“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Advertisers always pay millions to promote themselves during the Super Bowl – but this year’s big game is particularly competitive. Roughly 40% of brands buying airtime during the Super Bowl this year are first-timers, and some advertisers had to […]
There are many business questions that publishers need to ask as they try to optimize viewing in an increasingly complex distribution ecosystem. Answering these questions requires transforming the metrics that owned apps and distribution partners provide into equivalized minutes and demographics, writes Joan FitzGerald, founder of Data ImpacX.
Connected TV could learn from linear’s simplicity. As CTV becomes a dominant platform, advertisers should consider the ingredients that have enabled traditional TV to thrive for as long as it has, writes Joe Hirsch, general manager of SpringServe.
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Smart TV manufacturer Vizio is investing in ad tech to continue the sale even after the TV is turned on. In the shift to streaming TV, a platform that only sells hardware can only make it so far. Vizio […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Chris Maccaro, CEO of Beachfront. “TV is dead. Streaming is the future.” Chances are you’ve heard these statements many times over the last 20 years – and neither of them is true. Yes, linear cable TV […]
It’s very easy for frequency to go beyond being effective to the point that it’s actually detrimental. There are certain credit card companies I have pledged to never use because their jingle annoys me so much it ruins my sleep, says Fred Godfrey, CEO and co-founder of CTV ad platform Origin.
The era of single-currency television advertising is over. With billions in advertising dollars at stake, marketers must now use multiple premium video currencies to determine the effectiveness and value of their ads, writes Kevin Krim, CEO of EDO.
Media industry influencers wrote books about the impact of reach and the importance of reach over frequency. Even today, as media agencies share strategies to combine live/linear with streaming, the discussion often centers on “incremental reach.” But here’s the thing. Just about any reach calculation you see is an illusion, writes Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction.
Univision, a top Spanish-language TV network, is well aware that representative audience measurement is integral to outcome-based optimization. Representation is one of the challenges – or opportunities – for many of the new measurement companies when it comes to capturing its audience, said Brian Lin, SVP of product management and advanced advertising sales at Univision.
With millions of households tuning into live TV through CTVs, advertisers need to overcome the constraints that are holding them back, writes Paige Bilins, VP of video product management at Magnite.
Magnite acquired connected TV ad server SpringServe in July for $31 million as part of its ongoing ambition to go big in CTV. But SpringServe continues to operate largely independently, and that’s by design, said Joe Hirsch, general manager of SpringServe.
A growing number of companies are working to assemble all the building blocks needed for converged TV audience measurement. As solutions continue to emerge, these core building blocks will determine the effectiveness of measurement methodologies – and whether they can enable buyers and sellers to realize the full potential of converged TV, writes Jane Clarke, managing director and CEO of CIMM.
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. There’s nothing new about a tech-and-media giant like Comcast creating a venture capital arm. But Forecast Labs, a unit of Comcast Ventures, is putting a new spin on VC investments by leveraging unique access to Comcast inventory and media […]
Have you ever seen the same ad an ungodly number of times while watching your favorite programming? If so, you’re a victim of the current connected TV (CTV) experience. Jon Ahuna, SVP of operations at Viant, uncovers two specific technical hurdles abehind this problem and shares how marketers can collectively overcome them through the smarter use of IDs.
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Bret Brase, managing director at Progress Partners. Over-the-top (OTT) television viewing is overtaking linear TV, and both national and local advertisers are scrambling to follow the eyeballs. And it’s no wonder. While 75% of linear […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Ionut Ciobotaru, co-CEO of Verve Group. A marketer’s ability to execute and understand campaigns through an omnichannel lens is improving, even in an ever-shifting privacy landscape. That’s a good thing. However, as barriers between channels […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Daniel Elad, chief strategy officer at TheViewPoint. Operating systems have often been overlooked when discussing the fragmented ecosystem of connected TV. But as the hunger for connected TVs grows among consumers, more and more gatekeepers […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Sarah Lewis, global director for CTV at ShowHeroes Group. Once upon a time, CTV was the new kid on the block. But it’s fast becoming an integral part of many advertisers’ video strategy. Now, as […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by David George, CEO of Pixability. Traditional TV is losing customers and advertisers to connected TV (CTV) and digital video, and large brands are asking questions about how they should align their ads with content that […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Polar CCO Matt Crenshaw. As of 2020, there are 10 million unique advertisers on Facebook. That means 10 million advertisers are already building ad creatives to target audiences on the social platform. Compare that to […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Swetha Basavaraj, Director of Product, Data at Samsung Ads. The endless discussion about the loss of identifiers for digital advertising really isn’t interesting anymore. Everyone already knows their cookies will crumble sooner or later. Everyone […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Ken Harlan, founder and CEO, MobileFuse. CTV is taking center stage as the digital media industry’s next frontier. But there’s still quite a bit of in-market confusion around best buying practices, realities of fraud and […]
Nielsen’s panel woes mean alternative measurement providers are having their moment. “We’re getting a lot of inbounds,” said Joanna Drews, CEO and co-founder of HyphaMetrics, a measurement startup that launched last year and now has a panel that’s working to scale to 5,000 homes and roughly 15,000 devices. But the recent wave of interest in […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jane Clarke, managing director and CEO at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM). With the ever-increasing availability of larger and more granular media exposure data sets, one of the primary questions in cross-platform […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Willard Simmons, VP, Product Management, Ad Platform, Roku. A mentor of mine used to say, “Money flows to certainty and flows away from uncertainty.” The reach and effectiveness of TV streaming is certain: The sight, […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Since the 1950s, marketers have instinctively bought into the power of TV advertising, despite the fact that we have never been able to effectively measure its impact. This somewhat inconvenient truth, coupled with the high cost of TV advertising, […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction. Nearly two decades ago, a group of top brand CMOs met secretly in the Procter & Gamble conference room. The topic: How do we change the arbitraged system […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Tom Donoghue, VP of CTV and OTT at GroundTruth. As we all get set to enjoy the traditions of fall, such as watching the leaves turn colors, visiting a pumpkin patch with the kids and […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jonathan Teitloff, director of product management at TripleLift. Don’t go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the bidders and the auctions that you’re used to. Ultimately, we know that you’re going to have it your […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Outside Inc. CEO Robin Thurston is very aware of subscription fatigue. At a time when streaming platforms are working to boost their subscriber numbers with bundled ad-free and ad-supported channel packages, Outside TV is being used in part as a vehicle to entice […]
