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Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook and Instagram: What it Means for Advertisers

Meta is getting rid of fact checkers on Facebook & Instagram and loosening guidelines on Hateful Content. What do the changes mean for advertisers?

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Viewable Impressions: What You Need to Know

A recent article on ClickZ spoke to a partnership between publisher Gannett Co., Inc. and comScore. The publishing powerhouse will be using comScore to implement viewable impression measurement across ad campaigns appearing on USATODAY.com.

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Local Ad Revenue, Online Holiday Shopping and Mobile

BIA/Kelsey forecasts U.S. mobile local advertising revenues to grow from $664 million in 2011 to $5.8 billion in 2016, representing a compound annual growth rate of 54.2%. U.S. retailers will earn $54.47 billion online during November and December this year, up 16.8% over online holiday season sales in 2011. Today, cross-channel marketing is imperative.

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Shawn Riegsecker Talks “Bootstrapping”

Watch Tom Sosnoff, host of Get Tasted, a show on the internet-based channel The tastytrade Network, interview Centro CEO Shawn Riegsecker for their regular feature: “Bootstrapping in America.”

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In 2012 Presidential Campaign, the Web Sat at the Table

One of the top stories on this Election Day is the unprecedented amount of money that has been funneled into campaigns. For marketers the juiciest subplot has been the portion of it that has been allocated to digital versus traditional media.

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Mobile Display, Video Ads and Tablet Users

According to a new study, nearly 86% of publishers will offer mobile display ad inventory within the next three months. More than a third of tablet users in the U.S. read newspapers on their devices each month, and even more check out magazines, according to comScore. According to comScore, 181 million U.S. Internet users (85% of the U.S. internet audience) watched more than 39 billion online content videos in September, while video ad views totaled 9.4 billion.

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Will 2013 Be the “Year of Connected TV”?

There’s no shock in finding out that consumers are watching large amounts of video online, nine hours per week in fact, according to Tremor Media.

What may come as a larger surprise is that consumers are watching 12 hours per week on their Connected TV devices—more than any other device – and that 38% of consumers visited a website mentioned in an ad they saw on their Connected TV.

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Northeastern Peeps Are in Centro’s Thoughts

As the East Coast tries to recuperate from the ravages of Hurricane Sandy, Centrons in the Chicago home office and across our 28 other locations are wishing the best for our Northeast Region Peeps.

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Growing Media Landscape Isn’t Biggest Problem

Patricio Robles’ recent piece on Econsultancy.com, “Technology is not a panacea for agencies,” is a perfect example of the kinds of important conversations our industry should be engaged in more often.

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Centro’s Green Team Gets Its Hands Dirty

Centro’s Green Team participated in a field trip to Growing Power, a Chicago urban farm that “promotes equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities.”

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