Summary: | This article highlights the platformization of the advertising market as influenced by search engines and social networks. It analyzes how the media try to adjust by mixing data management and brand safety, highlighting coopetition strategies between platforms and media industries. The article examines the strategy of the TF1 group’s advertising department, the first “media” advertising department in France, which is based upon using the advantages of Internet advertising to better promote the television advertising offer. It makes TV spot advertising on large audience channels a key element of any communication campaign, something that the advertising departments of Internet companies cannot offer. But this race to critical size, on both the Internet and television, raises questions concerning the future of small audience media who depend on advertising revenues.
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