NBCUniversal has agreed what it describes a “multi-year landmark deal” with iSpot.tv that will make the real-time measurement company one of its preferred partners for quantifying and unifying cross-screen media consumption, reach and impressions across its One Platform. iSpot.tv will support NBCUniversal’s audience verification initiatives for both ads and programme ratings. These currency tests will […]
Analysts at investment bank Exane/BNPP have upgraded the UK’s commercial television broadcaster ITV to ‘Outperform’ (from ‘Neutral’), saying its positive review was helped by increased optimism on the UK’s advertising cycle. In summary, the bank says that it has reassessed ITV’s business catalysts and the broadcaster’s recent track record, new clients coming aboard and the […]
Digital data pioneer Datonics has partnered with Simpli.fi, a specialist in programmatic advertising and agency management software, to launch a new CTV data offering within the Simpli.fi platform. Datonics is providing Simpli.fi segment data mapped to a continually updated household IP, providing advertisers with enhanced accuracy and scale, as well as breadth and depth of segments available […]
Roku has announced that Scott Rosenberg, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Platform Business, plans to step down sometime in the spring of 2022. Rosenberg joined Roku in 2012 as Vice President, Advertising, and Business Development. In 2017 he was named SVP and GM of Roku’s Platform Business, overseeing both advertising and content and […]
Mediaocean, the platform for omnichannel advertising, has released its 2021 Market Report and 2022 Outlook. The inaugural year-end report highlights the growing challenges regarding omnichannel measurement and the massive boom of connected TV (CTV), among other trends conveyed by today’s industry leaders. In a survey conducted among 250+ leaders at advertising agencies, media providers, and […]
Cross-platform media evaluation specialist Comscore is introducing ‘Comscore Everywhere’, which it claims is a true single-source unified cross-platform measurement solution. Comscore Everywhere will provide a comprehensive, consistent, and deduplicated view of media consumption and audience intelligence—across media and screens—to capture the realities of the modern media consumption accurately. The company suggests Comscore Everywhere represents a […]
Research from market analyst firm Omdia shows that Google, Amazon, Meta (formerly Facebook), and Apple – collectively GAMA – will command 70 per cent of the online advertising market outside of China by the end of 2021. The latest outlook comes from Omdia’s Advertising Intelligence Service, which provides net advertising revenue forecasts split by media, […]
Findings from connected TV (CTV) performance advertising platform tvScientific’s survey indicate that a majority of consumers (57 per cent) say the primary way they watch television, movies, and other video content is by streaming it digitally, compared to just 26 per cent who watch through cable or linear TV. Ninety-two per cent of consumers who […]
VidMob, the platform for Intelligent Creative, has released research that shows how the direction of model’s eye gaze in the first few seconds of a video ad can significantly impact performance metrics, but can differ greatly based on context. VidMob applied proprietary AI technology to detect the specific direction of eye gaze and its relationship […]
Unruly, a global video and Connected TV (CTV) programmatic advertising platform, has revealed the most emotionally engaging UK Christmas ads of 2021 using its content testing tool, UnrulyEQ, including John Lewis, Coca-Cola, Selfridges, McDonald’s, Marks and Spencer, Lidl, Coca Cola and more. The ad with the highest emotional impact was Disney’s The Stepdad, a 3-minute […]