Platform for Competitive Intelligence and Search Engagement Empowers Users to Quickly Generate Unprecedented Insights on TV Ad Activity, Effectiveness, and Consumer Purchase Intent EDO Inc., the data, measurement, and analytics company, announced the launch of its new Ad EnGage platform. The platform is the industry’s first user-directed TV ad insights platform, putting the power to quickly and easily generate unprecedented TV ad insights in the hands of brands, agencies, and networks. The platform can be customized with…

Fiksu, a renowned, cross-environment programmatic platform, announces the launch of BidMind, a self-serve platform for marketing on CTV. For over a decade, Fiksu has been uniting the industry's largest proprietary datasets with powerful optimization and segmentation tools helping performance-driven marketers target specific audiences more likely to engage with their product on mobile or the web. BidMind represents an evolution of these algorithms applied in the CTV environment. Marketing Technology News: Signavio Selects…

SpotX leads among SSPs, collaborating with 11 measurement companies including Comscore, Kantar, and Nielsen SpotX, the leading global video advertising platform, announced the expansion of its comprehensive Measurement and Attribution Suite. The extensive offering provides advertisers the ability to accurately attribute ad spend across video channels including connected TV (CTV) and is the most robust in-market for video. By uncovering valuable audience reach metrics like brand lift, incremental reach and frequency, and…

The E.W. Scripps Company and an expanded group from ViacomCBS have joined Project OAR, the consortium working to recommend open standard protocols for TV programmers and platforms to easily manage, sell and deliver more relevant advertising experiences within linear and on-demand formats on smart TVs. Marketing Technology News: K League 1 to Deliver Season Opener Live to Social Media Using Grabyo The two media network groups join the consortium on the heels of the group reaching consensus for the measurement and…

New Partnership With Tremor Video Brings CTV Viewer Insights to Global Brands Through Jivox’s Enhanced Omni-Channel Personalization Platform Jivox, the personalized digital marketing technology leader, announced the industry’s first personalized dynamic creative optimization (DCO) for connected TV (CTV). The new solution will offer personalization at scale, eliminating days or weeks from the creative production process and increasing the effectiveness of TV campaigns. Jivox’s DCO for CTV allows brands to optimize messages…

Xandr Invest’s Advanced Technology to Enable Advertisers to Reach A Single Audience Across Multiple, Premium Content Providers Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising company, is working with leading media and entertainment companies including AMC Networks, Disney, and WarnerMedia to reinvent the way linear TV advertising is bought, sold, and optimized for a better consumer experience. Xandr today announced the next evolution of Xandr Invest, a strategic buying platform built for the future of advertising. For…

New Capability Enables Advertisers to Measure Online Conversions From OTT/CTV Ads Shown on Televisions and Other Devices Simpli.fi, the leading programmatic platform for addressable, mobile, and OTT/CTV advertising, announced that the company has once again bolstered its OTT/CTV advertising offering with the launch of its new online attribution capability. Advertisers working with Simpli.fi can now directly attribute online browser-based conversions to their OTT/CTV advertising campaigns, including those ads that are served…

Tying TV to Business Outcomes Proves to Be a High Priority Across Europe, with Advertisers Tracking an Average of Five KPIs TVSquared, the global leader in TV attribution, today released the findings of its pan-European TV advertising performance analysis. Looking at data across 12 European countries, TVSquared uncovered the most commonly measured KPIs and the highest and lowest performing days, dayparts and creative lengths. “TVSquared’s global footprint enables us to provide a holistic view for advertisers, which is…

Ampersand's New Multi-Screen Platform Provides Centralized TV Advertising Solution with Ad Planning, Buying and Measurement Across 85 Million Households and 55 Percent of All Addressable Households Ampersand, the data-driven TV advertising sales and technology company, announced the launch of The AND Platform. The AND Platform is a new TV Advertising Solution for planning, buying and measurement linked to the audience-based TV advertising. Ampersand was earlier NCC Media. At launch, advertisers will be able to work…

A+E Networks, AMC Networks, CBS, Discovery, FOX, NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia and other media publishers double down on addressable TV initiatives ahead of the 2020 Upfronts Nielsen announced the beta launch of its Addressable TV platform. As part of the beta, programmers including A+E Networks, AMC Networks, CBS, Discovery, FOX, NBCUniversal and WarnerMedia will test the solution by running addressable ad campaigns and evaluating how it interoperates with existing and evolving workflows. The beta program is underway and will…

iSpot.tv, the market leader for real-time TV ad measurement and attribution, announced the first-ever business-outcome benchmarking system for TV advertising. The baselines provide TV networks, brands and agencies with reliable, predictable norms for the key performance measures of incremental lift and conversion across 17 industries. iSpot, which was the first to launch deterministic, always-on business-outcome measurement for TV advertising over three years ago, has since established sufficient critical mass of…

