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How Marketers Are Proving Performance in a Fragmented TV Ecosystem

Posted on June 26, 2023June 26, 2023 by Cadent Staff

In a recent interview between Lindsay Teague, SVP of Advanced TV Solutions & Sales at Cadent, and Devon T. Smith, Studio 30 Contributing Editor at Ad Age, they explore how marketers can make holistic TV ad planning, buying, and measurement easier, smarter, and more efficient – and prove their ROI. Lindsay offers her perspective on the challenges brands experience when executing cross-screen TV campaigns. Their discussion touches on the disruption taking place across the advertising landscape and what marketers must do to make the most of their media investment.

To learn more about how marketers can improve the results of their linear and CTV advertising campaigns in our converging TV ecosystem, watch Lindsay and Devon’s full conversation below.

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Cadent and Catalina Expand Partnership to Deliver and Measure Highly Targeted, Data-Driven TV & CTV Advertising

Posted on May 2, 2023May 2, 2023 by Cadent Staff

2022 Cadent-Catalina Campaigns Averaged 25% Sales Lift

NEW YORK and ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 2, 2023 – Cadent, the largest independent platform for advanced TV advertising, and Catalina, a leader in shopper intelligence and highly targeted media, have signed a new multi-year agreement establishing Cadent as Catalina’s preferred platform for executing linear, addressable and connected TV (CTV) ad campaigns for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, and Catalina as Cadent’s preferred CPG data, audience, and measurement provider.

Cadent and Catalina will support shared and new customers through this expanded partnership as they grow their business through data-driven linear TV and CTV advertising, which continue to dramatically expand. Since first forming a strategic alliance in 2020 the partnership has experienced 900% year-over-year growth in a tight and increasingly complex market, as advertisers aim to deliver successful scale and reach. In 2022, partnership campaigns drove an average sales lift of 25 percent.

To do so, Catalina is leveraging Cadent’s expertise in TV advertising and Aperture Viewer Graph technology to help brand advertisers maximize their media budget and drive higher return on ad spend (ROAS). Meanwhile, Cadent is leveraging Catalina’s ability to target and measure CPG brand and category buyers to efficiently target households during the purchase cycle and suppress offers to shoppers who have already purchased during a campaign to improve the ROAS performance on reach and frequency of ads delivered to addressable TVs.

Additionally, the companies are providing brand marketers with Catalina’s Responsive Media solutions that re-engage shoppers who have seen a TV ad with an in-store or digital coupon to incentivize those who have not yet purchased the advertised product during the campaign flight window.

Cadent’s cross-screen TV advertising technology and Catalina’s deep consumer insights and purchase-based measurement capabilities can now provide CPG marketers with unique solutions and unmatched reach for their end-to-end brand campaigns. Cadent’s Aperture Viewer Graph covers nearly 100 million U.S. households and overlaps with Catalina household IDs in the US by nearly 95%.

“Cadent is thrilled that we continue to grow our partnership with Catalina to provide our CPG brand customers with best-in-class audience targeting and measurement solutions,” said Mari Tangredi, SVP, Audience Solutions at Cadent. “This partnership highlights the impactful work we can deliver by combining Catalina’s valuable consumer insights with Cadent’s Viewer Graph, end-to-end platform technology, and TV advertising expertise, empowering marketers to activate strategic cross-screen campaigns more effectively and efficiently.”

Catalina was recently named a trusted measurement partner by NBC Universal in two categories, CPG Sales Lift Incrementality and Multi-Touch Attribution, after a year-long certification process. Catalina’s measurement pixel has also been certified across several streaming CTV platform providers, providing measurement results in near real-time for shared Cadent customers.

Already, Cadent and Catalina have been jointly recognized as winners of the 2022 AdExchanger Award for the “Best Data-Driven TV Campaign.” The award-winning campaign was executed for shared client Applegate and delivered household-level, targeted CTV ads to 4.2MM existing and new buyers, optimizing for performance based on purchase behavior in real-time. The custom, sequential omnichannel campaign aimed to efficiently attract new Applegate triers to its diverse portfolio of natural and organic meats, re-engage lapsed buyers, and encourage cross-category purchases spanning the company’s growing family of brands.

“At Applegate, we are always looking for new and innovative ways to connect with our consumers and deliver on our mission of Changing the Meat We Eat. Our partnership with Cadent and Catalina is a great example of thinking differently,” said Molly Scerra, Senior Brand Manager for Applegate. “By leveraging their data-driven TV advertising model and in-store Responsive Media, we delivered targeted and measurable campaigns that drove results, including a 25% in-store sales lift. We’re thrilled to have been a part of this award-winning campaign, and we look forward to continuing to work with Cadent and Catalina to innovate and elevate our marketing efforts.”

