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  • Inscape On Addressable: We’re Never Going To Get There Pushing An End-To-End Stack

    Jodie McAfee, SVP of sales and marketing at Vizio-owned Inscape, likes to stay “within whispering distance” of the engineering team. “I don’t ever want to be out there promising what I can’t deliver,” said McAfee, who joined Vizio in 2015 after more than four years helping build Samsung’s ad platform. But that doesn’t stop the […]

  • OTT Ads Can Help CPGs And Grocery Brands Thrive

    “On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ocean Fine, senior vice president of sales and demand at Factual. Linear TV has always attracted ad budget from the Johnson & Johnsons and Campbell Soups of the world. In the digital era, those players are […]

  • Solving For A Different Kind Of Attention Deficit

    “On TV and Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Maggie Zhang, senior vice president of video research and insights at Dentsu Aegis Network. Call it irony, but the topic of capturing a customer’s attention now dominates the attention of brand marketers. As anyone in the […]

  • Where Elgin Thompson Places His Bets In TV Ad Tech And Analytics

    It’s a safe bet that the next generation of TV advertising and analytics will be an incredibly lucrative category. But that’s about the only safe bet anyone can make. “There are a lot of question marks around this space,” said Elgin Thompson, managing director of technology investment banking at JMP Securities. There are fundamental questions […]

  • Political Advertisers Must Lean Into Advanced TV If They Want To Win Voters In 2020

    “On TV and Video” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Brienna Pinnow, co-founder at Blinc Digital Group. High-stakes political elections are around the corner. To motivate voter turnout and drive home key candidate and issue messages, ad spend levels are anticipated to break records. […]

  • Choose Your Own Advertising? What Interactive Content Could Mean for Digital Advertising

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Hines, advertising practice lead at Infinitive. The rise of interactive programming has raised eyebrows in media circles. Netflix’s choose-your-own episode of “Black Mirror” and the previous experiment with “Puss in Book” are widely […]

  • To Conquer Instagram’s Explore Ads, Storytelling Must Outweigh Revenue

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Carly Carson, director of social at PMG. Instagram’s new addition of ads within its Explore section is yet another way the platform continues to expand inventory opportunities for brands and monetize highly valuable real […]

  • Viewers Want To Add More SVOD To Their Streaming Lineups, But Competition Will Be Fierce

    Even though three-quarters of consumers already use a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, they are open to adding more – for the right content. Viewers are willing to add an average of 1.6 more SVOD services to their current lineup, according to the 2019 Manatt, Vorhaus Digital Strategy Study. Since Disney, WarnerMedia, NBCUniversal, Apple and Discovery […]

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    What Agencies Get Wrong About Measuring TV Advertising

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Philip Inghelbrecht, co-founder and CEO at Tatari. Savvy marketers operate across channels to reach current and potential customers. While search and social media – Facebook, in particular – are still the most popular, TV advertisers […]

  • Advanced TV Fragmentation Has Created A Cognitive Bias Problem, But There’s An Easy Solution

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. Buying connected TV ad inventory is fragmented at best and complex at its worst. Channels we are familiar with from the corded TV days – TLC, HGTV, Bravo […]

  • Inside Roku’s Enormous Bet On AVOD

    Roku’s go-to-market strategy is simple: Get as many streaming devices into as many homes as cheaply as possible, and monetize them through advertising. That makes the growth of ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) viewing a “huge” bet for Roku, said director of international ad sales and strategy Tariq Mahmoud. Roku, which has 29.1 million active accounts, has […]

  • To Get The Outcomes Measurement They Want, Marketers Need To Speak Up

    “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). Outcomes-based measurement is redefining advertising. GSK recently launched a self-optimizing outcomes-based digital-out-of-home campaign informed by real-time data. This follows announcements earlier this year by A+E […]

  • LiveRamp’s Latest Deal Shows How TV And Digital Are Becoming More Like Siblings Than Strangers

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Lindsey Harju, co-founder at Blinc Digital Group. With this week’s acquisition of Data Plus Math, LiveRamp is now touting that outcome-based TV buying is a real option for advertisers. Instead of relying on GRPs, TV […]

  • It’s Time For Standardization In Linear Addressable TV

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Olivier Wellmann, senior vice president of product at Samba TV. The appeal of dynamic ad insertion (DAI) on addressable linear TV is its personalization capability. With DAI, two households right next door to each […]

