In 2014, American Express boldly declared in an RFP to ad tech vendors that it wanted to programmatically transact 100% of its then $128.5 million display budget. Though the statement was later clarified to be more of an aspiration than a brand-wide target, the financial services giant was one of several large brands exerting greater control over exchange-based buys at […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, founder and CEO at Drawbridge. When we think of “emerging devices,” images of smartwatches and quirky Internet-of-Things devices typically come to mind. With omnichannel marketing and multitouch attribution becoming more commonplace, however, […]
Although the lion’s share of sports fans still turn to traditional TV for live events, one sports media company found a way to amass billions of views from millennial sports fans on Facebook and YouTube alone. Like many major sports broadcasters, Whistle Sports sought the legitimacy that comes from pro-league partnerships with the NFL and MLB.com. […]
“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. The digital advertising industry is moving toward transacting on viewable impressions rather than the rendered impression, also known as the classic CPM. This is already the […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Oscar Rondon, senior director of TV strategy at TubeMogul. Brand marketers all seem to agree on what the future of TV buying should look like. It should include the automated planning, buying and delivery […]
“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. Video content viewership has long been converging, with the content we watch on TV, a device or OTT platform becoming the same content. […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Vitaly Pecherskiy, co-founder and chief operating officer at StackAdapt Today’s online video advertising comes in all shapes and sizes, varying widely from platform to platform. But no matter how it’s packaged, one thing’s for […]
Univision hasn’t been plagued with the problem of retaining live linear viewers, one of the byproducts of the cord-cutting craze. Although the Hispanic broadcaster claims 91% of viewers prefer to consume its content live, it still estimates visitors to its properties spend 36% more time on mobile than the average consumer. Thus, it determined its […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Andreas Schroeter, co-founder and chief operating officer at wywy. Programmatic TV promises the automation of the TV buy and a data-driven approach to TV campaign planning. Using available data, in combination with the more […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Kelly McMahon, vice president of demand at SpotX. Viewability is now the No. 1 KPI among all online video media buyers, according to eMarketer, a sign that the industry is evolving past CTR and […]
Bloomberg Media is at an inflection point. The business and financial media company has had numerous high-profile exits (including Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel and Bloomberg’s chief digital content officer, Verge co-founder Josh Topolsky) following former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s return. A number of layoffs resulted as Bloomberg Media pulled back on nonbusiness content in […]
“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. Two weeks ago I had the good fortune to be invited to participate in Quest MT, a conference at the University of Montana […]
“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Kevin Lenane, general manager of video at Integral Ad Science. If you regularly read digital advertising news, you may be forgiven for believing that marketers have embraced video advertising in a monumental way. In […]
In a perfect world, products gel. For Facebook, achieving a harmony between its buy- and sell-side offerings has propelled its go-to-market strategy. While Facebook’s ad server, Atlas, is its buy-side play, LiveRail, the video SSP it acquired last July, services the sell side. “Ideally, everything works very well together,” said F. Scott Woods, head of […]
“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Michael Parkes, senior vice president, North America, at Amobee. The consumer shift to spending more time on digital than on TV is pushing the industry toward a tipping point in advertising budget allocation. Although […]
“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jason Miller, director of product management, brand measurement at Google. I’m often deeply impressed by the creativity of TV ads. I loved the sentimentality of P&G’s “Thank You, Mom” ads, the humor of Dodge […]
Before the battle of the live-streaming apps Meerkat and Periscope, live-streaming video platform Hang w/ had close to 2 million downloads of its iOS and Android apps. Although Hang w/ hasn’t generated the same level of attention as newcomers Meerkat (which has about 2 million users) and Twitter’s Periscope (which has about 10 million), the […]
“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jayant Kadambi, co-founder and CEO at YuMe. Once upon a time not so long ago, summer TV was considered a dead zone, with only a wilderness of reruns and game shows to pass the […]
“On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mark Keeney, vice president of marketing at Ritani. When startups pass that critical inflection point from proof of concept to the scaling phase, TV is not often thought of as a potential advertising channel. […]
Cox Media Group’s sell-side platform Videa is sinking more hooks into buy- and sell-side systems. Released earlier this year, Videa has since drummed up strategic partnerships with Gannett, Raycom and Media General on the local broadcaster side. That’s in addition to agency alliances with Carat and Amplifi and demand-side deals with Mediaocean and Videology. Now […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Michael Kohn, vice president of platforms and marketing at ViewLift. The average American watched nearly four hours of over-the-top (OTT) content per week in 2014, a figure that is expected to nearly double this […]
“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. Conventional wisdom and recent history suggest that targeting trumps context. But what if this is based on a false success metric? One of […]
TV ad delivery will become more addressable as more viewers stream video from set-top boxes and consume IP-based content. Although the addressable TV ad market is still only worth $300 million compared to linear TV’s $70 billion, cable operators and agencies agree that growing the addressable TV footprint will introduce more flexibility into the cross-platform […]
“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 SpotXchange. If you’re in the TV business, you’re painfully aware of how quickly things are changing. Less than a decade ago, TV was its own self-contained […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Irfon Watkins, co-founder and CEO at Coull. Private marketplaces (PMPs) are on the rise across programmatic video advertising. Some agencies and advertisers see them as a means to an end in solving issues of […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bob Ray, president, Americas, at DWA Media. Business-to-business (B2B) marketers have keenly observed the programmatic performance of business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers. Now is the moment to take advantage of more than a decade of progress, […]
The Programmatic TV Standards Group is drafting a standard designed to set baseline parameters for national and locally distributed inventory. The organization is championed by a few industry vets, agencies (Magna Global, Starcom MediaVest), one third-party measurer (Management Science Associates, or MSA) and vendors (AudienceXpress). “The first standard we’ll be defining is [what constitutes] national […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Aden Forshaw, co-founder and chief technology officer at Coull. Programmatic video advertising is growing at an acceptable rate, but unfortunately it won’t pick up the pace until the industry solves its transparency problem. Issues […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lorne Brown, CEO at Operative. I believe impressions will win over gross rating points (GRP) as digital and TV converge. Impressions are more granular, allow for better targeting and create better measurability. But I […]
“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. For the first time this year, more than half of digital display advertising spending will be transacted programmatically. The practice of media trading with RTB, private […]
