Topic:
Ctv

With programmatic inventories shrinking, and costs rising, understanding how connected TV advertising works will help you maximize your return on investment from this growing medium.

Everything seems to be getting faster. The speed at which businesses do, well, business, continues to accelerate. Digital and CTV advertising are no exception; speed is crucial for all types of digital advertising, but it’s especially pertinent regarding pre-bid targeting. But before we get into why speed matters, let’s take a high-level view of how pre-bid targeting works to set the stage.

While CTV advertising is becoming an increasingly popular outlet for programmatic ad spend—with 66% of advertisers planning to increase their CTV budgets—the practice is not without its brand safety risks. Knowing how to limit brand safety risk in CTV advertising should be a priority for any company looking to scale to these channels this year and beyond.

Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, OTT video has seen a dramatic rise in popularity and use across the world. CTV and OTT was once seen as merely an alternative to traditional cable and other linear television platforms amongst a small contingent of cord-cutters. Now, they are the industry norm.

When we launched the Contextual Data Marketplace®, the goal was to bring privacy-safe data sources to contextual strategies. Experian is our newest Contextual Data Marketplace partner, giving advertisers privacy-safe, cookie-free, location-based data for Purchase Affinity and Demographics categories.

In just two decades, there have been drastic changes to how consumers access entertainment. It wasn’t that long ago when pay television was the new thing and we regularly drove to the video store to pick out a few movies to watch on the weekend. Today, the video stores are long gone and, for many, so are the original iterations of pay television (cable/satellite). More and more consumers are cord-cutting and turning to streaming content instead. The library of content we have can immediately tap into far exceeds even the largest video store library back in the day and provides access to and discovery of older titles, along with frequent new additions. In addition, consumers can watch this content in so many more ways than ever before, including via their smartphones and streaming TV ...