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  • TV Advertisers Need Better Audience Segments

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tom Weiss, chief technology officer and chief data scientist at Dativa. With online segments overlaid on linear schedules, many are hoping for a golden age of TV advertising, where brands can break out beyond […]

  • Is TV A New Source Of Evergreen Installs For Mobile Apps?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Alex Betancur, co-founder at Lucktastic. As we move into a new year, app marketing will continue to evolve with many companies shifting to and relying on a return-on-advertising-spend model. What this really means is […]

  • Closer Partner Relationships Can Reduce Video Ad-Classification Fraud

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Sam Appelbaum, general manager at Yellowhammer Media Group. EMarketer predicts that nearly three quarters of all display advertising will be transacted programmatically this year. Programmatic video isn’t far behind, but the premium in price […]

  • Are We Measuring TV Ads With The Equivalent Of The Click-Through Rate?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Baylen Springer, chief product officer at Leavened, a R2C Group company. When I started my career, the ad server was just taking hold, making digital advertising measureable. We were off to the races. First, click-through rates: “This […]

  • Sorenson Media CEO: Addressable TV Will Put More Power Into Programmers’ Hands

    Although cable operators used to be the primary keepers of TV’s distribution and data pipes, the pendulum is swinging toward programmers and smart-TV providers. Addressable inventory is increasing, driven by a surge in smart-TV OEMs licensing their data directly and local TV companies adding data and automation to their sales mixes. Sorenson Media, which is […]

  • TV Can Make Attribution More Actionable

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by John Whitmore, head of data strategy at TiVo. Measuring campaigns by tying ad exposure to customer conversions, whether they be in-store purchases, car test drives or online site visits, isn’t anything new. However, turning measurement […]

  • Twitter Turns A Page In Live Video As Publishers Rethink Traditional TV Distribution

    Twitter is gunning to become publishers’ platform partner of choice, and it’s leveraging live video as a way to capture content – and dollars – currently flowing to the duopoly. This week, Bloomberg debuted its 24/7 global news network TicToc on Twitter after reaching nearly 8 million people during Bloomberg TV’s live stream of three […]

  • The Path Toward Standardization In OTT Advertising

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jim Wilson, president at Premion, a division of Tegna Inc. It has been a pivotal year for over-the-top (OTT) advertising. Advertisers are following the eyeballs, and significant ad dollars are shifting from cable to OTT. […]

  • Round Peg, Square Hole: Display Tactics Will Fail With Video Header Bidding

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tal Almany, senior director of advanced integrations at SpotX. Header bidding exploded as a display tactic in online advertising, but adoption for video has been slower. Many publishers and tech providers are taking what they’ve […]

  • Advanced TV Targeting: A Small Step Forward

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris Peterson, managing partner at R2C Group. I’ve sat through at least a dozen TV ad tech presentations that promise pretty much the same thing: the complete transformation of customer targeting for TV advertising. While […]

  • Film Studio Open Road Marries TV And Mobile Data

    Data is changing the way movies are marketed. Studios like Open Road Films are taking a more targeted approach to marketing, moving from broad-based buys – such as people aged 18 to 49 with a propensity for “dramas” – to more granular segmentation. “When finding audiences for a particular film, it used to be really […]

  • The Art, Science And Pitfalls Of Storytelling In OTT

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tal Chalozin, co-founder and chief technology officer at Innovid. While traditional TV is a huge industry, the future of TV is becoming increasingly digital, with over-the-top (OTT) media platforms leading the way. With many […]

  • Why Snapchat Could Become The Next Must-See TV Network

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Anupam Gupta, chief product officer at 4C. Snap was recently in the headlines with disappointing financials for its second quarter in a row, but the company is already one step ahead thinking of ways […]

  • TV Commercial Length And Attention: The Elusive Sweet Spot

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Joan FitzGerald, an independent consultant. In our entertainment-overloaded, attention-starved digital age, every teacher knows they need to balance the long and thoughtful with the short and punchy, or else they’ll lose the attention of […]

  • The Future Of Connected TV: Ads, Not Subscriptions

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mark Zagorski, CEO at Telaria. Hear him speak at the upcoming Industry Preview conference, January 17-18 in NYC. Sure, over-the-top (OTT) subscription content is all the rage. It’s buzzy, still new and the market […]

