NewFronts Briefing: Google, Vizio and news publishers pitch marketers with new ad offerings and range of content categories

The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s annual four-day NewFronts kicked off yesterday in New York City, with presentations from Google and Vizio pitching marketers on their advertising offerings. At the end of the day, IAB co-hosted a session with The New York Times to put a spotlight on news organizations to convince more advertisers to support them.

The key details:

Google wants advertisers to centralize their streaming ad buys to its web-dominant DSP

Vizio focused its presentation on its home screen, and announced new content hubs and ad formats, including pause ads

IAB spotlighted news publishers to get more advertisers to support this content category amid challenges like keyword blocking

Digiday interviewed Condé Nast’s global CRO Pamela Drucker Mann to hear how the publisher is pitching marketers this year

Google wants to “rethink” programmatic TV

“We need to rethink programmatic TV altogether.” That’s how Google president of Americas and global partners Sean Downey opened YouTube parent company’s NewFronts presentation on Monday.

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How publishers are optimizing their tech stacks to enhance addressability

John Martin, senior director, publisher growth solutions, PubMatic

Audience addressability has gained renewed urgency as Google finally started deprecating third-party cookies in Chrome. Now, publishers must consider how signal loss will affect their businesses and ensure they are future-proofing their operations.

The role of publishers’ first-party data has continued to grow in a post-cookie landscape. Publishers that obtain and activate a deeper understanding of their audiences are better positioned for monetization. However, many publishers are limited in their ability to collect first-party data, which in itself is insufficient for closing the addressability gap created by ongoing identifier loss. 

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