That's what a new study commissioned by Comcast, utilizing research from MediaScience, seems to show. In this case a sample of 188 people was recruited. Some were asked to use mobile phones to watch program content from YouTube and Facebook, which contained 30-second ad messages; others were exposed to traditional TV and streaming content that had 30-second commercials.

Television is the most effective advertising medium ever invented. No ifs, buts or maybes; ask anyone to recall their favorite ad and odds are it will be a TV ad. Ask the world's biggest and best marketers to nominate the last medium they would ever remove from their plans, and it will be TV.

I recently read an CNBC article titled: "What will TV look like in three years?" and was struck by the range of answers given by industry executives. I also didn't see any representation from the ad agency side, which I feel is valuable given how closely we watch these trends.  So here are my thoughts and answers to the questions posed in this article.

Advertising spend in general has been slowing down, as advertisers’ scrutinize their budgets amid rising interest rates, inflation and overall uncertainty around the economy.

But podcast ad spend is not seeing the same adjustments yet. Four podcast ad buyers told Digiday their clients’ budgets are not getting slashed. Instead, they are continuing to see an increase in brands’ podcast ad spend.

One of the biggest A.I. stories of 2022 happened on November 30th. The launch of ChatGPT. Developed by Open AI, ChatGPT is designed to learn from and then generate human-like text. It’s an offshoot from creating chat technology for customer service needs. And it’s prepared to write just about anything you want. However, after spending some quality time with ChatGPT, I’m not so worried for all us writers out there.