FAST Channels Could Prove Their Value If Platforms Would Quit Hiding Their Data
FAST’s credibility gap is structural: Platforms are sitting on audience data that would validate the inventory they’re selling, and they are choosing not to share it.
FAST’s credibility gap is structural: Platforms are sitting on audience data that would validate the inventory they’re selling, and they are choosing not to share it.
Alphonso’s founders lobbed yet another lawsuit at LG Electronics – this one seeking up to $4.5 billion in damages – over claims the company sabotaged their IPO, diverted profits and unfairly diluted their stake.
On Tuesday, mobile video ad platform LoopMe bought mobile monetization platform Chartboost from mobile game publisher Zynga. That’s a lot of mobile. But with more scale and direct connections to app publishers, said LoopMe CEO Stephen Upstone, “more brand dollars are going to move into the app environment.”
The TV industry has come a long way from the early days of cord-cutting skepticism. Today, consuming entertainment on the living-room screen over the internet is the norm.
Tastemade taps Wurl for performance marketing campaigns that direct viewers to its FAST channels while lowering customer acquisition costs.
There are over one billion connected TVs globally, with US advertisers expected to spend nearly $27 billion on Connected TV (CTV) in 2023 alone. And as the rise of CTV disrupts the industry, it’s generating new marketing opportunities for advertisers.
AppLovin has added CTV supply from streaming video distribution platform Wurl, which it acquired last March, to its mobile user acquisition platform, AppDiscovery. AppLovin’s marketer clients can now buy CTV inventory on a cost-per-install basis.
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Connected TV publishers manage distribution and inventory splits with a rapidly growing pool of ad-supported networks and streaming services. Wurl, launched in 2018, simplifies that headache by offering a single point of distribution across hundreds of OTT networks, including A+E, AMC and Bloomberg Media, and AVOD streaming services such as The Roku Channel and Samsung […]