Extreme Reach announced that James Shears, former General Manager of The Trade Desk’s Advanced TV practice, has joined the company in the role of VP, Advanced Advertising. A recognized expert in the emerging programmatic TV space, James brings to the company a wealth of knowledge and industry relationships that will accelerate Extreme Reach’s growth in the market. He rounds out the leadership team reporting to Chief Revenue Officer Matt Timothy, that supports AdBridgeTM, the company’s complete creative asset management…

Leading Providers in Cloud TV and Advertising Team to Offer Customers the Most Robust, Flexible, and Fully Integrated Solution to Increase Revenue with Live and On-Demand Targeted Advertising Kaltura, the leading video technology provider, announces the release of its Advanced Advertising solution, which leverages the company’s partnership and technology integrations with Yospace, a leading dynamic ad insertion provider and SpotX, the global video advertising and monetization platform. Personalized advertising…

The New Division Within NCC Media Will Help Advertisers Reach Audiences Nationwide With Innovative Technologies That Deliver Precision, Consistency and Accountability Charter Communications, Comcast Corporation and Cox Communications, owners of NCC Media, recently announced they are creating a new division within NCC to design, deploy and sell unified advertising solutions across NCC's participants' national footprint. The group will use non-personally identifiable data and targeting capabilities to create…

Kenshoo leverages the power of Amazon Web Services to build customizable marketer microservices Kenshoo, a global leader in marketing technology, announced it has achieved Advanced Technology Partner status in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) after significant adoption of its cloud storage solution and application architecture. Together, these technologies provide Kenshoo the resources necessary to build tools for marketers seeking to rapidly test and optimize across the digital spectrum, even as…

In-game advertising platform Anzu.io and MRC-accredited fraud-prevention solution Forensiq announced a new partnership representing the first-ever fraud detection collaboration for in-game advertising. This partnership will allow Forensiq to detect and score general invalid traffic (GIVT) and sophisticated invalid traffic (SIVT) across PC, console, and mobile. Ad fraud continues to be a major concern for digital advertising as a whole, with a reported risk of a loss amounting to $23 billion globally. In-game advertising…

Agencies Specializing in Local Media Planning and Buying Expect Media Spend on Advanced TV to Increase More Than on Any Other Medium over the Next 12 Months FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, announced the results from a survey of its Strata platform users — most of whom are specialists in local media planning and buying — focused on understanding changes in their advertising strategies in the increasingly fragmented media landscape. Results showed that these agencies are looking at data-driven and advanced TV solutions to…

Aarki, a leading AI-enabled mobile marketing platform, now offers more advanced personalization strategies to reactivate and retarget mobile apps' lapsed users and earn back their loyalty. Aarki Aarki now has the ability to take in real-time user app activity. Through its proprietary creative platform, Aarki Studio, Aarki's creative team can now design highly personalized ads. By leveraging user attributes like recent spend, level reached, wallet balance, and more, they create ads that dynamically…

Launching September 26, the new course will empower participants to create paid social cash flow, find new profitable customers, and scale e-commerce businesses MuteSix, an iProspect Company and a full-funnel digital and creative agency, has announced its Facebook Ads Masterclass, launching on September 26, 2019. Geared towards e-commerce professionals, business owners, and marketers, the online class looks to highlight advanced strategies to create affordable and ROI-positive ads. The exclusive creative-focused course…

The competitive diversity scenario i.e. all-against-all will greatly intensify across the global television advertising market throughout 2019. Global platforms with bottomless pockets will quickly penetrate local markets; local traditional players will produce and license premium content for big platforms; technology will accelerate the disintermediation from large producers and rights holders to audiences; successful subscription models will be accompanied by new non-advertising formulas; traditional and virtual…

Nielsen has launched a new technology, product and commercial initiative, Nielsen Advanced Video Advertising, that will focus on expanding and innovating addressable advertising for Smart TVs and beyond. To further accelerate this initiative, Nielsen has acquired Sorenson Media, a leading addressable TV technology provider that will help transform TV from a one-to-many to a one-to-one medium by powering addressable ad delivery and measurement. The Smart TV landscape has the potential to usher in a gold rush for marketers,…

