Samsung Ads released Tuesday its new TV measurement solution designed to help advertisers to measure the combined impact of linear and streaming TV ad campaigns, as opposed to viewing the data in different silos. General Motors is the first advertiser to use the tool as part of a pilot program, which includes an integration with […]
Gaming And Esports Make Their Pitch For Brand Bucks The gaming stats that get slung around are always eye-popping. And those cited Friday during the final day of this year’s NewFronts – a content block dedicated to esports and gaming – were no exception. In April, for example, time spent with games soared 75% year over year. […]
Samsung Ads is making its CTV video inventory available programmatically for the first time to buyers, via the supply-side platform SpotX. Previously, the only way buyers could access Samsung Ads-represented inventory was through an IO. Tests started last year and continued though Q1 with a major buyer. Although Samsung Ads hadn’t intended to add programmatic […]
Pity the OTT ad buyer, who must manage reach and frequency goals while finding inventory across a fragmented TV landscape. Often, the same inventory is available from multiple sellers – from networks like NBC, Fox and ABC to the actual OTT platforms, like Roku, Samsung or Amazon. And networks and platforms offer different strengths and […]
If you own a smart TV, chances are its integrated automated content recognition (ACR) technology tracks everything you watch. What started out as a niche technology tracking viewership in high-end smart TVs has spread to the masses: Forty-seven percent of the United States’ 120 million homes own smart TVs, up from 39% a year ago, […]
Over-the-top may be the new hotness, but sellers need to prove it before advertisers will really start to bite. On Thursday, Samsung’s advanced TV division, Samsung Ads, said that it’s partnering with Oracle Data Cloud’s Moat to measure viewability and the invalid traffic (IVT) rates for ad delivery on over-the-top inventory across Samsung Smart TV […]
Everyone wants to talk about over-the-top (OTT) and connected TV (CTV) right now, but they’re often confused for one another. They’re also used interchangeably by many marketers, brands, and sometimes, by the most erudite reporters. With all the TLAs (three letter acronyms) we love to employ in this industry, we thought it’d be a good […]
Samsung Ads has quietly created the capability to connect over-the-top (OTT) and linear inventory for clients. With 32 million smart TVs in the United States alone, Samsung is the world’s top smart TV manufacturer, ahead of TCL and Vizio, according to Statistica. Samsung Ads can access Samsung’s first-party TV data and plug it into its […]
Why would a consumer device giant like Samsung want to get into media sales? It seems implausible and yet that’s what happened, beginning in 2016 when the company quietly bought a Canadian demand-side platform and ad server called AdGear to build its own stack. It makes perfect sense to Tom Fochetta, VP of Samsung’s media […]
