Robert Williams

Performance marketing platform MNTN has worked to give television advertisers, including brands that had never run TV campaigns, a way to make their efforts more successful. As connected television (CTV) enables brands to reach target audiences on different devices, performance campaigns can be further enhanced. “We’ve found that a lot of our clients — this […]

A variety of studies have shown that people want to see themselves represented in television content and advertising. Technology company Sabio is helping producers of streaming content to monetize their efforts to create programming for diverse audiences. “The only way you can actually have pluralistic viewpoints on media today is to not only certainly incentivize […]

NEW YORK – Comscore this week said it had struck a deal with Fox Television Stations to provide local TV broadcaster with audience data to support its growth in advanced advertising. Marketers will be able to improve their ad targeting based on more granular consumer data from Comscore. “They [Fox] spent some time really digging […]

Marketers are looking for ways to reach consumers through linear and connected television (CTV) without showing the same ads to the same viewers too many times. Advertising automation platform Simpli.fi recently introduced the ability to provide buyers of linear TV advertising with complete incremental reach on CTV. “One of the number one challenges with buying […]

Digital media outlets gave a variety of direct-to-consumer brands, including disruptive startup brands, a way to advertise to target audiences and quickly see how their campaigns were performing. As more consumers spend with connected television (CTV), marketers are gaining access to a video channel that combines audience targeting with the emotional power of television advertising. […]

As marketers shift their ad spending to streaming platforms, they’re also looking for reassurances that their commercials appear within brand-safe shows. Connected TV publishers can offer more information about their programming to advertisers through Amazon’s digital advertising marketplace following a recent integration with video data platform IRIS.TV. “We’re going to increase the available inventory for […]

Roku helped viewers celebrate the premiere of HBO Max’s much-anticipated “House of the Dragon” with an exclusive fan experience on its streaming devices. Featured content included trailers, theme packs and special looks at the characters in the series, whose action takes place 200 years before the events in the hit fantasy show “Game of Thrones.” […]

The past decade saw a proliferation of digitally native brands that harnessed the power of social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram to reach target audiences. Many of these marketers are gaining the ability to launch targeted television campaigns as more people hook up their TVs to the internet. “Certain segmentation is very similar to […]

CANNES – Separating passing fads from enduring innovations can vex marketers as they decide what kinds of technologies to adopt in their advertising. Lately, there is consistent discussion about Web3 as the next stage in interactive media after the commercialization of the internet and the growth of social media. Web3 is seen as a more […]

CANNES – Women in leadership roles at work are important role models for other women who seek to advance their careers, start businesses and handle a variety of competing responsibilities. Sharing the benefits of their experiences with other women is especially helpful and is a key mission of She Runs It, the organization that started […]

CANNES – Consumers are dividing their time among a bigger selection of media channels and connected devices, and it’s not always clear whether they’re paying attention to advertisements that appear among their preferred choices of content. This uncertainty has spurred greater interest in measuring attention. “Marketers really need to start focusing on attention as a […]

CANNES – Brands that seek to engage consumers on newer social media apps such as Snapchat, TikTok and BeReal must learn how people use the platforms to share content, stay in touch with each other and entertain themselves. Without these insights, marketers run the risk of turning off consumers, facing mockery and damaging their brands. […]

CANNES – The media and marketing industry has touted the importance of including under-represented people in advertising and content, but they don’t have the right tools to measure those efforts, said Lisette Arsuaga, cofounder of the Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing. The majority of data providers are telling marketers “that their data is 95% […]

As marketers seek to reach consumers among a variety of media channels and electronic devices, Comcast Advertising is working to help them to harness data to improve their targeting. “We’re really proud of the work we’ve done across Comcast Advertising more broadly at enabling more programmers and networks to be lit up by addressable enablement,” […]

CANNES – Giving people a sense of purpose at work increasingly is viewed as a necessary step toward keeping them engaged with what they do. About 85% of people said they feel as if they have a sense of purpose, but only 65% believe they can describe that purpose, according to a survey by consulting […]

CANNES – Marketers are asking for a reliable source of media measurement to help them set the value of advertising transactions, especially as national linear television becomes more addressable to different groups of households. “Measurement singly defines the biggest tension point between agencies and their clients, sellers and the brands themselves and the agencies,” Catherine […]

CANNES – Marketers want their advertising to appear amid high-quality content that improves the likelihood that consumers will see it and consider buying different products and services. These contextual ads are regaining significance as marketers confront the loss of signals from device IDs and tracking cookies that help with online targeting. “We’ve got to be […]

CANNES – Advanced television is entering a new era as advertising on national broadcast networks becomes addressable, giving marketers a way to show different ads to different households during the same linear programming. Ad targeting similar to what advertisers have experienced on digital platforms is becoming possible in a medium that historically offered broad reach. […]

CANNES – The major disruptions of the past few years — including the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and current worries about a recession – have spurred a creative flowering in the television industry. “We’ve been through so much that business problems are being approached with a high degree of creativity and open-mindedness that I […]

CANNES – High-quality content helps to engage consumers, improving the likelihood they’ll see advertising and even consider buying different products and services. These contextual ads are regaining importance as marketers confront the eventual disappearance of technologies like device IDs and tracking cookies that help with online targeting. “The way we do targeting today is going […]