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Roku unveils what it’s calling the Roku Exchange, a more direct path between Roku’s ad supply and programmatic demand.

On Monday, PMG acquired Camelot, an independent media and marketing agency that specializes in buying video, OTT and CTV. This acquisition marks PMG’s first since its founding 13 years ago.

Publishers covet business from big brands, but working with small to mid-size businesses (SMBs) can be a major source of revenue growth. That’s why Reddit is shoring up its ad offering for SMB and mid-market clients by improving its onboarding process and launching an advertising API.

Travel marketing budgets were among the first to crash when COVID-19 reared its head. A Skift survey of 756 companies found 90% cut their marketing investments, and an Ad Age analysis found travel ad spending fell 60% in 2020. But travel is slowly coming back – delta variant notwithstanding – along with adjacent categories like […]

Peacock’s exclusive launch window for advertisers will end this fall, as it opens up a portion of its inventory to a wider group of brands starting in Q4. The NBCUniversal-owned streaming service launched on July 15 with 10 advertisers, including Target, Unilever and Verizon, who received category exclusivity and the ability to test new ad […]

With third-party cookies soon to leave the scene, the ad industry is casting about for an alternative identifier, one preferably based on first-party data, collected with consent. Email in particular is being heralded as a way to maintain identity in the face of third-party cookie loss. And numerous industry solutions are being built with email […]

As TV networks launch or acquire ad-supported streaming services (AVOD), they have a big opportunity to reinvent the broken ad experience for both viewers and media buyers. And while these networks have the opportunity to bring their AVOD learnings back to linear, the OTT networks can also learn a lesson or two from the linear […]

Supply-path optimization (SPO) has become a selling point for agencies looking to bring value and savings to clients in programmatic. An SPO strategy allows buyers to cut out players in the programmatic supply chain that don’t add value, such as resellers or exchanges that sell only duplicative inventory, while simultaneously funneling more spend toward exchanges […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Carly Carson, director of social at PMG. Instagram’s new addition of ads within its Explore section is yet another way the platform continues to expand inventory opportunities for brands and monetize highly valuable real […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Justin Scarborough, programmatic media director at PMG. As programmatic media enters its second decade – and a wave of consolidation, fire sales and amalgamations of ad tech stacks change the […]