Last week, MediaMath hosted a successful event focused on the future of TV with clients and publishers at its 4 World Trade headquarters. Premium TV publishers spoke about their connected TV and OTT offerings, highlighting the differentiators in their content, viewership and app environment, and learned more about MediaMath’s TV offering.
“The role that we’ve taken in the TV space is really to be the connection point between buyers and sellers, to take premium TV content, surface it, make it available to the buy-side in a way that the sell-side wants it to be made available,” said Mike Fisher, our head of advanced TV and video. “So we’re never going to be arbing or re-selling or black-boxing anybody’s inventory.”
DISH Media EVP Kevin Arrix, who spoke at the All Fronts event, highlighted the ability for advertisers to use its Sling TV data to deliver unique targeting and reporting that ties into ROI and attribution. For the industry to truly see the benefit of that type of application of data, the supply side needs to “get connected and get integrated” to what the demand side is doing.
“The demand side is saying ‘I like this company, I like MediaMath I like their UI, I like their platform and I am going to run my marketing dollars through to this platform,'” he said.
Being that connection means being as transparent as possible, according to Fisher.
“We do believe that transparency is the most important thing for TV because we want to make sure that the networks and the publishers in OTT are giving us access to the best of the best content. What we’re doing is further enhancing it with audience targeting, enhanced measurement, attribution reporting…basically tying back everything that a client is already doing in the online environment to TV.”
But it’s about consumers, too, and the ability to deliver engaging, entertaining content across screens in a privacy-compliant way.
“We know the goals of our clients. They’re looking to reach the people they that care about, they need to do it in a way that the people at the other end of the screens appreciate,” MediaMath Founder & CEO Joe Zawadzki says in this Beet.TV. interview.