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OTT and CTV: which is which?

illumin

Given the high demand of streaming services today, advertisers have been exploring ads over these platforms with Amazon Prime’s airing of commercials in February 2024 a very current example. The second category is AVOD (advertising-based video on demand). It’s a common misconception. Within OTT, there are different models.

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Ad-supported video-on-demand, cookieless identity resolution, give CTV advertisers more options

Martech

As the connected-TV (CTV) space matures , advertisers are finding more campaign opportunities in ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD). The costs of linear cable, and mounting subscription pricing for streaming services, is expected to attract viewers to free ad-supported alternatives. video viewers by 2025, or 165.4 million people.

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Why You Need a Unified Brand-to-Demand Strategy

Madison Logic

You can’t do this at the very end of the customer journey—you need to catch their attention and increase awareness before they begin the research process with a unified brand-to-demand strategy. And while many marketers recognize the benefits of strong brand-building efforts, demand generation still dominates.

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Why Connected TV Advertising Is Key in Your Brand and Demand Strategy

Madison Logic

Marketers have traditionally been forced to make hard tradeoffs between their brand and demand activities and decide how to shift budgets when new challenges arise. In most cases, brand-building efforts typically lose out to demand as marketers focus on short-term initiatives to fill the sales pipeline and generate revenue.

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Cord cutting gains steam after 4% drop last year

Martech

Cord cutting is gaining steam again, with 30% of US cable users saying it’s likely they will end their subscriptions in the next six months. Cable subscriptions down. Overall, there are about 30 million fewer cable subscribers in the US this year than in 2020 where there were slightly more 140 million. Top streamers.

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Three Golden Rules for Optimizing Customer Experience

Webbiquity

And unless you have a monopoly, like your electric utility, cable provider, or Facebook (the ultimate scavenger hunt challenge is to find any phone number that connects you directly to an employee within Facebook), make it easy for people to find and reach your customer service department. It’s not the place to skimp on spending.

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Will Amazon Prime’s switch to an ad-supported model lose viewers?

illumin

Even though the introduction of ads to streaming services like Amazon Prime may be fraught with unhappy users, they are still likely to pay for on-demand streaming over cable television. The answer?