Tappx to disrupt the global OTT/CTV advertising industry Tappx - a leading AdTech company that delivers global digital advertising solutions for mobile and OTT/CTV - has secured backing from the EU Horizon 2020 SME-1 fund to develop and launch the world’s first Programmatic Server-Side Ad Insertion (PSSAI) OTT/CTV (Over-the-Top/Connected TV) solution. The Tappx EU Horizon 2020 project known as Tappx PSSAI is poised to disrupt the global digital TV advertising industry, because it can simultaneously manage and…

Two leading data innovators merge TV viewership and location intelligence to help marketers understand TV attribution and drive customer engagement FourthWall Media, a leader in television analytics, and PlaceIQ, the company building a new model of consumer behavior with aggregated location data, announced the launch of a unique partnership to help advertisers and brands see, measure, and improve the effectiveness of their TV advertising on in-store visitations. Powered by FourthWall's Reveal analytics platform, the…

If you are a savvy marketer (or on your path to becoming one), you’ve probably heard about CTV advertising. Some are excited about it and say this is what you should be putting your money into. Others, however, take CTV ads with the grain of salt. At Fiksu we believe that CTV has enormous potential but at the same time it has technology vulnerabilities that open the door to fraudsters. In this article, we’re going to examine the strengths and weaknesses of SSAI, the most popular technology for serving ads on CTV. SSAI…

Launch of Mnemonic, a Full-Service Creative Agency, Extends Effectv’s Ability to Offer One-Stop Services for the Buying, Planning and Execution of Media Campaigns Self-Service Creative Through Effectv Ad Planner Opens TV to a New Segment of Clients by Providing High-Quality, Cost-Effective TV Commercials With a Few Clicks of the Mouse Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable, announced the launch of Mnemonic, a full-service creative agency for its clients, as well as a self-service creative portal through…

New Partnership Harnesses EDO's Search Engagement Platform and Dataset EDO Inc., the data, measurement and analytics company, announced a new partnership with Toyota, the global leader in automotive manufacturing and sales, to improve TV advertising campaign performance.  The partnership will allow EDO, Toyota, and Toyota's advertising agencies to better understand customer behavioral response to creative messaging and media targeting and provide real-time insights, as well as competitive intelligence. EDO analyzes each…

The Gabbcon ABBI Awards Honored Cadent for Innovative Addressable Campaigns and Audience-Based Buying Technology Cadent, the advanced TV platform company, was recognized for Most Innovative Use of Audience-Based Buying Technology, Most Innovative Use of Addressable Television and Impact, at the Gabbcon ABBI (Audience-Based Buying Innovation) awards last night. The awards event, held in Beverly Hills during LA TV and Innovation Week, celebrates the most innovative companies in audience-based buying as judged by a panel of…

Privacy.TV to Usher in New Era of Accountability, Transparency and Privacy Compliance Across Advanced TV Advertising Tru Optik, the most widely used audience intelligence and data-management platform (DMP) across Connected TV (CTV), announced plans to power a free privacy compliance solution for CTV and Advanced Media called Privacy.TV. The solution will roll out in Q4 2019 in beta and become commercially available in 2020, offering OTT consumer opt-out and data transparency capabilities for publishers, adtech platforms,…

Building on its existing standards-based audience definitions, the OpenAP Market now helps advertisers power audience-based campaigns across linear TV and long-form digital video OpenAP, the advanced advertising company owned by Fox Corporation, NBCUniversal and Viacom, today announced it has launched the OpenAP Market, an open marketplace that now offers premium video advertising inventory and unified audience-based buying across the largest collection of digital and linear television programming. The release expands…

Samba TV, the leading provider of global TV data and audience analytics, announced that it has acquired Wove, a data integration platform that will strengthen Samba’s advanced data onboarding and activation capabilities, opening the door for advertisers to apply first-party data to targeted connected TV and cross-screen advertising. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This is the third acquisition for Samba in the past year, following Screen6 and Axwave, as the company continues to assemble a powerful technology stack to…