INSIDE GOOGLE & THE VOICE OF MEDIA | APRIL 17, 2017 FACEBOOK’S METRICS MISERY WHO WANTS THEIR MTV? FRESH FROM REMAKING VH1, CHRIS MCCARTHY PLANS TO RETURN VIACOM’S CORNERSTONE BRAND TO ITS LIVE GLORY. BY JASON LYNCH FINAL DAYS TO ENTER isaacawards.com IMAGINATION. INSPIRATION. INVENTION Only Adweek celebrates the inspired inventors in media, advertising & marketing and technology. GO FOR THE GOLD. ENTER TODAY GRAVITY AWARD/ GOLD WINNER 2016: Marketing & Advertising: Creative Invention and Event/ Experience Invention, The Field Trip to Mars, Lockheed Martin, McCann New York, New York CONTENTS THE WEEK IN MEDIA AND MARKETING APRIL 17, 2017 | VOL. LVIII NO. 11 Upfront By Tuesday FEATURES morning, WHAT’S NEXT United Airlines FOR MTV 14 lost nearly Can Chris McCarthy $1 billion make music television in market great again? value. METRICS MELTDOWN 18 Marketers push back TOP STORY against Facebook and Google. 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Dramas primarily Comedies indexed Crime shows skewed Reality shows skewed Home improvement Late night shows skewed toward females, toward 18-34 year olds more toward males, toward females, younger shows indexed significantly skewed toward males and most over-indexed and searchers with ages 18-44, and higher searchers (18-34), and toward female, an older 18-44 years old and mid with 18-34 year olds. lower incomes (less income (over $100K). lower income (less audience (45 and up), mid to higher income BE IN THE KNOW *4 out of 5 agree “Adweek helps me do my job better.” Half say “a lot better.” Get the new APP now! FREE TO CURRENT SUBSCRIBERS App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Google Play is a trademark of Google Inc. Amazon’s trademark is used under license from Amazon.com, Inc. PHOTO: RAQUEL BEAUCHAMP; YULIYA KIM | * SOURCE: EQUATION RESEARCH TRENDING | THIS WEEK’S INSIGHTS AMC NETWORKS More than 60 actors dined with buyers, including The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus. TELEVISION year as ad sales chief, Collins was ready “to do something bigger,” he said. “I wanted to reach out to a wider swath of people in the ad community, ‘I wanted to because not everyone was able AT UPFRONTS, to go to the dinner. But even more reach out to a importantly, it was the right moment for us to come together as AMC wider swath Networks.” His group, too, will save BIGGER IS its biggest upfront push for post- of people event meetings with agencies. Meanwhile, Discovery Comm- in the ad BETTER AGAIN unications has no plans to follow suit and bring back its own annual upfront community.’ AFTER MOVING AWAY After taking last year off, he moved event. Its new upfront approach Scott Collins, president of his presentation to mid-March. “We of bringing its top execs to agency advertising sales, AMC Networks FROM BIG ANNUAL rethought it and said, doing a big brand meetings tailored for their clients “is PRESENTATIONS, event early, it gives it more time to effi cient for us, but importantly, it’s SOME COMPANIES ARE seep in and [the ad sales team more effi cient for the agencies and clients. time to] actually activate off it,” said We want to be respectful of their time, provides broader exposure to our REVERSING COURSE. Olsen. “We like this time frame.” and for them to be able to attend all employees throughout the agency. BY JASON LYNCH But Olsen admits that by sitting these events is asking a lot,” said Often when there is one bigger out last year, A+E lost the thread on Ben Price, who is overseeing his fi rst presentation, the invite list is much its brand messaging. So that theme upfront as Discovery’s new ad sales more restricted,” said Marianne was front and center during this year’s chief. “I’m really happy with it; that’s Gambelli, chief investment offi cer event, which provided the company because the feedback we’ve gotten at Horizon Media. However, she Over the past couple years, several with a big platform to announce the has been really positive.” allows that signifi cant moves—like media companies have scrapped relaunch of its Biography franchise. That’s because buyers generally AMC Networks assembling its their lavish annual upfront events, “Everyone is talking about audience, fi nd the smaller, agency-specifi c entire portfolio—could justify the opting for more intimate, and far less but the only way to get great audience upfront meetings more valuable. occasional larger upfront event: “If expensive, dinners and meetings is through great shows and great “Smaller events allow for an the messaging changes, and there’s with individual agencies. Discovery brands, so let’s focus on them,” said experience that is more personalized a bigger story, then that bigger forum Communications, AMC Networks and Olsen, whose team is now conducting and customized to our business, and would make sense.” A+E Networks—joined this year by more targeted, data-heavy upfront Viacom (for more on that company’s discussions with buyers. upfront strategy, go to page 14)— AMC Networks also wanted to decided that when it came to splashy put its shows, rather than new data upfront spectacles, less was more. initiatives, in the upfront spotlight, But now, some of them are having as it brought its fi ve networks second thoughts, with both AMC and together for the fi rst time during A+E reversing course and reinstituting its April 6 event. “To sit there and their upfront productions. Peter wax poetic about data isn’t the best Olsen, evp of national ad sales for use of anyone’s time,” said Scott A+E NETWORKS A+E Networks, said the company’s Collins, president of advertising sales Singer-rapper Lizzo performed for the annual fête—held in late April or early for AMC Networks. The company upfront audience. May—had gotten lost in the crush had held agency dinners for two AMC: CAROLINE MJ DORN; A+E: GETTY IMAGES FOR A+E of NewFronts and upfront events. consecutive upfronts, but in his fi rst ADWEEK | APRIL 17, 2017 5 TRENDING BRANDING Why Media Brands Are Advertising PUBLICATIONS explained Peter Weingard, WNYC’s CMO. “With free expression under ARE PUSHING THE attack, the press, including WNYC, IMPORTANCE OF is reasserting our mandate to report JOURNALISM—AND fearlessly and accurately.” In March, WNYC released its latest SUBSCRIPTIONS. ad campaign, from its creative agency BY KRISTINA MONLLOS Eyeball, which included lines like “Fake news is nothing new, but it’s still fake,” and “Tweets are not the whole story.” The Atlantic Actor Michael K. The proliferation of “fake news”— The effort is “purposely provocative, Williams stars in the be that the insult lobbed at journalists playful in tone and meant to attract brand campaign and publications that President attention to get people to listen in,” from W+K. Donald Trump and his administration noted Weingard. The latest ads, which detest or the websites peddling false were placed on Metro North and released a short fi lm, Am I Typecast, read, “Vanity Fair: ‘The way down, big information across the web to make subway cars, bus shelters and even a starring actor Michael K.