CTV Roundup
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CTV Roundup
AI Made A Record Play During Super Bowl LX
Bad Bunny’s halftime show aside, AI companies stole the spotlight on Super Bowl Sunday. Anthropic, OpenAI, Salesforce, Meta, Amazon-owned Ring and a smaller company called Genspark.ai all used Super Bowl spots to promote their products as AI tools meant to help boost productivity and inspiration – rather than replace, annoy or deceive. “A lot of […]
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TV Ad Buying Is ‘Massively Siloed’ – Can AI Help Change That?
Walton Isaacson’s Albert Thompson is speaking at the Convergent TV World conference on March 5-6 in New York City. Click here to register. While marketers worry about AI disrupting TV ad buying, AI also has the potential to help break down the silos plaguing modern-day video advertising. Despite industry discussions around channel convergence, “most marketers’ […]
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CTV Is Stuck In Its Growing Pains. Can AI Save the Day?
Returning to the news desk after a year away from CTV beat reporting is like discovering a time capsule with the industry’s core dilemmas. One thing that has changed, however, is the CTV industry’s infatuation with agentic AI.
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AdExchanger’s Top 4 CTV Stories Of 2025
It’s that time of year again – the time when we all start saying things like, “It’s that time of year again!”
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Why Hyper-Local Planning Agency Novus Media Likes Buying CTV Programmatically
Is it too soon to start thinking about New Year’s resolutions? Since taking on AdExchanger’s CTV beat at the beginning of March, I’ve learned a lot about the industry from the perspectives of publishers, measurement companies, platforms and even a few brands. So next year, to round out my education, I’m setting a goal for […]
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What The TV Industry’s Q3 Earnings Tell Us About This Year’s Biggest Ad Trends
Is it just me, or do third-quarter earnings always seem especially strange?
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Locality Wants Every Ad To Hit Close to Home
Ignoring the fact that early pioneers in the space didn’t plan to have ads in the first place (looking at you, Netflix!), even with targeting and personalization, most major players are still thinking of national reach – not local reach – as their default.
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High School Football Can Have Streaming Ads, Too, Thanks To Platforms Like Hudl
High school sports are very different now than when I was a teenager. As is the case with basically all forms of modern entertainment, they’ve faced some disruption by the rise of streaming video – as well as the ads that often follow.
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Everything You Want to Know About Being (And Working With) Media Buyers At Cynopsis Screenshift
What does it feel like to be a media buyer and planner in 2025? That question launched a fascinating “Ask Me Anything”-style discussion at Cynopsis ScreenShift in New York City on Tuesday.
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It’s Official: TiVo Is No Longer A DVR Company. What Now?
TiVo has officially halted the sale and manufacture of its once-revolutionary DVR products. Which raises the question: What does TiVo even do anymore, anyway?
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