TechBytes with Lance Neuhauser, CEO, 4C Insights

Tell us about your recent announcement about acquiring stakes in iQ Media?

We’ve made an investment and formed a new company called Kinetiq that combines iQ Media with 4C’s Teletrax. Kinetiq will operate independently and represents the world’s largest unified TV intelligence network. At 4C, we’re focused on building the leading self-service software for brands to execute video-centric marketing and optimize business outcomes. We have an unprecedented foundation of data science, engineering, and technology development that allows us to deliver value to our clients invest in our futures together. Our roots trace back more than 30 years with my co-founder Dr. Alok Choudhary and his ground-breaking research in computational science. He was working with big data before we knew to call it that! Alok will be the Chairman of the Board for Kinetiq so he’ll be able to help steward the new company and ensure it delivers on its promise.

What is Kinetiq and how could 4C customers benefit from this platform?

Kinetiq offers paid and earned media measurement, monitoring and signaling across local, national and global markets. The combination of Teletrax and iQ Media provides value to video content providers, sports federations, broadcasters, brands, agencies and software partners. Kinetiq clients gain the ability to evaluate and measure TV and video with the same speed, accuracy and agility as digital media. As for 4C, data and insights from Kinetiq are automatically integrated into our Scope platform so marketers can analyze performance for their brands, benchmark against competitors, and immediate update campaigns to improve results.

How do you keep up with the highly-disruptive Adtech industry?

4C prides itself on having a highly agile team. One of our core values at 4C is adaptability, meaning we don’t just accept change, we don’t just embrace it, we create it. Consumer behavior is changing rapidly, with the ability to capture attention becoming increasingly difficult with the sheer amount of content to choose between. 4C is disrupting the industry by empowering brands to take control of their data and deploy it across channels with the power of sight, sound, and motion. We can truly understand each brand’s audience, content, channel, and brand preferences in order to reach consumers where they are most likely to respond. .As the realities of media, advertising, and technology continue to evolve, we’re constantly looking for ways to give our clients an edge.

What are the biggest factors impacting the current state of TV Advertising? How much has TV analytics evolved in the last two years?

TV advertising has long been the biggest opportunity for brands to reach large audiences, but it’s been limited to the advertisers with the biggest budgets. The democratization of TV advertising through advanced TV solutions is allowing brands with smaller budgets to get into the TV game and is therefore changing the balance so that brands with the best grasp of data-driven advertising now have the upper hand. Industry players are adapting to these changes at different paces, which means that an industry-wide standard of planning and measurement for advanced TV is yet to be set in stone. For those brands, networks, and technology providers who are leading the change, cross-channel analytics mirroring those in digital have begun to bolster traditional TV analytics. At the end of the day, though, it all comes down to proving an impact on business outcomes and our approach at 4C is to help brands BYOD (bring-your-own-data) to the table to measure effectiveness.

How is TV Advertising intelligence different from other cross-channel adtech platforms?

Kinetiq’s TV intelligence goes well beyond advertising. It includes earned media, branded content, program sponsorships, logo integration, etc. This enables a full 360 view of the return on marketing investment. With this information ingested into the Scope by 4C platform we can make the intelligence immediately actionable through bespoke audience targeting and real-time campaign optimization.

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