Proponents of addressable TV call it the future of advertising – a world where marketers can lean on hard data to better target their audience. But there’s still a long, long way to go from using advertising addressable TV as a brand-building asset to relying on it to sell products, writes Matt Krepsik, chief technology officer at Quotient.
From AI technologies and machine learning to the growth of OTT video platforms, mobile games and more, ad tech continues to thrive as the world goes digital. It’s why programmatic media buying is going to push CTV out of the Wild West, writes Jeremy Fain, co-founder and CEO at Cognitiv.
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Mark Fleisch, SVP of national sales at GroundTruth. Supply-chain issues have affected everything from weekly grocery trips to brand loyalty. But for marketers, inventory challenges extend beyond manufacturing floors and empty store shelves. The digital […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Bret Brase, managing director at Progress Partners. Over-the-top (OTT) television viewing is overtaking linear TV, and both national and local advertisers are scrambling to follow the eyeballs. And it’s no wonder. While 75% of linear […]
As streaming TV takes off, Vizio Ads is scaling up its offering to include video retargeting. Advertisers on Vizio TV’s native apps can retarget that same household with a video ad on a different device. The goal is to help advertisers sequence their messaging or optimize frequency, said Travis Hockersmith, VP of platform services at […]
When advertisers think of the cutting edge of OTT advertising, they’re probably not thinking of Amazon as much as they are Roku, Hulu or YouTube. Despite having great video products, Amazon has not ballyhooed itself as a source for great video inventory. There’s not lot of inventory on Prime, for instance, and Twitch functions as […]
Anyone who’s streamed content has firsthand experience of what happens when ad podding technology misfires. Ad podding is supposed to eliminate redundancy and conflict, but whereas linear has rules and controls in place to avoid duplication, enable competitive separation, minimize latency and manage frequency capping, CTV commercial breaks are rife with all four – plus blank […]
Roku said Tuesday it rebranded dataxu, the DSP it acquired last October, and is introducing it as a programmatic ad-buying platform called OneView, with capabilities powered by Roku’s first-party data. OneView was the name of a dataxu’s cross-device identity graph, which is joining with Roku’s data from 39 million US households to combine programmatic performance […]
