Seedtag Wants Its AI to Understand Advertising Context ‘Like a Brain’

MADRID — For years, contextual advertising has largely been a game of matching keywords on a page to the topic of an ad. But as the technology improves, so does the ambition to move beyond simple semantics – into realm of human nuance. The next frontier involves training systems to understand not just what a […]

 
 

Seedtag’s Poyatos: Contextual Advertising Must Go Beyond Taxonomy to Emotion and Intent

MADRID – As user attention splits between the open web and connected television, how can contextual advertising remain relevant? Jorge Poyatos thinks the industry needs technology that can read the room, discerning not just topics, but also emotion and intent. This is a challenge that requires a “neuro-contextual” approach, said Poyatos, co-founder, Seedtag, in this […]

 
 

Beyond Stereotypes: Seedtag Sees CTV Opportunity in Holistic, Omnichannel Approach

SAN JUAN, PR – The migration of content consumption from the open web to connected TV is opening up what one ad-tech executive calls “white space” for advertising strategies. By understanding consumers’ interests across platforms, brands can move beyond traditional, sometimes limiting, audience stereotypes. “That’s powering a lot of interesting conversations and different ways of […]

 
 

Context Is ‘Supercharged’ by AI: Seedtag’s Eisenstein

LONDON – Once upon a time, all advertising depended on content adjacency. The new science of audience targeting changed all that – but contextual targeting is back, and is getting “supercharged” by AI. Jana Eisenstein, SVP, EMEA, Seedtag, in this video interview with Beet.TV, said content signals derived from AI promise to make contextual targeting far […]

 
 

Context Is King: Seedtag’s Goksel Uses AI To Create Privacy-Safe Targeting Signals

Traditional advertising methods are losing their effectiveness, as audiences shift away from old-school TV and toward connected TV (CTV), meaning advertisers face new challenges in reaching their target consumers. But Kartal Goksel, CTO of Seedtag, believes that contextual AI holds the key to unlocking the full potential of advertising in this new era. In this […]

 
 

Beyond Reach: Seedtag’s Villalobos Takes CTV Ad Outlook Forward

LAS VEGAS — The audience-finding capabilities of connected TV advertising are often used to extend the reach of TV campaigns without duplication. But it’s about more than that, too. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Mike Villalobos, VP of Strategy, NA, Seedtag, explains his vision. Reinventing Monetization and Targeting Seedtag in 2014 was co-founded by […]

 
 

Coming To America: Seedtag’s €250M Funding Fuels Contextual Targeting Growth

On the same day Google again delayed phasing out Chrome cookies, a startup founded by two ex-Googlers raised a big funding round to provide an alternative ad targeting mechanism. Seedtag is one of several ad-tech firms whose software reads cues in content to provide “contextual targeting” attributes, considered a replacement for waning audience targeting methods. […]