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Increasing streaming subscription fees

Unlocking Connected TV ad inventory’s secrets: supply paths, carriage deals, and contracts.

By Ashley Finlayson

September 16

10 min read

There’s more to Connected TV (CTV) ad inventory than meets the eye. Many advertisers don’t fully grasp the intricacies of the supply chain, leading to missed opportunities to reach large segments ...

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Connected TV Ad Inventory

A Snippet from the “Streaming Metrics that Matter” at SAS 2024

By Ashley Finlayson

September 12

2 min read

https://youtu.be/r3F4uShNkRc The question, “Did my streaming campaign deliver meaningful results?” can only be answered by measuring deterministic outcomes that directly reflect performance li...

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Streaming Metrics that Matter

EMG’s Brett Hall to Present Streaming Insights at 2024 Digital Dealer Conference & Expo

By Ashley Finlayson

September 10

2 min read

Brett Hall, EMG's VP of Sales and Marketing, has joined the Digital Dealer 2024 lineup to host a session titled "How to Tame the Wild West of Streaming Advertising.” Streaming advertising may sti...

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Digital Dealer 2024

Highlights from the Customer Spotlight at SAS 2024

By Ashley Finlayson

September 3

2 min read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-aKMXEVHJA Although streaming is the most popular TV medium today, some dealerships are still hesitant to adopt it as an advertising channel. This is typically due...

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Retail Automotive Streaming Advertising

Key Moments from the SAS 2024 Inventory Panel

By Ashley Finlayson

August 15

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acyD2jkG3hs App spoofing is a growing concern among marketers as fraud committers get increasingly adept at disguising their bid streams. Peek into insights from Br...

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App Spoofing

Highlights from the Featured Keynote at SAS 2024

By Ashley Finlayson

August 8

1 min read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6qYI-611OU Joel Klatt, a Fox Sports College Football Analyst, offers a compelling analysis of the evolving landscape of linear broadcast TV viewership. Formerly do...

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Joel Klatt Fox Sports

A Snippet from “The State of the Union: Retail Automotive” at SAS 2024

By Ashley Finlayson

August 1

< 1 min read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9N5M2qdVqo&t=6s The automotive industry is navigating a recovery phase following significant setbacks in recent years, including constrained inventory, rising ...

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Retail Automotive Insights

Highlights from the Identity and Measurement Panel at SAS 2024

By Ashley Finlayson

July 26

< 1 min read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgAZkOrZGKE...

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Identity Resolution, Identity Graphing

A Snippet from “The Stream Has Gone Mainstream” at SAS 2024

By Ashley Finlayson

July 18

< 1 min read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1dGtNTXLoY...

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The Future of Streaming

Why marketers need to bridge the streaming visibility gap.

By Ashley Finlayson

May 22

5 min read

Visibility is important in many contexts. Imagine trying to read an essay with a third of the words blacked-out—understanding the full story would be difficult. Similarly, for advertisers, measuring...

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Attribution Visibility Gap

Connected TV creative best practices for retail automotive

By Ashley Finlayson

May 22

3 min read

Each consumer cohort — pre-market, in-market, economy, luxury — responds optimally to a certain style of automotive creative. To maximize engagement with each consumer segment, it's necessary to t...

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CTV creative best practices for retail automotive

What is the household graph?

By Ashley Finlayson

May 20

4 min read

Connected TV (CTV) and streaming audio are unmatched in engagement and performance, but accurately targeting consumers and measuring cross-channel attribution on streaming can feel like throwing a dar...

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Identity Graph

Presenting EMG’s Second Annual Streaming Automotive Summit

By Ashley Finlayson

March 14

4 min read

Thought leaders in streaming advertising and the retail automotive digital environment set to join forces around the topic "The Stream has gone Mainstream." NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., March 14, 20...

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SAS 2024

CES 2024 — All in. All On.

By Ashley Finlayson

January 5

2 min read

The Consumer Electronics Show® (CES) is the arena for global innovators and business leaders to shape the future of technology. Organized and overseen by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, ...

