CTV

On Thursday, TEGNA-owned CTV ad platform Premion announced the acquisition of Octillion Media, a DSP launched in 2019 to serve local CTV ad buyers. Premion declined to disclose the terms of the deal.

Brands are more interested in marketing on YouTube Shorts because YouTube has finally been addressing their biggest ask: to unbundle Shorts from other YouTube inventory.

Netflix ended its first fiscal year with an ads business with a jump in year-over-year subscriber growth and, as a result, revenue.

Roku is making more space for brands on its home screen because it’s a good place to reach viewers with lower-funnel marketing messages.

CES this year was a petri dish of news and gossip (and hopefully not COVID) among the CTV ad industry.

VideoAmp may have established itself as one of the top alternative currency contenders in 2023, but the pressure to win market share is causing cracks in its shiny facade.

Netflix shared another update on viewer numbers for its ad-supported tier, which currently stands at 23 million global montly active users, and announced plans to introduce pause ads in the next few months.

At CES in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Disney announced the availability of combined Disney+ and Hulu ad campaigns for brands in the US during its fourth annual (and first in-person) Tech and Data Showcase.

NBCUniversal is kicking off the new year with a programmatic progress report during CES in Las Vegas this week.

MediaWallah made a new identity verification product to help standardize labels and definitions for CTV inventory because the ad industry still struggles to classify what counts as CTV and what doesn’t.