Digital media and television have been playing by different sets of rules due to the nature of ad delivery and tracking. But these worlds are slowly colliding.
Turner-owned Bleacher Report is going all-in on social platforms because the chance to set roots in social broadcasting before ESPN does, whether or not reliable platform monetization is a mirage, is too tempting to ignore. Bleacher Report’s future success will “key off our ability to leverage the social graph,” said Rich Calacci, Bleacher Report’s CRO […]
Turner Broadcasting sees a future where data and creative coexist more fluidly for TV advertisers. The company’s ad boss made a bold prediction that by 2020 50% of its networks’ inventory would be sold on an audience basis, but noted high-touch sponsorships such as the NCAA Final Four basketball championship on TBS would always exist. […]
As advertisers apply more data to their television buys, how will old measurement standards meet their needs? The idea ignited a debate during a panel on the state of TV at AOL’s New York headquarters Tuesday. “I don’t know if we need a standard currency,” said Dan Aversano, SVP of client and consumer insights at […]
Time Warner subsidiary Turner Broadcasting revealed during its May upfront a centralized data-management platform to power its ad products. That system is the Turner Data Cloud, which the network souped up on Tuesday with data integrations to Epsilon, Krux and Oracle. Using Turner’s Data Cloud, a marketer can apply first-party audience data as well as […]
Advanced audience targeting is taking a seat at this year’s TV upfronts. Sellers are lining their arsenals with new products promising cross-platform reach, partially out of necessity. Viewer attention is fragmenting and advertisers want assurance that if they commit an upfront buy, there will be multiple points of execution. It’s unclear the extent to which buyers […]
Broadcasters are exploring data as a way to prove the efficacy of their owned and operated inventory. Turner Broadcasting is the latest. The cable network – owner of CNN, TBS and Adult Swim, among others – recently partnered with marketing analytics platform MarketShare, through which it will offer a forecasting tool called Turner Incite during this […]
