Animoto helps sellers and vendors create high quality video content at scale Animoto, the company that makes it easy for anyone to create videos, has optimized its platform for creating high-performant Amazon Advertising video ads. Animoto now offers templates, created for Amazon Advertising campaigns, with regularly updated best practices and moderation guidelines to meet Amazon Advertising's requirements. For millions of small and medium sized businesses this means a one-stop shop to create videos customized for Amazon…

As a New TikTok Marketing Partner, Playbook Media Announces New Offering to Complement Existing Services Like Facebook and Instagram Media Buying, Creative, and Strategy Playbook Media, the full-service performance marketing and creative agency, announced the launch of its new TikTok advertising capabilities for brands and advertisers. With this new offering, Playbook Media is now able to offer TikTok advertising as a service and help brands and advertisers create fun, creative video ads that will promote their business.…

Partnership enables enhanced audience-based media buying from the supply-side through curated and actionable data, across all screens and streaming platforms SpotX, the leading global video advertising platform, announced a new partnership with Acxiom, the data and technology foundation for the world's best marketers, to offer enhanced audience-based buying capabilities and improved inventory matching using Acxiom's data. The new integration layers data on the supply-side, thereby allowing advertisers who are purchasing…

Partnership enables advertisers and publishers to put in place Coronavirus brand suitability protections for video content Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, and JW Player, the world's largest independent video platform, are excited to announce that Comscore's brand safety and contextual categorization segments are available for activation across the 12,000+ media sites that use JW Player for their digital video playback. This partnership builds on JW Player's…

IRIS.TV's Contextual Video Marketplace now leverages Comscore's leading brand safety and contextual segments to deliver privacy-focused, relevant, and brand-safe video advertising Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, and IRIS.TV, a video intelligence platform for broadcasters and publishers, announced that Comscore's brand safety and contextual categorization segments are now available for activation in IRIS.TV's Contextual Video Marketplace. This partnership…

Media and Games Invest or MGI announced that its subsidiary gamigo AG agreed on acquiring Verve Wireless, Inc.'s business. Verve is a leading North American Mobile Location data platform for location-based programmatic video and display marketing. Technology is actively used to create efficiency improvements and competitive advantages within the group. Synergy and integration potentials are important criteria for the expansion of the portfolio. MGI is a fast and profitably growing company focusing on a "buy,…

Partnership is Intended to Redefine the Value of Impression Based Video Advertising Mobiquity Technologies, Inc., a leading provider in next generation advertising technology, and Source Digital, a patented interactive video and advanced commerce platform, announced their partnership to integrate technologies.  The confirmed partnership will create a new format of Interactive Shoppable Video Advertisements ("ISVAs") that engages audiences with more content, product or offer information, and allows eCommerce Purchases from…

Step #1 Start Early and Leverage PMP/Guaranteed Deals 45% of US consumers say they plan to start shopping before November 1. This creates a sufficient window (approx. 60 days) for marketers to get their brand campaigns in front of the desired audiences. Marketers can start Advertising campaigns early not only to captures the consumer's attention at the right time but also giving marketers a higher chance of booking exclusive high-value publisher inventory through the private marketplace (PMP) deals at a much reasonable…

Mobiquity Technologies and Source Digital Partner to Pilot New Video Advertising Technology Today, adtech company, Mobiquity Technologies announced partnership with Source Digital. The partnership entails piloting an industry-first rich media ad format with a Steve Lander's auto dealership. The new ad technology creates new interactions with typical :30s video advertising, allowing audiences to stay in the video while responding to targeted messaging, exploring vehicle information, redeeming oil service coupons, or…

Dealer.com, a Cox Automotive brand, recently teamed up with Cartender, a provider of digital marketing technology, to announce a new opportunity for dealers to leverage video advertising to more effectively communicate and engage their car shoppers. With the growing shift away from television toward smartphones and tablets, Dealer.com and Cartender deliver high quality video advertisements to an engaged audience at scale for dealers across these digital platforms. Video advertising is a consistently undervalued channel,…

