Ignoring the fact that early pioneers in the space didn’t plan to have ads in the first place (looking at you, Netflix!), even with targeting and personalization, most major players are still thinking of national reach – not local reach – as their default.
In today’s newsletter: The Trade Desk opens up OpenPath to CTV inventory; subscriptions remain an important revenue source for news publishers; and a class-action lawsuit alleges PHE violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Can You Hear Me Now? Consumers wary about targeted ads are convinced their devices are eavesdropping on their conversations. Most marketers insist that’s not the case, and their use of other targeting signals has gotten so sophisticated that it just feels like your […]
Gamut President Rachel Williamson has two words to describe local over-the-top (OTT) ad buying: “It’s hard.” Inventory is scattered. Data is fragmented. And advertisers need different strategies to hit different demos based on geography. A buyer might want to reach 34-year-old moms, for example, but that can mean one thing in Birmingham, Ala., and another […]
Programmatic TV doesn’t exist? Don’t tell that to Dentsu’s media agency, Carat, which just reserved inventory programmatically across five local broadcasters. The upfront commitment, finalized this week, was executed with Videa, a private exchange/supply-side platform owned by Cox Media Group. The commercials will appear on Cox local affiliate stations, including CBS, Fox, NBC and ABC, […]
Cox Media Group’s libertarian startup site Rare recently won a showdown with old media. After Steven Tyler released his country music video on “Good Morning America,” where it got some traction, Rare linked to the video and generated 10 times the impressions: It drove 2.5 million page views in 48 hours, with an average time spent […]
Whether one considers the survey time-tested or old-fashioned, advertisers and media companies still use voice-of-the-customer tools and techniques to tweak their messaging. Atlanta-based Cox Media Group, for instance, operates 80 websites, four major newspapers, 11 television stations and a slew of radio stations. The media company, which relies on a range of analytics tools including […]
