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Pay-TV providers are increasingly investing in paid media to promote new and original programming on their streaming video services. To offset the pricy programming costs, these SVODs must attract a steady stream of new subscribers. Entertainment advertisers have always relied on tune-in tactics to promote new shows. But streaming video services now are also leveraging […]

Kantar Media, long considered a rival to Nielsen’s mainstay TV measurement business internationally, is restructuring the way it goes to market. Although Kantar Media previously operated as one of 12 distinct brands within the Kantar Group, sometimes there was a lack of visibility between different brands. “We’ve had a very strange organizational structure,” admits Andy Brown, chairman and […]

Since B2B publishers are still waking up to the possibilities of programmatic, media buyers must find B2B audiences on consumer sites. Sixty-three percent of media planners and buyers execute B2B campaigns programmatically, as opposed to 73% who do so for B2C campaigns, according to the inaugural “B2B Programmatic Media Planning and Buying” study released Friday by […]

WPP-owned Kantar Media revealed Tuesday its strategic investment in digital media intelligence firm BIScience. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Kantar and WPP clients will have access to BIScience’s platform, AdClarity, which lets advertisers run competitive benchmarking across 500,000 unique publishers and mobile apps to identify high-performing traffic sources. “Our footprint as […]

A planner could sift through the thousands of private marketplace packages available on media platforms to help a client buy placements for a Mother’s Day sale. Or she could open up Kantar Media’s email on Mother’s Day and find a curated list of packages, including pricing information. Presto! Insta-plan. WPP-owned Kantar Media officially launched its […]

Is traditional advertising dying in the US? Not for midsize advertisers, according to research from Kantar Media. However, while smaller and midsize advertisers are spending more on “traditional linear media,” the largest US advertisers are redirecting those budgets to digital forums. “The growth of the ad market is on two different tracks right now,” said […]

WPP Group planted a stake Thursday in Rentrak by acquiring $98 million of the media measurement company’s common stock (12.4% of total shares). In return, Rentrak gets Kantar Media’s TV measurement business in the US. WPP also made a $56 million cash investment in the company, which, barring regulatory approval, would give the holding company […]

TV and digital are the twin wunderkinds of the ad industry. A report by WPP Group’s Kantar Media indicates a healthy 5.7% increase in total advertising expenditures to $34.9 billion for Q1 2014, led by big-brand advertisers’ TV ad buys for the Winter Olympics. Internet display ad spending meanwhile grew 13% for the quarter, which […]

Kantar Media SRDS has added programmatic digital ad inventory to its media planning platform, which aggregates advertising rate card information for a wide range of supply sources. It’s another indicator of how demand for “programmatic direct” continues to transform the traditional planning and buying process. WPP Group-owned Kantar is partnering with supply-side platforms (SSP) PubMatic, […]

While audience measurement giants Nielsen and comScore have scrambled to meet online ad industry demands around TV’s gross ratings points, WPP Group’s Kantar Media has concentrated more narrowly on “return path data” – metrics derived from pay TV boxes. While talk of addressable TV (aka advanced or “targeted TV”) has floated around for over a […]

As the mobile landscape expands, so does the trove of consumer data mobile carriers are sitting on. Enter SAP AG, which is hammering out deals to crunch carriers’ mobile user data and sell it to marketers. AdExchanger talked to Kevin Outcalt, head of Consumer Insight at SAP and Guy Rolfe, global mobile practice leader at Kantar […]

Bill Lederer, CEO, of WPP Group’s newly-created Kantar Video discussed the company’s new Videolytics platform “an online and mobile video advertising and program platform offering content identity, syndication, tracking, measurement, analytics, and optimization for marketers and their agencies, media companies, and content creators and distributors.” What target market is VideolyticsTM for and why?