Connected TV

Tru Optik, a TransUnion company, announced today a partnership with MediaMath, an acclaimed independent DSP for the world’s leading brands and agencies, that enables audience-targeting for connected TV campaigns. As an identity resolution leader across OTT, connected TV (CTV) and streaming audio, Tru Optik Data Marketplace will be integrated into MediaMath’s CTV advertising solution and available for MediaMath clients in the US to leverage. As legacy identifiers like cookies continue to deprecate and media consumption in the…

Samba TV, a leading global provider of omniscreen advertising and analytics, announced a multi-market partnership with PubMatic , a sell-side platform that delivers superior outcomes for digital advertising. Samba TV’s extensive first-party Connected TV data will be integrated with PubMatic’s advertising platform to provide media buyers with advanced omniscreen targeting capabilities across four of Europe’s largest advertising markets: the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and France. Marketing Technology News: MarTech…

Innovid’s Global Omni-Channel Benchmarks Report uncovers how advertising trends shifted amid COVID-19 pandemic Report highlights the surge in streaming and importance of keeping TV the centerpoint of omni-channel advertising strategies to seamlessly manage experiences across channels Innovid, the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television, today announced its Global Omni-Channel Benchmarks Report, which represents the most complete view of video advertising data available in the…

AcuityAds Holdings Inc., the leading technology company that enables advertisers to connect intelligently with audiences across digital advertising campaigns from a single platform, is pleased to announce that it has signed two new contracts totaling $1.5 million, for its advertising automation platform, illumin. One contract is with a leading global pharmaceutical company that extends over several quarters, and the second is with a leading global electronics manufacturer that encompasses one quarter. Both contracts are with…

Report reveals 78% of U.S. households are now reachable via programmatic CTV advertising, but ad fraud rates remain high, at 24% in Q420 Pixalate, a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform, released its Connected TV (CTV) Ad Supply Trends Report 2020, a comprehensive look at programmatic CTV advertising throughout 2020. The report analyzes the state of programmatic CTV advertising and provides a deep dive into programmatic CTV ad spend trends by global region, ad fraud (or invalid traffic, "IVT")…

Outperformance Indicator leverages proprietary machine-learning algorithms for marketers to re-allocate media in-flight, much faster than traditional analytics Upwave, the leading analytics platform for brand marketers, today announced the addition of the new Outperformance Indicator metric to its industry-leading dashboard for marketers. Marketers will now have the ability to make accurate media allocation and optimization decisions in-flight before the data reaches “statistical significance” like traditional lift analysis…

Results Highlight How CTV is Bringing More Opportunity to Connect with Consumers Vericast today announces proprietary survey findings from its Valassis line of business related to the growth and influence of Connected TV (CTV). Vericast is a leading marketing solutions company that delivers actionable insights and operational expertise at scale. Marketing Technology News: TechBytes with Michelle Engle, Chief Product Officer at Vericast “We can help brands connect personalized, memorable ads to the…

Marketers now able to seamlessly reach addressable, people-based audiences across the OpenX Exchange OpenX and LiveRamp, today announced the expansion of their US partnership into Australia, providing local marketers with an improved way to reach audience segments on LiveRamp Authenticated Identity Infrastructure. As part of the integration, marketers will be able to increase their addressable reach and engage with their audiences across thousands of publishers' inventory, including web, in-app, and connected TV (CTV)…

Arrivalist announced today that it has partnered with Samsung Ads, the advertising arm of Samsung Electronics and global leader in advanced TV, to provide its travel vertical advertising clients with independent, incremental measurement of advanced TV. Marketing Technology News: SnapCell Collaborates With eLead On Dealer Suite Integration “The keyword for us is incremental visitation from media exposures” “As a leader in advanced and connected TV it’s critical that we help our clients understand how their video…

Collaboration will increase media campaign optimization proven to move the needle for business today MiQ – global programmatic media partner -- announced a strategic partnership with leading Shopify Plus agency, BVA. The partnership will give BVA access to MiQ’s Intelligence Hub, custom analytics capabilities, and bespoke integrations into BVA’s proprietary reporting suite to help clients successfully navigate the ever-evolving programmatic advertising landscape, drive greater campaign optimization, and…

