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Early Lessons Learned In Applying Big Data To Television Advertising

Yesterday, we presented Early Lessons Learned In Applying Big Data To Television Advertising to members of the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) as well as clients and some Wall Street analysts. We discussed what we’ve learned over the last two years in packaging and selling television advertising. We’ve gotten plenty of emails asking for a copy [...]

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Connected TVs Require Connected Business Models

The accelerated growth of connected TVs is eagerly awaited by many within the media industry. As otherwise conventional video monitors increasingly possess capabilities to connect to internet-based services (which could in turn be integrated with conventional viewing experiences), a wide range of new opportunities await consumer electronics manufacturers, video distributors, programmers and advertisers alike. There [...]

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TVs Creative Renaissance

TV’s Creative Renaissance: Will Better Measurement Allow More Consumers to See it Themselves? Television advertisements can be the most effective pieces of commercial art ever created. The annual Cannes Festival of Advertising is the world’s showcase for all forms of advertising. The power of 30 seconds of sight-sound-and-motion was fully evident during screenings for all [...]

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Better TRPs

For decades, television advertising has traded in terms of gross rating points (GRPs) the aggregation of ratings for all commercial spots that comprise a campaign. Many advertisers have translated GRPs into target rating points (TRPs) instead, which are still defined in very broad terms, such as the number of GRPs of adults between the ages [...]

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Dave Morgan on Beet.TV

Beet.TV sat down with our always energized CEO, Dave Morgan, to chat about the future of TV and Simulmediab?s role in it. Some highlights: Dave explains matter-of-factly how Simulmedia believes TV advertising can be better. Simply put, while the traditional way of buying media works, we believe we can improve it by separating the people [...]

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Dave Speaking at eG8

To underscore the importance the Internet and social media play in society and the global economy, the G-8 meeting of global leaders this year will be preceded by a 2 day technology conference, the eG8, in Paris. B The conference features talks from Google’s Eric Schmidt, Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook, Groupon’s Andrew Mason, French President [...]

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TV of Tomorrow 2011: Targeted TV Advertising Landscape

Our VP of Business Development, Pravin Chandiramani (the confused looking one on the far right) was on hand at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco Wednesday. Pravin took part in a panel on the Formation of the New Addressable TV Advertising Ecosystem with Bruce Biegel (Winterberry Group), Chis Allen (Starcom USA) and Jonathan [...]

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Smoke On The Water: The Festival of Media Global 2011

We just got back from The Festival of Media Global 2011 in Montreux, Switzerland. B We were very pleased to be honored with the award for Hot Company of the Year for our approach to applying big data and web techniques to make television advertising work better for advertisers and agencies. We were in competition [...]

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The Daypart Convention

In the media industry, procedures are often established to reduce the number of topics buyers and sellers need to consider in a negotiation b? such as the length of a television commercial or the size of a banner ad b? in order to focus on the points which generate the most impactful business results. Other [...]

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The Ad-Supported Video Industry: A Consumer Evolution, Not a Revolution

Many observers of the media industry, citing ongoing changes in consumer behaviors – for example, cord cutting or commercial skipping – say these changes will impact the business of video advertising in general and linear TV advertising more specifically. While it is intuitively appealing to begin by analyzing changes in consumer habits, I contend that [...]

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