CTV buying

Agents, streamers and robots, oh my! Live from the C-Space campus at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas, our team breaks down the most interesting ad tech trends we saw at CES this year.

Shelby Nichols was doing CTV before it was cool. And while CTV buying is a more complicated process than ever, it’s becoming easier for consumers to access more types of content – like live sports, for example.

As TV viewership behavior has evolved, both buyers and sellers were increasingly forced to deal with digital inventory (CTV). Impressions are the standard metric in the CTV environment, which means there’s been a surge in support and comfort around impressions as a currency, writes Brie Pinnow, co-founder of Blinc. And this trend will only continue.

NBCUniversal built a first-party identity platform that includes 50 million households and 150 million individual consumers to bolster its cross-platform targeting. The platform, dubbed NBCUnified, is the backbone of NBC’s One Platform proprietary technology stack that spans the media campaign lifeline, from planning to measurement. Launched at CES Wednesday, the NBCUnified identity spine will officially […]

Years ago, TV buyers didn’t bother with connected TV (CTV) because it offered little benefit for a lot of hassle. “Digital players were the earliest adopters. Because it was TV-like, everyone wanted to get into the video game.” said Gibbs Haljun, total US investment lead at Mindshare. But young viewers leaving linear TV changes that […]