New Feature Doubles Online Advertising Conversion with 360° Ads RICOH Tours, one of the fastest growing solution providers in real estate technology adds a new and industry’s only feature to the RICOH Tours virtual tour platform. The advanced online advertising technology allows real estate professionals to display targeted 360° interactive banner ads for their listings and businesses leading to improved advertising performance. The 360° interactive banner ads appear on web and mobile websites based on consumers’ location…

Newly Launched, Peer-To-Peer Platform Allows Participants to Protect and Control Their Data, While Benefitting from the Shared Insights of Entire User Network Comcast Cable Advertising, a division of Comcast Corporation, launched the next phase of Blockgraph, an industry initiative designed to create a secure way to use data and share information. Comcast is now working with other industry partners on this initiative, including Viacom and Spectrum Reach, the advertising sales division of Charter Communications, Inc., in a…

CTV Pioneer Scott Ferber Appointed Chief Innovation Officer, AI Expert Domenic Venuto Named Chief Operating Officer and Talent Development Leader Erica Golden Selected Chief People Officer  Singtel subsidiary Amobee, a global digital marketing technology company serving brands and agencies, announced it has completed the acquisition of assets from Videology—a leading software provider for advanced TV and video advertising—advancing its connected TV and digital video solutions with sophisticated data-driven linear TV…

Walt Horstman SVP, Advanced Media & Advertising, TiVo In 2018, would you be still paying for TV advertising over digital? Well, it's never been more competitive in the ad industry where we see programmatic advertising technologies impacting traditional TV media buying behaviors with measurable metrics on hand. To understand the current State of TV Advertising ecosystem in 2018, we spoke to Walt Horstman, SVP Advanced Media & Advertising, TiVo. Tell us about your role at TiVo and the team/technology…

Bill Masterson, Industry Veteran From Facebook, Twitter, Google And SocialCode, To Lead The New Unit Decoded Advertising, which designed the first truly integrated creative, tech and media process for performance advertisers, has officially launched its new media agency, Decoded Advanced Media (DAM), with Bill Masterson joining as President and Chief Executive Officer. Decoded Advanced Media will manage media across all major exchanges and large digital platforms, including: Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube,…

Integration will enable advertisers to reach more than 100 million streaming audio listeners with greater scale and accuracy Tru Optik, a TransUnion company, announced an agreement with Targetspot, a global specialist in digital audio solutions, to offer advertisers audience-based targeting capabilities for streaming audio. As an identity resolution leader across OTT, Connected TV (CTV) and streaming audio, Tru Optik's data management platform will be integrated into Targetspot's tech stack, available starting February…

Anzu.io, the world’s most advanced blended in-game advertising solution, announced a new partnership with Digiseg, the Copenhagen-based company building audience data for digital marketing. The partnership brings precise, cookie-free data to in-game advertisers, enhancing the value of their digital campaigns by allowing them to target and retarget the right gaming audiences. The digital marketing space is facing some significant challenges. Ad-blocking is on the rise and third-party cookies are about to become obsolete,…

Microland, a leading digital services company announced that it has earned the Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialization. This recognition is a validation of Microland's deep knowledge, extensive experience and expertise in migrating Windows Server and SQL Server-based workloads to Azure. This recognition is exclusively earned by partners who meet the stringent criteria around customer success and staff skilling while passing a third-party audit of their migration practices. It…

New SSP provides access to premium array of national linear inventory, enabling buyers to build media plans using accurate and real-time marketplace data Interoperability of APIs adds workflow automation to planning and buying by connecting directly to buyside tools, delivering on the needs of advertisers for more control of cross-publisher optimization within existing workflows Omnicom Media Group becomes the first agency to integrate its in-house tool, Omni, in new partnership with OpenAP OpenAP, the advanced…

GBK Collective, a leading marketing strategy, consumer behavior and analytics consultancy, today announced the appointments of Dr. Randall Lewis, Chief Scientist of Nanigans, and Dr. Justin Rao, Sr. Director, Performance Marketing at Booking.com, to its advisory board, further building on GBK’s expertise in helping clients to measure and maximize their return on marketing investments. Marketing Technology News: Schbang Launches ‘How 2020 Changed the Indian Consumer’ Report “Improving ROI for advertising spend and campaigns…