As pay-TV operators and service providers look to boost their monetization, targeted TV advertising is gaining significant traction. Even Netflix has surrendered to the trend, joining the rest of the other streaming giants in the AVOD world by launching its own advertising tier.
Eyeing up new revenues with addressable advertising
With recessions taking their toll and subscription income flatlining, scouting out new monetisation options to boost balance sheets has never been more critical for the media and entertainment industry.
Loosening the Ad Tech Bottleneck
The two basic premises of broadcasting haven’t changed for the last 100 years or so. One, give viewers compelling programming and they’ll watch. Two, effective monetisation is critical for supporting all that programming.
Social Experiences – Covid and Beyond
Most of us are social creatures and even when apart, we strive to be together. The bond that we create from shared activity, such as watching movies together, runs deeper than one might think. Research published in a scientific journal which involved chimpanzees watching a video in pairs, showed how they became more sociable with each other after the viewing session ended. This indicates that the bond we form from activities such as watching video content together has deep evolutionary roots.
Eyeing up new revenues with addressable advertising
The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin): Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE)
Researchers in UT-Austin’s LIVE (UT-LIVE), Directed by Professor Al Bovik, have singularly pioneered the use of visual neuroscience to create picture and video quality measurement and monitoring tools that control the quality and bandwidths of a large percentage of all streaming videos, television, and social media. Their breakthrough inventions include the iconic Structural Similarity (SSIM), Multi-scale SSIM (MS-SSIM), and Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) “reference” visual quality tools, which delivered dramatic leaps in performance when introduced, and are still dominant today. These tools are used today to control the quality of most streaming and social media pictures and videos in the US and beyond. Bovik and his team also disrupted the field by inventing the first accurate and practical “blind” visual quality models (BRISQUE and NIQE), using models of neuro-statistical distances, at the neural level, between distorted and distortion-free visual signals. These tools are also globally marketed and used in numerous industry applications, including inspection of streaming and social video uploads, control of cameras, and remote video transcoding in the Cloud.
Media Tech Intelligence Briefing: The Creator Economy
In the last few years, the creator economy has boomed, with an increasing number of people worldwide pursuing their passions and sharing the content they create on various user-generated content platforms such as YouTube, Spotify, or TikTok. This Briefing aims to delve into the forces shaping the growth of the creator economy and its implications for media and technology.
Dell Technologies – Push and Pull Marketing, Content Mapping, Measuring Results
In this IABM TV video, we catch up with Kami Periman, Senior Advisor, Solutions Marketing at Dell Technologies | Infrastructure Solutions Group for a detailed discussion around measuring ROI.
Tellyo Case Study: POLSAT
Our partnership with Polsat goes from strength to strength. Part of the Cyfrowy Polsat Group – the largest media and telecommunications group in Poland – the innovative broadcaster continually extends how it uses our Tellyo platform, helping to drive its highly-effective video strategy across digital and social channels.
Tellyo Case Study: SUNSET+VINE
As a long-standing partner, we’re extremely proud that our work with Sunset+Vine has continued to evolve, with them frequently joining a working party on new upgrade features, which demonstrates a clear partnership between two ambitious companies. We work across the company’s many sports productions, including Crufts, Super League Triathlon, the World Boxing Super Series, Hong Kong World Sixes, and the ECB.