Alyssa Boyle
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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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Cause Marketing
St. Jude Children’s Hospital Returns to Super Bowl to Connect With New Audiences
St. Jude is returning to the Super Bowl with a different focus. Here’s how it hopes the Big Game will help achieve its goals.
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Marketers
For Super Bowl First-Timers Manscaped And Ro, Performance Means Changing Perception
Direct-to-consumer grooming brand Manscaped is about to make its Super Bowl debut, as is Ro, a challenger telehealth startup and, as of 2024, a GLP-1 provider. Both also share a common goal behind their Super Bowl investments, which is to grow their audiences by expanding the perception of their brands beyond their origin stories and more […]
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Marketers
The Super Bowl Is A ‘Performance Trigger’ For Marketers
The Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots aren’t the only ones focused on their performance. Marketers are running their own plays during and after the Super Bowl, seeking proof of performance from their streaming campaigns to justify their investments.
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Cynsiders
TV Ad Buying Is ‘Massively Siloed’ – Can AI Help Change That?
By Alyssa Boyle This piece was originally published on Chief Marketer Network brand AdExchanger. 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 […]
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CTV Roundup
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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Cynsiders
AI Is Rewriting The CTV Advertising Playbook
By Alyssa Boyle This piece was originally published on Chief Marketer Network brand AdExchanger. Needham & Company’s Laura Martin is speaking at the Convergent TV World conference on March 5-6 in New York City. Click here to register. Generative AI is complicating the already rather bloody streaming wars. Despite deepening consumer distrust of AI content, […]
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CTV Roundup
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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CTV Roundup
Streamers Compete For Subscribers, Distribution And Programmatic Prowess
TV programmers and streamers are sharing their financial report cards for last quarter – and the results are quite a mixed bag.
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CTV Roundup
What’s Next For JWP Connatix: SSAI, Contextual Advertising And A New Name
Since Connatix and JW Player first announced their merger in October, JWP Connatix – a temporary name for the newly joined companies – says things are going well at the six-month mark.