On Monday, Tatari, a buy-side linear and connected TV ad platform specializing in performance-based measurement, announced its plans to buy CTV SSP TheViewPoint. The idea is to increase both demand and automation by positioning Tatari “as close as possible to the supply side,” said CEO Philip Inghelbrecht.
LG Ads Solutions sells ads, but it also helps LG reap the benefits of manufacturing its own TVs, such as maximized inventory, scale and user experience. It’s why the company pivoted to media when it rebranded from Alphonso to LG Ads, according to CEO Raghu Kodige.
At Tuesday’s ONE22 conference, NBCUniversal shared its second update on its ad tech stack One Platform’s developments for its clients. “Identity will be the new currency,” said NBCU’s chief data officer, John Lee, which means One Platform will focus on three key areas of growth this year: first-party data, automation and measurement.
In 2008, Amagi Media Labs was a small tech startup in India with its eye on the nascent streaming market. On Wednesday, Amagi became a unicorn after raising $95 million in a round led by Accel, bringing the company’s total funding to around $150 million since 2013. Amagi’s sell-side technology uses a cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) […]
The biggest reason marketers aren’t shifting their linear TV dollars to CTV is the lack of visibility into where their ads are going, said Lisa Utzschneider, CEO of Integral Ad Science. In attempt to bridge that gap, IAS is tying its contextual tech into its CTV strategy, which started maturing after the company bought the video ad server Publica last summer.
This week, Disney is hosting its Platform Tech Showcase, the second such product reveal since launching the Disney Real-Time Ad Exchange (DRAX) last year with a plan to automate as much of its ad sales business as possible.
On Thursday, iSpot.tv announced its acquisition of Tunity, an app that helps users watch TVs in public spaces, to add out-of-home screens to its TV data set. Out-of-home represents a substantial missing piece from cross-screen TV measurement, but it’s a challenge to measure OOH viewers the same way you measure screens in living rooms.
TV measurement is reaching an inflection point. But with all the saturation, there’s at least one thing most competing measurement providers can agree on: the importance of independent accreditation.
Innovid has always been a CTV ad server. But at the company’s earnings conference Thursday morning – its first since going public – it became clear that linear data is still needed in TV’s future. Innovid’s path will be determined by its acquisition of TVSquared, which it announced last week. TVSquared brings Innovid new agency clients, new global markets and what’ll make all that possible: linear TV data.
On Thursday, Comcast announced it’s licensing its first-party data to VideoAmp. New types of inventory have become more widely available, but measurement hasn’t kept up, said Claudio Marcus, VP of strategy at Comcast Advertising. But the goal is still all about optionality. In order to foster innovation, competition and choice, Comcast will be taking on other partners.
