GumGum, a global technology and media company specializing in contextual intelligence, today announced that they are working alongside IRIS.TV and SpotX (now part of Magnite) to help the Ad Council and COVID Collaborative promote Covid-19 vaccine education in relevant, suitable video environments across the web.

The Ad Council turned to this team of partners to help deliver a campaign that could make a difference. Knowing that 69% of consumers are more likely to look at an ad that’s relevant to the context they are viewing, GumGum ensured that ads not only appeared next to “health” related video content but applied its sentiment analysis capabilities to ensure that ads were placed next to video content with a neutral and positive sentiment. By applying these additional layers of contextual insights, the Ad Council could be confident that their ads are reaching consumers in the right moments and alongside relevant content to drive engagement, and more importantly, action.

“We are grateful for partners like GumGum, IRIS.tv, and SpotX, who have come together to deliver a highly-targeted campaign, ultimately helping educate Americans about the COVID-19 vaccines and provide answers to their top questions. This is the first campaign where we will be using GumGum’s sentiment analysis technology, which will help us identify the most effective place for these ads to run and make a significant impact for millions of Americans making a decision about vaccination.” – Kathy Kayse, Chief Media Strategy & Partnerships Officer, the Ad Council.

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Gumgum and SpotX have teamed up to donate the ad impressions for this campaign and IRIS.TV has waived all data usage fees in order to help get the messaging out. IRIS.TV’s video data platform allows GumGum access to publishers’ video content to scan the video itself with its proprietary Verity contextual technology and transact programmatically on the SpotX platform. GumGum is able to sample video imaging at 1 frame per second, transcribe audio content and assess the sentiment of the content with its Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, and analyze text on-screen using optical character recognition, all to determine the true content categorization and ensure brand suitability across videos themselves. Publishers such as SendtoNews, MailOnline and Frankly have opted into these contextual deals via SpotX.

“GumGum is a long-standing partner of the AdCouncil. We love being able to lend our contextual expertise and capabilities to help them ensure their ads are showing up in the most optimal environments. With the support of IRIS.TV and SpotX we were able to put together a great campaign for the AdCouncil,” said Ben Plomion, Chief Growth Officer, GumGum.

“As connected TV viewership continues to grow, it is critical that public safety ad campaigns like this one reach those audiences that may have cut the cord,” said Kristen Williams, SVP of Strategic Partnerships at SpotX. “We are happy to help drive awareness and education about the importance of vaccinations in any way we can.”

”We are thrilled to be a part of a campaign of such importance,” said Richie Hyden, COO of IRIS.TV. “We have been focused on unlocking the value of video data by connecting it to cutting edge contextual intelligence technology like GumGum’s Verity and enabling partners like SpotX to provide advertisers with more precise targeting, which has repeatedly proven to improve campaign performance. Seeing this come to fruition in real time for something as important as the Ad Council’s vaccination campaign has been extremely gratifying.”

GumGum was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The company works with over 100 major brands and 1200 leading publishers globally. GumGum recently received a $75 million dollar investment by Goldman Sachs Growth to accelerate GumGum’s contextual intelligence offering globally.

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