It’s 2024, Do You Know Where Your Customers Are?

Reaching the various viewers, listeners, and consumers of your media isn't just about your main channels anymore. You have to find ways to engage them where they are, no matter how they want to communicate. In 2024 that involves mobile apps, web apps, websites, streaming apps, other streaming services, and more. It also includes the people providing access to your content - mobile carriers, internet carriers, and cable providers.

CTV Is on the Verge of Fulfilling Its Creative Promise

Creator-driven ads, full-fledged dynamic creative optimization, and real-time contextual information are coming for Connected TV

Despite the Boom, Biddable CTV Has Some Big Problems to Address

While CTV clearly has great potential, promising a blend of the dynamic, real-time benefits of digital with the brand-safe, lean-back-and-enjoy experience of linear TV, Geoff Wolinetz of OpenX believes that biddable CTV needs to address two key problems: ad fraud on the open market and a lack of standardized measurement protocols.

Navigating the Dynamic World of Personalized Advertising for Video Streaming

In today's video streaming landscape, the quest for effective advertising has led to a paradigm shift toward dynamic ad insertion (DAI). This cutting-edge approach enables advertisers to target specific audiences with tailored content, maximizing engagement and revenue potential. As the streaming industry continues to soar, DAI is a game-changer, promising enhanced monetization and viewer experiences.

Considerations for Providers Shifting from QAM to IP Video Delivery Networks

Traditional, controlled broadcast environments are being replaced by dynamic, complex ecosystems where multiple applications and services must coexist harmoniously. The challenge is to maintain the quality of a provider's main service, like linear TV with dynamically inserted ads, while accommodating the diverse requirements for and potential interference from third-party applications. Yoann Hinard of Witbe discusses the challenges faced throughout this process, including remote monitoring, dynamic ad insertion, and QC testing across devices.

Unlocking Contextual Targeting Opportunities on CTV

TV is being digitized at an interesting time on the digital advertising timeline. Just as advertisers are able to target audiences on the big screen, their favorite approach - third party cookies - are going away. This is inconvenient, but David Naffis, GM of CTV at Kargo, argues that it's also a catalyst to force advertisers to test and perfect other targeting methodologies on CTV. One of the most promising is contextual targeting.

The Premium Environment Advantage in CTV Advertising

A joint study by Vevo and Channel 4 found an almost 50% rise in consumers with a notable preference for premium television content. Roxanne Harley, Director of Client Strategy at Azerion, explains how advertisers can adapt to this consumer preference shift and optimize ad placement strategies within CTV environments to impactfully and accurately reach incremental, addressable audiences.

The Rise of the Ad Tier: How Streaming Business Models Determine the Content We Watch

In the pursuit of catalyzing profit, large video streaming companies have been radically altering their approach to growing top-line revenue and curtailing costs for some time now, be it through layoffs, password-sharing crackdowns, licensing of catalog content to rival streamers, and, notably, the introduction of advertising tiers.

Quality and Quantity: Why Curation is Table Stakes for CTV Advertising Success

Curation has promised to simplify and refine programmatic trading for many years, yet it has struggled to take off in a digital ecosystem where buyers are largely content maximising scale and minimising CPMs. But in CTV, where prices are high and supply is low, curation has emerged as table stakes to navigating advertising's newest premium channel.

Record U.S. Election Spending in 2024 Will Generate New AdTech Innovations

The 2024 election is expected to drive record ad revenue, with some estimates putting the total at over $10 billion. This would make the 2024 election the most expensive in US history, surpassing the 2020 election, which saw $9 billion in ad spending. Dave Dembowski of Operative covers how new technologies to effectively segment, deliver addressable ads, and increase digitalization of TV buying make it easier to target local markets and audiences and what complexities come with this.

Strategies That Make AI-Powered Virtual Product Placement Soar

Virtual Product Placement (VPP) is an excellent new type of CTV and streaming ad placement. Stephan Beringer, CEO at Mirriad, discusses best practices for advertisers to follow for it to work well.

The (R)evolution Will Be Streamed: Shoppable TV in Our Living Rooms

Max Heiderscheid of UIC Digital writes about the opportunities that shoppable TV brings and what challenges lie ahead in weaving together the fabrics of content and commerce within the sanctity of our living rooms.

What the DTC Marketing Playbook Will Bring to CTV Advertising

In the ever-evolving advertising landscape, Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) brands are revolutionizing Connected TV (CTV) advertising by applying their refined, high-performance marketing strategies from social platforms. Mike Hauptman of AdLib unveils how DTC brands are transforming CTV advertising, merging their tried-and-tested tactics with data-driven insights to engage audiences more effectively and precisely than ever.

Brands Shouldn’t Sleep on Amazon Prime’s Ad Push

Hunter Terry of Lotame discusses Amazon's new ad-supported Prime Video, which created an estimated 100 million-user advertising machine out of the gate, and he breaks down the reasons why brands shouldn't sleep on the powerful impact of Amazon's ad push.

What’s Next for Streaming: The Union of Content, Advertising, and Interactive Experiences

Raman Abrol of Vubiquity and Amdocs discusses the next stages for streaming: the union of content, advertising, and interactive experiences.

The Next Frontier for TV Advertising Is Outside the Living Room

TV advertising still rules, says Michael Sanchez of Atmosphere, but not exactly how/where you think

CTV Can Transform the 2024 Election Like Linear Did In 1960 – But is it Ready?

The 2024 election cycle will transform digital media's role in citizens' perception of their candidates and causes. Andrew Rosenman of Equativ discusses the potential risks of shutting out the emerging digital native electorate when ad tech and digital media platforms back away from the political conversation.

As CTV Further Evolves for Both Consumers and Advertisers, Here are 3 Trends to Watch for in 2024

Gijsbert Pols, Director of Connected TV & New Channels for Adjust, outlines three key CTV trends to watch for in 2024.

Rekindling Consumer Satisfaction With D2C

Despite what appears to be a thriving market, streaming viewers are still looking for more than what's on offer. Greg Morrow of Bitcentral's ViewNexa highlights ways to rekindle consumer satisfaction with D2C business models.

How Advertisers Can Try to Avoid Getting Stuck in VPPA Limbo with Their CTV and Video Data

Mitch Eisenberg of Alliant discusses how a 35-year-old piece of legislation—the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA)—is sparking lawsuits and sowing confusion within the CTV and video ad space, and he outlines some safe and practical strategies that marketers can take to navigate the VPPA and reach the audiences that matter most to them.