Traditional TV rolls with the times, remains a viable entertainment channel to both viewers and advertisers
As it has for more than 100 years, competing tech challenges television to evolve rather than contribute to its demise.
Maybe it’s nostalgia. Or the fact that I’m getting old. But despite all the alternatives, I don’t want traditional TV to go away.
Yes, I know that TV is just a screen and as such, it will never go out of fashion for advertisers who want to reach an audience. But ever since I learned that there was a bump in ad dollars headed to linear television in the wake of brands pulling programmatic digital advertising due to brand safety frustrations, I can’t get it out of my head that maybe linear TV — which for the purposes of this article includes live broadcast TV, cable and recorded versions of these — still has a future in our ever-expanding media mix.
Turns out there are others who are as optimistic as I am.
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