Audio Partnerships Offer Access to More Than 90% of Available Streaming Audio and Podcast Inventory Adelphic, a Viant subscription-based self-service platform for omnichannel programmatic advertising, today partnered with AdsWizz, the leading global technology provider for digital audio advertising solutions, expanding Adelphic's premium programmatic audio inventory offering to include significant additional streaming audio and podcast inventory. As part of this new partnership, buyers using the Adelphic DSP will now be…

New Solution Enables Content Owners and Distributors to Sell Set-Top-Box (STB) Video-On-Demand (VOD) Inventory Programmatically Opens New Demand Channels for STB VOD, Allows More Unified Buying Across All Premium Video Today, Comcast Technology Solutions, a division of Comcast Cable that provides media and entertainment technology to advertisers, agencies and content providers, and FreeWheel, a Comcast Company providing global technology solutions for the future of television advertising, announced a new industry solution…

Appreciate’s Creative Wizard technology enables generating new and dynamic high-impact ad creative in seconds to fit a broad range of ad units which are then A/B tested to improve campaign conversions and other KPIs Programmatic mobile bidding platform Appreciate, introduces its newly developed technology, Creative Wizard, which enables app developers to optimize performance by running more impactful creative across multiple ad units. Marketing Technology News: Slack Announces Integration with Amazon Chime Voice…

New Guide Includes Range of Recommendations for Media Buyers Media buyers should follow five key criteria when venturing into the complex and opaque ecosystem of third-party data that is designed to help them target their programmatic digital media buys. The criteria are part of “Data Sources for Media: A Buyer’s Guide,” a comprehensive new report from the ANA Trust Consortium, which was launched by the ANA in 2019 in partnership with ANA general counsel Reed Smith to restore trust in the marketing ecosystem. The Guide is…

Single Holistic View Across Omnichannel Media Now Available For Marketers Viant, a people-based advertising technology company, announced its partnership with WideOrbit, a media platform connecting ads and audiences everywhere, allowing Viant customers to advance linear TV ad buying and delivery of ads in a true omnichannel approach. With Viant's addition of WideOrbit's Programmatic Marketplace TV advertising solution, marketers can now efficiently buy live TV inventory and track their campaigns through a single platform.…

MediaCentral Progresses in Digitally Transforming Analogue Legacy Publications Reports +389% month over month increase in programmatic ad revenue for NOW and the Straight in April 2020 Launches proprietary marketing technology automating the capture of behavioral data to improve user experience, increase traffic and enhance advertiser solutions Continues to build monetizable digital strategy as it works to consolidate a 100 million influential consumers of independent urban publications across North America…

Advertisers will now have end-to-end visibility into media quality and financial transaction data Integral Ad Science (IAS) today announced Total Visibility, an industry-leading partnership with Amino Payments to offer the first solution in programmatic buying showing advertisers the true cost of qualified media. Total Visibility gives advertisers both impression-level financial insights and media quality verification to optimize campaigns in real-time. Now more than ever, marketers are looking for ways to ensure their…

The Local Media Consortium (LMC), in partnership with the Brand Safety Institute and Scott Cunningham, consultant and Founder of the IAB Tech Lab, today announced the creation of a media-buying "Local News Advertising Whitelist" that opens up thousands of vetted local media advertising opportunities for national brands and companies during times of crises, particularly as the coronavirus pandemic generates heightened media consumption. "The LMC's Local News Advertising Whitelist is launching at a time when local…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, released its Media Quality Report for H2 2019, providing transparency into the performance and quality of global digital media. The report found positive changes across many aspects of the ecosystem, including a rise in global viewability rates across all formats and environments in the second half of 2019. Desktop video viewability has continued to rise, reaching new heights at 74.1% compared to 68.6% in the same period a year prior. Meanwhile, mobile…

In an effort to help alleviate some of the impact and uncertainty the Coronavirus COVID-19 is creating for their customers and for the programmatic community as a whole, Fraudlogix has committed to providing the Lite version of their ad fraud, viewability and brand safety service for free until Oct. 1, 2020 to all companies that may benefit In an effort to help alleviate some of the impact and uncertainty the Coronavirus COVID-19 is creating for their customers and for the programmatic community as a whole, Fraudlogix has…