“We’re excited to expand our partnership with Cadent to deliver unparalleled solutions for data-driven TV advertising,” said Brian Dunphy, SVP of Data Services & Strategic Partnerships at Catalina. “Our successful partnership has demonstrated the power of combining Cadent’s cross-screen TV advertising technology with Catalina’s deep consumer insights and purchase-based targeting, measurement, and attribution capabilities. Through this expanded partnership, we can help our shared customers demonstrably grow their business through data-driven CTV advertising, delivering proof of performance, near-real-time measurement, and efficiency.”

About Cadent
Cadent powers the evolution of TV brand advertising. We provide marketers, agencies, operators, and media owners with data-driven solutions for buying and selling TV advertising. By connecting brands with opportunities across national inventory sources—cable, broadcast, and OTT—our technology improves efficiencies and boosts the results of linear, addressable, and cross-screen campaigns. For more information, visit cadent.tv or follow @CadentTV.

About Catalina
Catalina is a leader in shopper intelligence and highly targeted in-store, TV, radio and digital media that personalizes the shopper journey. Powered by the world’s richest real-time shopper database, Catalina helps retailers, CPG brands and agencies optimize every stage of media planning, execution and measurement to deliver $6.1 billion in consumer value annually. Catalina has no higher priority than ensuring the privacy and security of the data entrusted to the company and maintaining consumer trust. Catalina has operations in the United States, Costa Rica and Europe. To learn more, please visit www.catalina.com.

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Hollis Guerra for Cadent, Daddi Brand Communications, [email protected]

Wally Petersen for Catalina, 312-804-3475, [email protected]

How Brands Can Effectively Activate in the Cross-Screen TV Ecosystem

Posted on April 5, 2023April 5, 2023 by Aliana Heffernan

In an interview between Jenny Rooney, Chief Experience Officer of Adweek, and Paul Alfieri, Chief Marketing Officer of Cadent, they discuss the challenges that brands face in the converging TV ecosystem. Paul provides insights into how brands can leverage strategic audiences across screens to engage customers throughout the purchasing journey. He emphasizes the need for marketers to have the ability to target and measure with the same data set, at the household level, to understand a holistic view of their cross-screen campaigns. The conversation ultimately establishes the need for marketers to lean into end-to-end audience targeting and measurement solutions, that measurement quality is more important than measurement currency, and that cross-screen TV is the new norm, so the industry needs to deliver solutions to meet that demand.

To discover how brands can maximize the potential of CTV and effectively activate in cross-screen environments, watch Paul and Jenny’s full interview below.

Fireside Chat Replay: How Cross-Screen TV Advertising Will Get Brands Through a Recession

Posted on January 4, 2023January 23, 2023 by Cadent Staff

Recently, Cadent EVP, Advanced TV and Video, Jes Santoro spoke to Natalie Zfat, Studio 30 Contributing Editor at Ad Age, about the critical importance of cross-screen advertising – particularly, during a recession. They discussed how during economic downturns, marketers often revert to “muscle memory” tactics or reduce their advertising investment all together. However, as Jes points out, “when you look at the data that’s associated with any of our economic past downturns… it is extremely consistent in that marketers and advertisers that pull back and decrease their share of voice in market lose brand awareness and lose sales.” To help advertisers mitigate the impact of a potential recession in 2023, Jes shares proven strategies that allow advertisers to efficiently maximize reach through linear TV while maintaining a presence on more data-driven channels like CTV.

Watch their full conversation below.

How the Right Data Helps Marketers Engage Audiences Through Connected TV

Posted on October 27, 2022December 18, 2023 by Cadent Staff

Cadent and Claritas explain why marketers need to both identify and understand data to implement successful connected TV strategies.

By Mari Tangredi, SVP of Partnerships at Cadent, and Barney Marvin, SVP of Digital Solutions at Claritas

Connected TV ad spending is projected to hit $21.2 billion in 2022, up 39% from 2021. The reason for this is in part due to two market factors. First, as consumer engagement in the media becomes more fragmented, marketers must ensure they are engaging consumers across screens, with targeted and relevant messaging. Second, the growth of closed-loop measurement is giving marketers greater visibility into the impact advanced TV campaigns have on driving consumers to conversion.

So, let’s take a moment to focus on data. All marketers can agree on one thing – wanting to find a solution that will enable them to reach their target audience effectively and efficiently. This involves using data to improve their understanding of current customers and new prospects. Having quality data at scale is helpful but turning that data into actionable insights is the most critical step. Ultimately, most marketers spend time and resources identifying the right audiences for one main purpose: to deliver multichannel campaigns that engage audiences and drive them through their customer journey.

