“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Pam Zucker, SVP and head of marketing at Amobee. In a recent interview, IAB CEO David Cohen challenged advertisers “to rethink how they buy television.” He highlighted the dramatic change in consumption since the onset […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by David George, CEO of Pixability. Traditional TV is losing customers and advertisers to connected TV (CTV) and digital video, and large brands are asking questions about how they should align their ads with content that […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Polar CCO Matt Crenshaw. As of 2020, there are 10 million unique advertisers on Facebook. That means 10 million advertisers are already building ad creatives to target audiences on the social platform. Compare that to […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Vicky Chang, director of media buying and planning at Tatari. The TV industry was undergoing a sea change before the pandemic. Now, the future is even less clear. Viewership is up, but it’s buoyed […]
For years, advertisers and publishers waited for a transition to video that always glinted right around the corner. Promises of Facebook video revenue didn’t materialize. And ad-supported OTT viewership lagged. But in the past year or so, the switch has finally flipped for video, said Spencer Weinman, CRO of the content production agency and video […]
AdExchanger receives a ton of column pitches each week from authors eager to share their opinions on the industry’s most pressing issues. Based on the topics we were pitched this year – and how readers reacted to the columns we published – the cookie’s fate was top of mind. Many have long predicted the death […]
The programmatic ecosystem’s maturation into the television industry happened slowly before speeding up rapidly. Dataxu is a fitting example of the trend. The longstanding demand-side platform (DSP) has reshaped its business and client mix in the past two years. Once a pure-play DSP, dataxu now has supply-side deals that put it in the tech stacks […]
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands reshaped the way many digital media agencies buy online and pioneered social media, ecommerce and first-party data strategies. Now those same companies are bringing a new mindset to television. “It can be a bit scary, because in Silicon Valley, TV ads often stand for wasted spend,” said Philip Inghelbrecht, co-founder and CEO […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tom Weiss, chief technology officer and chief data scientist at Dativa. After decades of planning and measuring TV with only minor iterations of the same fundamental techniques and technologies, marketers now find themselves confronted […]
Mammoth Media, a media and entertainment network aimed at teens and millennials, wants to do for apps what Viacom did for TV. “Viacom has Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central – program options and content based on demographics,” said Peter Szabo, Mammoth’s CRO and head of partnerships. “We’re taking the same approach with different monetization, and instead […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Philip Inghelbrecht, co-founder and CEO at Tatari. Advertisers often wonder when it is the right time to move into TV advertising. Sadly, many wonder if TV even makes sense because of its reputation as […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mike Baker, co-founder and CEO at dataxu. In early 2017, Procter & Gamble’s chief brand officer, Marc Pritchard, set the advertising industry on fire, launching a “brand-safety revolt.” In a speech at the IAB’s Annual […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, an independent media and advertising consultant. I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of reach recently. My background is mostly mid-sized to large ad and media agencies, so reach has largely […]
“On TV And Video” is a new column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Hagai Tal, CEO at Taptica. Video is a powerhouse advertising tool because it can engage on multiple levels, and advertisers increasingly want to leverage video across channels. After years of technological advancement in […]
