Tag: Tech

Impression-based selling and automated transactions have been hot topics in the broadcast TV industry for years. Unfortunately, traditional approaches rule today’s buys. 95% of local spot TV transactions are still completed with manual, traditional workflows.

As Global Head, Vice President, and General Manager of eCommerce at Lenovo, Ajit Sivadasan is focused on managing the customer’s experience with the brand as well as the purchasing experience on Lenovo.com. We sat down with Ajit to ask him about Lenovo’s experience over the past year and what challenges and opportunities lie ahead.

Video, by its nature, is highly subjective. Ten people might watch the same video and have varying perceptions of what it is about, which makes it hard to ensure safety and resonance at scale.

If I was to predict 2030, I would have predicted that machines would be helping us make some of the most important decisions of our lives, what to buy, where to go, who to meet, and more.

About a year ago, the world was forced indoors: feeling scared, confused, and downright anxious, the abundance of streaming services available for download provided a sort of escapism to a fraught America.

Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) is under fire as two new complaints have been filed from the European privacy campaign. The company’s setting of the IDFA breaches regional privacy laws on digital tracking because iOS users are not asked for their consent for the identifier’s initial storage.

In its truest form, SPO was designed to bring advertisers and publishers closer together, remove the noise, and pull back the curtain that historically formed between the two.

Our industry has changed and the seemingly separate worlds of digital and linear TV are colliding. As this convergence continues to become more commonplace and the viewing experience preferred by consumers rapidly evolves, the benefits of services have become impossible for traditional broadcasters to ignore.

As augmented reality experiences have become more mainstream, they have also become more and more robust, looking and feeling realistic. But until recently, they have been largely confined to a single-user experience.

Our dynamic market creates opportunities for businesses to grow faster, but only if they’re ready to capitalize on our new market realities.

With every new phase of the TV landscape’s evolution over the past decade, traditional capabilities have fallen closer in line with digital media.

If there was ever an event that can benefit from using an all-digital format to make significant leaps forward, it’s CES. And there is no doubt that the best practices from CES 2021 will shape what the event will look like for years to come.

Let’s take a look at what we mean when we talk about the connection between elections and research technology (ResTech).

The ability to quickly adapt has become a survival skill for digital advertising businesses, which have entered the most condensed innovation cycle ever.

While analytical tools to understand and fine-tune creative performance are becoming more readily available, many brands are slow to adopt them, often casting them aside as simply more tools, more tech, and yet another platform to learn.

While almost every corner of digital advertising has experienced change this year, CTV has certainly seen a notable uptick in investment, driven by consumer trends: 80 percent of U.S. households now stream video to a connected device.

Pre-pandemic, the events business was booming for publishers, with some seeing double-digit growth in sponsorships and attendance in recent years. The biggest problem for some was an overcrowded calendar. Now, the events space is reeling. 

Panic about advertising technology has been in oversupply. Amid another COVID resurgence, there’s absolutely no sense of what the future holds for ad tech. 

What if we told you that one of the most malicious online practices is utilizing the exact same “Gig-Economy” to grow and spread?