The marketplace for addressable TV cannot truly scale until the industry speaks the same language, understands the opportunies and creates standards.
— Read on adage.com/article/cadent/why-are-we-still-making-it-so-hard-understand-addressable-tv/2202041
Despite the rapid growth of voice and virtual assistant adoption, platforms like Google and Amazon have yet to provide businesses with the ability to segment voice interactions from typed interactions in performance reports. This makes it difficult to fully assess the role of voice search and virtual assistants at present, but there are some signals we can use to examine any changes in user behavior and the directional growth of voice interactions.
— Read on searchengineland.com/what-the-numbers-tell-us-about-the-current-voice-search-opportunity-314810
Segmentation will never be perfect. But when a competitor understands segments by value, they’ll spend to reach — and win — the best customers.
That’s why it’s important to understand a customer’s overall value. Doing so can help inform bidding and build audiences. CLV measures the value a person brings to a business across all of their interactions over time — not just a single transaction. We’ve found that when marketers focus on CLV, they begin to attract more of the customers they care about, stoke ongoing engagement, and ultimately, increase retention.
— Read on www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-resources/experience-design/consumer-intent/
TV is heading for a commercial breakdown.
TV networks are set to broadcast many of the same old ads viewers have grown accustomed to seeing for dozens of years. And yet, executives hope they can make those spots more interesting, more timely and harder to ignore by finding new ways to distribute them and measure their effectiveness.
What the industry is realizing is this: what a commercial says may not be as important as how it’s introduced to the viewer Madison Avenue needs to see it. Come the fall, couch potatoes are likely to experience everything from ad breaks only two commercials in length to pitches beamed to them through their Samsung or LG smart TV.
— Read on variety.com/2018/tv/news/tv-advertising-interesting-commercials-cbs-hulu-samantha-bee-1202817648/
