Connected TV

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…

Partnership Bolsters National and Local Advertising Opportunities to Engage Seamlessly with Redbox's More than 40 Million Entertainment Lovers at the Kiosk, Digital, Mobile, Free On Demand, and More Redbox, America's destination for new-release movies and free streaming entertainment, is expanding opportunities for advertising to reach its millions of customers through a partnership with Screenvision Media, a national leader in delivering comprehensive advertising representation services for top-tier theatrical exhibitors,…

Global advertising technology leader, The Trade Desk, announced the appointment of JoAnna Foyle as Senior Vice President of Inventory Partnerships. In this role, Foyle is responsible for global partnerships and operations that support the company’s omnichannel supply partners, including the burgeoning Connected TV (CTV) marketplace. Foyle reports to Tim Sims, The Trade Desk’s Chief Revenue Officer, and will be based in the company’s New York office. Marketing Technology News: Admix Expands Into US And EMEA With Major…

The company’s IRIS_ID, a global unique identifier for each individual video on-boarded to its data marketplace built to enable contextual intelligence and brand safety, will be interoperable with Unified ID 2.0 for video-level targeting IRIS.TV, the leading video data platform, announced that it is supporting the industry-wide initiative to develop and deploy Unified ID 2.0. With initial development led by The Trade Desk, Unified ID 2.0 is a new open-source industry-wide approach to internet identity that preserves the…

YoBoHo New Media Private Limited, a subsidiary of BBTV Holdings Inc., home to the popular kids IP HooplaKidz, is excited to announce that its premium kids content is now available for streaming, across Pluto TV users in Latin America. Marketing Technology News: Panopto Announces New Collaboration Features for Rapid Knowledge Sharing YoBoHo, a subsidiary of BBTV, is a global digital media company that specializes in creating, distributing and licensing original content in the kids & family, lifestyle, and…

Kochava Foundry Delivers AdTech’s Need For Customized Analytics Services Kochava, the leading real-time data solutions company for omni-channel attribution and measurement, announced a new strategic services division within the organization focused on expert data analysis to empower brands to maximize revenue and streamline the efficiency of their marketing campaigns. The Kochava Foundry is a team of expert data analysts focused on optimizing app marketing to help brands fuel growth. The Foundry team has developed custom…

Samba TV, the leading provider of global TV data and audience analytics, announced it achieved another record year in 2020, surpassing 2019 figures and achieving more than $100 million in revenue globally. Samba TV’s success comes in the face of headwinds created by the global pandemic, an event that led to historic shifts in the TV industry as audiences migrated to streaming at a faster than expected rate. “Samba TV is on a mission to fundamentally transform the television viewing experience,” said Ashwin Navin, Co-founder…

IAB Tech Lab has released the authorized digital sellers list (ads.txt) specification and its mobile app counterpart (app-ads.txt) to address transparency and anti-fraud for Connected TV (CTV) and Over-the-Top (OTT) inventory, for a 30-day public comment period, which begins today and lasts until January 14, 2021. Through these enhancements, the IAB Tech Lab Programmatic Supply Chain Working Group intends to support CTV/OTT apps in which multiple entities may have ownership rights over ad slots, commonly referred to as…

Wurl, the leading provider of streaming video distribution and advertising services for connected TV (CTV), announced that Kris Johns has been promoted to the newly created position of Vice President, Advertising. Kris has been with Wurl since 2017, first as Vice President of User Experience and subsequently as Vice President of Product. Recently, he has increasingly been focused on the advertising side of the business as Wurl's monetization services have become more and more important to customers on the growing Wurl…

The 6 adtech leaders include Adomni, Broadsign, Place Exchange, Verizon Media, VIOOH, and Vistar Media. They join forces to deliver parameters for defining programmatic DOOH inventory. Ensuring a mutual understanding between the DOOH buyer and seller in the bid-stream and during the media transaction, these standards open up new inventory discovery opportunities, improve targeting, and promote greater knowledge equality within the programmatic DOOH industry. Six leading digital-out-of-home (DOOH) technology platforms -…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, today released its 2021 Industry Pulse Report. Surveying over 200 ad industry experts across the US, IAS found that issues around digital video and connected TV, programmatic, and social rocketed to the top of the ad industry's priority list. Marketing Technology News: Solodev Achieves AWS Public Safety & Disaster Response Competency Status "2020 has proven to be a year of accelerated change in the digital ad industry, with major shifts…

