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Chalk up another contract win for Comscore: A top automated television advertising marketplace owned by Cox Media Group is adding Comscore TV data to its local linear TV buying and selling platform.

SoCast Digital on Thursday kicks off a free monthly series of webinars, with insights to help radio grow revenue and audience engagement with digital. This information could be valuable to everyone in the radio business, across management, sales, and programming from all formats. Here are the details.

Advertising data automation company PremiumMedia360 has officially unveiled a cloud-based tool that uses automation technology to bring greater visibility to advertising sales transactions — enabling TV and radio ad sellers to potentially "reclaim" revenue that until now has been lost due to errors.

For nearly 30 years, a N.Y.-based creative has been producing audio ads for such high-profile clients as AT&T, CBS, Lowe's, and Coors Light. Now, the duo heading this ad shop are turning to sonic branding and podcast ads to help advertisers take advantage of digital advancements for audio.

Drive Time Metrics has teamed up with an Israeli firm behind the first neutral automotive data services platform in providing what it calls "privacy protected, in-vehicle listening insights to media, brands and advertisers."

Westwood One Chief Insights Officer Pierre Bouvard is unabashedly one of the radio industry's biggest cheerleaders, ceaselessly searching for any tidbits of research that make AM and FM radio advertising look better than any glamorous Google-powered effort. He's done it again.

Here's another win for Comscore. Local cross-media advertising company Viamedia has decided to use the Nielsen competitor as its exclusive source for TV data ad currency in 72 of its 73 markets.

There's not much change on the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable report, with respect to the brands actively using spot cable to reach consumers. This is perhaps a good thing, as continued dollars to spot cable shows brand commitment to a medium when seeking to achieve strong ROI for their marketing efforts.

They say that variety is the spice of life. When it comes to the client roster of a radio station, consider it a very tasty condiment.  Two brands seeing to gain household top-of-mind awareness in a big way are each using radio to spread their message to the masses.

What if you could learn how to improve your local direct sales techniques, and as a result, score bigger sales the rest of the year and beyond? Would that help make your station budget — and increase your bank account as well? What if you could learn all of that and have fun doing it? The Hispanic Radio Conference is pleased to present a special session by a renowned sales guru on Wednesday, March 13.

As VP of Multicultural Marketing and Sales Development for the Video Advertising Bureau, Cynthia Perkins-Roberts became renown as a respected expert on the multicultural marketplace. Perkins-Roberts died Jan. 1. VAB President/CEO Sean Cunningham led the tributes in her honor.

National brands are expected to spend $62.7 billion in 2019 to target local consumers. That's according to a new report by BIA Advisory Services that dives into fresh brand and franchisee advertising and marketing insights.

Thanks to newly boosted cross-platform campaign measurement of ad inventory, Nielsen is now providing media buyers and sellers with what it believes is "comprehensive, independent measurement" across both linear and digital platforms.

Who would have thought spots would have a positive impact on a brand designed to get rid of them -- at least, on one's teeth.

With GEICO and The Home Depot leading the way for brands using spot radio in the first days of 2019, it is refreshing to see increased activity from a brand that's been new to radio -- or, perhaps, one that has bumped up its ad spending in recent weeks. That's what Indeed has done.