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by Sean Wright, Kelly Sweeney
Media Monitor is a data-led podcast unpacking what’s really happening across advertising, media, and consumer behavior—and what it means next.Hosted by Sean Wright and Kelly Sweeney from Guideline.ai, the show breaks down the signals behind the headlines: ad spend shifts, market trends, economic pressure points, and emerging opportunities shaping the media ecosystem.Each episode translates complex data into clear insight, helping brands, agencies, and decision-makers cut through noise, reduce uncertainty, and make smarter strategic calls.If media is changing faster than ever, Media Monitor helps you understand why, how, and what to watch next.
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- 4 days ago23 min
Why More Streaming Inventory Is Pushing Ad Prices Down|E35
Media Monitor spends plenty of time talking about how much advertisers spend. This week, Kelly Sweeney and Sean Wright flip to the other side of the equation: what are advertisers actually paying? Using Guideline’s Q2 digital ad pricing data, Sean compares CPM trends across the U.S., UK, and Canada and finds something surprising. Historically, digital advertising prices across all three markets have been remarkably similar. Going back to 2024, the difference between the highest and lowest mar...
- 1 weeks ago21 min
How the World Cup Became a $2B Advertising Event|E34
The World Cup has become a much bigger advertising business in the U.S. In this episode of Media Monitor, Kelly Sweeney and Sean Wright break down Guideline’s first-ever game-by-game World Cup advertising analysis and look at how the 2026 tournament changed the economics of the event. The headline number is substantial: Guideline estimates roughly $2 billion in U.S. advertising revenue across television and streaming, compared with less than $400 million during the 2022 Qatar World Cup. That ...
- 2 weeks ago13 min
Why Canada’s Ad Market Is Outpacing Global Growth|E33
Canada’s advertising market is outperforming the global average. In this episode of Media Monitor, Kelly Sweeney and Sean Wright dig into Guideline’s first-half data for Canada and explain why ad spend grew 9% year over year, compared with roughly 6% globally. Part of the story is a rebound from a weaker period. Sean notes that tariffs and pressure on the automotive sector weighed heavily on Canada’s economy and advertising market the year before. That creates an easier comparison, but the cu...
- 3 weeks ago19 min
WWE, the Agentic Shelf & What AI Is Changing in Advertising| E32
WWE is attracting new sponsors. AI agents are becoming part of the shopping journey. Retail media forecasts are getting bigger. And brands are testing advertising in places consumers may not expect. In this episode of Media Monitor, Kelly Sweeney and Sean Wright go straight into the headlines and break down what these shifts could mean for advertisers, agencies, publishers, and brand teams. The conversation starts with WWE. According to the coverage discussed in the episode, WWE generated rou...
- Aug 19, 202621 min
How the NBA Turned Streaming Into a $2.1B Advertising Season| E31
The NBA had a very strong advertising year. In this episode of Media Monitor, Kelly Sweeney and Sean Wright break down Guideline’s latest NBA advertising report and explain how the league grew ad revenue from roughly $1.5 billion to $2.1 billion in a single season. A big part of the story starts with distribution. After Warner Bros. stepped back from its previous role, the NBA expanded across NBC, Peacock, Amazon, ABC, ESPN, Hulu, and other platforms. That created more places for audiences to...
- Aug 12, 202615 min
What Ad Spend Concentration Can Tell Us About What Comes Next |E30
Advertising spend can be growing while the market underneath it is becoming more fragile. In this episode of Media Monitor, Kelly Sweeney gives Sean Wright a new goal: create an index important enough to have his name attached to it. Sean may already have a starting point. Inspired by a discussion of market concentration and monopoly measurement, Sean applies similar mathematical thinking to Guideline’s advertising data to ask a different question: How much of advertising growth is being driv...
- Aug 9, 202618 min
Media Monitor’s Conversation at Cannes| The Agentic Future of Media Buying with WPP’s Devon DeBlasio
AI agents may automate more of media buying, but WPP’s Devon DeBlasio believes people still need to remain at the helm. In this installment of Media Monitor: Conversations at Cannes, Guideline Chief Product Officer Steve Silvers sits down with Devon DeBlasio of WPP to discuss how agentic systems could change advertising—from buying media and building audiences to influencing how brands appear inside AI-generated recommendations. WPP has committed to helping develop standards for agentic buy...
- Aug 9, 202623 min
Media Monitor’s Conversation at Cannes| Is Advertising Losing Sight of What Actually Works?
Advertising has more data, targeting, platforms and measurement than ever. Yet one question keeps surfacing: Are those capabilities actually helping marketers build stronger businesses? In this installment of Media Monitor: Conversations at Cannes, Guideline Chief Product Officer Steve Silvers sits down with Justin Lebbon for a candid discussion about where media investment is flowing—and what those shifts could mean for advertisers, publishers and the wider media ecosystem. The conversatio...
About Media Monitor
Media Monitor is a data-led podcast unpacking what’s really happening across advertising, media, and consumer behavior—and what it means next.Hosted by Sean Wright and Kelly Sweeney from Guideline.ai, the show breaks down the signals behind the headlines: ad spend shifts, market trends, economic pressure points, and emerging opportunities shaping the media ecosystem.Each episode translates complex data into clear insight, helping brands, agencies, and decision-makers cut through noise, reduce uncertainty, and make smarter strategic calls.If media is changing faster than ever, Media Monitor helps you understand why, how, and what to watch next.
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