Understanding Your Audiences’ Channel Preferences

Activating data-driven advanced TV campaigns requires thinking through a few key questions:

How will I identify my target audience?
Where does your target audience consume media?
What and how can you measure?

These are the insights that move a marketer from understanding an audience to effectively engaging with them.

The Importance of Actionable Data

Claritas works with marketers in this capacity in a couple of different ways. Many marketers opt to leverage our industry-leading syndicated audiences which are pre-built segments that share similar demographic and behavioral insights. Claritas has classified every household in the U.S. into one of 68 PRIZM® Premier segments.

In some situations, our clients need very specific audiences where unique behaviors are presently based on insights gleaned. Marketers can also work with Claritas to build Custom Audience solutions from the ground up. In either scenario, helping marketers understand where and how to reach their target audience with multichannel campaigns is our goal.

Marketers must be able to access our audiences, whether they are syndicated or custom, through their platform or partner of choice to set up and execute campaigns. It’s great to have the audiences built and ready but if you can’t onboard them to execute campaigns against them in an accurate and timely manner, their value may be lost. This is where a platform like Cadent Aperture plays such a critical role in connecting marketers with their audiences of choice and helping them engage where it matters most.

“Cadent’s advanced TV platform, Aperture, is mapped to Claritas data at the highest match rates using our household-based Viewer Graph for the highest match rates into CTV,” explained Mari Tangredi, SVP of Partnerships at Cadent.

“Cadent Aperture Platform combined with Claritas’ 50-year deep understanding of the US Consumer gives our clients an extremely powerful tool to truly understand who to target and how to reach them, driving incredible results!” shared Barney Marvin, SVP of Digital at Claritas.

Mari went on to say, “Together, we bring to market the right data, at the greatest scale and accuracy to ensure campaign effectiveness for TV advertisers which we prove on the backend with measurement.”

Reaching the Right Audience at the Right Moment

Today’s marketers are faced with several challenges because of an increasingly fragmented TV ecosystem. On one hand, consumers are spending more time watching over-the-top (OTT) or connected TV (CTV) content, with some choosing to “cut the cord” on linear TV altogether. On the other hand, siloed targeting, buying, activation, and measurement have prevented marketers from gaining a holistic view of their OTT/CTV campaigns. As consumer viewing habits continue to change, marketers need to change their approach to TV advertising. Unified solutions are required for marketers to reach their target audience effectively and efficiently.

Activating third-party data from premium partners like Claritas through Cadent Aperture Platform is one of those solutions. Claritas’ storied history in consumer insights and new developments in the Claritas Identity graph combined with Cadent’s technology which helps automate the ability to deliver messaging in the highly fragmented TV ecosystem are the perfect compliments for client success. By leveraging strategic demographic and behavioral data at the household level, marketers can reach the right audience with their advanced TV campaigns – at scale. Aperture Platform empowers advertisers to build audience segments using first- and third-party data and activate against all advanced TV. By activating brand messaging across all TV screens and devices, marketers can engage viewers at key moments throughout the customer journey and drive greater business outcomes like return on ad spend.

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3 Things You Must Know Before Investing in CTV Advertising

Posted on August 18, 2022May 11, 2023 by Aliana Heffernan

Connected TV viewership continues to grow, as does the number of subscription-based and ad-supported streaming services available to consumers. However, Connected TV (CTV) ad spending is still considerably less than that of linear TV. But let’s take a step back to better understand the full CTV advertising landscape.

The State of Connected TV by the Numbers

As of February 2022, Nielsen found that the average weekly time spent streaming video content hit 169.4 billion minutes, up 18% since 2021 – on top of the growth streaming had already experienced since spiking in 2020. By the end of 2021, CTV ad spend had also increased – 57% year-over-year, reaching $15.2 billion – and is projected to grow an additional 39% in 2022 to $21.2B, according to the IAB’s “2021 Video Ad Spend and 2022 Outlook” report.

While the streaming wars remain tenuous, with changes in format – both Netflix and Disney+ are planning to launch ad-supported tiers, and subscription churn leaving subscription counts in flux, many advertisers are moving full stream ahead with investment in the channel.

This shift in ad spend and viewership will continue to increase as the linear and digital TV ecosystems converge. In fact, eMarketer predicts that US linear TV ad spending (including addressable, programmatic, and upfront investments) will grow to $68.35 billion in 2022 but will then decline over the coming years. Ultimately, CTV’s appeal of growing viewership and improved measurement is too strong for advertisers to ignore.

