Ecommerce giant Amazon – perhaps you’ve heard of them? – also wants you shop on an app that’s synchronized with your TV viewing. Their approach is the new Amazon Live channel, which provides an app linked to shopping programs on Prime Video or Amazon FreeVee. Research from LG Ad Solutions shows that 45% of connected TV viewers already shop online while watching.
Maybe you want to buy stuff while watching TV, and maybe you don’t. Shopsense hopes you and lots of other folks do, since they’ve just released Shopsense AI, which makes content shoppable with broadcast and streaming networks’ own apps and ecommerce sites. Catalog-style ads will appear on users’ mobile devices, not the TV shows themselves.
It’s tough to get brand safety right, but the industry keeps trying. IPG Mediabrands announced a new set of tools to find and block inappropriate ad placements, while IAS expanded its suitability measurements to include standards from the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM). Meanwhile, DoubleVerify admitted a mistake made brand safety on X/Twitter look worse than it really was in October 2023 and March 2024.
Email and mobile personalization platform Movable Ink has announced a new integration between its Da Vinci content personalization solution and Adobe Journey Optimizer. Joint customers will be able to develop content assets aimed at each individual email recipient and bring them into Adobe Journey Optimizer for deployment. This builds on an existing integration between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Campaign.