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RTL AdAlliance, LG Ad Solutions partnership

Connected TV (CTV) cross-screen advertising specialist LG Ad Solutions and RTL AdAlliance, RTL Group’s international advertising sales house, have expanded their exclusive partnership to offer a combined CTV buying approach for data-driven CTV ads within the smart interface of LG TV devices across multiple European markets for one year. After a successful rollout in Italy, […]

April 18, 2023

Study: CTV continues to rise in popularity

Findings from AudienceXpress, FreeWheel’s premium video media sales house’s Streaming Video: CTV Uncovered 2023 consumer study, conducted in collaboration with independent research specialist Happydemics, reveal a growing uptake of viewing via connected TV (CTV) in the UK, Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands (the EU6). With 65 per cent of European viewers who have […]

April 4, 2023

Redge Media expands in LatAm with Lotier

Redge Technologies, one of the major providers of OTT and edge computing technologies in Europe, has partnered with Lotier, a business development company specialised in media and telecommunications in Latin America. This partnership will enable Redge Media OTT platform to enter the rapidly growing emerging markets of LatAm, as part of the company’s worldwide expansion […]

March 27, 2023

HbbTV updates core specification

The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing open standards for the delivery of advanced interactive TV services through broadcast and broadband networks for connected TV sets and set-top boxes, has published version 2.0.4 of its core specification. The three main highlights of the new version are the integration with voice assistants, with accessibility […]

March 14, 2023By Colin Mann

Report: Open programmatic ad spend up 41% YoY

The H2 2022 Global Connected TV (CTV) Ad Supply Chain Trends Report from CTV and mobile advertising fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics platform Pixalate reveals that 98 per cent of Internet-connected US households are now reachable via open programmatic CTV advertising. Other key findings: Global CTV advertising continues to climb higher 41 per cent […]

March 8, 2023

Adelaide Metrics, Sharethrough partnership

 Sharethrough, an independent omnichannel ad exchanges, and Adelaide, a specialist in attention-based media quality measurement, have announced a partnership to offer attention-based curated inventory. Thanks to the partnership, Adelaide will be able to measure millions of impressions across Sharethrough’s inventory and generate an AU (Attention Unit) rating for each placement. Adelaide’s AU is a precise measure of a placement’s […]

March 6, 2023

AI boost for Vevo

Music video network Vevo has unveiled a new data science capability to support the creation of more impactful programming and ad products across Vevo’s expanding connected TV (CTV) footprint. Now Internet-enabled, the TV screen is delivering more value to the music industry than ever before, as a result of the vast consumer adoption of smart […]

March 2, 2023

NewsNation launches connected TV apps

NewsNation, a Nexstar Media Group property and US cable news network, has announced the launch of all-new NewsNation-branded connected-television apps on a variety of major platforms, including Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Android TV and Samsung devices. The free NewsNation apps offer OTT viewers clips and highlights of the latest news from NewsNation and content […]

February 22, 2023

Report: US streaming tops 5bn views in 2022

Tubi, Fox Corporation’s AVoD service, has released findings from The Stream 2023: Actionable Audience Insights for Brands, its annual audience report providing insights that help shape streaming and TV marketing strategies. Tubi’s research highlights the explosive growth in Connected TV (CTV) ad spend, while AVoD services lead the streaming pack as consumers look to cut […]

February 15, 2023

DoubleVerify boosts CTV viewability verification

Digital media measurement, data and analytic platform DoubleVerify (DV) has launched what it says is the industry’s first-ever scalable solution to verify viewability on Connected TV (CTV). This expansion of viewability enables advertisers to measure delivery of the DV Authentic Ad – a proprietary, MRC-accredited metric that ensures consistent media quality across environments – on […]

February 14, 2023