  • OpenAP’s New CEO: Collaboration Ain’t Easy, But The TV Industry Can Do It

    On paper, the OpenAP consortium makes perfect sense: TV networks banded together to stave off growing competition from the walled gardens. In reality, it’s a bit more complicated. Although OpenAP still counts three powerhouse publishers among its ranks – Viacom, NBCU and Fox – a founding member, WarnerMedia, left the group in April to compete […]

  • Wasted TV Impressions Are A Bigger Problem Than You Think

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris LaHaise, director of TV solutions at dataxu. Advertisers have long known that their media plans waste valuable TV impressions. A recent study by CBS and Simulmedia put that number between 47-60%. But that […]

  • Don’t Take CTV Results At Face Value

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ronan Higgins, CEO at TVadSync. When buyers place their bets on a new tactic, they are eager to get insights to help determine if their campaign worked. Connected TV (CTV) is no different. This new entrant […]

  • What Works In Linear And Other Video Platforms May Not Work In Connected TV

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Jackie Paulino, senior vice president of customer success at Pixability. As the industry transitions from linear TV to the new idiosyncrasies of connected TV (CTV), marketers can’t afford to get caught flat-footed. CTV requires […]

  • Roku Vet Jim Lombard On How Tetra TV Gains Inventory And Trust As A CTV Ad Network

      If mobile and display advertising was the first stage of programmatic technology, connected TV (CTV) and broadcast advertising could be considered the second. But there is one big question: Will ad networks – a mainstay of early digital programmatic display advertising – spring up in the data-driven TV tech ecosystem? One early contender in […]

  • As TV Advertising Becomes More Targeted, Operators Must Guard The Consumer Experience

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Paul Alfieri, chief marketing officer at Cadent. Google’s recent test of ads on the home screen of an Android-powered Sony TV should have been an eye-opening event for TV service providers intent on growing “time […]

  • Facebook Watch Proves That Digital Video Is Still In Its Infancy

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tony Chen, CEO at Channel Factory. With Facebook opening Watch to any video creator, its video strategy now competes directly with YouTube. Watch already has 75 million daily users, but with more than 2 billion […]

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    The Next ‘Game of Thrones’ Megahit Will Be Monetized ‘Beyond the Wall’

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lance Neuhauser, CEO at 4C. Nearly a decade of “Game of Thrones” has come and gone without a single interruptive ad. That alone is noteworthy. But it’s not as though it hasn’t been monetized with ads ­– […]

  • With A New CRO, Twitch Levels Up Its Advertising Ambitions

    At any given moment, 1 million people are watching Twitch, tuning in to the half a million people who stream themselves playing video games every day. The audience can be on par with a national cable network, according to a Nielsen study of concurrent viewers conducted in January. Twitch checks three coveted boxes for advertisers: […]

  • The Bullish Case For The Skinny Bundle

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Scott Worthem, senior vice president, strategic partnerships, at Comscore. The skinny bundle – seen by many as the “bright spot” for pay TV – has garnered quite a bit of media attention of late. […]

  • Doing Math: How The Cheddar Acquisition Could Bring Home The Bacon For Altice

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Brienna Pinnow, co-founder at Blinc Digital Group. For the past year, the advanced TV world has been on a bit of an M&A tear. Over the last 12 months, we’ve seen exciting moves from […]

  • We Should Focus On Outcomes Over Turf Wars

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Matt Bayer, senior vice president of advanced TV, cross screen and emerging channels at Cadreon. It is a well-known and undisputed fact: Audiences are consuming more video on nontraditional platforms, such as TV streaming […]

  • Vevo Takes A Distributed Approach To OTT

    As a joint venture between Universal Music Group and Sony Entertainment, Vevo owns the sales and distribution rights to 350,000 music videos from the world’s top artists. Vevo has always had a large distribution partnership with YouTube, but over the past year it’s shut down its owned-and-operated properties to exclusively partner on third-party distribution – […]

  • Mobile Marketers Hold The Clicker For CTV Ads

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Scott Swanson, CEO at Aki Technologies. Apple’s move into streaming TV is a significant milestone in the already-in-progress, cord-cutting revolution. It should serve as an important nudge for marketers: Yes, it’s time to get […]

  • Baseball Economics And The Fate Of App-Based TV

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Kevin Mullen, head of international at Drawbridge. Cable TV in the United States is easy to pick on. It’s expensive, we have thousands of channels we pay for but don’t watch, and the untargeted […]

  • At The NewFronts, It’s More About The Buzz Than The Buy

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Steve Carbone, chief digital and investment officer at MediaCom US. With another NewFronts upon us, there are, as always, a number of key trends, themes and questions that have emerged. Among those that have […]

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