Warner Bros. should be pleased with the domestic streaming performance of its latest day-and-date film “Dune,” which hit U.S. theaters and HBO Max on Thursday. That’s suggested by TV analytics firm Samba TV, which exclusively provided data to VIP+ showing that “Dune” was viewed on HBO Max by 1.9 million U.S. households from Thursday to Sunday, a figure higher than the comparable opening weekend HBO Max viewership figures of past notable day-and-date Warner Bros. films like “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” and “In the Heights,” which also debuted on Thursdays.
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Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Dune (part one) earned $5.085 million in Thursday previews, with $1.5 million (a record 29.5% for a Thursday preview gross) of that in IMAX alone. That’s with the Denis Villeneuve-directed and Timothée Chalamet-starring film debuting concurrently on HBO Max at the same time as the first theatrical showings (as was the case with The Suicide Squad). That’s obviously lower than the $6.3 million earned by No Time to Die but essentially tied with the $4.9 million earned by Halloween Kills and the $4.8 million earned by A Quiet Place part II. What does this mean for the overall domestic debut?
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How consumers watch TV has gone beyond traditional habits, so approaches to advertising must follow suit
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Brace, the former evp of brand marketing and category sales for Fox, has spent her career in marketing, advertising and sales leadership roles, including positions at companies such as HP, Microsoft and TrueX.
Read more >Significant changes in the audience measurement ecosystem is coming. To assess what those changes will be, I reached out to a handful of executives at companies that are a part of the NBCU RFP to gain their insights on the future of audience measurement. The core businesses of these ad tech companies range from cross platform measurement and attribution to audience engagement and addressability. All these companies (and others) rely on large data sets for their analytics and have a strong client base in the ad industry. Below are their responses.
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