Harry Styles’ mega fame by the numbers, plus top 5 states for CTV political ad targeting: Datacenter Weekly

Welcome to Ad Age Datacenter Weekly, our data-obsessed newsletter for marketing and media professionals. A new ad industry record “The U.S. advertising industry is on track to surpass $300 billion in total ad spending for the first time ever, according to a new forecast from Interpublic Group of Cos.’ Magna, which shows that nationwide ad revenues are poised to grow 9.8% year-over-year in 2022,” Ad Age’s Ethan Jakob Craft reports. Essential context: “A driving force behind that performance is the trifecta of this year’s Winter Olympics, FIFA World Cup and U.S. midterm elections, which have collectively pumped billions of seasonal dollars into media owners’ coffers,” Craft adds. “Those events have also helped offset conditions that have caused many key verticals to scale down their marketing budgets in the second half of the year.”Keep reading here. See Ad Age Datacenter Agency Report 2022 The agency business rebounded with a surge in revenue and hiring. But caution signs are ahead. Click here Macroeconomic news and data in a nutshell • “Jobless claims hit five-month low despite Fed’s efforts to slow labor market,” per CNBC. • “The cost of taming inflation could be 3 million lost jobs,” from Yahoo Finance. • “CEO says he’s been ‘praying for inflation’ because it’s an excuse to jack up prices,” from The Intercept. • “California could ‘export inflation’ to the rest of the US when it sends up to $10 billion in relief payments this October, a Harvard economist says,” per Business Insider. ICYMI: “Ad employment sustains slight decline after summer boom,” from Ad Age Datacenter’s Bradley Johnson.Don’t miss: “Layoffs and budget cuts—tracking economic moves and news,” Ad Age’s continually updated blog covering how the marketing industry is bracing for a recession. See all of Ad Age's 2023 Agency A-List winners here Harry Styles’ mega fame by the numbers • The Harry Styles vehicle “Don’t Worry Darling” is the No. 1 movie in U.S. theaters right now, and Styles is still on his massive “Love On Tour” concert tour in support of his second and third studio albums, “Fine Line” and “Harry’s House,” respectively. In fact, he’s playing the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, tonight, Sunday and Monday—the last three shows of a six-night residency there—then continues on to play six nights at the United Center in Chicago, followed by 15 nights (!) at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, before heading to Mexico. • Per Enji Erdenekhuyag of NBC Chicago, tickets for Styles’ sold-out Chicago shows are ... not cheap for those turning to ticket reseller platforms. “According to StubHub, the artist’s Oct. 7 performance is the most expensive,” Erdenekhuyag reports, “with tickets starting at $350 in the upper section of the stadium and spilling over the $900 mark for closer seats that will provide unobstructed views of the stage.” • In August and early September, it’s worth noting, Styles sold out 15 consecutive nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden—an accomplishment memorialized with a banner now permanently displayed inside the venue. “Styles joins just two other musical artists to have a banner in the Garden’s rafters, with Billy Joel and Phish both leaving their marks on the venue” previously, per Pollstar’s Ariel King. • Styles now has 13.7 million subscribers on YouTube—up from 11.9 million in March, according to influencer marketing platform CreatorIQ, which keeps track of these things—and he’s racked up 4.7 billion cumulative YouTube views as of this writing. • In May alone, when “Harry’s House” dropped, Styles’ YouTube channel racked up 230 million views, per CreatorIQ. • Styles now has 47.6 million followers on Instagram—a net gain of 3.2 million since March, per CreatorIQ. • As of this writing, Styles’ song “As It Was” is No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100—its 15th week atop the chart. Become an All Access subscriber Get access to exclusive resources including Leading National Advertisers, World’s Largest Advertisers, Agency Report, Agency Review Tracker and TV Pricing Report. Click here Where political campaigns are targeting their ads with CTV Via TV ad tech company Madhive, here’s some insight into where political advertising targeted to connected TV (CTV) is being deployed in the midterms. The top 5 states by share of CTV political advertising impressions year-to-date: 1. Wisconsin: 13% 2. Maryland: 8% 3. Pennsylvania: 8% 4. California: 7% 5. Michigan: 5% Background: Madhive works with local network affiliates across the country, giving it access to data covering more than 100 million U.S. households.Essential context: Swing state Wisconsin, No. 1 above, is seeing some rather astonishing overall campaign spending for a couple of its key races, per the latest Ad Age Campaign Ad Scorecard analysis. The Badger State places twice on our list of the 15 U.S. midterm races with the most media spending. Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race has seen $134.4 million in combined campaign ad spending by Republicans and Democrats, while Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race has seen $73.5 million in combined ad spending by Republicans and Democrats. (Those tallies include TV, radio and tracked digital advertising from Dec. 28, 2021, through Election Day, as of Sept. 26, 2022.) Ad Age Next: Streaming Get your tickets for the Nov. 10 event in New York and use the code AA50 for $50 off Register here A post-cookie data glossary Privacy sandbox. Seller-defined audiences (SDAs). Match rate. Conversions API (CAPI) ... If you want quick, no-nonsense definitions of those terms (and others), head over to “Post-cookie data glossary—key words and terms marketers need to know,” from Ad Age’s Garett Sloane.Previously: “12 ad tech and data executives leading the cookieless evolution,” also from Ad Age’s Sloane. Tracking layoffs and budget cuts How brands and agencies are bracing for a recession Click here Just briefly • “New technology collects data from inside most dangerous part of Tropical Storm Ian,” from CBS News. • “Data storytelling: A key skill for data-driven decision-making,” from CIO. • “Revealed: 5,000 empty ‘ghost flights’ in UK since 2019, data shows,” per The Guardian. • “Amazon dominates the $113 billion smart home market—here’s how it uses the data it collects,” from CNBC. Ad Age Leading National Advertisers 2022 In his introduction to the Ad Age Leading National Advertisers 2022 report, Ad Age Datacenter’s Bradley Johnson reports that advertisers scored “the second-biggest spending gain on record” in 2021, marking “an extraordinary turnaround from the pandemic plunge in 2020. Spending has continued to grow in 2022, though budgets could come under pressure as marketers grapple with inflation, rising interest rates and slumping consumer confidence amid escalating expectations of a recession.” There’s a lot to LNA 2022—so the Datacenter team has come up with multiple entry points for you to make your own deep dive. To wit: • “Leading National Advertisers 2022—10 most-advertised brands in the U.S., ranked” • “Leading National Advertisers 2022—Will ad spending rise in the (coming) recession? It’s happened before” • “Leading National Advertisers 2022—25 biggest U.S. advertisers, ranked” • “Leading National Advertisers 2022—U.S. market leaders and category rankings” • “Leading National Advertisers 2022—Big spending gains and cuts” • “Leading National Advertisers 2022—What comes next after 2021's ad spending surge” • “Leading National Advertisers 2022—Ad spending by medium, category and advertiser” The newsletter is brought to you by Ad Age Datacenter, the industry’s most authoritative source of competitive intel and home to the Ad Age Leading National Advertisers, the Ad Age Agency Report: World’s Biggest Agency Companies and other exclusive data-driven reports. Access or subscribe to Ad Age Datacenter at AdAge.com/Datacenter. Ad Age Datacenter is Kevin Brown, Bradley Johnson and Joy R. Lee. This week’s newsletter was compiled and written by Simon Dumenco. 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Harry Styles’ mega fame by the numbers, plus top 5 states for CTV political ad targeting: Datacenter Weekly

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