In an ad 12 years ago, featuring an animated FedEx electric truck ambling through an enchanted forest with pixie dust and singing animals, the company touted “more electric trucks” as part of its sustainable offerings. Since 2021, it spent over $17 million on two new US television spots showcasing its commitment to EVs, including one with country legend Willie Nelson, according to an estimate from iSpot, an ad measurement company.

Weight-loss drugs are everywhere these days. At the Oscars earlier this year, host Jimmy Kimmel worked Ozempic into his opening monologue. Ads for Wegovy have become a regular feature of the New York City subway system

Novo’s weight-loss drug, hasn’t even yet had its national TV debut, according to iSpot.tv. The ads that have run for Ozempic and Mounjaro describe the drugs as medical interventions for people suffering from diabetes — not a miracle diet drug that can help anyone get thin.

Ad-measurement firm iSpot.tv this month found that Spanish-language ads netted nearly 99 billion impressions in the third quarter of 2023, up more than 26% from a year ago. Sonic Drive-In, Walmart Inc. and Burger King were among the top brands.

he bears — long held up as icons of the climate crisis — live only in the Arctic, around the North Pole and in northern parts of Canada, Alaska, Russia, Greenland and Norway. Their preferred habitat is the sea ice that covers Arctic waters for most of the year. When mother polar bears are forced onto land, as sometimes happens during the summer months, they struggle to access nourishing food and the quantity and quality of the milk they produce for their cubs declines, according to a paper that will be published Thursday in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Scientists are interested in understanding why a given year may have more or less sea ice, even though the multi-decade trend is clearly down, said Flavio Lehner, an assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric science at Cornell University who is also chief climate scientist for Polar Bears International.

The ads are amusing, but only an estimated $1.8 million was spent last year to run them on national TV, according to iSpot. That’s just 1.2% of the roughly $150 million allocated within the meat and seafood category. Meanwhile, Perdue Farms, one of the biggest US chicken producers, dedicated nearly 20 times that on its own.

The partnership with Goldman Sachs will enable Madhive to accelerate the growth and adoption of its connected TV platform, in particular within the local advertising market, as well as expand new channels such as direct-to-consumer advertisers and retail media networks, according to a statement. …

In its most intense stretch of advertising, Exxon spent $60 million airing three of its algae commercials on national television over a 2.5-year period from 2017 to 2019, including spots during the World Series and NBA championships, according to iSpot, a TV ad measurement company.

One hurdle for Felix is that Chili’s cut back on mass media marketing during the pandemic. The brand has barely spent on national TV ads since March 2020, according to data from iSpot. In 2019, Chili’s outlaid more than $38 million on television, but hasn’t allocated any this year. Meanwhile, competitors such as Applebee’s resumed spending.

Breweries are still advertising on other NFL broadcasters. Beer brands have spent $60 million on TV commercials in the last two weeks, and 70% of that spending went to NFL programming, according to the measurement firm iSpot.tv. The top-spending brands were Corona, Michelob, Bud Light, Coors Light and Modelo. Jason Damata, a spokesman for iSpot.tv, said that a professional football game without a beer commercial is highly unusual, adding that it’s “hard to find an example of an NFL game without advertising from that category.”

The drop in national TV marketing by the industry in the US has coincided with the selloff in Bitcoin and other crypto assets, according to the measurement company ISpot.tv Inc., which tracks the spots. Damon’s commercial for Crypto.com, which ends with him uttering “fortune favors the brave,” last aired in February during the Super Bowl. The four-month national campaign cost an estimated $65 million, according to ISpot, exceeding the outlays by others in investment services, including giants such as Fidelity and Vanguard, over the same stretch.

The commercial has racked up 6.3 billion impressions since debuting in 2020, making it the third most-viewed ad in the home cleaning supplies and fresheners industry, according to measurement company iSpot.