RampUp 2018

SAN FRANCISCO – As the advertising industry inches its way to more addressable linear TV, the OpenAP audience targeting consortium is looking to add more datasets to its platform. “There’s still a lot that we’re looking to be able to bring into it,” says Nicole Ruby, VP, Advertising Data Solutions, Fox Networks Group. Within OpenAP, […]

SAN FRANCISCO – New technology solutions are going to help replace household-level addressable television advertising with more granular targeting. But will agency holding company siloes stand in the way of creating, executing and optimizing the best advanced-TV campaigns? Former Starcom MediaVest Group advanced television specialist Tracey Scheppach has a foot in both of those spheres […]

SAN FRANCISCO – While there’s little question that being able to identify and target individuals across devices and screens will play a huge role in future marketing, we should not think that everything will go one-to-one. This might seem unusual for those with their roots in digital media, but not to Matt Spiegel. “I think […]

SAN FRANCISCO – One of the many positive outcomes that have emerged as the result of major marketers demanding greater digital transparency is a renewed focus on data quality. “I think what’s actually exciting is that we’re coming back to a sense of quality after a large period of flux,” says Simmons CEO Andrew Feigenson. […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Investing in quality seems to be paying off huge for OpenX, the world’s largest independent advertising exchange. It just capped its 10th straight year of revenue growth, fourth consecutive year of profitability and its nascent video business saw 5,000% revenue growth in 2017. To CEO Tim Cadogan, the industry as a whole […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Since its merger with Rovi, TiVo has been on a mission to bulk up its television viewership data by working with service providers “to acquire as much TV viewership data as we could amass,” says Walt Horstman, the company’s SVP/GM, Automated Media & Advertising. “So that’s been very successful and we have […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Television isn’t very “people-based” right now, a dynamic that LiveRamp hopes to change by extending its IdentityLink platform to the TV space. “There’s a lot of untapped opportunity in TV,” says LiveRamp Co-CEO Anneka Gupta. “It’s not very measureable.” The IdentityLink extension was announced to coincide with RampUp 2018, the LiveRamp conference […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Matching IRI purchase data for 100+ million households with television ad exposure data from Alphonso’s 34 million household penetration produces “the missing piece” of multi-touch attribution. What finishes the puzzle is 12 million common households and more ways that TV can help to inform digital. “We’re seeing a full circle here where […]