Vevo and Publica by IAS Announce Partnership for CTV Ad Serving
Vevo, the top music video network in the world, and Publica by IAS, a top Connected TV (CTV) ad server owned by Integral Ad Science, announced a global partnership. This partnership enables Vevo to enhance their advertisers’ targeting abilities, improve the viewing experience of their streamed content by making it akin to a traditional TV show, and increase their revenue from CTV advertising by introducing a programmatic unified auction for the premium ad slots within their streamed ad breaks. This covers the ability to buy the first slot inside ad pods, frequency management, and competitive separation.
Characteristics implemented by Vevo
With features that mimic typical TV commercial breaks, advertisers can effectively target Vevo’s global music-loving audience.
Advanced Ad Serving: Vevo can provide advanced CTV ad breaks with the precise targeting options needed by advertisers. Furthermore, it can also provide the capacity to maximize each slot in a pod based on revenue per second.
Advanced Ad Pod Decisioning: This feature allows Vevo to own a pod by brand category and ensure an advertiser’s first pod placement. This aids in buy-side frequency management and competitive separation. Vevo can also guarantee that CTV inventory is served securely and targeted, giving advertisers the transparency and control they need. This enables Vevo to provide their engaged viewers with an improved viewing experience while optimizing revenue
Unified Bidding: This feature enables Vevo to extract the highest-yielding ad for each slot in each streaming ad pod. It does so by conducting a controlled, unified auction of all demand sources. In order to provide real-time transparency into each programmatic auction where the company’s inventory is cleared, Vevo is also utilizing the Publica ‘Live Logs’ feature. As a result, Vevo can now continuously improve yield and data strategies to prevent demand loss due to supply path optimization (SPO).
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CTV Advertising
Based on GroupM’s mid-year forecast, CTV advertising is expected to grow to $25.9 billion in 2023. This is a rapid increase. As a result, the collaboration is timely to take advantage of this expanding trend and grab new business prospects. Vevo can guarantee that its CTV inventory is targeted and served in the safest manner possible. It does so by putting Publica CTV advertising decision-making technology to use. This will give Vevo’s advertisers the control and transparency they need. Advertisers can access Vevo inventory programmatically through several of the top supply-side platforms (SSPs) in the world.
Here’s what they said
Natalie Gabathuler-Scully, EVP, Revenue, Distribution & Data Operations, Vevo said,
As the Vevo catalog continues to expand, we are excited to partner with Publica to ensure that we are providing a high quality and curated best- in-class viewing experience, while ensuring that our advertising partners can effectively reach our global audience of music lovers. By providing advertisers with greater control and increased transparency, they can better optimize their CTV campaigns when reaching our engaged viewers.
Sean Galligan, CRO, Publica by IAS added,
We’re excited about our new partnership with Vevo, and we look forward to providing them with the ad decisioning technology to grow their global advertising revenues, offer outcomes to their advertisers and empower them with the ad serving capabilities to improve their streamers’ viewing experiences on CTV.
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IAS Acquires Publica For $220M To “Help Advertisers”
Integral Ad Science (IAS) has invested $220 million in a cash and stock transaction to acquire Publica, a connected TV advertising platform. Every month, Publica serves approximately three billion adverts on CTV.
IAS is advancing its approach in this market with this acquisition, which aims to assist publishers market their video programs better across CTV platforms while also developing new solutions to provide advertisers visibility into the quality of this inventory.
With this acquisition, Ben Antier, co-founder and CEO of Publica, will now report to IAS CEO Lisa Utzschneider. Furthermore, the Publica brand will be added to IAS’ product line.
IAS’s decision seems strategic and logical as Publica helps boost publisher yield by connecting supply-side platforms to unique CTV inventory.
Publica’s unified auction, over-the-top (OTT) header bidding for programmatic purchasing, audience management, campaign management, server-side ad insertion (SSAI), ad pod automation, and sophisticated analytics would all be added to IAS’s CTV capabilities as a result of the deal.
Utzschneider, CEO, IAS commented on the acquisition –
Advanced data and technology will fuel the future of addressable CTV advertising. Now video publishers can increase their revenue, and in the future, we will help advertisers with a trusted way to measure the results of their growing CTV budgets
IAS’s current CTV technologies, which include the industry’s first CTV verification solution for worldwide invalid traffic (IVT) and viewability across programmatic and direct buying on all applications and providers, will be expanded with this acquisition.
Moreover, in the next months, IAS aims to provide a brand safety and appropriateness solution for CTV advertisers and publishers, backed by Publica’s platform and CTV content analytics.
CTV advertising is on the rise, and according to eMarketer, advertisers will spend more than $13.4 billion on CTV this year, with that figure expected to rise to $24.7 billion by 2024.