  • OTT Providers: Beware When Expanding Service Internationally

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Evelina Grines, vice president of media and entertainment at MPP Global. Video audiences in the US are soaring, growing 46.8% from August 2016 to 2017, per the MPA. And while that’s good news, viewership […]

  • Dailymotion Programs A New Programmatic (And Publisher) Strategy

    The French video platform Dailymotion is a fraction of Google’s size – YouTube’s 1.5 billion-plus monthly viewers dwarf Dailymotion’s 300 million. But scale isn’t stopping the company from repositioning its platform to woo US advertisers and publishers from the dominant video-sharing site. Breaking into a video market ruled by streaming video services such as Netflix […]

  • Why Advertisers Are Dragging Their Feet On Connected TV

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lauren Wiener, CEO at Tremor Video DSP.  Mary Meeker, have we got a new gap for you. Audiences are moving away from traditional television in droves. They are breaking up with their cable companies […]

  • Is Marc Pritchard Fighting The Wrong Battle?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mike Baker, co-founder and CEO at dataxu. In early 2017, Procter & Gamble’s chief brand officer, Marc Pritchard, set the advertising industry on fire, launching a “brand-safety revolt.” In a speech at the IAB’s Annual […]

  • Broadcasters Hold The Key To The Future Of Local TV

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Shereta Williams, president at Videa. The rise of over-the-top (OTT), video on demand and other nonlinear TV options has dramatically increased the number of viewers who consume content through services like Netflix or Hulu. […]

  • Quartz On Chasing Quality, Not Quantity In The Video Experience

    Atlantic Media-owned Quartz is unapologetic about the absence of pre-roll on its properties. “It’s the reason we don’t support standard ads and why we have control over what runs onsite,” said Joy Robins, SVP of global revenue and strategy for Quartz. “It’s also another reason why we made a conscious decision not to run pre-roll […]

  • The 6-Second TV Ad Is The Next Big Thing For The Advertising Industry

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by John Roland, CEO at Extreme Reach. Fox Sports recently introduced six-second TV ad spots during live sporting events with plans to sell them throughout the NFL season. While TV has long been dominated by […]

  • Fill Rates And Other Issues With Video Header Bidding

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ed Shannon, chief revenue officer at SpringServe. The “I won the lottery” element of display header bidding is not the same with video. As others have noted, there is no actual header in video, […]

  • Is Attribution Bias Killing Brand Metrics?

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Brent Gaskamp, senior vice president of North American development at Videology. My overexposure to industry events has led me to really examine what’s being represented in our marketplace by different constituents versus the reality […]

  • Havas’ Innovation SVP: Advanced TV Buyers Needs Reach, But Not At Data’s Expense

    For Gabrielle Rossetti, leading innovation and strategy for Havas sometimes means acting as a scout on behalf of brand clients. Even if a tool doesn’t fit into a client’s tactical tool kit, Rossetti’s team can help them build a blueprint for the future. “It’s about helping them understand where they can innovate and the technologies […]

  • OTT Platforms: If Cable Networks Can’t Beat Them, It’s Time To Join ‘Em

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tyler Pietz, principal at Two Rock Consulting. Last month, Nielsen painted a rather alarming picture for cable networks. Despite an increase in the total number of TV homes (+1%), traditional cable subscriptions have continued […]

  • TV And Facebook Advertising: Two Sides Of The Same Coin

    “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. Facebook and TV are two similar customer acquisition channels in advertising, despite one being “online” and the other being “offline.” Both platforms allow advertisers to target certain demographics […]

  • Setting The Record Straight On OTT

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tal Chalozin, co-founder and chief technology officer at Innovid. Ad buyers are fusing together traditional TV buying teams with digital buying teams to create video teams to address the explosiveness in over-the-top (OTT) advertising. […]

  • Studio71: How Video Multichannel Networks Fight To Break Through The Noise

    A few years ago, video multichannel networks (MCNs) had the luxury of choice: get access to a large, scaled audience via YouTube or go with a handful of new video upstarts wooing content creators with pricier payouts. But the digital video landscape has dramatically shifted since, as digital publishers and broadcast nets alike increasingly distribute […]

  • TV Goes On The Offense With First-Party Data

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Walt Horstman, senior vice president and general manager of analytics and advertising at TiVo. The Telecom Act of 1996 deregulated the telecommunications industry and inspired new companies to enter the market and compete with […]

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