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Online video/TV’s evolution into a mature advertising channel continues, with this week’s announcements that Adobe can now dynamically insert ads into live video, and can measure any video stream down to the nearest ten seconds.
The announcements were made at the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC), now taking place in Amsterdam.
Adobe Primetime, the company’s tool to support multiscreen TV, can now replace a broadcast ad with a dynamically targeted ad in a single live video stream. This is focused on the type of online video Adobe calls TV Everywhere, which is Net-delivered video that requires a cable subscription logon, such as Xfinity programming delivered online. (Adobe describes Over-the-Top or OTT TV as online TV that doesn’t need a cable logon.)
Before, Adobe Primetime Marketing Director Campbell Foster told me, his company didn’t offer this kind of ad insertion for live broadcasts, which was employed during a pilot phase during the recent Olympics.
When NBC’s live stream was shown online to cable subscribers, for instance, Adobe could replace in real-time the ads that were used for broadcast. The inserted ads could then be targeted at specific users, using data from cable systems, third-parties like Oracle’s data management platform BlueKai, device types, and other sources.
That is, targeting TV ads in live online TV as if they were web site ads.
“Nobody else can do live ad replacement, whether or not it’s authenticated, at our scale,” Foster said.
Adobe has also announced that its Analytics product can now analyze any video stream in ten-second increments.
Previously, Foster said, the company could only measure in 25 percent increments related to the nearest server call for starts and stops, such as the number of people watching during half of a video stream. Now, it can measure the number of watchers in ten second chunks, thus providing a more finely-tuned measurement of video audiences.
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