WBD’s Steinhauser: Data Aggregation Enables Fluid Cross-Platform Audience Buying

LAS VEGAS — Warner Bros. Discovery has been investing heavily in data aggregation to enable advertisers to buy audiences seamlessly across its linear and digital properties. The approach is helping to surface new audiences and reduce the complexity of managing them separately across different platforms. “We’ve put a lot of investment and resourcing around our […]

 
 

Campaign Outcomes Supersede Other Media Metrics: OMD’s Kelly Metz

LAS VEGAS – People watch television programming across a growing array of streaming platforms and connected devices, challenging marketers to measure the effects of their advertising campaigns. Amid this fragmentation, business results underlie media-buying strategies. “When we think about measurement at OMD…we’re more focused on where we should be focused, which is client outcomes. It’s […]

 
 

Comcast’s Universal Ads Platform Aims to Simplify Premium Video Ads for SMBs: NBCU’s Marshall

LAS VEGAS  — The media industry has experienced significant fragmentation, making it difficult for advertisers to achieve scale and target effectively. NBCU aims to address that with a new, centralized platform that simplifies access to premium video inventory. Comcast’s new Universal Ads platform sets out to streamline the buying process for smaller advertisers, in particular. “We’re […]

 
 

Comcast Advertising Aims to Make TV Ad Buying as Simple as Social

LAS VEGAS — Comcast Advertising has unveiled Universal Ads, an industry platform designed to make it easy for advertisers who have built their businesses on social video and YouTube to buy premium video advertising. The goal is to open up the power of premium video to millions of advertisers. “We believe that premium video as […]