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Uncovering the Benefits of Corporate Trade

Insights, Success Stories, and Real World Perceptions. A recent Brand Innovators survey conducted among senior marketers from a cross-section of industries revealed that while a majority are familiar with the general concept of Corpora ...

BBO Home Inclusion & Impression-based Buying: What You Need to Know

As our media landscape continues to expand and evolve, measurement is becoming increasingly more complicated, and local video viewership is no exception. Nielsen’s latest change to the space is the inclusion of Broadband-Only (BBO) homes in the la ...

Weekly Viewership Report: May 11 – May 17

Here's a topline update on media week 20 viewership thanks to our research team at Broadbeam. ...

Articles

Streaming Adopts Cable’s Playbook

This article originally appeared in MediaPost.  Remember when the streaming platforms, led by Netflix, killed cable?  When viewers, voting with their impressions, made it clear they would gladly pay a monthly subscription fee to choose what an ...

What’s Trending In Travel: ‘Paycations,’ More Solo Trips, Cooldowns

This article originally appeared in MediaPost.  After an explosive post-COVID comeback, domestic leisure growth decelerated through the back half of 2023 as consumer spend slowed amid tighter credit conditions. It looked like consumers might ha ...

Consumers Are Doing Great, But Your Highest Spending Cohort Might Not Be…

This article originally appeared in MediaPost.  By Corinne Casagrande | SVP, Strategy, Planning and Insight The U.S. economy keeps barreling along, driven by strong household demand and business investment. Recession calls are being resc ...

Success stories

Funding Through Cash Cross Purchase Solutions

Challenge: A major financial institution needed funding to support their NASCAR racing team sponsorship. Solution: Active’s exclusive Cash Cross Purchase program provided significant incremental funding for the institution’s sponsorship needs by ...

Creating Value Through Corporate Trade

Challenge: A Telecommunications Company had excess inventory in the form of end of life phones. Solution: Active provided payment at full market value in two ways: the Cash Cross Purchase Program and the Trade Credit Program. Client committed t ...

Transforming Idle Capital Equipment into Media Value

Challenge A major Food Manufacturer had idle industrial machinery as well as short-coded dairy products. Both types of assets would be valued in secondary markets at significantly less than their assessed value. Solution Active purchased the mac ...

Videos

About That with Carl Mayer – Episode 4

If you are experiencing issues viewing the video above, please use this link: https://vimeo.com/1018442560 About this episode: In this episode of "About That," Carl Mayer interviews Steve DeMain, EVP of Sales at Locality, about tren ...

Achieving a Successful Corporate Trade Partnership

ANA Financial Conference 2021: In a session from the 2021 ANA Advertising Financial Management conference, Lisa Bialecki from Rust-Oleum, Empower’s Jessica Eng, and Active’s Cristina Dillow, presented a case study on achieving a successf ...

News

Video News 02.06.25: Streamers To Outspend Commercial Broadcasters In ’25

STREAMERS TO OUTSPEND COMMERCIAL BROADCASTERS IN '25 For the first time ever, global content spends by streaming companies are predicted to outpace commercial broadcasters (a term used to differentiate them from public broadcasters) in 2025. Stre ...

Digital Digest 2.5.25

It’s Time for DOOH to Move Beyond the Billboard Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) advertising is evolving beyond traditional billboards, integrating dynamic content and interactive elements to engage audiences in public spaces. This shift allows adver ...

Video News 01.23.25

LINEAR STILL LEADS CTV IN AD REACH… Even as Connected TV inches up on Linear in share of TV time (Digital Video overall has already surpassed Linear), traditional TV dwarfs CTV when it comes to advertising reach. Per eMarketer, nearly 87% of ad ...

Press releases

Active Joins Dawn’s Best-in-Class Portfolio of Specialist Agencies

New York, NY (Nov. 17, 2020) — Active International is excited to join Dawn's fast-growing portfolio of best-in-class, specialist agencies with centralized data science, advanced analytics, and econometric measurement. Recognized as The Mode ...

Active International Named Among Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures

ACTIVE INTERNATIONAL NAMED ONE OF CANADA’S MOST ADMIRED CORPORATE CULTURES Active delivers high employee satisfaction, low turnover and 60%+ top line growth during a disruptive time in the media industry TORONTO (November 28 2019) —&nbs ...

Active International Expands Into the Direct to Consumer Market

(Pearl River, NY October 10, 2019) - Active Media Services, dba: Active International announces the formation of Active Ventures Group. Active Ventures Group will incub ...

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Arthur Wagner

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Arthur Wagner

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Bill Georges

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Dean Wilson

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Melissa Keller

Chief Client Officer

Melissa Keller

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