You’re watching TV, and a Pepsi commercial interrupts the show you’re watching. You switch the channel, but, within seconds, the same Pepsi commercial shows up on the tablet you’re holding.
That scenario of multidevice campaigns, coordinated with your television program watching, is now available with the latest version of Viant’s TV platform with automatic content recognition (ACR).
Viant is a people-based marketing platform that owns MySpace, was previously purchased by Time Inc. and is now owned by Meredith Corporation, which bought Time earlier this year. Its ACR platform takes data from third-party software that has been installed on TV sets by two leading manufacturers.
[Read the full article on MarTech Today.]
About The Author
Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.