“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. The connected TV streaming boom is drawing a traditionally conservative group of marketers in healthcare and pharmaceuticals, who are attracted to CTV’s targeting and customization capabilities. Healthcare and pharma marketers’ digital advertising spend grew over 14% in 2020 and is expected to […]
Glewed TV is ramping up its connected TV (CTV) monetization efforts by adopting Xandr’s Monetize Ad Server. CTV programmers and distributors often work with multiple partners to monetize their video ad inventory. By adopting Xandr’s ad server, the ad-supported streaming service can connect to all of its demand sources in one place and have them […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tim Talks Move over Epic, it’s Tim’s turn. The Apple CEO had his say in federal court on Friday as part of a lawsuit Epic filed after its hugely popular game Fortnite was removed from the App Store last year for flouting Apple’s requirement […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Swan Song? Telcos rushed headlong into the ad tech business, but will they survive it? Verizon washed its hands of ad tech with the sale of Verizon Media to Apollo; And Xandr is in limbo following AT&T’s mega-spinoff of WarnerMedia. But three’s a trend. […]
AT&T dropped a bombshell on Sunday when it announced it would combine the media assets of WarnerMedia with Discovery Inc. to create a new publicly traded company, unwinding the telco’s big bet on its acquisition of Time Warner in 2018. The deal, however, does not include the sale of Xandr, the ad tech division formerly […]
It’s been a kind of a downer week for telco-owned ad platforms. Verizon’s deal to sell Verizon Media to PE giant Apollo Global Management casts a pall over the once-exciting group of mergers that created Russian doll-like business structures featuring ad tech nested within media assets, in turn nested within enormous “access” providers. The theory […]
This article is sponsored by Xandr. As upfronts season approaches, programmatic guaranteed promises to play a major role in the conversation in ways never thought possible a few years ago. While once considered a pipe dream, programmatic technology has evolved, garnering the ability to instill full confidence in highly predictable delivery among all marketplace participants. […]
WarnerMedia’s HBO Max and HBO gained nearly 3 million subscribers in the first quarter of 2021, and the company is bullish about launching an ad-supported version of the streaming service in June. During its Thursday earnings call, WarnerMedia parent company AT&T said that the total number of domestic HBO Max and HBO subscribers combined topped 44 […]
This article is sponsored by Xandr. To an outsider, advertising can often be perceived as glorified and theatrical. While at times true, in reality advertising is the means to an end for a particular business goal. The goals vary across industries. In healthcare, for example, it might be educating communities about COVID vaccinations, while in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Podcast Pie Entercom Communications is throwing its hat into the booming podcast space that is expected to generate more than a $1 billion in advertising revenue this year. The company is set to acquire podcast ad network Podcorn in a deal aimed at helping […]