Basis by Centro Gives Media Professionals More Control, Insight and Speed on Campaigns Centro, a global provider of advertising technology, announced features on its Basis platform to automate workflow on ad serving, analytics and more for omnichannel campaigns. The product upgrades improve speed of activation and campaign management for media professionals at brands and agencies. Basis by Centro is the industry’s most comprehensive, automated, and intelligent digital media platform—and the only software solution of its…

Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, and MediaMath, acclaimed independent advertising technology company for leading brands and agencies, announced they have partnered to launch a connected TV (CTV) and video contextual targeting solution for the open exchange programmatic landscape available now globally in MediaMath's demand-side platform. This first-ever capability uses frame-by-frame visual recognition and second-by-second audio processing to provide…

We are incredibly proud to announce that AlgoriX has partnered with Limpid to monetize operated applications on the ROKU platform. In a short span, Limpid has gained immense popularity among the users on the connected TV. The Limpid user base has grown by over 850k MAU in the US. Monstromo is their top channel, followed by Jarvis and Viola. They found their way on Roku TV and changed the way how CTV is perceived. But their creative and innovative ideas have no end. Motivated by the growth of their channels, Limpid has added…

Programmatic TV buyers can reach audiences on Samsung TV Plus, a free, ad-supported streaming service, allowing brands to run full-screen, in-stream video ads in a brand-safe, premium environment Samsung Ads Europe, the media and advertising division of Samsung Electronics, announces that advertisers across Europe now have the ability to access Samsung Ads’ premium video inventory programmatically via their preferred DSP, with direct access to Samsung's proprietary audience segments powered by automatic content recognition…

Sonobi, an advertising technology company that connects advertisers directly with individuals through premium media companies, announced today its newly-launched integration with JW Player.  A core focus for Sonobi over the last 18 months has been to expand its offering of Video and Connected TV (CTV) products. Sonobi's goal is to bring its proprietary identity and contextual solutions to Tier-1 supply across all channels through valued partnerships.  JW Player's innovative products, which deliver over 10 billion monthly…

Integration of viewership data from DIRECTV and DISH Set Top Boxes, VIZIO Smart TVs marks a critical step towards holistic cross media measurement Nielsen announced that it is adding addressable measurement to its National TV currency. Through strategic data integrations, Nielsen will add ~55 million devices across smart TVs and set top boxes to help scale addressable TV. Nielsen's addressable measurement will include AT&T's DIRECTV, DISH, Nielsen Advanced Video Advertising and addressable campaigns on VIZIO that…

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, announced that Tom Sharma will join the company as Chief Product Officer, effective November 2, 2020. This critical new hire will accelerate IAS's global product expansion, including plans to enhance its industry-leading Connected TV (CTV) solution. Sharma will be based in New York and report directly to IAS CEO, Lisa Utzschneider. "We have aggressive goals to deliver innovative ad verification products that drive this industry forward, and Tom's…

Expanded Collaboration With the Trade Desk Empowers Marketers and Publishers to Connect Their Data Safely and Effectively Across the Open Internet LiveRamp, the leading data connectivity platform, announced that it is collaborating with advertising technology leader The Trade Desk to enable improved addressable advertising and measurement across channels, without a reliance on third-party cookies or device identifiers. Moving forward, Unified ID 2.0 will be made available to publishers via LiveRamp’s Authenticated…

mediasmart, Affle’s self-serve mobile programmatic platform, today announced the launch of its Audience Targeting & Household Sync technology on Connected TV (CTV). Though programmatic CTV ads have been available on mediasmart for sometime, this new technology now enables brands to make CTV ads more engaging by syncing CTV ad campaigns with ads on other connected devices in the same household. They can thus make their CTV ads significantly more relevant by personalizing them for specific audiences within the household.…