BOSTON, Sept. 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- dataxu®, a leading provider of programmatic marketing software for marketing and media professionals, today announced TotalTV for Advertisers, a unified planning and buying solution for agencies and brands investing across linear, connected and addressable TV. TotalTV includes the world’s first unified planner for TV that creates the most efficient buying plans to reach de-duplicated strategic audiences among more than 120 million households, whether viewers are watching linear TV or streaming through any OTT device. Agencies and brands can also use TotalTV to execute at scale, including fully attributable CTV, and for the first time, programmatic linear TV through a new partnership with Sorenson Media. Now, the most appealing element of digital marketing—reaching highly specific, targeted audiences—is available to innovative marketers looking beyond ratings points for their TV buying.
TotalTV solves several strategic challenges faced by TV buyers today, enabling them to:
- Efficiently reach audiences on OTT devices that are hard to find on traditional linear TV, including cord cutters and younger consumers
- Find incremental reach for strategic audience targets, which are increasingly difficult to achieve through linear TV buying alone
- Maximize de-duplicated reach and buying efficiency of strategic audiences by concurrently planning linear, connected and addressable TV with dataxu’s proprietary AI
“With TotalTV, we’re able to find untapped audiences on connected TV for true, incremental reach,” said Sarah Wilson, Media Director, DWA, a Merkle Company.
In addition to these new capabilities, dataxu has partnered with Sorenson Media, a leading provider of linear addressable TV advertising, to deliver targeted linear TV advertising programmatically, for the first time.
“We open up a world of opportunity for advertisers by combining the quality and impact of linear television with our addressable TV solution,” said James Shears, EVP of Advanced Advertising at Sorenson Media. “By utilizing Sorenson Media’s addressable TV technology alongside dataxu’s TotalTV solution, linear TV can be purchased programmatically and activated immediately through a self-service platform, adding a new level of speed-to-market and targetability to linear television.”
This partnership allows dataxu customers to utilize their own data to ensure relevant messages reach specific targeted segments on linear TV programmatically, adding a new layer of TV addressability to their traditional media plan.
TotalTV for Advertisers follows the debut of TotalTV for Media Companies, dataxu’s first-ever solution for the sell-side announced in April. When broadcasters, programmers and distributors of media utilize TotalTV for Media Companies, they understand, engage and monetize audiences across devices at the individual consumer level, improving yield for media owners, increasing efficiency for advertisers and reducing ad load for viewers.
“With this new offering, dataxu provides a complete, end-to-end solution for TV buyers across every advanced TV avenue,” said Sandro Catanzaro, Chief Innovation Officer and co-founder, dataxu. “For the first time, TV buyers can plan, buy, analyze and report all within dataxu’s product suite, making it easier and more efficient to manage complex TV budgets and campaigns across a robust, if fragmented, TV ecosystem.”
About dataxu
dataxu® helps marketing & media professionals use data to improve their advertising. Our software empowers you to connect with real people across all channels, including TV, capturing consumers’ attention when and where it matters most. With 11 offices around the world, we’re here to help power your business forward. Discover what you + our software can do at www.dataxu.com.
About Sorenson Media
Founded in 1995, Sorenson Media provides trusted solutions to the television industry and is an innovator in driving the future of television advertising, fusing the power and scale of linear TV with the data and addressability of digital. Using the capabilities of internet-connected devices to deliver household-level addressability, Sorenson Media's technology provides networks, broadcasters and advertisers with a complete toolkit to enable, enhance, and improve the TV advertising viewing experience. For more information, visit www.sorensonmedia.com and follow us on Twitter.
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