Connected TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkG3Ai-d0o Some advertising technology providers like Beachfront have a very important role to play in the current Connected TV and OTT ecosystem. We have come a long way since the first generation of OTTs, Set-up-box VODs and programmatic advertising platforms made their entry in the ad tech market. Today, we are witnessing rampant innovations in both video ad management as well as CTV performance analytics, hinting at the next big developments for the Digital TV advertisers and…

Inuvo, Inc., a leading provider of marketing technology, powered by IntentKey artificial intelligence (AI) that serves brands and agencies, announces the production launch of a new feature which provides marketers with the ability to understand the effectiveness of their Connected TV (CTV) campaigns. Marketers have always viewed TV as a critical component to their branding efforts, but until now there hasn’t been a way to measure its effectiveness. Inuvo now offers CTV attribution for clients. This capability means…

Nielsen announces an integration with Adsquare​, enabling European marketers to intelligently target audiences for out-of-home media buying. Nielsen Marketing Cloud’s data currently supplies the online programmatic ecosystem with premium owned and operated audience data and insight into consumer behaviour, preference, purchasing decisions and habits. These data sets are already available for activation across a number of different online and offline marketing channels including display, video, native, audio, connected TV…

The Newsy channel will be available on Philo's streaming TV service just in time for the highly-anticipated 2020 election As part of its continued expansion across over-the-top and pay TV platforms, Newsy has added its full slate of news programming to Philo, the nation's fastest-growing live and on-demand streaming service. Philo subscribers now have access to Newsy's up-to-the-minute news coverage and its full lineup of live shows including "Morning Rush" and "Newsy Tonight," and can stream live coverage of key…

Moore, a leading provider of performance-driven marketing solutions, announces the hiring of Matt Frattura as executive vice president of Global Media. As a leader with Global Media, Frattura will provide clients with a holistic view of their direct response television strategy, spend, and results. Bringing more than 15 years of media planning and buying experience to the role, Frattura joins Global Media from Data Axle where he led the Apogee multichannel cooperative database as chief strategy officer. Prior to Data…

DoubleVerify (“DV”), a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics, announced the industry’s first Connected TV (CTV) brand safety solution – advancing the company’s complete video solution for advertisers, across all environments. This solution brings new transparency to CTV and offers advertisers three important controls over their CTV buys. With inclusion and exclusion lists, advertisers and brands can align inventory and brand suitability requirements by targeting or avoiding specific…

AdCellerant, a leader in the technology and digital advertising space, has launched its new Streaming TV digital advertising product, which allows advertisers to reach users on all of their screens as they view live or on-demand programming through any connected device. Streaming TV provides advertisers an opportunity to incorporate TV as part of their digital marketing strategy in a targeted and cost-effective way. AdCellerant's new offering, Streaming TV, simplifies the complexity of buying connected TV, over-the-top,…

Tell us about your business continuity plans through COVID-19?  Many businesses have faced uncharted disruption and have felt the material impact of this crisis. TransUnion has been uniquely equipped with data and insights to help our customers respond in this evolving marketplace. You acquired Tru Optik, an adtech data management firm that deals in OTT business. What is the drive behind making such a big announcement during the pandemic? While it’s true that this pandemic, and the resulting stay-at-home orders,…

Tru Optik’s household identity graph and data marketplace position TransUnion as the premiere data-as-a-service provider across connected TV and streaming audio Building on recent investments in identity and consumer insights for marketing, TransUnion has agreed to acquire Tru Optik. Tru Optik is the most relied upon data marketplace and data management platform for connected TV, streaming audio and gaming. Their patented household graph of more than 80 million U.S. homes enables household-level identity, targeting and…

Future Today, the largest publisher of video streaming channels that reach millions of OTT viewers, today announced it is significantly expanding the footprint for its most successful programming by launching three new Free Advertising-Supported Linear TV (FAST) streaming channels on The Roku Channel, home of free and premium television on the Roku® platform, in the U.S. “Future Today is a great partner and we’re very excited to include their free linear channels on The Roku Channel,” said Ashley Hovey, Director of AVOD…

