{"id":629196,"date":"2023-04-14T09:49:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/will-national-cinemedias-bankruptcy-drag-cinema-advertising-down-with-it\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T09:49:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:49:34","slug":"will-national-cinemedias-bankruptcy-drag-cinema-advertising-down-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/will-national-cinemedias-bankruptcy-drag-cinema-advertising-down-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Will National CineMedia\u2019s bankruptcy drag cinema advertising down with it?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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April 13, 2023\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a03 min read<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 By Michael B\u00fcrgi<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a not-unexpected move, the country\u2019s largest cinema ad firm, National CineMedia, filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday night \u2014 ironically only days after the biggest movie opening weekend of the year, courtesy of \u201cSuper Mario Bros.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

From all reports, it looks as if NCM\u2019s bankruptcy has more to do with debt load brought on by the shuttering of theaters during the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to restructure its capital when interest rates are high, rather than poor management, per se, agreed observers of the space. (Although prior management is missed in the marketplace \u2014 more on that below.)<\/p>\n

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Despite declaring bankruptcy, NCM plans to move ahead with operating under a debt restructure with its lenders, allowing the company to keep paying employees and forge on with its business.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we take this important step to restructure our balance sheet, nothing changes for us at NCM in terms of delivering best in class advertising solutions to each of our clients,\u201d read a statement from NCM\u2019s Chief Revenue Officer Mike Rosen. \u201cIt is business as usual as we continue to provide the impact, value, and results that our advertisers have come to expect from NCM.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rosen\u2019s statement also noted that box office sales year to date are up 26% in 2023 over 2022. \u201cWe are incredibly excited about our future, and we look forward to emerging with greater flexibility to innovate and grow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Although NCM\u2019s main competitor Screenvision declined to comment on the news, one executive who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the news is unfortunate \u2014 but not damaging to the industry \u2014 coming just ahead of the upfront season, during which the cinema ad firms plan to participate<\/a>. The exec said NCM\u2019s bankruptcy won\u2019t materially affect Screenvision. In fact, it could end up letting Screenvision gain a bit of ground on its larger competitor, either through ad deals or winning exclusive access to more screens.<\/p>\n

\u201cMainstream movie-going behavior is back, the advertising business is recovering around that, and we\u2019re doing just fine,\u201d said the exec. \u201cIt\u2019s not a rocket ship but [Screenvision\u2019s] financial structure is good. [It\u2019s] building back advertising sales nicely, and relationships are strengthening. There\u2019s a lot of really nice secular tailwinds finally coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among those secular tailwinds is the fact that the content pipeline looks like it will continue to fill (barring a writers\u2019 strike, which could adversely affect the entire filmed content landscape from movies to TV). Apple in March announced it will release a slate of movies targeting exclusive theatrical windows first <\/a>before moving to Apple TV.<\/p>\n

And Amazon just enjoyed a larger-than-expected box office take for its theatrical release of \u201cAir\u201d last week.<\/p>\n

Even David Zaslav, CEO of a merged Warner Bros. Discovery company, was quoted in a recent Wall Street Journal article<\/a> declaring the theatrical business to have greater value than perceived these last two years. \u201cThere\u2019s an ecosystem of economic return when you open something in the theaters,\u201d he was quoted in an article citing comments he made during an analyst conference last November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe worst for this industry was in the thick of Covid,\u201d agreed Barry Frey, CEO of the Digital Place-based Advertising Association. \u201cEveryone sees that the cinema business is only going up from here \u2014 look at the \u2018Super Mario Bros. Movie\u2019 for proof. There\u2019s strong management in this space to boot.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, one executive with knowledge of the cinema ad space noted that upper management at NCM hasn\u2019t been the same since Cliff Marks, its prior president, left in 2021. Marks had risen up the ranks at NCM for 19 years and was practically synonymous with the space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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April 13, 2023\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a03 min read \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 By Michael B\u00fcrgi Ivy Liu In a not-unexpected move, the country\u2019s largest cinema ad firm, National CineMedia, filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday night \u2014 ironically only days after the biggest movie opening weekend of the year, courtesy of \u201cSuper Mario Bros.\u201d From all reports, it looks as if NCM\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121542,3574,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-629196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cinemedias","8":"category-national","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}