OPINION: On TV & Video
CTV Providers Are Doing Their Own Thing – And That’s Great For The Industry
It’s anyone’s guess how CTV advertising will eventually look. But, today, there are no rigid standards, writes Operative’s Mike Pollard.
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Judge Rules Google Search Is A Monopoly; NVIDIA’s Unreleased AI Scrapes The Web
In today’s newsletter: US rules Google has a monopoly in search, but not search ads; Nvidia’s unreleased AI has been scraping online video from YouTube, Netflix and others; and streaming app Max debuts a new personalized home page.
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingOmnichannel Marketers Have Outgrown Third-Party Cookies, Even If Google’s Still Holding On
Recent moves by major ad tech players prove the industry doesn’t actually need cookies. But Chrome’s cookie pivot doesn’t clarify what will happen to the 1% of its audience that’s already cookieless or what will become of plans to deprecate the Android Ad ID on mobile.
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DOJ Sues TikTok For Gathering Kids’ Emails; Disney Touts Upfront Results
In today’s newsletter: The DOJ sues TikTok alleging COPPA violations; Disney wraps a competitive upfronts season as it faces stiller competition for streaming ad budgets; and more than $107 million was spent on ads for AI products in the first half of this year.
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The First Programmatic Olympics Is Attracting New Advertisers
Athletes aren’t the only ones competing during the Paris Olympics. Advertisers are bidding to reach tens of millions of viewers during the first programmatic Olympic Games.
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Why Toyota’s Olympics Exit Opens Up The Games For Hyundai
Hyundai returns to the Olympics as a national advertiser and the presenting sponsor of the USA women’s soccer team – with a new ad campaign to show for it.
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Roku Taps The Trade Desk’s UID2 To Draw In New Demand
Roku announced an integration with The Trade Desk’s UID 2.0 identifier to attract new buyers and “increase monetization per account” by improving ad targeting, said Roku CEO Anthony Wood during the company’s earnings call Thursday.
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Innovid Wants To Solve CTV’s Most Annoying Issue
TV measurement platform Innovid has a new frequency management product that manages frequency caps across connected TV, mobile and desktop, including display and audio.
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Former SpotX CEO Mike Shehan Returns To Ad Tech As Telly’s First CRO
Investor, industry veteran and former SpotX CEO Mike Shehan returns from the ad tech sidelines to join the C-suite at Telly, a startup that gives away free TVs in exchange for viewer data.
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CTV Is One Of The Fastest-Growing Channels On Viant’s Platform – But There’s Still Value In Linear
During Q1 this year, Viant reported that streaming audio and CTV combined represented more than half of the total ad spend on its platform.
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