AVOD

Confusion in CTV isn’t a natural byproduct of a maturing market; it’s an outcome of how distributors protect their pricing power.

I didn’t attend WWE’s “Monday Night RAW” event in Brooklyn for love of wrestling. No, I was there to check out the ad content – to the point where I set up a brand-new ad-supported Netflix account from my phone to see where and when the ad breaks actually start.

Multiple factors such as buy-side practices, the CTV industry structure and shortcomings in ad tech contribute to CTV’s ad frequency problem. Yet there are several ways to overcome these limitations.

In today’s newsletter: P&G boosts paid media budgets by 14%; why lower subscription prices aren’t enough to sustain the current rate of ad-supported streaming signups; and news publishers follow the NYT’s lead by using games to retain visitors.

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In today’s newsletter: Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel dishes on the news biz; Freevee might soon exit stage left; Fubo sues Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to block their planned sports streaming service.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Take Initiative Meet yet another TV ad standards initiative. GroupM announced the Ad Innovation Accelerator on Thursday, which it hopes could lead to more nonstandard streaming ad formats – and technical standards for those formats to make sure they can run on any […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In Services To Who? Apple’s Services revenue – made up of its subscription businesses and the triple-tithe fee on iOS developer earnings – is at risk in 2024, writes the Financial Times. Apple’s Services biz kept overall growth pumping despite a slowdown in […]

Connected TV advertising is maturing. More subscribers are streaming with ads, inventory is growing and prices are normalizing.

US media advertising sales surged 4.4% in Q2 after two weak quarters, beating June expectations of 3.6%. Full-year spend for 2023 is expected to increase by 5.2%, according to a Magna forecast released Monday.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Disney’s Carriage Ride Disney and Charter resolved their cable carriage dispute on Monday, re-upping Disney-owned networks (namely, ESPN) to Charter’s 15 million subscribers. As part of the deal, Charter’s most popular cable package will include access to the ad-supported tiers of Disney+ and […]

YouTube is now a rival to TV networks. Yet many networks still post their content to the platform via friendly licensing agreements. In the current war for viewer attention, this is a potentially crippling move.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Add To CART Instacart filed for its initial public offering (IPO) on Friday. Shares should start trading next month (under the stock ticker CART, of course). Call it a thawing of the tech IPO market, which has been frozen for a year and […]

CTV’s over-frequency problem is as real as the pressure streaming services are under to grow their average revenue per user. But you don’t have to sacrifice one to achieve the other, says Jamie Power, Disney’s SVP of addressable sales.

Programmers like free ad-supported TV channels because they’re an onramp to bring more viewers into ad-supported video-on-demand environments.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Skipping The Basics Canada is Netflix’s testing ground for tinkering. Netflix has not only been diligent about cracking down on Canadian password sharers; it rather quietly removed its Basic plan (which allows viewing on one screen at a time) in Canada this week, […]

Disney has its hands full bringing Hulu’s ad targeting products onto Disney+. It takes time to migrate less conventional ad formats onto both on-demand and live inventory while keeping the ad load under control.

More advertisers, especially marketers, who have been slow to embrace AVOD, will increasingly gravitate to primarily AVOD services, writes Greg Smith, Aniview’s GM for North America.

In honor of National Streaming Day – an informal holiday cooked up by Roku in 2014 that takes place every May 20 – several streaming services celebrated by slashing the price of their subscriptions.

By guest artist Lila Ash A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…

Connected TV may be online advertising’s go-to golden child – but buyers beware. CTV buys can be risky, says Chris Kane, founder of Jounce Media.

Pluto’s on-demand streaming is rife with ad repetition and poorly timed ad breaks, whereas the FAST ad experience felt much cleaner – and much less annoying.

Outstream ads, better instream ad targeting and more interactive user interfaces are just a few of the latest developments making it easier for viewers to discover new content and for advertisers to provide content recommendations.

Atmosphere TV is a streaming service that distributes FAST channels to gyms, restaurants, airports and bars in exchange for the ability to run ads on the content. Atmosphere pitches advertisers on the opportunity to reach newer and more exclusive audiences.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Verified Love Triangle When Netflix jumped into ad sales, it promised to include ad verification through both DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science. And so it came to pass. On Monday, DV and IAS both released their verification solutions for Netflix inventory. Considering […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Big Lame Last year’s Super Bowl ads are noteworthy, in retrospect, for those cringeworthy crypto spots, including for disgraced crypto exchange FTX. Don’t worry, though, nobody’s learned anything. This year, advertisers are leaning into controversy and making decisions they could come to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Better Sorry Than Safe Twitter is partnering with DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science on brand safety. Gotta do something to woo back its advertisers. “Through custom-built solutions for Twitter’s feed environment, these tests have shown that more than 99% of measured impressions appeared […]

Netflix President of Advertising Jeremi Gorman was hired September 26. Less than two months later, on November 12, Netflix launched its ad-supported tier in 12 countries. For now, Basic with Ads is focused on the basics, including ad tech and measurement partnerships and the rudiments of brand safety. But Netflix is “ripping through all the […]

Netflix reported its first earnings on Thursday since launching ads late last year. The results? AVOD seems to have helped grow Netflix’s profitability in the short term. The streamer reported 7.7 million net new subscribers in Q4, a 4% year-over-year increase in paid memberships, which boosted quarterly revenue by 2%. But it was a good […]

Video software platform JW Player acquired InPlayer, a provider of subscription, transaction and identity management solutions for video publishers and broadcasters, on Tuesday.