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Samsung Ads Europe launches Smart Outcomes solution

Samsung Ads Europe, the advertising division of Samsung Electronics, has announced the launch of its new machine-learning advertising solution for clients, Smart Outcomes, allowing advertisers to automatically optimise CTV campaigns and leverage the largest single-source, deterministic TV data set in the European market. Powered by data from more than 60 million Samsung Smart TVs in […]

June 13, 2024

Yahoo launches Blueprint Performance

Yahoo Advertising has announced Yahoo Blueprint Performance, the latest update to its AI engine, Yahoo Blueprint, which powers a suite of features that guide performance throughout the Yahoo DSP. This next-level enhancement aims to redefine how advertisers manage and optimise digital campaigns by leveraging AI technology to boost efficiency and effectiveness while maintaining control. Yahoo […]

June 10, 2024

Neumeier launches new AI revenue optimization engine for CTV

Technologist and Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) inventor Zeev Neumeier, has announced his newest venture GraySwan is emerging from stealth. GraySwan provides an always-on, AI-powered optimisation ‘co-pilot’ for CTV advertising, to ensure programmatic campaigns are running efficiently. This comes at a time when US advertisers are projected to spend more than $24 billion on programmatic CTV video […]

May 29, 2024

BrightLine launches StreamLine

BrightLine, a specialist in shoppable CTV advertising experiences, has announced the launch of StreamLine, the self-service, automated tool for clients to design, build, and publish interactive and dynamic ad experiences across all leading streaming platforms. StreamLine is the first of several new, automated self-service tools BrightLine will be launching throughout 2024 to make interactive and […]

May 22, 2024

Research: 21% UK homes have cancelled SVoDs due to price

A report from Teads, the media platform, reveals that 21 per cent of UK households have cancelled some of their streaming subscriptions in the last six months due to price concerns. Additionally, 14 per cent of UK consumers say they are planning to reduce the number of streaming services they use in the next 12 […]

May 16, 2024

Barb issues tender for providers of big data

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 […]

May 16, 2024

Samsung Ads UK launches Insights Planner tool

Samsung Ads, the advertising arm of Samsung Electronics’ media division, has announced the scaling of its Insights Planner tool to all of its UK clients and advertisers, providing CTV insights to help plan future total TV campaigns. Samsung’s Insights Planner is powered by Samsung’s proprietary first party and ACR data, as well as additional data […]

May 14, 2024

Report: Surge in CTV, podcast, social video adspend

Advertisers are seeking out digital ad formats that capitalise on the engagement offered by the array of entertainment online, according to IAB’s Digital Adspend report for 2023, conducted with PwC. Spend on podcast ads grew by 23 per cent year-on-year, while connected TV (CTV) was up 21 per cent and social video continued to perform […]

April 24, 2024

RTL AdAlliance adds Wurl FAST channels

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, […]

April 10, 2024

Innovid launches Harmony initiative

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 […]

April 9, 2024