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TV inventory fragmentation means publishers need new ways in which to aggregate their inventory, connect with buyers and transact. To make TV convergence a reality, FreeWheel’s new GM Mark McKee plans to bolster the company’s role in the ecosystem as a player in cross-platform TV standardization and automation.

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Despite fragmentation and automation in TV inventory, marketers and brands have options to ensure advertising quality in their media buys. Ad quality is a “team sport” that requires industry-wide standards, writes Louqman Parampath, Roku’s VP of Product Management. But on top of that, “the best way for brands to ensure quality is to prioritize direct relationships with trusted platforms and publishers.”

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Roku On A Roll  Roku announced a beta program for dynamic linear ad insertion (DLA). Dynamic ad insertion (DAI) was one piece of Roku’s acquisition of Nielsen’s advanced video advertising business last year. Roku’s pitch for DLA is to increase linear addressability by targeting […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Flix it Why does Netflix cancel shows people seem to love? Why does Netflix stick with full-season drops while every other streaming service reverts to a weekly episode cadence? The answers are tied up in Netflix’s commitment to […]

Proponents of addressable TV call it the future of advertising – a world where marketers can lean on hard data to better target their audience. But there’s still a long, long way to go from using advertising addressable TV as a brand-building asset to relying on it to sell products, writes Matt Krepsik, chief technology officer at Quotient.

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Like most DTC companies, smart ring startup Oura spends a lot of money on paid social, but it’s also been boosting its organic marketing efforts and experimenting with search and linear television. Last year, Oura started working with Rockerbox to validate its investment choices.

Nielsen announced it’s selling itself to a private equity group for $16 billion. The future might be iffy for Nielsen, but it’s much more certain for the rest of the industry. Industry experts say a buyout of this size is a “boost of momentum” toward a multicurrency future that offers TV marketers the speed and transparency they’re looking for across platforms.

FreeWheel, the ad tech arm of Comcast, announced an addition to its media activation platform Strata that’ll allow buyers to hit incremental audiences with their CTV buys. This marks the first time Comcast’s inventory is “truly available programmatically,” said FreeWheel’s chief product officer Jon Whitticom.

Kelly Abcarian joined NBCU last year to lead a team tasked with disrupting the measurement status quo. “Marketers don’t buy ratings,” Abcarian says on this week’s episode. “They buy results.” NBCU’s roster of alternative measurement and audience verification providers now includes seven partners – and counting.

The lines between traditional and connected TV are getting blurrier. YouTube’s Brandcast event will be the same week as the Upfronts. Is it a move to declare the end of traditional TV? Probably not, writes Lauren Douglass, Channel Factory’s SVP of global marketing – perhaps it’s YouTube’s way of asking everyone to “stop treating CTV and linear TV as two completely separate entities.”

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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.

TV measurement providers in the streaming era have quite a lot of boxes to check. But according to Samba TV, all is naught without incremental reach. Marketers are missing out because the current CPM model “doesn’t deduplicate across screens,” said Samba TV’s CEO, Ashwin Navin.

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.

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Ask five people about the potential of connected TV (CTV) and you’re likely to get 10 different answers. That’s because CTV is massively misunderstood, even though it’s one of the fastest-growing channels in digital advertising, writes Michael Tuminello, VP of strategy at Mediaocean.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. How “About” That? The Office of the California Attorney General issued a potentially impactful decision this week. Heads-up, ad tech companies: Inferences made about customers or consumers can be classified as personal information, even when the constituent data pieces aren’t personal or are gathered […]

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Many US companies, including video ad platform Innovid, strengthened their commitments to DEI over the past two years. There’s been “a ton of conversation” about diversity, equity and inclusion-related issues that are finally “turning into action,” but there’s still a long way to go, said Innovid’s CMO Stephanie Geno.

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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.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad-Unsupported Video On Demand Disney confirmed it will launch an ad-supported tier of Disney Plus, following in the footsteps of other studios, including previously ad-free legends like HBO that now sell ads.  But Wall Street isn’t buying the hype. CTV remains unchartered waters. But […]