As TV Upfront Market Begins, Digital Waits in the Wings

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It's not ready for primetime, but digital video is on advertisers' radar. Over the next two months, between seventeen and twenty billion dollars will be invested by marketers in future advertising commitments to broadcast and cable networks and national TV program syndication companies. But agency executives like John Muszynski, Chief Investment Officer of SMGX, says he's not just looking at television anymore. John, along with other advertising investors like Kris Magel of Initiative, Mike Rosen of SMG, and Dave Cohen of Universal McCann, are eager to learn how programmers will make digital video and two screen experiences more valuable for consumers as well as advertisers. Watch this week's Video Media Business Reportfor John Muszynski's Upfront overview, available below, at Reuters Insider, YouTube and www.jackmyers.com.

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