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  • The Future Of The TV Business Begins And Ends With Measurement

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tim Ware, vice president of advanced television at Tremor Video. Programmatic TV is among the most highly debated subjects in the media business and perhaps the best example of true convergence we’ve encountered as […]

  • The 15- And 30-Second Ad Spots Aren’t Going Anywhere

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by John Roland, CEO at Extreme Reach. The advertising industry is in a state of perennial disruption. As new screens and services emerge, the viewing experience morphs – requiring advertisers to change the way they […]

  • Snapchat’s Spectacles Could Shape How Advertisers Think About Video

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Danielle Levitas, senior vice president of research and analysis at App Annie.  Snapchat has entered the hardware space with last month’s launch of Spectacles, its camera-enabled glasses. The premise is simple: Users tap the […]

  • AT&T Sees A Future At The Intersection Of Cross-Screen And Addressable TV

    AT&T, which completed a $49 billion merger with DirecTV last July, is relatively behind competitive carrier Verizon in acquiring (or building) an ad stack and monetizing its mobile data set. AT&T has been largely silent on the mobile data front following its shift away from building a mobile ad network in 2013 in order to prioritize […]

  • Regulatory And Inventory Hurdles Cloud Programmatic TV’s Future

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Hew Bruce-Gardyne, co-founder at TVSquared. It’s an advertiser’s dream to deliver targeted content via programmatic, and the industry is certainly making progress. However, legislative, inventory-level and operational obstacles need to be overcome to seamlessly […]

  • The Facebook Video Metric Mess: Another Example Of Ad Tech’s Broken Telephone Problem

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Melinda Staros, senior manager of research and insights at Sharethrough. Facebook made major headlines recently when it came clean about its “serious” miscalculation of a key video metric. For two years when calculating the […]

  • Android And IOS Rule Changes Could Spur New Inventory For Mobile Video Ads

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Trey Titone, head of product at Beachfront Media. Restrictions for autoplay and inline video have been lifted with the release of iOS 10 and Chrome 53 for Android. These moves open up a huge […]

  • German Broadcaster ProSieben Eyes Deeper Addressable TV Targeting

    ProSieben, one of Germany’s biggest broadcasters, is expanding its programmatic TV footprint in a market that’s both vibrant and uniquely challenging. Because Germany is so decentralized – it is characterized by numerous regions but lacks a local TV presence – broadcasters wield more control over their end inventory. As a result, they’re typically able to […]

  • The Improbable Economics Of Linear TV Addressability

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Randy Cooke, vice president of programmatic TV at SpotX. It’s not uncommon to hear conference panelists wax quixotic about how linear TV addressability will imminently become the standard of campaign fulfillment in the United […]

  • The TV Emperor: Clothed, Nude Or Wearing A Speedo?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, COO at Goodway Group. I spent the first 10 years of my career in traditional media. The past 10 have been in digital. When I made the transition I was astounded by […]

  • As Virtual Reality Proliferates, It’s Clear We Need New Metrics

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Vincent Cacace, founder and CEO at Vertebrae.io. Brands want to know their ads are being seen, by how many real humans, and how those ads help sell their products. But beyond those basics, there’s […]

  • Quiznos Cooks Up In-Store Traffic With Mobile Video

    Quiznos is working to connect the dots between digital ad exposures and store visitation. After emerging from bankruptcy in 2014, Quiznos reduced its brick-and-mortar presence. With fewer stores, each location had to work harder. So Quiznos changed its media mix to support its new retail footprint. Although television used to be a focal point for […]

  • Revenue Management: The Real Heavy Lifting To Make Audience Buying A Reality For Brands

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Joan FitzGerald, vice president of product management and business development at TiVo. The data-driven, highly targeted, programmatic audience buying that has been the hallmark of digital advertising is now sparking a revolution in how […]

  • How Advanced Analytics Are Shaking Up TV Ad Buying

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris Peterson, managing partner at R2C Group. For the last 50 years, brand advertising has focused on building awareness, while direct response used its power to increase sales. But in a TV marketplace where […]

  • The Unexpected Benefits For Publishers When Adding Video

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jayson Dubin, founder and CEO at Playwire. Last year, viewers spent more time watching digital video than ever before. In 2011, adults spent an average of 21 minutes watching online video every day, and by […]

