Political ad strategies evolved quickly this year, as campaigns moved beyond exclusivity, focusing on flexibility and reach. Here’s what this cycle taught us and how it will guide our business in the medium term.
While there are plenty of reasons for political ad buyers to be cautious about CTV, streaming media has one major selling point: programmatic targeting.
Viewers – and ad buyers – are giving FAST channels a chance. Still, the FAST channel market has a long way to go, says Michael Scott, VP and head of ad sales & operations at Samsung Ads.
Using Samba TV’s ACR data, StackAdapt is launching two features to help clients attribute and forecast incremental reach directly to streaming, compared to linear alone.
Seedtag announced a product called Contextual TV designed to help its clients apply contextual targeting tactics to their streaming ad buys.
If Walmart’s pending acquisition of Vizio makes it past regulators, the retail media giant will get to reap the rewards of a profitable data and ads business that strengthens its position as an adversary to Amazon.
Do people hate ads? No, according to Vegard Johnsen, eyeo’s chief product officer. What they don’t like, he says, is not being treated with respect.
Nielsen finalizes its plan to add big data to its measurement currency offering for national TV. Here’s what it means for advertisers.
Smart TV manufacturers held NewFronts presentations where they bragged about their automatic content recognition (ACR) data, which the industry has been putting on a pedestal because it can add a level of consistency to TV measurement.
This year, Nielsen plans to start filtering big data into its TV currency – including ACR.
Vizio reported flat revenue growth for Q4. And it’s banking on its ads business – and the viewing data behind it – to help turn things around.
Advertisers are demanding transparency – and their calls are becoming louder and more urgent. But programmers claim their hands are tied over a video-rental-era law from 1988.
Smart TV manufacturer VIZIO announced a census-representative panel built using automatic content recognition data from Inscape, VIZIO’s ACR data subsidiary. VIZIO has access to ACR data from roughly 21 million smart TVs, and Innovid is one of the first measurement providers to use VIZIO’s so-called “National Representative Panel.”
Lots of people are talking about addressable TV. “Data-driven linear,” though? Not so much. But despite the fact that data-driven linear (DDL) doesn’t get as much attention as its somewhat sexier addressable cousin, it’s becoming an increasingly popular choice for linear advertisers attempting to make more informed media buys.
Despite transparency woes, programmatic buying on CTV is evolving. M&A is helping spur maturation in the market. Tremor International, for example, is a “much different business” now that it has integrated Amobee’s tech into its stack, said Chance Johnson, the company’s new chief commercial officer. The next step? Getting more data to plug into those programmatic pipes.
Android has a Privacy Sandbox, too, and it’s going into open beta next year. Learn why this initiative isn’t generating the same ruckus as its close Chrome cousin, which is being hashed out at the W3C. Plus: a rundown on transparency (or the lack thereof) and the related data land grab in CTV.
It’s almost impossible for advertisers to know who’s really sitting in front of a TV screen, and they typically aren’t told what content their ads are running against, either. TV measurement companies are turning back to panels for help. Panel-based measurement provider TVision announced a $16 million venture round led by alternative TV measurement provider iSpot.
Samba announced its merge with the St. Louis-based AI startup Disruptel to bolster its machine learning chops, namely in automatic content recognition (ACR). Samba plans to incorporate Disruptel’s tech, which is built on show-level content identification and analysis, into its ACR-based measurement.
The benefits of technology are seemingly endless. Yet despite the many doors that smart TVs will open in the years ahead, they won’t – by themselves – provide the media industry with an accurate view of who’s using them, writes Jonathan Wells, SVP of data science at Nielsen.
To plan, target and measure media buys on TV, advertisers need to resolve identity at the household level, which calls for full media transparency, said Kelly Metz, managing director of linear and advanced TV activation at Omnicom Media Group. Kelly Metz will be speaking about the future of TV measurement at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference on October 17-18 in New York City. Click here to register.
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Matt Sattel, VP of global brand partnerships at OpenX. Brands today often look at CTV inventory through two different lenses. Either it’s premium, walled-garden inventory that’s negotiated and purchased via upfronts and NewFronts – or […]
Regardless of the ongoing debate as to the viability of panels, the TV measurement industry is starting to increasingly rely on automatic content recognition (ACR) data, especially as set-top box data becomes less available. But like any other form of data collection, it’s nicer if you ask first.
Vizio has walked a tricky tightrope since launching its advertising business in late 2019. But after a tough first year on the market, with Vizio down by more than half over the past 12 months, the company is seeing the improvement it needs from the platform side of its house.
Magnite reported 20% year-over-year growth with $137.8 million in revenue for Q2. And its CTV business alone grew by more than double that number (52%). It’s a plateau compared with last quarter’s growth, but Magnite has strong hopes for CTV’s burgeoning programmatic ecosystem.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Reach This LG, Samsung and Vizio all love bragging about their respective reach. But the trio does agree that smart TVs can unlock the scale and addressability marketers need to reach consumers with television ads. Over half of US households own a smart TV. […]
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.
Ad tech companies are partnering up left and right to aggregate as much TV data as possible. But for media buyers, TV inventory also needs to be alike and accessible across channels – which is possible through an end-to-end platform, said Jessica La Rosa, VP of partnerships and data at Tremor International.
“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 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Slow Burn Amid a continuous onslaught of negative headlines, Facebook reported slower revenue growth on Monday as a result of, yep, Apple’s AppTrackingTransparency framework. And Facebook warned that the road ahead will remain rocky. Facebook’s Q3 revenue grew 35% to $29.01 billion, missing expectations […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Vizionary Vizio Ads made big gains during the recent upfronts negotiations, where Roku has been the CTV champion in recent years. Vizio announced in a press release that it locked in more than $100 million for 2022, quadrupling its total from last year (which […]
