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FreeWheel partners with Direct Digital Holdings

Direct Digital Holdings, an advertising and marketing technology platform operating through its companies Colossus Media, Huddled Masses and Orange 142, has announced a partnership with FreeWheel, the technology platform for the television advertising industry. The agreement builds on Direct Digital Holdings’ buy- and sell-side relationship with Beeswax, FreeWheel’s programmatic buying platform.This deal will allow the […]

February 28, 2024

Innovid enables self-serve creation of interactive CTV ads for live events

Innovid, an independent platform for the creation, delivery, measurement, and optimisation of advertising across connected TV (CTV), linear TV, and digital, has announced industry-wide availability of the latest self-service feature within its CTV Composer authoring tool. For the first time ever, brands and publishers can create interactive CTV experiences in-house, at scale, for live streaming […]

February 9, 2024

Norigin Media launches CTV White-label FAST apps

Scandinavian streaming TV UI/UX specialist company Norigin Media has unveiled their brandable connected TV product for linear or FAST TV channels. The White-label solution is offered to content owners who seek to launch direct-to-consumer (D2C) applications across platforms including Samsung Tizen, LG webOS and other Android TV OS based Smart TVs. The newly designed White-label […]

January 23, 2024

Study: US CTV users seek better shoppable TV experience

Findings from LG Ad Solutions’ latest streaming survey, The Shoppable TV Report: 2024 and Beyond, suggest that 53 per cent of CTV users wish all TV ads had a quick option to buy the product and 63 per cent wish they could see store/brand inventory from their TV. “While marketers have long understood the impact […]

January 16, 2024

Adform, Samba TV propel CTV targeting capabilities

Adform, the media buying platform, and Samba TV, a provider of TV technology for audience data and omniscreen measurement, have announced the launch of new CTV targeting capabilities and audience segments on Adform’s DSP. This is the latest innovation in Adform and Samba TV’s longstanding relationship. The new offering will be available on Adform’s platform […]

January 16, 2024

acTVe partners with Amagi

Amagi, the global leader in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV (CTV), has announced that acTVe has selected the company as its playout, distribution, and monetisation partner for five of its premium syndicated sports channels. As an independent owner, operator, and manager of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels, acTVe has deployed Amagi’s […]

November 14, 2023

Report: 68% UK prefer AVoD over SVoD

LG Ad Solutions has released the findings of its 2023 streaming report The Big Shift: United Kingdom Wave II, which found that UK consumers are increasingly shifting away from linear TV, with 25 per cent of those surveyed saying they are watching less linear television than a year ago. In its place, ad-supported streaming services […]

November 7, 2023

Captify brings search data to CTV

Captify, a search intelligence platform for the open web, has announced the launch of TV Search Lift, a proprietary TV study that evaluates the success and outcomes of CTV campaigns using authentic onsite search data. This offering will bring Captify’s Search Intelligence to the television landscape for the first time, helping brands elevate their CTV […]

November 2, 2023

Equativ, IRIS.TV partnership

Equativ, the independent ad platform, has announced its partnership with IRIS.TV — the data platform built for structuring, connecting, and activating video-level data. This marks IRIS.TV’s first full-stack partnership, enabling the use of granular video-level data across Equativ’s advanced ad server, supply, and demand-side platforms (SSP and DSP). Through direct integration, Equativ will create a […]

October 30, 2023

Viant strengthens sustainable foothold in CTV with Direct Access, joins Prebid

Viant Technology, the people-based advertising technology company, has expanded Direct Access, to focus on the largest, premium CTV content owners, who collectively represent over 75 per cent of the addressable CTV market in the US. Direct Access, Viant’s supply path optimisation initiative launched earlier this year, drives cost efficiencies and carbon reduction for advertisers by […]

September 6, 2023