  • Measurement Contradictions Cloud The Cord-Cutting Picture

    Consumers are subscribing to more streaming video-on-demand services these days, but “cord cutting” may not be as rampant as some would lead you to believe. Because cable networks measure audience viewership differently than certain Nielsen metrics, the contrast tends to create an apples-to-oranges scenario when tracking overall viewership. That’s why TV networks defend the claim […]

  • Does Pinterest Have The Right Video Ad Strategy?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Alex Bornyakov, CEO at VertaMedia. Pinterest is the latest social media giant to embrace video, but as it pins its fortunes on the format, can it succeed where others have failed? While Pinterest has […]

  • When Will The Olympics Catch Up With How We Consume Media?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryce Clemmer, co-founder and CEO at Vadio. As soon as the opening ceremonies at the Summer Olympics started a few weeks ago, a chorus of angry voices emerged on social media. In an age […]

  • Is Audibility The New Viewability?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital.  Following the industry’s adoption of viewability as a core metric, even moving toward transacting on vCPM, advertisers are now eyeing other measures that can tell them […]

  • Broadcasting Giant Corus On The Pros And Cons Of Programmatic TV In Canada

    As one of Canada’s top three media companies, Corus Entertainment’s wide-ranging footprint spans TV and radio. Navigating the data landscape is a tall order for any linear TV company, but Corus is placing bets on a future when data flows as freely in broadcast as it does in digital, despite tighter regulatory restrictions that exist […]

  • In Search Of Transparency And A Standardized Currency In The Television Industry

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Brad Smith, senior vice president of revenue and operations at Videa. Every television media buy seems to have its own fee structure since there is very little consistency in the ecosystem. Because of this, […]

  • The Reality Of Augmenting Television

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, senior vice president and media director at R2C Group. If virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) aren’t in your video vocabulary yet, they probably should be. In my mind, these new […]

  • For Programmatic TV, One Size No Longer Fits All

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Walt Horstman, president at AudienceXpress. When programmatic TV buying first started gaining relevance a few years ago, its key value to agencies was to combine advanced data licensed from single-sourced data providers such as […]

  • Former IPG Mediabrands CEO Matt Seiler On Studio71’s Push To Take On TV

    Studio71, a multichannel video network (MCN) owned by German broadcast, radio and print media giant ProSieben, aims to be a media company for the social media creator. To ensure content makers and brands work together effectively, Studio71 snagged agency vet Matt Seiler as president of marketing solutions last month. The former chairman of IPG Mediabrands […]

  • Poor User Experience Holding Back The Video Advertising Industry

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ariel Napchi, founder and CEO at HIRO Media. Programmatic advertising was supposed to create an environment in which a viewer is only exposed to relevant ads, a premise TV never succeeded in fulfilling. The […]

  • Video Poised To Become Leading Digital Ad Unit As The US Shifts To 5G

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jeff Minsky, senior vice president of agency and client development at Unruly.  It’s rarer to find multiple tech sectors applauding the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for any action it takes than it is to […]

  • So You Just Placed Your Upfront – Now What?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jes Santoro, senior vice president of programmatic and advanced TV at TubeMogul. I first started in this business nearly 20 years ago as an assistant national TV buyer at BBDO. Thinking back, it’s amazing […]

  • If Standardization Means Scale, Why Are Publishers Failing To Adopt VAST 4.0?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Alex Bornyakov, CEO at VertaMedia. When the IAB launched VAST 4.0 in January, the impact of its sophisticated and streamlined technology protocols on the video advertising industry was forecast to be tremendous. VAST, an […]

  • TV Under The Influence: Beware Of The Spread Of Walled Gardens

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by John Douglas, director of product strategy at Sizmek. As the biggest walled gardens on the web, Google and Facebook have become enormously successful. A walled garden in this context is an ad-supported platform that […]

  • Chasing Cultural Relevance In The Age Of OTT

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, senior vice president and media director at R2C Group. In the late 1990s, when the internet was still relatively new, the “content is king” mantra was an overwhelming omnipresence that eventually fell […]

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