The holiday season was good for many of America’s living rooms, with Smart TV ownership increasing in Q1 2024 to nearly eight in 10 households as consumers replace old TVs and embrace streaming video. Hub Entertainment Research’s annual Connected Home study reveals how consumers are still investing in home entertainment technology that improves their home […]
RTL AdAlliance, the international media sales house of RTL, and Wurl, a provider of data-driven solutions for CTV, have partnered to accelerate advertising sales on the European CTV inventory of Wurl. RTL AdAlliance enables advertisers to gain simple access to the over 1,300 FAST channels, delivered to audiences in Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Austria, […]
Roku is adding more ways to personalise and elevate the viewing experience. Over the next few months, Roku has announced it will introduce Backdrops, Roku Smart Picture, and updates across browse, discovery, and the mobile app across all US devices. “We want our platform to be relevant to how you watch TV, whether you purchased […]
Innovid, an independent software platform for the creation, delivery, measurement, and optimisation of advertising across connected TV (CTV), linear, and digital has launched the Harmony initiative, aimed at optimising the CTV advertising ecosystem. Harmony Direct, the first in a wave of product innovations released as part of the initiative, is designed to streamline the supply […]
FreeWheel, the technology platform for the television advertising industry, has announced a partnership with Lotame, the technology company that makes data easier to use for digital marketers, to expand audience data across its product suite in EMEA. Using audience data from the Lotame Data Marketplace, FreeWheel says it will be able to enhance addressable audiences […]
Music video network Vevo is partnering with AI-powered video analysis, performance and monetisation specialist KERV Interactive to bring new ad formats to Vevo’s global CTV portfolio. This partnership will include the Vevo TV app and 20 linear FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channels, spanning over 35 distribution partners worldwide. Advertisers on Vevo will now have […]
Sixty-nine per cent of US CTV users prefer streaming free, ad supported streaming TV (FAST) content instead of a paid subscription without ads, and over half (53 per cent) spend two or more hours per week using FAST applications, according to a study, The Big Shift: Wave III, from connected TV and cross-screen advertising specialist […]
The earliest of what we now consider smart TVs were first introduced around 2010. The usefulness of these systems when combined with an increased reliance on streaming quickly made them popular, to the point where smart functionality is now considered necessary. As useful as smart systems built into TVs are, however, they’re not without their […]
Marketers agree that CTV advertising is the most effective digital channel in their media mix and 23.6 per cent plan to increase their spending on connected TV (CTV) campaigns, according to a survey from tvScientific, the performance. The study, which collected responses from more than 600 marketing professionals in Q4 2023, found that 35 per […]
Advertisers leveraging the biggest screen in the house are seeing interactive CTV campaigns achieve engagement rates 4.6x higher than mobile video and 10.3x higher than desktop video. When compared to standard pre-roll, interactive CTV video formats, inclusive of choice- and non-choice-based ads, also generate more than 600 per cent lift in engagement. These insights are […]