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“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Univision is launching PrendeTV this week, its free ad-supported service exclusively for Hispanics, part of a growth strategy that includes ramping up content and rolling out new platforms and automated solutions. PrendeTV will be the first premium Spanish-language AVOD service, and the announcement […]

Addressable TV advertising promises to deliver unique ads on a household-by-household or even individualized basis. The problem, however, is that the Nielsen ratings currency off which linear TV is transacted, isn’t designed to accommodate all that variability. And not being able to use the Nielsen rating on addressable ads keeps a lot of advertisers from […]

Snap’s First Commercial, a reach product that advertisers can use to position their message so that it’s the first ad Snapchat users see when they open the app, is now generally available, Snap said on Tuesday during Advertising Week. The ad is up to six seconds long and unskippable. First Commercial launched in the United […]

TV data science company EDO released an insights platform Thursday designed to help brands, agencies and broadcasters better plan linear TV campaigns and understand how effectively those campaigns drive search engagement. The platform, called Ad EnGage, contains a module that provides competitive intelligence – where advertisers can see where competitors placed their own TV ads […]

Consumer electronics sales are usually a bellwether of consumer confidence and the broader economy. But this year, all bets are off. Although worldwide mobile phone shipments have been declining for several years largely due to market penetration and higher prices, the drop in 2020 is expected to be far more extreme, down to 1.57 billion […]

People love to chatter about subscription services such as Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+ and HBO Max. But free, ad-supported TV apps are also finding audiences – including Disney-owned Hulu and Viacom-owned Pluto. A similar startup is Tubi, a streaming service founded in 2014 that offers a huge library of movies and TV for free. This […]

While you chill on the sofa trying to figure out what to watch next, there’s a war raging for your attention, and Facebook is the most recent combatant. On Wednesday, Facebook launched the latest additions to its suite of Portal hardware products, including a streaming stick for TV sets complete with video chatting functionality, augmented […]

Allison Lowrie is at home with data-driven marketing tactics. As CMO of ANGI Homeservices, the IAC-owned parent of Angi (formerly Angie’s List), HomeAdvisor and Handy, Lowrie is helping the company infuse a performance mindset into how it approaches offline channels. HomeAdvisor, which connects homeowners with home improvement professionals online, advertised during the Super Bowl for […]

Ad campaigns unfurl across screens, and that’s the way they should be measured. Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS) released a cross-screen measurement tool on Wednesday that links incremental offline sales for an ad campaign to total views across channels, including linear TV, mobile and desktop video, over-the-top (OTT) and connected TV. NCS, which provides purchase-based targeting […]

As eyeballs shift away from linear TV, networks are experimenting with new ad formats, targeting and measurement tactics to keep both buyers and viewers interested. TV ad revenue fell 2.7% to $70.1 billion in the US in 2017, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ “US TV Advertising Outlook,” released Tuesday. During the same period, online TV advertising, which […]