To help you determine how to incorporate this channel into your media mix, here are three things you must know before investing in CTV advertising.

1. CTV offers advertisers a huge opportunity to reach consumers with advanced targeting

Reach people where they are watching with a more granular approach to audience targeting. Fragmentation remains a pain point for many advertisers, so as consumers continue to spread their attention across an ever-growing number of screens, devices, and platforms, it’s time for advertisers to follow where the eyeballs lead.

With a wide variety of data and audience targeting solutions, advertisers are faced with choice overload. Fortunately, Cadent Aperture Audience Data Marketplace seeks to minimize friction and enable advertisers to activate audience segments from their preferred third-party data providers.

Learn more about our data partners.

2. Ad fraud is cause for concern among CTV advertisers, but the risk can be mitigated

U.S. advertisers are expected to lose $23 billion to fraud this year, based on forecasts from Juniper Research. And like all digital media, fraud exists in CTV. According to DoubleVerify, the number of fraud schemes spiked by over 70% year-over-year from 2020 to 2021.

But just how prevalent is ad fraud on CTV? GroupM and iSpot.TV determined that there will be $1 billion in CTV ad waste this year. While these numbers are not exact, that amounts to roughly 4.3% of all ad fraud. Unfortunately, as CTV viewership grows, the advertising industry will need to be more vigilant in combatting ad fraud.

As an advertiser, it is important to understand if and how your CTV media has been evaluated by key verification, viewability, attention, and brand safety markers – not all CTV or platforms are created equally. Cadent integrates with leading third-party verification and viewability providers to help you effectively combat issues like fraud.

3. Measurement for CTV provides advertisers with digital-level insights

Measurement is often seen as the defining characteristic that sets CTV apart from other TV advertising channels. Yet over the course of the past year, debates around “multiple currencies” have dominated the industry dialogue as agencies and advertisers raise their concerns regarding industry standards and the challenges of interoperability.

At Cadent, we not only minimize the impact of fraud from a delivery and viewability standpoint, but we take it a step further by tying CTV performance to real business outcomes. Through Aperture Platform, Cadent enables measurement from the leading third-party measurement providers to best support our customers.

Today’s marketers also need solutions that allow you to match planning, delivery, and optimization to results on a campaign-by-campaign basis. Cadent Aperture Viewer Graph was created with this challenge in mind. Advertisers do not have a single need and measurement in a “black box” is as inefficient as no measurement at all. Through Aperture, Cadent seeks to foster a more open, effective TV advertising ecosystem.

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7 Must-See Sessions at Programmatic I/O in Las Vegas

Posted on May 19, 2022September 28, 2022 by Aliana Heffernan

It’s hard to believe that Programmatic I/O Las Vegas is just a few days away! This year’s #PROGIO will touch on topics such as CTV trends, privacy, the cookieless future, retail media, and more, featuring speakers from Procter & Gamble, Buzzfeed, Paramount+, TikTok, and Cadent. We are looking forward to participating in conversations around data-driven marketing with leaders from across the industry. The Cadent team will be attending many of the keynotes, panels, and workshops at the conference, so be sure to get in touch if you would like to set up a meeting.

While we wish we could make it to every deep-dive, breakout, and networking event, there is simply too much happening in just a few short days! Below, we’ve rounded up a list of some of the sessions where you will find members of the Cadent team.

1. The State of Converged TV Measurement From A Programmer’s Perspective

When: Tuesday, May 24 – 9:55-10:15 am
What: Colleen Fahey Rush from Paramount, Lisa Valentino from Disney, and Mark Roblat from Tubi will meet with AdExchanger’s Allison Schiff to discuss how broadcasters are approaching changing consumer viewing behaviors.

2. Unlocking the Secrets to Successful Data-Driven TV Advertising

When: Tuesday, May 24 – 2:15-2:40 pm
What: Marcy Pentoney, VP, Product Management at Cadent will be leading a workshop on how ratings are driving the need for fluidity, the importance of understanding today’s audience strategies, and why now is the time for linear and digital to converge.

3. What Programmatic TV Buyers Can Learn From the TV OGs

When: Tuesday, May 24 – 2:45-3:10 pm
What: Nicole Whitesel, EVP, Advanced TV & Client Success at Publicis Media will share her perspective on the pros and cons of a programmatic approach in TV, what traders can learn from traditional TV buyers, and how to use the right tools to get the job done for your brand’s KPIs.

