As more ad spend shifts to CTV, there are new opportunities to make errors with campaign delivery. To help address the issue, Zeev Neumeier, founder of Inscape Data, is launching a new venture called GraySwan.
This year, Nielsen plans to start filtering big data into its TV currency – including ACR.
The more the TV industry rallies around new video currencies, the more programmers and advertisers are zooming in on ACR as a must-have data set for measurement and targeting. But how does ACR work? And is it really privacy-safe?
Smart TV manufacturer VIZIO announced a census-representative panel built using automatic content recognition data from Inscape, VIZIO’s ACR data subsidiary. VIZIO has access to ACR data from roughly 21 million smart TVs, and Innovid is one of the first measurement providers to use VIZIO’s so-called “National Representative Panel.”
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tunnel Vizio-n Vizio will remove many DSPs from its Inscape smart TV data service, Business Insider reports. Inscape was a popular way to retarget CTV audiences using online advertising IDs, working with DSPs such as The Trade Desk, VideoAmp, Engine Group, MediaMath and Cadent. […]
Smart TV manufacturer Vizio is reorganizing to bring more television data into its advertising and content business. Inscape, Vizio’s data and automatic content recognition (ACR) subsidiary, has been combined with Vizio Ads and SmartCast, Vizio’s smart TV content platform. The three will now function as a single unit. Prior to the strategic reorg, announced on […]
Swapping out ads on linear TV to target audiences just got a bit more real. Project OAR (“Open, Addressable, Ready”), a consortium backed by smart TV maker Vizio, said Monday at CES it has finalized open specifications for dynamic ad insertion on linear TV and integrated with major ad decisioning engines including FreeWheel, Google Ad […]
Advertising is becoming an intriguing business for smart TV manufacturers, and Vizio became the latest to throw its hat in the ring Tuesday, when it launched an ad sales business that will take advantage of the 13 million smart TVs it has in American homes. “It’s no secret that the connected TV space has been […]
Jodie McAfee, SVP of sales and marketing at Vizio-owned Inscape, likes to stay “within whispering distance” of the engineering team. “I don’t ever want to be out there promising what I can’t deliver,” said McAfee, who joined Vizio in 2015 after more than four years helping build Samsung’s ad platform. But that doesn’t stop the […]
If you own a smart TV, chances are its integrated automated content recognition (ACR) technology tracks everything you watch. What started out as a niche technology tracking viewership in high-end smart TVs has spread to the masses: Forty-seven percent of the United States’ 120 million homes own smart TVs, up from 39% a year ago, […]
