Fast-Food Ads Get Faster Service
“Getting the order right” – it’s job one for every quick-service restaurant (QSR), no matter if the order is coming from the front counter, an app or service, or the drive-thru window – and no order is the same. The end results might be different on every order, but some things have got to be there every time to keep customers coming back. Every order has to be served accurately, on-time, and in the highest quality. Hmm….where’s the advertising analogy here?
Customer Connections Newsletter May
Comcast Technology Solutions and PremiumMedia360, the leading company in TV advertising data automation, announced a new strategic relationship. The integration with the Comcast Technology Solutions’ Ad Management Platform enables TV advertising buyers and sellers to automatically synchronize and solve reconciliation discrepancies throughout the...
Customer Connections Newsletter April
TV isn’t going anywhere — it’s going everywhere, transitioning from a broadcasting-only industry to a multiplatform video market, comprising linear and digital, streams and on-demand offerings, available across a growing range of platforms and devices. TV and video advertising are uniquely valuable, and...
MVPDs: Moving From Orbit Into The Cloud?
The 2020s are already proving to be a decade of sweeping change for MVPDs and cable operators around the U.S. The repurposing of C-band spectrum for 5G services is a plan that was accelerated last year after an agreement between the FCC and...
New Ways To Monetize SCTE 224
The SCTE 224 standard is fantastic for video operations enabling blackout management, web embargos, time-shifts, regionalized playout, and a host of other content rights-based program level video switching capabilities. The applications don’t end there; some new applications make the standard really attractive to...
Customer Connections Newsletter March
Do you have the meaningful insights you need to optimize creative and drive business results? Creative Intelligence enables you to look at your omnichannel campaigns based on intelligent metrics from across platforms aimed at engaging your target audience. Armed with information on how...
An unpredictable year brings renewed focus to (and on) media businesses
For an industry as diverse as media and entertainment technology, there were some strong, common themes during the CTS Connects Summit last year that are only more relevant as 2021 starts to kick into high gear.
Navigating Content Rights for Operators
There is no denying that Operators — MVPDs and virtual MVPDs (vMVPDs) — are in a complex place in the video value chain. The requirement to manage rights across all content providers can be overwhelming, time consuming, and expensive. The need to streamline...
Customer Connections
February 2021
Dear Valued Customers, When I started last January, I had hoped to meet most of you personally, but obviously this wasn’t possible. In place of in-person meetings, your sales and account teams have been connecting virtually to help you with your business needs...
Regionalized/Time shifted Playout, Affiliate Distribution, RSNs, and Player Entitlements
Managing a broadcast network at scale is a difficult task even for the most knowledgeable broadcaster. One of your biggest challenges is efficiently and economically creating your live channel without having to invest in unnecessary infrastructure. This is especially true if your channel...
Taking Control of Regionalization with SCTE 224
Media and entertainment companies around the world deliver content to all screens that spans multiple time zones and regions. To create a more compelling viewing experience and keep viewers watching for longer, they may deliver time-delayed content across time zones and allow for...