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Research reveals optimal ad break structure

TV advertising technology platform FreeWheel has released findings from its Viewer Experience Lab initiative. The report, Designing a Better Ad Pod, explores how publishers can optimise the quantity and frequency of ads in an ad pod to improve viewer experience and brand results. The new findings come at a time when content continues to fragment […]

January 11, 2024

AudienceXpress, Epsilon partner

AudienceXpress, a Comcast Advertising company, has partnered with Epsilon, the advertising and marketing technology company, to introduce a new capability for enhancing audience-based, convergent television buying. This new partnership taps into synergistic strengths on both sides of the integration and allows marketers to enhance audience reach and drive scale across today’s fragmented, complex and dynamic […]

November 16, 2023

Report: UK marketers to increase FAST, AVoD spend

AudienceXpress, FreeWheel’s video sales house, has announced the findings from the fourth iteration of its Advanced TV Uncovered study, conducted by independent media research firm CoLab Media Consulting. The study explored UK marketers’ spending plans and objectives for the year ahead. It uncovered significant optimism for Advanced TV, especially regarding AVoD and FAST budgets. The […]

November 14, 2023

Transmit certified by FreeWheel as SSAI provider

FreeWheel, a technology platform for the television advertising industry, has officially certified Transmit, a technology platform that maximises the revenue of streamed content, as a server-side ad insertion software provider in this sector. Transmit, in particular, was awarded this certification for meeting FreeWheel’s industry guidelines and best practises for this programme. One noteworthy point: The […]

November 14, 2023

FreeWheel launches Audience Manager

FreeWheel, the technology platform for the television advertising industry, has announced the launch of Audience Manager, a new solution integrated into the company’s TV Platform that enables publishers to unlock faster audience activation across screens. Available now to the company’s publisher clients in the US, Audience Manager enables execution at scale by simplifying audience creation […]

November 9, 2023

AMC Networks enables programmatic ad buying on linear

AMC Networks has enabled programmatic ad buying on three of its linear networks after a successful pilot last month. AMC Networks says this technological advancement is noteworthy as “it marked the first time live linear inventory was able to be purchased programmatically – in a real-time, biddable ad environment”. The company created and executed this […]

October 27, 2023

Report: Streaming ad views growing

Despite continued economic caution among marketers, ad view growth on premium video remained healthy in both the US and Europe in the first half of 2023, with 6 per cent and 15 per cent growth respectively, according to FreeWheel’s latest Video Marketplace Report. There continues to be significant regional differences in viewing habits. Large screen […]

October 12, 2023

LiveRamp, FreeWheel partner

LiveRamp and FreeWheel have partnered to introduce a new solution that enables advertisers to buy a greater amount of addressable advertising inventory in the connected television sector. This is a new global partnership. The core offering includes FreeWheel incorporating support for LiveRamp’s identifier, RampID, powered by LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution publisher partners into FreeWheel’s TV […]

September 27, 2023

Yahoo ad partnerships with FreeWheel, Magnite, Publica

Yahoo Advertising has announced strategic partnerships with FreeWheel and Magnite for its streaming ad server SpringServe, and Publica by IAS, to enable direct server-to-server connections with direct-to-publisher offering Yahoo Backstage. The move allows connected TV (CTV) publishers to more seamlessly extend their premium inventory through Yahoo Backstage. It also further solidifies Yahoo Advertising’s commitment to […]

September 22, 2023

Research: Number of ads per ad break down 40%

FreeWheel, a technology platform for the TV advertising industry, has announced findings from its The Delicate Art of Balancing Ad Load report. Now in its second year, this edition explores premium video ad load for the first half of 2022 in Europe. Key findings include: Media companies are redefining ad loads: Since 2016, the number of […]

September 19, 2023