Knox Media Hub and All3Media International have announced a new milestone in their recently renewed partnership. Both companies are now working on designing smarter, and more efficient tools for managing and delivering metadata, a key operational backbone of media operations. The new solution standardises metadata across entire media libraries with configurable schemas and text replacement templates. […]

FreeWheel, a Comcast company and technology platform for the video advertising industry, and Experian, a data and technology company, have announced a partnership aimed at improving audience targeting for media buyers in the UK. The collaboration will enable advertisers to reach more precise, addressable audiences, ensuring consumers receive more relevant experiences, products and services.  Experian’s […]

MetaBroadcast, the metadata management provider for content aggregators and audience measurement firms, has partnered with IMDb, the popular source for information on movies, TV shows and celebrities, to launch a new service that empowers media and entertainment companies with deep insights into the completeness, accuracy, and consistency of the metadata to enrich their media catalogues. […]

Television consumption behaviours in the US have changed dramatically during the last decade, making measurement increasingly challenging as the landscape becomes more fragmented and complex. With the growing availability of big TV datasets reducing barriers to entry in the marketplace, the ecosystem now operates across multiple measurement vendors – meaning different data sets, methodologies, and […]

The Connected TV (CTV) video streaming industry in the US operates a massive data-driven surveillance apparatus that has transformed the television set into a sophisticated monitoring, tracking and targeting device, according to a new report from lobbying group the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD). How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the Streaming Era documents how CTV […]

Barb, the industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, has issued an invitation to tender (ITT) for Barb Data Hub, a new centralised system for accessing its viewing figures. As part of its strategic priorities, Barb is undergoing a change in its data distribution strategy and is planning to set up a centralised Barb Data […]

VideoAmp, a media measurement company, has announced a strategic collaboration with Snap. The social technology platform will integrate its first-party data, video, and augmented reality (AR) inventory into VideoAmp’s cross-platform planning solution, enabling advertisers to make strategic budget allocations to reach audiences across linear TV, streaming and digital platforms. Leveraging VideoAmp’s big data and tech […]

Yahoo Advertising has announced that the Yahoo DSP is the first platform to integrate measurement and audience data from TV data and technology player, VideoAmp. The partnership will bring VideoAmp’s targeting and measurement solutions to enhance connected TV (CTV) campaigns when activated against the 108 million+ households that the Yahoo DSP reaches. This partnership sees […]

PubMatic, an independent technology company delivering digital advertising’s supply chain of the future, has announced a data collaboration with Adsquare, the global location intelligence platform. The new partnership makes PubMatic one of the first sell-side technology platforms to offer Adsquare’s data to media buyers globally. The collaboration leverages PubMatic’s publishing partners and strong buy-side relationships […]

Barb, the industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, has issued the final part of its invitation to tender (ITT) for the next iteration of its audience measurement service, which aims to extend Barb’s integration of big data and panel data. Earlier, this May Barb shared an ITT for the methodology, data processing and delivery […]