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Consumer Electronics Show 2024

CTV Wrapped—your 2023 Connected TV and CTV advertising recap and 2024 forecast

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

13 min read

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2023 Connected TV recap and 2024 insights

How streaming advertising works with EMG.

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

5 min read

With 56% of U.S. households watching their television content exclusively on Connected TV (CTV) and 75% of households listening to their audio digitally, advertising on streaming audio and CTV are nec...

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Dealership streaming advertising

Reach the same viewer for half the price.

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

3 min read

There’s nothing quite like Sunday Football — and nothing quite like the hyper-inflated cost of this ad inventory. What if we told you that you could reach the same individuals you are trying to re...

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Programmatic audience-first advertising

The power of pre-market in automotive advertising.

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

4 min read

The pre-market audience cohort is the secret ingredient in automotive advertising campaigns. Well, it’s not technically a “secret,” but given the amount it is overlooked in most marketers’ aud...

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Pre-market advertising

Linear TV viewership is dropping like flies.

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

4 min read

You heard right, Connected TV (CTV) is now the dominant television medium. Adios linear TV! The trend of cord-cutting, once considered a radical TV approach fostered by millennials, has now become ...

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Cable TV losing viewership

All things automotive audiences: Pre & in-market, data, and curation.

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

8 min read

One of our most frequently asked question is, “Can you explain your audiences to me?" If you’re wondering the same thing, you’ve come to the right place. This is a loaded question, but we can an...

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streaming advertising audience targeting

It’s a win-win: Millennials stream the most and buy the most cars.

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

3 min read

Step aside Boomers and Gen X, millennials are entering the chat (and entering dealerships). The common myth that millennials dislike dealerships and don’t buy cars is busted. Millennials are the lar...

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Millennial automotive advertising

How do you measure the impact of your streaming ads?

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

7 min read

We like to ask the question “how do you measure the impact of your streaming advertising campaigns?” to marketers in the automotive industry. This question is great for three reasons. (1) For lear...

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Measuring impact for streaming advertising

CTV versus OTT: They are not the same.

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

7 min read

Are CTV and OTT synonymous? Is advertising on CTV and OTT the same? The confusion here is understandable considering these terms, amidst the multitude of streaming acronyms, are often misused. Many re...

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Connected TV versus Over-the-Top

The future of advertising is now: How programmatic advertising outperforms endemic advertising.

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

7 min read

The era of endemic advertising is over, although some marketers can’t let go. This is understandable, as endemic advertising was ingrained as a staple digital advertising strategy used for over 30 y...

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Programmatic advertising versus endemic advertising

Audience curation: are you weeding out faulty advertising audiences?

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

6 min read

When you buy a plant, you don’t plant it in the ground and then leave it be. Plants require a fair amount of upkeep to stay healthy, living, and growing. Like plants, the audience segments used in d...

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Advertising Audience Curation

How does programmatic advertising work?

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

9 min read

With 91% of digital advertising inventory (or available ad space) in the U.S. purchased programmatically this year, buying traditionally (via human negotiation) would warrant a jaw drop from the major...

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Programmatic Advertising

What is streaming audio advertising? Here’s everything you need to know.

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

10 min read

Have you ever been jamming in your car to your favorite song and then suddenly interrupted by a thirty second ad? Us too. While the ad break does kill the vibe to some degree, you are highly likely to...

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Streaming audio advertising

EMG Proposals 101

By Ashley Finlayson

December 27

7 min read

The EMG Dealership Proposal Tool offers precise, data-driven recommendations, allowing dealerships and marketers to instantly generate and download personalized streaming proposals for any dealership ...

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Custom Dealership Streaming Proposal

What is Connected TV? The ultimate guide to CTV advertising.

By Ashley Finlayson

December 15

20 min read

When you think of a television, say the one in your house, what does it look like? Does it have an antenna sticking out of the top of its thick, boxy frame, or is it pitch-black, thin with a small bor...

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Connected TV Advertising


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