Industry-Leading Analyst Firm Recognizes Amobee For Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute Amobee, the global advertising technology company reinventing advertising for the converging world, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Ad Tech (September 2020). "The last two years have been transformative for Amobee. To us, Gartner’s independent research validates our strategy as we continue to unify advanced TV and digital video with data-driven linear TV…

AMC and The Trade Desk among major industry players leveraging the technology SpotX, the leading global video advertising platform, today announced new programmatic solutions that will allow TV programmers to unlock the full value of linear addressable television for the first time. The solutions are in part built in support of the Project OAR open standard, which creates new addressable opportunities by replacing linear spots at the glass (smart TV) level. SpotX is also powering programmatic executions within traditional…

Agreement harnesses joint strengths in cross-platform measurement intelligence, lays groundwork for aggressive European expansion Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, announced its expanded TV measurement footprint driven by a new partnership with Samba TV, one of the leading cross-screen television data and analytics providers globally. The launch of international Smart TV measurement capabilities will begin in select European markets. By working with new and…

BrightLine, the leader in data-driven connected TV (CTV) ad solutions, announces the launch of BrightLink, the company's next-generation CTV platform and portal, which delivers the most advanced and scalable, data-driven monetization tools and ad capabilities for OTT TV providers. BrightLink represents the unification and expansion of the company's supply-side TV services suite, beginning with the introduction of the Unified Audience View (UAV). The UAV enables media partners to provide the much demanded, de-duplicated…

Allows advertisers to target listeners based on party affiliation, issue orientation, and more Triton Digital, the global technology and services leader to the digital audio and podcast industry, announced  that advertisers can now purchase digital audio inventory on an audience-addressable basis according to political interests and behaviors. This capability is made possible through the targeting capabilities within the Political Data Cloud by Tru Optik, the identity resolution leader across OTT, Connected TV (CTV) and…

Partnership provides granular consumer insights to measure and drive results for brands across ITN’s expansive source of audience and inventory partners ITN Networks, the leading unwired network in the U.S., announced its partnership with LoopMe, the outcomes-based advertising platform, to expand advanced audience measurement and targeting for national advertisers across customized linear, over-the-top (OTT) and connected TV (CTV) video networks. This SaaS data partnership is the first of its kind and will give ITN…

Inscape, the smart TV data company and a subsidiary of VIZIO, and Kinetiq, a leading TV intelligence platform, announced a new partnership that combines Inscape's glass-level insights from more than 15 million smart TVs with Kinetiq's real-time program and ad metadata mined from more than 1,400 cable and broadcast networks and stations in all 210 U.S. DMAs. This powerful combination allows marketers to better measure the effectiveness of their TV investment across ads, sponsorships, and earned media. Kinetiq also provides…

Wurl, the leading provider of streaming video distribution and advertising services for connected TV (CTV), announced that Plex, the popular streaming media platform for all your favorite media, recently launched 42 channels on the Wurl Network. The channels, all launched in a single day, include such popular programming as Reuters, The Bob Ross Channel, Game Show Central, Deal or No Deal, Wipeout Xtra, FailArmy, The Pet Collective, People Are Awesome, and WeatherSpy, from leading studios including Reuters, Cinedigm, Game…

DeepIntent expands specialized Healthcare Marketplace so advertisers can reach patient and provider audiences programmatically within Connected TV media Marketing technology company, DeepIntent, today launched the industry’s first programmatic Connected TV Marketplace built exclusively for pharmaceutical and healthcare advertisers. The CTV Marketplace allows brands and media agencies to find qualified, clinically-relevant healthcare audiences and reach them with targeted video ads within connected TV content. In the wake of…

ENGINE Media Exchange (EMX), ENGINE's fully owned, end-to-end technology and programmatic solution, purpose-built to evolve today's digital marketplace, announced the launch of its Connected TV (CTV) "Incremental Reach Measurement" product. With the product, EMX integrates TV viewing data provided by Inscape, a leading provider of automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies, with its own campaign delivery data in a proprietary data warehousing, reporting, and analytics solution. The CTV "Incremental Reach…