Will Advertising Dollars Return To TV?

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the TV ad market suffered a brutal spring and summer, as national marketers reduced their spending. Now, as the new fall season nears, media executives are betting that ad dollars will return. Ad executives aren't so sure. On Madison Avenue, the talk is that marketing tactics have changed. Decades-old practices of committing ad budgets months in advance are increasingly being discarded. Instead advertisers are taking advantage of new automated ad-buying technologies and the flexibility of social media and online video outlets to decide on ad buys shortly before they want them to run. WSJ subscribers can read the full story here


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Gregg Palermo says:

September 3, 2014 at 9:50 am

You might as well ask: Will subscribers return to newspapers? One the audience goes someplace else, good luck.

    Jeff Groves says:

    September 3, 2014 at 7:26 pm

    I left Pay-TV (and Broadcast TV) 7 1/2 years ago. Three things need to happen before I’ll ever return to TV

    1. Rush Limbaugh will endorse a Democrat.

    2. Brooke Shields will win an Academy Award.

    3. The Detroit Lions will win the Super Bowl.

    Wagner Pereira says:

    September 4, 2014 at 10:40 am

    Yes, we know. You left TV when you decided you did not want to move to HDTV and decided to stick with your DVDs and VHS tapes.

alicia farmer says:

September 3, 2014 at 10:07 am

TV providers do a good job chasing advertisers (and viewers) away with the mind numbing commercial (and promo) glut.

    Keith ONeal says:

    September 3, 2014 at 2:23 pm

    and negative Political ads!