New Data Sources Are Coming: TruOptik, Neustar, Alphonso & 605 Discuss

VIEQUES, PR — Age, gender and demographic just don’t cut it anymore. In the new age of advertising super-powers, marketers want to target consumers with more more granularity and certainty than traditional measurements allow. Fortunate, then, that a whole new raft of data sources is coming on-stream to help them do that. In a panel discussion convened […]

 
 

How ‘Desperate’ Marketers Struggle In OTT TV: Tru Optik’s Swanston

VIEQUES, PR — Consumers are flocking to watch TV over new, over-the-top connected devices – but some advertisers are struggling to keep up, according to one exec watching the space. US connected TV viewers grew 20.6% in 2016 to reach 181.8mn, and will hit 60.4% of the population by 2020, according to eMarketer. The great migration […]

 
 

TruOptik Helps Broadcasters Target BitTorrent Users With Ads

LAS VEGAS — Historically, Hollywood has fought P2P piracy with legal action. But what if studios and channel operators could solve the download problem with advertising? That’s what TruOptik thinks could happen. The Stamford, CT, company’s technology employs “census-level measurement of peer-to-peer file sharing across the BitTorrent protocol” to create “the largest, IP-based non-cookie-reliant data set of entertainment […]