New infrastructure better enables advertisers to deliver targeted, local OTT campaigns at national scale Gamut, a Cox Media Group company, continues to innovate in the local OTT advertising space with the launch of a new proprietary technology platform powering Gamut TOTAL, its local OTT video advertising solution. Designed to simplify the local OTT media buying process, the new platform with a self-serve UI uses technology to allow buyers to activate orders with just a few clicks. The new…

Affle to Acquire Mediasmart, a Mobile Programmatic and Proximity Marketing Company in Europe Affle (India) Limited, the leading consumer intelligence technology company, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Spain headquartered Mediasmart, a self-serve mobile programmatic and proximity marketing platform. Mediasmart provides advertisers, trading desks and agencies an integrated mobile advertising platform with unique incremental impact measurability for Proximity and App marketing campaigns.…

An analysis of 2019 programmatic ad supply trends in the Connected TV (CTV) and Over-the-Top (OTT) advertising industry Pixalate, a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform, today announced the release of its State of Connected TV/OTT: 2019 Ad Supply Trends Report, featuring granular analysis on the latest trends in Over-the-Top (OTT) and Connected TV (CTV) advertising. Marketing Technology News: Rocketrip names Efrat Moshkoviz as Vice President of Customer Success Key Findings: 330% global…

Agency will appear at NADA 2020 in Las Vegas, Feb. 14-17, to display latest advances to aid customers and dealerships in the car-buying and maintenance process Stream Companies, a marketing industry leader that has been successfully merging and integrating the worlds of traditional and digital advertising for more than two decades, will be sharing its latest technology and expertise at NADA 2020 from Feb. 14-17, 2020. In today's high-tech world of auto dealership marketing, Stream Companies is leading the way with its …

With White Ops Advertising Integrity solution blocking sophisticated bots, invalid traffic and fraudulent impressions in programmatic advertising, Dailymotion deepens focus on the trusted advertising ecosystem Dailymotion, a Vivendi-owned video platform dedicated to creating a trusted home for premium video content that matters, and White Ops, the global leader in sophisticated bot mitigation, announced an enhanced partnership that will protect Dailymotion’s programmatic advertising on its global video platform from…

AdsWizz New Self-Serve Platform Makes Premium Audio Advertising Accessible to Smaller Buyers AudioGO, the new self-serve audio ad-buying service from AdsWizz, announced new partners that will expand its footprint and empower more small businesses and agencies to run audio ads. AudioGO currently aggregates premium audio inventory from leading audio publishers in one easy-to-use platform to meet the needs of advertisers seeking an affordable way to expand into digital audio. The platform is specifically designed for smaller…

Amobee, MediaMath, SpotX, the Trade Desk & Xandr Are First Platforms to Be Certified by DV DoubleVerify (“DV”), a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data and analytics, announced the industry’s first connected TV (“CTV”) Targeting Certification for programmatic platforms, designed to protect advertisers from fraud and invalid traffic (“IVT”) in the CTV space. In order to be certified by DV for CTV Targeting, a platform must demonstrate the ability to prevent fraud and IVT by applying DV’s…

Programmatic Advertising is in a perpetual state of flux. Exciting new channels, buying methods, and success metrics are contrasted with transparency issues, mistrust, and ever-decreasing engagement rates. Although time has been called on the industry more times than there’s been Fast & Furious sequels, budgets and demand generally increase year-on-year, and marketers continue to lavish budgets on clicks, impressions and all manner of vanity metrics. Spamming consumers with ads for products they’ve already bought…

With OTT Advertising, College Ticket Sales May Never be the Same After a year of successful market testing with men's basketball and football ticket sales, the University of Washington Huskies' have integrated programmatic advertising into their budget to support the PAC-12 school's season and single-game ticket sales. Working with the Strategus OTT/CTV (over-the-top connected television) programmatic advertising platform (automated, real-time bidding for digital streaming ad inventory), the Huskies' marketing…

Markpoint is happy to announce the launch of Markpoint DSP, a demand-side platform that enables advertisers to programmatically buy display, native, and video ads across web, mobile, and in-app. The Markpoint DSP aims to help advertisers, demand and supply partners grow their businesses, reach their marketing KPIs, and do that most cost-effectively. Markpoint team brings to the table years of expertise in advertising, marketing, technology, and data, as well as measurable capacities. Marketing Technology News: Why…