TV advertising

Today’s Daily MarTech Roundup covers the latest in Cloud, Marketing Analytics, Automation, Customer experience, AI, and ML announcements from iSpot (TV Advertising), Allocadia (Marketing Attribution), Jellyfish (Marketing Automation), Medallia (Customer Experience Management), to Salesforce (Analytics). iSpot Acquires Ace Metrix iSpot.tv has acquired Ace Metrix, a pioneer in attitudinal measurement for TV and video creatives. The deal delivers the marketplace a single-source solution for tracking the business outcomes and…

Today’s Daily MarTech Roundup covers the latest in Cloud, Marketing Analytics, Automation, Customer experience, AI, and ML announcements from airSlate (Marketing Automation), Salesforce (CRM), OpenAP (TV Advertising), Verve Group (Video Advertising), to dotCMS (Content Management). airSlate Announces $80 Million in Total Capital Raise from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, General Catalyst and HighSage Ventures airSlate, a leader in no-code business automation solutions, announced the closing of $40 million in additional…

In initial survey, leading snack brand saw double-digit brand attribution lift across multiple indicators Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting, and evaluating media across platforms, announced it has completed the first of a series of brand lift surveys in partnership with Frameplay, a leading global intrinsic in-game advertising company. Focusing on the intrinsic in-game advertising category, the new brand lift survey series is designed to study and highlight the value of this highly lucrative and emerging…

New SSP provides access to premium array of national linear inventory, enabling buyers to build media plans using accurate and real-time marketplace data Interoperability of APIs adds workflow automation to planning and buying by connecting directly to buyside tools, delivering on the needs of advertisers for more control of cross-publisher optimization within existing workflows Omnicom Media Group becomes the first agency to integrate its in-house tool, Omni, in new partnership with OpenAP OpenAP, the advanced…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tXDNjsKrxo The rise of new-age digital advertising channels such as OTT, immersive video and social media have forced traditional/linear TV adtech firms to focus on improving their analytics and attribution techniques. Despite the fast rise of immersive ad tech models, including gaming and email channels, TV advertising is far from dead. While cord-cutting remains the biggest trend-changer in the industry, we continue to see adult audience maintaining their love-hate relationship with…

Hi Jay, please tell us about your current role and the technology you handle at LiveRamp. As the Chief Strategy Officer for LiveRamp TV, I am tasked with the role of executing strategic and revenue partnerships that accelerate the industry's move to scale liquidity in cross-screen marketing and outcome-based measurement. As the lines between TV, streaming and digital advertising continue to blur, the industry is in dire need of a neutral, scalable platform that can unify marketers, agencies, programmers and distributors…

LG to Utilize Video AI-Powered Solutions to Grow Global Smart TV Software and Content Service Business LG Electronics (LG) and Alphonso announced a significant investment by LG in Alphonso to bring together the two TV industry leaders’ technologies and innovations to LG’s smart TV lineup. With this investment of nearly USD 80 million, LG will become Alphonso’s largest investor with a controlling stake of more than 50 percent. Marketing Technology News: LiveIntent Expands C-Suite to Lead the Company’s Growth Trajectory…

Today’s Daily MarTech Roundup covers the latest in Cloud, Marketing Analytics, Automation, Customer experience, AI, and ML announcements from Florida Funders (Native & Programmatic Advertising), Foxy Bingo (Video Platforms), Cadent (TV Advertising), Bancard (B2B Commerce), to RealNetworks (Entertainment). Florida Funders Invests in Kliken, a Digital Platform Designed to Simplify Online Marketing and Ignite Lead Generation Florida Funders, a hybrid of a venture capital fund and an angel investor network that’s…

Cadent's advanced TV platform to be launched across Liberty Global's footprint in 2021 Cadent, the advanced TV platform company, announced the expansion of its addressable advertising management platform in Europe in partnership with Liberty Global, one of the world's leading converged video, broadband and communications companies. Cadent has now expanded its automated addressable linear and VOD Advertising Platform into Liberty Global's Irish footprint, Virgin Media Ireland, with its continental European markets to follow…

Acquisition will enable FreeWheel clients to participate more seamlessly in the growing programmatic TV ecosystem FreeWheel announced that it has agreed to acquire Beeswax, a software as a service (SaaS) advertising company. The acquisition will expand FreeWheel’s current programmatic marketplace capabilities across all forms of television and video advertising, including Connected TV (CTV) and Set-top Box Video on Demand (STB VOD). This transaction is expected to close in January 2021, pending regulatory approvals.…

Cadent Introduces Next-Generation Advanced TV Platform, Bringing Together Linear and Next-Generation TV Tools for Marketers Cadent, the advanced TV platform company, announced that Empower, the independently-owned media agency known as The Un-Holding Company is the first customer of its newly upgraded advanced TV platform, which will enable advertisers to assemble and activate their television campaigns across channels with more control, transparency and ease. Empower will use the patented TV mapping technology behind…

Leading TV ad planning, buying & measurement platform company partners with Polk Automotive Solutions by IHS Markit, a best-in-class automotive intelligence resource, to offer auto brands seamless access to new vehicle buyers on the largest source of Multiscreen TV in the US Ampersand, the audience-first TV advertising sales and technology platform company, announced it has integrated 500+ custom Polk Audiences by IHS Markit into the AND Platform, Ampersand's TV ad planning, buying and measurement platform launched at…

Digital marketers are constantly challenged by new trends. Whether it’s programmatic advertising, intelligent automation or hyper-personalization, the next big thing to chase is always round the corner.  What sometimes falls by the wayside in this race of innovations and buzzwords, is performance metrics. Performance-based marketing offers a helping hand by being broad enough to be embedded in any hyped marketing approach and flexible enough to meet the most specific goals. And as performance never goes out of fashion,…

Spearad, the emerging Addressable TV vendor, announced today that is has secured over US $1M in Seed financing. The funding round was realized with Fund Hessen-Kapital III, Fraser & Company, Richard Reimer of law firm Hogan Lovells, and industry veteran Ralf Jacob, who also joined the company´s advisory board. Richard Reimer and Philipp Kobus of Fraser will serve as non-executive advisors to the management team. Existing investor Leverage Invest & Consult GmbH, represented by Michael Schultheiss, also participated…

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…

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…

Today’s AdTech Roundup covers the latest in Native and Programmatic Advertising, Technology, TV Advertising, Audience Data announcements from Adapex, Adelphic, Crystalead, Catalina, Spaceback, to Doceree. Adelphic Strengthens Identity Resolution Capabilities, Integrates with Adstra Adelphic, a Viant people-based DSP for omnichannel advertising, is expanding its already robust data footprint by announcing its identity-based partnership with Adstra, the first Data Bureau designed to help marketers orchestrate the application…

Technical achievement improves Comscore's industry-leading invalid traffic detection capabilities for more accurate audience measurement Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted its patent on "Fraudulent Traffic Detection and Estimation". This patent covers Comscore's process of detecting fraudulent or invalid traffic (IVT) based on known fraudulent traffic in a control group. The technology…

Today’s AdTech Roundup covers the latest in Native and Programmatic Advertising, Technology, TV Advertising, Audience Data announcements from Spotify, Anzu, AdQuick, Pinnacle Advertising, and Colling Media. Spotify Announces Strategic Acquisition Megaphone Spotify Technology S.A, the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Megaphone, one of the world’s most innovative podcast advertising and publishing platforms. Together,…

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…