4. Lights, Camera, Ad Tech! A Fireside Chat With Paramount+ and Samsung DSP

When: Wednesday, May 25 – 9:15-9:35 am
What: Alex Boras and Jackelyn Keller from Samsung Ads and Damon Mercadante from Paramount+ discuss their predictions for where smart TV viewership trends will go.

5. The Lasting Effects of the Pandemic on TV and Advertising

When: Wednesday, May 25 – 1:15-1:40 pm
What: AJ Kintner, VP of Sales at LG Ads will share how advertisers can successfully balance engaging audiences across linear TV and ad-supported streaming.

6. What Digital Media Can Learn From CTV

When: Wednesday, May 25 – 1:45-2:10 pm
What: Mike Richter, VP, Global Ad Revenue Operations, CTV & Digital at Trusted Media Brands will explore how identity, privacy, and tech setups differ across CTV and digital.

7. Creating The Culture, With TikTok’s Melissa Yang

When: Wednesday, May 25 – 3:40-4:00 pm
What: Melissa Yang, Global Head of Ecosystem Partnerships at TikTok will speak with AdExchanger’s Allison Schiff about how TikTok is working to foster a positive environment for creators, advertisers, and users.

Meet us at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas!

Meet members of the Cadent team at Programmatic I/O! Jes Santoro, Marcy Pentoney, Tony Yi, and Mari Tangredi will all be at the conference. If you would like to book a meeting, please email [email protected] or send a contact request here.

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3 Things We Learned at Adweek Convergent TV Summit

Posted on April 29, 2022April 29, 2022 by Aliana Heffernan

This year’s Adweek Convergent TV Summit East brought together some of the industry’s leading experts in media, brand marketing, data, and adtech to discuss the evolving TV marketplace. Each session provided a critical lens on how advertisers and publishers are approaching the convergence of linear and Connected TV (CTV), from fluidity to audience data to content. Many of the sessions aligned closely with Cadent’s point of view with respect to the needs of the buy and supply side in the shifting landscape. In case you missed it, we collected three key takeaways from the Convergent TV Summit, shared below:

1. Cross-Screen TV is the New Normal

The complexity of the TV ecosystem is growing as audiences continue to fragment across screens, devices, and platforms. At the same time, advertisers are faced with the challenge of reaching these increasingly fragmented audiences. So, what does this mean for TV advertising?

“The future is a cross-screen world. No advertiser buys just one platform,” said Nick Troiano, CEO of Cadent.

This “new normal” was emphasized by Jon Steinlauf, Chief U.S. Advertising Sales Officer for the recently merged Warner Bros. Discovery. “There are 42 million homes in America that don’t subscribe to cable, that’s really the frontier,” he said. “Really what the advertisers are asking for is get those 42 million homes, extend my reach, because those homes may not watch a ton of set-top box television.”

As a result, fluidity is playing a critical role in the cross-screen transition. Advertisers can no longer rely on a single channel to reach a complete audience, nor can they use linear-only or CTV-only platforms to build a media plan. Campaigns that take a “fluid” approach require deep insight into both linear and CTV media.

Cadent’s Jes Santoro, SVP, Advanced TV & Video shared, “We have to look at things collectively, not ‘versus’ right now. …almost 40% of the viewing of TV content is not in that packaged, linear TV model.”

To achieve the right balance between reach and precision, advertisers will need to find platforms that bridge the gap across linear and CTV buying.

2. Automation and Audience Data Will be Key to Improving Results

Today’s advertisers are faced with a myriad of choices for every campaign – how much do I spend on QAM-delivered media compared to IP? How much reach over targeted? How much do I invest during the upfront as opposed to scatter? The only way you can efficiently support that many choices is through automation.

Nick Troiano said he believes, “The TV world has to focus on automation. There’s a lot of separation between platforms, data vendors, and measurement reporters. I think the next 12 to 18 months will be about automation and it will be driven by the need to bring measurement and performance together.”

As we enter the upfront season, publishers and partners that can deliver better automation and audience solutions are poised to come out on top.

3. Multiple Measurement Currencies are Here to Stay

At this year’s Convergent TV Summit, the topic of measurement was front and center. In fact, Diana Boyles, Vice President of Marketing at Angi may have said it best: “Cross-screen measurement is no longer a ‘nice to have’ – it’s a necessity.”

Accordingly, multiple currencies will continue to exist for the foreseeable future – not because the industry has not yet evolved to a single standard, but because marketers do not have a single need.

“Value is in the eye of the beholder. Value means different things to different marketers,” said Dani Benowitz, President, U.S. of MAGNA.

To best serve advertisers, platforms will need to enable multiple measurement currencies for TV reporting.

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