TV Upfronts Prove Their Value and Worth to the Industry for Another Year
Marketers who aren’t tuning in are missing out


As this $21 billion television upfront marketplace wraps up negotiations between the networks and media buyers, it may come as a surprise to some that the networks are commanding actual price and revenue increases, landing somewhere north of 8–9% in pricing for primetime, according to some reports. After all, TV’s death—or at least irrelevance as an ad medium—has been predicted for more than a decade now. Roadkill under the tires of the massive digital marketplace.