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For years, interactive CTV advertising was the star of industry demos – promising, flashy and mostly theoretical. In 2025, they finally made the leap from proof of concept to practice.

Roku is making more space for brands on its home screen because it’s a good place to reach viewers with lower-funnel marketing messages.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Location, Location, Location The FTC’s consumer privacy case against Kochava is back on the docket. Last year, the consumer watchdog accused the mobile app analytics platform of selling users’ geolocation data in an open market. However, the presiding judge threw out the FTC’s […]

Ad fraud in connected TV saw a 12% drop this year to .4%, a sign that ad buyers have been proactive following a number of high-profile schemes over the past several years that bilked them out of millions. A new report by ad verification provider DoubleVerify looked at post-bid data and more than a trillion […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Rob Aksman, chief strategy officer at BrightLine. Unlike in the tech-inhibited world of pre-connected TV, CTV has the power to unlock precise measurement and targeting at scale. In most US households today, TV content is […]

BrightLine co-founder Rob Aksman is living the dream from his in-laws’ basement. “We have a 2-year-old, and with daycare canceled and a small New York City apartment, it was becoming untenable for us to get any work done,” he says. “We were defaulting to a little too much television, a little too much Disney Plus […]

Targeting on TV with the same precision as digital is becoming a reality. Hulu, Roku and other over-the-top (OTT) providers offer advanced audience and behavioral targeting capabilities like CRM onboarding, while companies such as Xandr and NCC Media are applying unique data sets to make the linear TV landscape more addressable. But just because marketers […]

“Alexa, find my consumers.” Brands are trying to crack the code on voice as automated home assistants take root in American homes. Voice is sure to be a big topic again at CES this year, as marketers descend on Las Vegas on Tuesday to learn about the latest trends in consumer technology. While speech recognition […]

Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. BrightLine was founded in 2003 as an advisory firm, primarily serving brands that were keen to engage TV viewers with internet-like ad experiences. As part of that mission, it built relationships with cable platforms and broadcasters that reached some 90 million households. In 2012, BrightLine’s […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jacqueline Corbelli, co-founder and CEO at BrightLine. No one can deny that these days the reigning king is content, illustrated by Netflix’s and Amazon’s rapidly expanding services using original content to woo subscribers. We’re […]

Connected TV ads have piqued marketers’ interest, but there is not a watershed of demand – yet – as marketers still cite measurement and inventory challenges. According to a joint study released by the Association of National Advertisers and BrightLine, the maker of an interactive video ad server built exclusively for the connected TV space, […]