Addressable TV Advertising Set for Takeoff as Buyers Seek Performance: Go Addressable’s New Chairman

Addressable TV advertising has hit an inflection point. More marketers are turning to it as a “must-buy” to achieve better performance, even as overall TV ad spend remains under pressure. That was the view of one ad industry executive speaking at the Go Addressable summit this week. The summit, which brought together hundreds of attendees […]

 
 

Addressable Advertising Needs Reliable Data to Deliver Results: Blockgraph’s Jason Manningham

Addressable advertising is making great strides in fulfilling its promise to show different commercials to different households during the same television programming. These capabilities rely on various sources of first-party data, which advertising data and insights platform Blockgraph brings together. “Having really accurate first party data is critical for advertisers who want to reach their […]

 
 

Addressability Relies on Data Insights That Ensure Proper Targeting: Spark Foundry’s Lisa Giacosa

Addressable advertising is an important tool in helping marketers reach television audiences based on key criteria, providing enough precision to ensure campaigns are relevant to viewers. Accurate information about consumers underpins these vital media functions. Addressability is “about having that data layer and understanding that data becomes humans and humans are data, and being able […]

 
 

‘An Inspiring Underdog’: Dentsu’s Cara Lewis on Addressable TV’s Growth

As addressable TV grows beyond its roots in categories like autos, new challenges have appeared around targeting, measurement, cost and creative. But the opportunity is also now seeing kinds of ad buyers adopting addressable. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Cara Lewis, Chief Investment & Activation Officer at dentsu international, said the addressable ad market […]

 
 

First-Party Data Are Driving Next Stage of Addressability: PMG’s Sam Bloom

Customer data have become more valuable as marketers adopt newer technologies to unlock insights such as the best ways to reach their clientele across a variety of media platforms. These methods are helping advertisers to wean themselves from tracking cookies that have underpinned online marketing for the past 30 years. “In the olden days we […]

 
 

Addressable Advertising Adoption Accelerates in Upfront Buys: Comcast’s Allen

The adoption of addressable advertising is accelerating, with 65% of advertisers including it in their upfront negotiations this year, according to Larry Allen, VP & GM of Addressable Enablement at Comcast Advertising. Of those who have not yet used addressable advertising, two-thirds intend to do so in next year’s upfront. Allen attributes this growth to […]