Frenemies Working Together: The Advanced Advertising Summit

OpenAP -- An Update

In talking about OpenAP, Aversano was joined by Noah Levine, Senior Vice President, Advertising Data and Technology Solutions, Fox and Gabe Bevilacqua, Senior Vice President, Product Management Advanced Advertising, Viacom.  Aversano went on to say that media companies can work independently and reach their own great solutions, but they will all be different and difficult to merge.  The “ah-ha” realization can take OpenAP from a custom solution to an industry standard.

“OpenAP focuses on linear TV and makes it easy to transact on the same ad across optimized linear,” Levine said.  “It enables all types of advertisers, from short-purchase cycle CPG to longer cycle automotives, to better achieve their goals beyond adults 25-54.  We are bringing new types of advertisers to the table, which is critical to the continued success of TV.  Also, it allows us to improve the end-user viewer experience.

“Long term goals include lowering the ad loads and offering different types of ad experiences,” he added.

The partnering of frenemy companies is both new and welcome.  “We are extremely competitive and want to deliver the best results for our clients, but we won't win by coming up with our own definitions,” Bevilacqua noted.  “It doesn't scale this business for any of us.  So we can agree and still have our lanes.  There is a lot of land out there that is the right spot for us to compete.”  Currently OpenAP has 30 agencies on-boarded in time for this Upfront.

Attribution

The best industry standard attribution model for media continues to be elusive, but there are many media experts focusing on the issue. Data+Math is a TV metrics company that focuses on TV attribution.  “We take exposure data from Smart TVs and Set Top Boxes and connect exposure data anonymously to other datasets,” Co-founder and CEO John Hoctor explained.

Adam Gaynor, Vice President, Advertising and Data Solutions Sales, AMC, found this data output useful. “Now we can help tie what brand is trying to do,” he said.  “And it adds extra elements of insights.  TV works and now we are able to prove it.”

But for Keith Kazerman, Group Senior Vice President, Client Solutions, Discovery, the question is, “How do we standardize measurement?  Eighty percent of questions from clients are about how we can do better than yesterday.  How can we measure outcomes?” Attribution is table stakes; not across categories, but by clients.  “For example, financial clients demand attribution,” Kazerman explained.

The biggest untapped targets for this next TV Upfront are measurement, technology and collaboration, Gaynor said.  “We need to work together as an industry to find solutions,” he asserted.

For Kazerman, the target is “standardization … make it efficient.”

Optimism in the industry is high and focused on data and how it maps the consumer journey.  “2018 is the year of audiences,” Gaynor concluded.  “Attribution is another tool that enables us to see what happens.  It all gets us further down the funnel.”

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