Continuing global expansion of Comscore’s cross-platform measurement powered by Samba TV’s first-party connected TV data in APAC region Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, announced the expansion of its TV measurement footprint to Australia, driven by its partnership with Samba TV, the leading global provider of omniscreen advertising data and audience analytics. The new connected TV (CTV) measurement solution, launched last year in select European markets, has now…

With misinformation and public fatigue over COVID-19 making it increasingly challenging to disseminate vaccine information that resonates, Origin Media's animation studio produced multiple series of Native CTV Toppers that bust vaccine myths and stress the importance of vaccinating as a nation. Toppers are 15-second native content creatives that run directly before brand ads within regular ad breaks, exclusively on Connected TV. Through Origin's Enhanced Programmatic (EP) solution, these COVID-19 series are available now…

Achievement adds to Comscore's industry-leading ad measurement suite and underscores commitment to innovation Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted it a patent on its "System and Method for Analyzing the Effectiveness of Content Advertisements". This patent covers Comscore's process of determining the effectiveness of Connected TV (CTV), over-the-top (OTT) and other video advertisements by…

New Universal Frequency Control Product Leverages Inscape Smart TV Data To Enable Near Real-Time Ad Inventory Management for Connected TV Campaigns VIZIO Ads, the award winning TV company's direct-to-device advertising business, unveiled Universal Frequency Control, a new capability that enables brands to set limits on how often a VIZIO TV within a household is exposed to specific ad creative when placing an ad through its platform. Solving one of the biggest problems plaguing the over-the-top and connected TV…

Wavefront TV, a leading software-and-services company helping publishers accelerate their connected TV growth, is pleased to announce the launch of Relative Motion™, the industry's first out-of-the-box BI platform customized for the needs of connected television content publishers. The launch of Relative Motion signals the expansion of Wavefront TV's solution suite and brings to market a SaaS platform that empowers publishers to maximize both yield & engagement. "The core challenge with connected TV growth is that…

Collaborative Effort Delivers Analytics to Accurately & Effectively Inform Audience Activation TVSquared, the global leader in cross-platform TV ad measurement, announced it has teamed up with Experian, the global information services company, to offer deterministic TV ad measurement to media publishers, agencies and advertisers. TVSquared’s technology will power the combined linear TV ad measurement offering, and Experian’s data and identity assets will be integrated into the ADvantage platform to provide even more…

Partnership delivers industry-first open exchange programmatic contextual targeting solution for CTV and video in LATAM Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, and MediaMath, the acclaimed independent advertising technology company for leading brands and agencies, recently announced that they have partnered to launch a connected TV (CTV), video, mobile and desktop contextual targeting solution available now in Latin America using MediaMath's demand-side platform. With…

In an effort to better serve their clients, Hunt Marketing, an advertising agency based in Oxford, Miss., is launching two enhanced planning and branding packages: Roadmap to Success and Fresh, New Look. Rather than a traditional marketing plan, Roadmap to Success is an actionable guide that includes five components: market research, target audiences, strengths and weaknesses, positioning strategy and budget. Fresh, New Look takes Hunt Marketing’s current branding services and elevates them into a full brand identity…

New Mobile Streaming Report by Adjust finds 52.5% of consumers worldwide have used smartphones to stream more video content amid social distancing Over The Top (OTT) streaming has exploded as consumers seek out on-demand entertainment more than ever before, according to a new report released by global app marketing analytics platform Adjust, further demonstrating a fundamental shift in consumption patterns toward mobile. Busting the myth that the majority of mobile streaming takes place on commutes, 84% of consumers across…

80% of the top 500 Roku apps and 62% of the top 500 Fire TV apps had app-ads.txt by the end of 2020 (top apps based on number of programmatic ads sold, as measured by Pixalate) Pixalate, a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform, released the industry's first Connected TV App-Ads.txt Reports for Roku Apps and Amazon Fire TV Apps, reviewing app-ads.txt adoption trends in 2020. The reports analyze the state of app-ads.txt adoption among Connected TV (CTV) apps in the Roku and Amazon Fire TV Channel…