Robert Williams

Disney Advertising aims to provide marketers with more insights about audience engagement on its video streaming platforms as part of an expanded agreement with measurement company EDO. The companies on Thursday announced a deal to apply EDO’s metrics to Disney’s streaming services, first with Hulu. Measuring outcomes gives advertisers a better idea of how consumers […]

LAS VEGAS – Marketers this year will be to evaluate which different providers of media measurement provide the best insights into the television viewing behaviors of consumers they want to reach. That includes Nielsen’s tools for cross-platform measurement of linear television and streaming. “There’s some very exciting things going on. You’ve got Nielsen One rolling […]

Media measurement is rapidly evolving to help marketers get a better idea of how they’re reaching television viewers across multiple platforms. Those media outlets including traditional linear television and newer streaming services that exploded in popularity during the pandemic. “All the disruption that’s happened in media consumption over the last decade — and only accelerated […]

LAS VEGAS – Personal information that people provide directly to companies has become more valuable as consumers grow more aware about protecting their privacy. Beauty giant L’Oréal has a trove of such first-party data that provide an important resource in making its spending on advertising more effective. “This year especially I’m really looking to spend […]

LAS VEGAS – The ability to show different advertising to different households during the same shows on national television this year will become more available to brands. Measurement and attribution are necessary parts of this growth. “A lot more measurement companies are coming out asking for data, exposure data to be shared so that they […]

As brands seek to reach consumers are spending less time with linear television, they are finding new opportunities in streaming video channels that carry advertising and e-commerce sites that are showing ads in search results and product description pages. “Streaming has been a central topic not only within our industry but really in the mainstream […]

LAS VEGAS – Determining the value of an advertising impression on television has become more complex as consumers divide their time among a wider range of viewing devices. This diversification is leading media buyers and sellers to adopt more measurement methods in their negotiations. “There will no longer be a single currency in our marketplace. […]

LAS VEGAS – Setting the value of advertising transactions in what’s mostly known as a currency has been a key topic as marketers aim to compare different media outlets such as traditional linear television with on-demand video streams. But measurement has many other roles in helping media buyers and sellers to understand the marketplace. “There’s […]

LAS VEGAS – Marketers what to know not only that target audiences saw their advertisements, but also that their campaigns led to an action such as a store visit, app download or final purchase. Obtaining those metrics has become complicated as the media environment becomes more fragmented into different silos or “walled gardens.” “We still […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today released the full agenda for its upcoming Annual Leadership Meeting, a major event that helps to set the tone for the media, marketing and ad-tech industries throughout the year. This month’s gathering in Marco Island, Florida, Jan. 22-24, will include a significant presence of executives from major brands such […]

LAS VEGAS – Economic disruptions can be painful, but they also can drive greater innovation. As the world’s commercial activity slows, marketers and advertising agencies will be making tough decisions about the business partners they want in the next recovery. “It’s gonna be a year of reckoning for sure. There’s an overabundance of companies right […]

LAS VEGAS – Consumers are spending more time with streaming video than with traditional linear television and marketers want to reach them as platforms such as Netflix and Disney+ expand their advertising inventories. “It’s pretty obvious that eyeballs are shifting and the reason that dollars are not yet following suit as we get from a […]

National television programmers Fox, NBCUniversal, Paramount, TelevisaUnivision and Warner Bros. Discovery are teaming up with trade group VAB and the OpenAP data collective to set standards, cooperate on collecting streaming data and certify providers of streaming audience measurement, according to an announcement. “This year in particular, there are more conversations around transacting on new currencies […]

LAS VEGAS – Omnicom Media Group, the media planning and buying unit of Omnicom Group Inc., and Albertsons Media Collective, the retail media arm for grocery chain Albertsons Cos., announced a collaboration aimed at helping brands to target audiences and measure performance on connected television. Omnicom Media will be able to combine audience data from […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – The past three years were characterized by massive disruption in the television industry as the coronavirus pandemic sped up longer-term trends such as the growth in streaming media. Viewers who were stuck at home during lockdowns signed up for video services to keep themselves entertained — a need that was especially […]

LAS VEGAS – Uber Technologies Inc. this month will expand its burgeoning advertising platform with the rollout of mobile tablets in ride-share vehicles that show videos to passengers. The company is introducing the service in Los Angeles and San Francisco, with plans to expand worldwide. “We cannot only show you a short-form video clip, a […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Connected television advertising doesn’t use tracking cookies to help marketers retarget consumers as they switch among apps to watch streamed programming. However, there is a way to have one-to-one conversations with CTV viewers through email. “With identity and with ID graphs and those things coming along, we are able to connect […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – The growth in video streaming is pushing media companies to not only establish one-to-one relationships with consumers, but also how to parlay their growing troves of consumer data into revenue streams. Data collaboration is becoming more important even as newer privacy regulations give consumer greater control over how their data are […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Marketers are placing greater emphasis on attributing how their television advertising leads to an outcome, which other kinds of media such as internet search and social networks do. As consumers divide their attention among a variety of viewing devices and media outlets, marketers are seeking more insights on people’s awareness of […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Major media companies are working to offer marketers a way to simplify how they buy advertising among various distribution channels, especially as viewers migrate from traditional linear television to streaming platforms. “They’re able to now bundle their premium assets — whether that’s news, could be sports, could be entertainment — into […]