Sunday, June 28, 2026 Strategy, technology, media, and social systems

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Sorin Adam Matei

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Neal Mohan to John Battelle at CM: television ads are a rip off (paraphrase)

Television sets per 1000 people of the world 1...
TV density in the World Image via Wikipedia

For the same results, total television ads cost $50 billion more:

Mohan noted a $50 billion disconnect between consumer attention given to digital, and consumer attention given to television. In other words, major brand advertisers are spending a lot more in TV than in digital, a theme that many others have echoed in my preparation for Summit conversations (see Desmond and Matthews, for example).

Plus, there is a $200 bn market in Internet advertising…

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