Convergent TV isn’t just about marrying linear and streaming. Linear has its own fragmentation challenges, from local and national addressable to broadcast and cable. Ampersand is on a mission to patch the holes by corralling as much TV inventory as possible because “making a delineation between linear addressable and streaming is doing our industry a disservice,” said CEO Nicolle Pangis.
NCC Media, the sales consortium owned by Comcast, Cox and Charter, rebranded as Ampersand Monday and released a bunch of new products, including a data-driven linear TV platform. Here’s what you need to know. Data-driven platform TV targets audiences across local and national buys The new platform is designed to collect and anonymize data across […]
The two minutes of television inventory sold by multichannel video players (MVPDs) – which can be made addressable by targeting through the set-top box – has historically been fragmented across providers, making it complex for a national advertiser to run addressable campaigns at scale. Today, MVPDs are jockeying to sell each other’s addressable TV supply, […]
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 […]
What started with an interest in video production blossomed into a career in programmatic advertising for NCC Media CEO Nicolle Pangis. To pay off her student loans, Pangis took a job in 1999 at 24/7 Media, a pioneering programmatic ad firm, where she worked in affiliate relations with websites that were part of the ad […]
As part of a push to adopt a more digital, data-driven mentality, NCC Media hired Bob Ivins as the TV advertising conglomerate’s inaugural chief data officer. NCC Media, which is owned by Comcast, Charter and Cox Communications, started a division in April that focuses on building data-driven products. With Ivins overseeing data products for the […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This episode of AdExchanger Talks is supported by Tealium. NCC Media may be the biggest TV media company you’ve never heard of. A joint venture of cable TV operators Comcast, Cox and Spectrum, it was formed three decades ago to pool their data and sell cable TV […]
Cable conglomerates Comcast, Charter and Cox Communications said Wednesday they will build ad products that extend across their collective footprint. The three are forming a division within NCC Media – a national cable sales group in which they are joint stakeholders – to build data-driven ad products. Comcast’s advanced ads division, Comcast Media 360, is […]
