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The Media Tracker: Homepage Takeovers Heat Up
With 100% SOV, takeovers remain an efficient medium to drive awareness around new initiatives
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This week we're diving into homepage takeovers heating up.
What's 🔥 Right Now
The Homepage Heat Up
Pratt Industries, Inc. is back again with a one day HPTO across WSJ, promoting their 100% recycled products for businesses.
UBS ran a HPTO across Quartz this week, promoting general brand awareness around their expert advisors.
Evernorth Health Services is running a week-long HPTO across Forbes, promoting their benefits and care.
Evergreen ran a HPTO across NYTimes this week, selling their product with messaging around the benefits that come with the card.
Google continues running 1-day HPTOs across publishers, this week with WaPo and WSJ. Messaging consists of their new Generative AI Cloud.
AWS is running a HPTO across Axios this week, promoting their Generative AI Initiates to better serve the public sector.
The thought: this week brought a slew of HPTOs from various sectors (more are featured below). With 100% SOV, takeovers remain an efficient medium to drive awareness around new initiatives like AWS AI efforts to evergreen concepts with Pratt Industries, Inc. recycled products.
Notable Campaigns

Pratt Industries, Inc. ad on WSJ
Pratt Industries, Inc. ran a HPTO across WSJ on 6/24, promoting their 100% recycled products.

UBS ad on Quartz
UBS ran a HPTO across Quartz on 6/24, promoting their advisors and craft.

Evernorth ad on Forbes
Evernorth Health Services is running a week-long HPTO across Forbes, promoting their world-class pharmacy, care and benefit solutions.

Evergreen ad on NYTimes
Evergreen ran a HPTO across NYTimes on 6/25, running general brand awareness on their benefits.

Google ad on WaPo
Google ran a HPTO across WaPo on 6/25 and WSJ on 6/26, promoting the new AI Generated Cloud.

Dell Technologies ad on WSJ
Dell Technologies ran a HPTO across WSJ on 6/25, promoting general brand awareness around their products and services.

Accenture ad on Fortune
Accenture ran a HPTO across Fortune on 6/25, as they continue running a branded campaign on how they’ve helped clients reinvent through their services.

IDA Ireland ad on Bloomberg
IDA Ireland ran a HPTO across Bloomberg on 6/25, promoting ways their services can take businesses to the next level.

AWS ad on Axios
AWS is running a two day HPTO across Axios from 6/26 to today, 6/27, promoting their new Generative AI initiative.

CNN ad on NYTimes
CNN is running a two day Politics and World Stream takeover across NYTimes from 6/26 to today, 6/27, promoting the presidential debate, streamable on Max.

Apple TV ad on WSJ
Apple TV is running a HPTO across WSJ today, 6/27, promoting the series Presumed Innocent.

ZS ad on Bloomberg
ZS is running a HPTO across Bloomberg today, 6/27, with messaging around how Generative AI can help businesses.
Ads across the web this week
Tech: Instacart (NYTimes), Exiger (WSJ), Raptive (Axios), PureStorage (NYTimes), Google (NYTimes, WaPo, WSJ), Dell Technologies (WSJ), Meta (The Atlantic), Elastic (The Atlantic), AWS (Axios)
Aerospace/Defense: Boeing (Roll Call)
Automotive/Transport: Range Rover (Puck)
Business/Finance: Robert Half (WSJ), UBS (Quartz), Global X (Puck), US Bank (Puck), Mercury (Axios), Goldman Sachs (Axios), Evergreen (NYTimes), Accenture (Fortune), IDA Ireland (Bloomberg), Apollo (Punchbowl News), Zurich (Fortune), ZS (Bloomberg)
Healthcare: Evernorth Health Services (Politico, Forbes)
E-Commerce/Retail: L’Oréal Groupe (NYTimes), Van Cleef & Arpels (NYTimes, Puck), Rolex (WaPo), Pratt Industries, Inc. (WSJ), Cartier (NYTimes, Forbes), Chanel (WSJ), Great Grains (NYTimes), Nordstrom (NYTimes), Louis Vuitton (New Yorker)
Entertainment: Hulu (New Yorker), CNN (NYTimes), Apple TV (WSJ)

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New Branded Content

US Bank studio piece on NYTimes
The Hill: Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company
Forbes: Walmart
Politico: Axon
WSJ: Iberdrola, Amazon Ads
Fortune: Pertamina
NYTimes: Experience Kissimmee, US Bank
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