Basis Has Been the Top DSP for the Past Three Years Centro, a global provider of advertising technology, announced that its Basis software scored the No. 1 position for the Demand Side Platform (DSP) and Video Advertising categories according to G2’s Fall Grid report. G2 also listed Basis as a Leader in the Cross-Channel Advertising and Mobile Advertising categories. “Centro’s Basis is a Leader in our Fall 2019 Grid Reports for Demand Side Platform, Video Advertising, Cross-Channel Advertising and Mobile Advertising…

Hard choices seem to define Marketing today. The abundance of high-profile media moments, from the final of Love Island to the Cricket World Cup, combined with the wide range of available platforms, can put even the largest ad budgets under strain. So marketers have to make some tough decisions. It’s no surprise then that brands are paying closer and closer attention to campaign performance and the cost of attracting customers. In one such instance, Booking.com recently said that it’s “disciplined” approach to Performance…

Continuing to Drive Innovation, FranceTV Publicité Offers Brands the Next Generation of Product Placement with Mirriad's In-Video Advertising Solution Computer vision and AI-powered platform company Mirriad, is partnering with FranceTV Publicité who announced this week it has launched three tailored offers of next generation product placement using the Mirriad in-video advertising solution. Mirriad's sophisticated technology seamlessly inserts brands in France Télévisions popular scripted dramas after the content is…

Investment fuels pioneering technology that proves the days of wasteful mass marketing are over Spirable, the next generation of personalised video marketing automation, today announced it has closed a £6 Million Series A investment round led by Smedvig Capital. Existing backers Frontline Ventures, Downing Ventures, and 24 Haymarket also followed-on. The new funding will accelerate Spirable's geographical expansion and product development, to meet the growing demand for more…

Advertising Platform Delivers Solutions for Agencies, Brands and Broadcasters for the Convergence of TV and Digital Amobee, a global digital advertising technology company, was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in its report: The Forrester New Wave: Cross-Channel Video Advertising Platforms, Q3 2019. In this evaluation, Amobee was cited as a Leader in cross-channel video advertising, marking the company’s inclusion in this emerging market evaluation. “Amobee’s depth of knowledge, customer…

4C, a global data science and marketing technology company, announced that Forrester Research, a leading global research and advisory firm, has ranked 4C as a Leader in its report "The Forrester New Wave: Cross-Channel Video Advertising Platforms, Q3 2019," published today. For the evaluation, the 13 most significant providers in the category were assessed by Forrester across 10 criteria including Plan/Schedule Building, Buying (Traditional Linear, Set Top Box, OTT/CTV, and Online Video), Audience Discovery and Building,…

Looking ahead to the future of programmatic advertising, server-side auctions hold the potential to disrupt how programmatic Video Advertising is traded today. In this article, we take a detailed look into both client-side and server-side auction mechanisms and observe how server-side auction offers more value to programmatic buyers when it comes to Video Advertising. Client-Side Auction In a Client-side header bidding entire auction is conducted on the user’s browser, thus it is also known as browser-side header bidding.…

Creating impactful ads that drive Sales is a lifetime pursuit for many creatives. You just need to look at the weeklong festival of video advertising that takes place every June in Cannes, France, to see just how seriously the business of communication is taken. But, for the most part, events such as Cannes Lions showcase million and multi-million-pound campaigns that have been worked on by global teams over months and months, guided by client teams, themselves with multiple roles dedicated to advertising. Most businesses…

A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of 4C Insights, among over 200 marketers in the UK, finds 79% recognize cross-channel video advertising – including TV, digital video, social video, and over-the-top (OTT) – as an increasingly important medium. From the results of the study, we think it’s clear that the media mix has changed and video has emerged as a critical format. 77% of UK marketers agree that video is evolving from a mass-reach medium to one that enables targeted reach to more precise…

Fast-growing Irish online video distribution company VideoElephant has closed a €5.5 Milion funding round led by blue chip Irish investor Act Venture Capital. The Dublin-headquartered company, founded in 2012, will use the new equity to expand its global workforce across its offices in Dublin, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin and Sydney. VideoElephant plans to almost double its workforce, as well as investing heavily in their IP and AI technology to support its growing library of over 2 million videos. Working with global…