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Thinkbox enhances Demand Generator tool

UK commercial TV marketing body Thinkbox’s Demand Generator optimisation tool, developed by Gain Theory, MediaCom and Wavemaker and released at the end of 2019, has been expanded and enhanced to offer users greater flexibility to tailor its output. The Demand Generator enables marketers to determine the optimal advertising media mix specific to their business and […]

June 19, 2020

NBCU, Sky name ad leadership team

NBCUniversal and Sky have named the leadership team for the companies’ new One Platform Global Advertising & Partnerships offering. Newly-named President & Managing Director of Global Advertising & Partnerships KC Sullivan will lead the unified Global Advertising & Partnerships Team, and bring this offering to market. Sullivan, who most recently served as President & Managing […]

June 18, 2020

Sky: Additional £1.5m support for SMEs to use AdSmart

Due to what Sky Media describes as “overwhelming interest” in its AdSmart SME Support Scheme, it has announced it will provide an additional 150 businesses with targeted TV advertising support. The initial SME100 campaign now becomes SME250 as Sky Media invests a total of £2.5 million into the fund, bringing the total number of small […]

June 10, 2020

Inscape’s new audience panel

Smart TV data company Inscape is expanding its suite of data offerings through the creation of a National Representative Panel (NRP). The provider of automatic content recognition (ACR) data, which recently surpassed a consumer opt-in footprint of 15 million Smart TVs in the US, says it is continuing to enable new use cases for media […]

June 10, 2020

Research: TV fuels Facebook/Google ad effectiveness

Data from consumer analytics company ViewersLogic reveals that consumers who see brand specific ads on TV are much more likely to click on a Facebook or Google ad of the same brand. ViewersLogic passively measured consumer

June 5, 2020

Atresmedia, smartclip expand partnership

Atresmedia and smartclip, its current exclusive technology partner for digital advertising through HbbTV, have expanded their strategic agreement for Atresmedia’s Addressable TV portfolio. This agreement means a step forward in the relationship between both companies, which started with the acquisition of smartclip Latam in 2017, licensee of the technology and brand of smartclip for Spain […]

May 28, 2020

SpotX expands Measurement and Attribution Suite to CTV

SpotX, the global video advertising platform, has announced the expansion of its comprehensive Measurement and Attribution Suite. The extensive offering provides advertisers the ability to accurately attribute ad spend across video channels including connected TV (CTV). By uncovering valuable audience reach metrics like brand lift, incremental reach and frequency, and outcome-based measurement, advertisers can more […]

May 21, 2020

Scripps & ViacomCBS join Project OAR

The E.W. Scripps Company and an expanded group from ViacomCBS have joined Project OAR, the consortium working to recommend open standard protocols for TV programmers and platforms to easily manage, sell and deliver more relevant advertising experiences within linear and on-demand formats on smart TVs. The two media network groups join the consortium on the […]

May 11, 2020

Univision joins Nielsen’s Addressable TV beta programme

Univision Communications, the Hispanic media company in the US, is joining Nielsen’s Addressable TV platform beta programme. Univision will leverage Nielsen’s solution to evaluate the performance of test addressable ad campaigns enabling the company to assess how the solution performs with current procedures and systems. This move is part of Univision’s overall strategy of bringing […]

May 8, 2020

Research: Lockdown boosts AVoD appeal

The majority of consumers would watch targeted adverts to be able to access video content for free, according to research from advertising technology and consumer insights provider Rakuten Advertising. The research, conducted among more than 4,500 adults in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, showed that 38 per cent of UK consumers […]

May 5, 2020