Just as today’s consumers are relying less on traditional cable for their home entertainment, some businesses are also cutting the cord and instead opting for non-traditional screen content. For example, a doctor’s office that used to play kids’ shows in the lobby might now utilize a streaming service to offer similar programming without the excessive […]
At the beginning of this week, data onboarder LiveRamp announced that its IdentityLink service would tackle a new territory: television. Now, TV measurement service TVSquared has announced a new partnership with LiveRamp. For the past six years, TVSquared’s ADvantage platform has tracked the impact of 15- and 30-second advertising in linear broadcast TV on digital
A frame of video with an overlaid IVEP smart object. A Canada-based non-profit association has the ambitious goal of launching a new kind of interactive video across several platforms, boosting its transactional transparency and financial viability with blockchain and tokens. As a step toward that goal, the Interactive Video and Experience Protocol (IVEP) Association has
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With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)’s May 25 implementation looming, most of the attention has been focused on consumer privacy as it relates to visiting websites or mobile apps or targeting by web-based ads. But Over-the-Top (OTT) online television services and net-connected TVs are booming, and those platforms are starting to become a focus
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Opinions expressed in this article are those of the sponsor. 3 game-changing advancements put TV advertising back in the limelight. Every marketer, regardless of discipline, has a holy grail in mind. For analysts, it may be having a holistic view of the customer journey. For creatives, it may be having the team and tools to
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Ahead of Super Bowl Sunday, Google has announced two new features in DoubleClick Bid Manager to help advertisers activate campaigns across multiple screens and bridge digital and live TV efforts. Eighty percent of sports viewers say they use a computer or smartphone while watching live sports on TV to do things like searching for player
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In a follow-up to mid-2017 research on US smart speaker ownership, NPR and Edison Research have released new findings indicating that nearly 40 million Americans now own the devices. That number is roughly double what it was in July 2017 and shows the impact of 2017 holiday sales on the market. The new survey was
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Self-service ad platform SteelHouse announced this week that it is adding Connected TV (CTV) to its advertising capabilities, marking another step toward full citizenship in the advertising ecosystem for Net-based television. Viewers of CTV are expected to reach almost 60 percent of the US population this year, according to an eMarketer study. CTV is online
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Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead are among the top shows that are pirated by TV viewers. The annual piracy lists have begun to be published with the first one taking into consideration the most pirated TV series of the year. TorrentFreak published the results which indicates piracy figures for TV episodes are down
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Despite its name, Swrve hasn’t swerved in its evolution from its origins as a marketing and engagement platform for apps. Instead, it’s taken a series of steps toward its positioning as a customer interaction platform. In 2014, for instance, it added support for iBeacons, which are usually paired with apps. Later that year, Swrve declared
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