Dave Helmreich, CEO of TripleLift, joins Lynne d Johnson of AdExchanger and AdMonsters at Cannes 2025 to explore how TripleLift is redefining what it means to be a supply-side platform. Helmreich shares how TripleLift isn’t just connecting inventory to demand—they’re innovating through creative technology, dynamic ad formats, and real-time personalization across mobile, CTV, and retail […]
CES this year was a petri dish of news and gossip (and hopefully not COVID) among the CTV ad industry.
NBCUniversal is kicking off the new year with a programmatic progress report during CES in Las Vegas this week.
Broadcasters and brands love the idea of applying digital targeting to CTV ad campaigns. But there are still roadblocks stopping CTV advertisers from fully embracing programmatic, including price and transparency (or the lack thereof).
Transparency is making its way into CTV bid requests, including supply source, content genre and, increasingly, show-level transparency. According to Rob Hazan, senior director of streaming TV product at Index Exchange, the right amount of transparency could make the open exchange a viable place for CTV ad budgets.
CTV advertisers are enamored of programmatic because of its digital-like ad targeting. But programmatic CTV is far from perfect and rife with fragmentation.
MadHive, the CTV ad buying platform, announced a $300 million investment from Goldman Sachs. Now, the company is turning its attention to measurement and attribution companies that might make lucrative acquisition targets.
Automation is also making its way onto TV advertising with a heavier focus on programmatic buying and better content recommendation algorithms.
Despite the benefits of addressable TV, advertisers haven’t been taking advantage as much as one might imagine.
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.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Has Lifetime Value Timed Out? It was the best of LTV, it was the worst of LTV. In mobile marketing, lifetime value (LTV) has long been considered a key metric for many data-savvy marketers. But times are changing, writes Eric Seufert at Mobile Dev […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. As Far As The Eye Can CTV Connected TV feels like it has reached a critical threshold to become a major programmatic revenue driver. But it hasn’t. Industry consultant Mike Shields writes that an unnamed media exec recently threw cold water on CTV optimism. […]
Video SSP Beachfront and Canoe Ventures expanded their ad-serving partnership across several more programmers. The two companies integrated their tech stacks in 2019 so broadcasters or streamers that work with Canoe can channel inventory more effectively to Beachfront’s programmatic pipes. Now, six more programmers, including Kabillion, Afro TV and TV One, are using the integrated solution.
Just because the media world has gone fully digital doesn’t mean we need to impose early digital models and constraints on every opportunity, said Philip Inghelbrecht, CEO of Tatari. More CTV inventory will roll into programmatic pipes in coming years, he writes, but the notion that it’ll achieve programmatic domination is faulty — CTV inventory is still very different from digital.
“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 […]
Netflix is joining the AVOD squad at an industry-wide inflection point. Despite exploding consumer and ad revenue growth, CTV also still has growing pains (you know, like the ad overload plaguing the viewing experience). But with a strong market presence – and “extremely attractive first-party data” – Netflix could help CTV turn the corner, writes Chris Keune, VP of data science and product at Kargo.
Programmatic buying is a mainstay of digital advertising, but its role in the TV ecosystem is relatively new – and very different. To make programmatic work for TV, digital-native marketers will need a much broader media strategy, said Nicole Whitesel, EVP of advanced TV and Publicis Media, who will be speaking at Programmatic I/O, taking place in Las Vegas from May 23-25.
From AI technologies and machine learning to the growth of OTT video platforms, mobile games and more, ad tech continues to thrive as the world goes digital. It’s why programmatic media buying is going to push CTV out of the Wild West, writes Jeremy Fain, co-founder and CEO at Cognitiv.
