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Cloudflare restricts how bots can scrape content; TiVo’s customer base stays loyal, even as TiVo leaves the DVR business; and Nestlé announces a stark reduction in headcount.

TiVo has officially halted the sale and manufacture of its once-revolutionary DVR products. Which raises the question: What does TiVo even do anymore, anyway?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bloomberg’s Big Play Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is set to unload a 60-second ad spot critical of President Donald Trump in the upcoming Super Bowl. The New York Times estimates that the former NYC mayor shelled out $10 million for the privilege, also noting […]

This article is sponsored by TiVo. Pay-TV customers have never had more options. According to a study by Ampere Analysis, streaming content now includes more than 160,000 subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) titles. Nearly one quarter of TV viewers now subscribe to four or more SVOD services. Yet content discovery hasn’t changed much from its cable TV […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by John Whitmore, head of data strategy at TiVo. Measuring campaigns by tying ad exposure to customer conversions, whether they be in-store purchases, car test drives or online site visits, isn’t anything new. However, turning measurement […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Walt Horstman, senior vice president and general manager of analytics and advertising at TiVo. The Telecom Act of 1996 deregulated the telecommunications industry and inspired new companies to enter the market and compete with […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Joan FitzGerald, vice president of product management and business development at TiVo. The data-driven, highly targeted, programmatic audience buying that has been the hallmark of digital advertising is now sparking a revolution in how […]

Cadent, a media network and data platform for pay TV providers, has rolled out a TV targeting tool that taps into TiVo’s data sets. Available initially as a managed service, the product is Cadent’s first since its acquisition last August of addressable and video on-demand ad platform BlackArrow. GroupM’s advanced TV specialist Modi Media is the first […]

With additional reporting by Kelly Liyakasa. Rovi Corp., a maker of cloud-based analytics technology for TV and media companies, revealed Friday it would acquire TiVo for $1.1 billion in cash and stock. The combined company will be called TiVo once the deal, which is subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals, closes. “The combined capabilities of […]

Clypd and SpotX, two sell-side systems for TV and digital publishers, have jointly launched a cross-screen monetization platform for media owners. TiVo will be the pair’s first data partner, enabling platform users to anonymously match digital ad exposures to national households across TiVo’s 2.5 million set-top boxes. The goal is to allow an advertiser or […]

Quantcast is tapping its deep ties to publishers by linking digital data signals to offline attributes like sales and TV viewership. The company is rooted in direct audience measurement and embeds its tags across millions of publisher pages. By looking at this data anonymously in aggregate, Quantcast can supply advertisers and publishers with intel around cross-site […]

Addressable TV advertising shouldn’t be viewed as a replacement for mass audience or network buys – or executed without rich data extensions, warned cable operators, agencies and media companies at the Advanced Advertising forum Thursday in New York. Ultimately the promise of addressable TV depends on the granularity of audience-targeting data marketers get at the household level. […]

One reason the TV upfront market exists is that it takes a long time between planning an ad buy and actually delivering it. A partnership between TV ad targeter Simulmedia and TiVo’s TRA, which tracks TV viewing with consumer purchase data, to guarantee ad buys on preset audience targets has the potential to shake up […]

The 35-minute power outage at Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVII caused consternation for CBS, the network that broadcast the game. For advertisers, the outcome was mixed, as some lost exposure and at least three fast-acting marketers were able to use Twitter to capture some attention. Looking at it in the context of viewability — which has […]

Over the past several years, TiVo has looked to find ad tech alliances to put its extensive data to use in attracting marketers looking to access its deep information on households via the set-top box. The latest partnership (see release) represents an extension of its work with Simulmedia, one of the earlier companies to make […]