How Amazon Made a Stronger Partnership Play in Thursday Night Football in Year 5
Amazon Prime Video expanded its advertising inventory for Thursday Night Football in its fifth year, delivering a 6 % year‑over‑year lift in ad revenue. The move adds more video ad slots and introduces more flexible pricing for sports content.
Amazon's expansion of video ad inventory and revenue growth in sports content offers a crucial case study for how competitors capture brand budgets, informing our "Influencer × Video" strategy for live commerce and video advertising opportunities.
→ Read on Adweek
Dentsu X’s Bruce Williams Explains That Campaigns Can Overcome Fragmentation
Bruce Williams, CEO of Dentsu X North America, outlines how advertisers can integrate TV, digital, and OOH by consolidating data and employing cross‑channel measurement, thereby mitigating media fragmentation. The piece offers practical guidance for unified campaign execution.
The Dentsu X CEO's emphasis on unified data and cross-channel measurement reinforces the strategic importance of our "cross-product reporting" initiative, highlighting the need for a consolidated view of ad effectiveness to attract brand budgets (Axis 2).
→ Read on Adweek
OWN’s Tina Perry Is Taking the Network Beyond Linear TV
OWN is moving away from linear television by building brand‑centric content and CTV inventory, giving advertisers new audience‑first placements that require different measurement and buying models.
OWN's expansion into CTV inventory beyond linear TV, creating audience-centric ad slots, indicates the importance of our developing new ad formats and measurement models beyond linear media to capture brand budgets (Axis 2).
→ Read on adexchanger.com
Your CRM might be your most underrated keyword research tool
The article explains how data stored in a customer‑relationship‑management (CRM) system—such as purchase histories and inquiry logs—can be mined to generate high‑intent keyword ideas for search advertising. Compared with generic search‑volume tools, CRM‑derived keywords reflect existing customer intent, delivering higher conversion potential and more efficient budget use. Advertisers can improve targeting precision by feeding CRM insights into their keyword research.
The insight that CRM data, such as customer purchase history and inquiry logs, is highly effective for search ad keyword research highlights an opportunity for us to leverage our rich first-party data to improve RPP and RPP-EXP targeting and maximize ROAS.
→ Read on Search Engine Land
Formula 1 starts selling audio ads through Consumable's 220M-user network
Formula 1 has launched audio ad inventory on the Consumable platform, reaching 220 million users. The offering includes Visual Audio ads and PODiQ targeting, though pricing and early advertisers have not been disclosed. This creates a new premium audio channel for brands and agencies.
F1's launch of audio ad sales on the Consumable platform, creating a new premium channel, suggests the importance for us to consider expanding into diverse media channels beyond traditional video and display to capture brand budgets (Axis 2).
→ Read on PPC Land
Google lets connected Gmail and Photos data shape ads, 5 years after pledge
Google announced a policy change that permits advertisers to use data from users’ Gmail and Google Photos for ad targeting when users link apps to Search or Gemini. While advertisers still cannot access inbox contents directly, they can leverage extracted signals to create richer audience segments, raising both targeting precision and privacy considerations.
Google's policy change to leverage Gmail and Photos data for ad targeting illustrates a trend among major platforms in utilizing first-party data, prompting us to reassess our strategy for maximizing the value of our own data while ensuring user privacy.
→ Read on ppc.land
Nippon TV, TBS, Fuji TV invest in new company for TV ad transaction platform “Ad Reach MAX”
Three major Japanese broadcasters invested in a startup launching Ad Reach MAX, a unified, programmatic platform for buying and selling TV ad inventory. The platform enables real‑time purchasing, integrated inventory management, and unified measurement, streamlining the traditionally manual TV buying process and opening cross‑channel opportunities.
The investment by major Japanese TV broadcasters in a programmatic TV ad trading platform highlights the importance of media buying efficiency and cross-channel strategies, creating an opportunity for us to strengthen agency partnerships in our pursuit of brand budgets (Axis 2).
→ Read on markezine.jp
Nexxen & Brainlabs Leverage Smart TV Home Screen Advertising to Expand Audience Reach
Nexxen’s data‑driven advertising platform teamed with Brainlabs to run campaigns on the home screen of smart TVs. The home‑screen placement is visible the moment users power on the device, delivering full‑funnel engagement and higher conversion rates than traditional OTT spots. Advertisers can now consider this always‑on surface as a top‑of‑funnel channel.
The emergence of smart TV home screen ads as a high-engagement, top-of-funnel channel suggests we should explore innovative video ad inventory opportunities as part of our "Influencer × Video" strategy and pursuit of brand budgets (Axis 2).
→ Read on ExchangeWire
Transfon UniSignIn Upgrade Helps Publishers Grow & Monetise Their Own Audiences
Transfon’s UniSignIn adds reader‑journey tracking, audience‑building email tools, and live‑blog upgrades, allowing publishers to leverage first‑party data for higher ad revenue. The new features simplify audience segmentation and enable personalized ad delivery, with API access for existing DSPs. This creates a premium, privacy‑safe inventory for advertisers.
Transfon's UniSignIn supporting publishers in leveraging first-party data to build privacy-safe, premium inventory offers valuable insights for us to utilize our own rich data to create higher quality external ad placements for RPP-EXP and TDA-EXP.
→ Read on ExchangeWire
How Media Fight Back Against Plummeting Google Search Referrals? Free Subscription Registrations Promise 8× Ad Rates
As Google search traffic drops sharply, publishers are deploying free registration walls to identify users, allowing them to command ad CPMs up to eight times higher. The article weighs the friction‑induced audience loss against the revenue lift and notes that advertisers gain more precise targeting on sites with known users.
The case of publishers identifying "known users" through free registrations to combat declining Google search traffic and raise ad rates reinforces the importance of our strategy to enhance RPP and CA targeting and ad value through our own first-party data.
→ Read on digiday.jp