Programmatic Linear Television Is Here!

Several players were instrumental in the dawning of this day AMC with Freewheel The Trade Desk and Canoe went live with programmatic linear TV in October 2023 Comcastamp8217s Universal Ads launched in January 2025 and is programmatic for CTVOTT ads and most recently and comprehensively Spectrumamp8217s linear TV is already being sold programmatically today in all of its 91 US markets as announced on August 12The backbone of Spectrumamp8217s ability to deliver programmatically is amp8220tvbeatamp8221 a global leader in Total TV campaign forecasting planning and optimization that serves 40 major television publishers in nine countries including Sky owned by Comcasttvbeat is also in many ways the US market leader having a fully operational ability to deliver linear and crossplatform programmatic solutions and unifying the currently siloed pools of linear streaming MVPD addressable MVPD VOD ATSC 30 NEXTGEN TV and other digital inventory into a single portfolioThe Association of National Advertisers has strived for years to bring down the high middleman costs of programmatic and recently announced with deserved pride that the average programmatic middleman cost today is 59 of the media spend tvbeat delivers programmatically at a single digit fraction of that costtvbeat has also recently announced with partners RMT and BHC both companies in which I am a principal a new platform based on tvbeat and RMTamp8217s Value Signals Resonance technology called UltiMedia which facilitates programmatic selling and buying while optimizing ROAS for increased revenue to all partiesUltiMedia pools selected inventory from participating premium publishers and applies frequency capping at the campaign level using addressable TV to fill in missing reach and insufficient frequency effectively solving the problem of excessive frequency at long last while also increasing the value of the recommended inventoryAudyns is another new company which has realized the value of pooling of inventory which it is achieving out of the gate across REELZ fetv Great American Media and TelevisaUnivision and undoubtedly many more to come Both Audyns and datafuelX the platform that Audyns will be using to execute its campaigns have also joined UltiMediaTVB has announced that it is leading an effort to make programmatic available across all of local linear television in 2026Many local television station groups have offered programmatic solutions for their digital inventory in the past few years including Sinclair TEGNA Nexstar Gray Media NBC and Telemundo station groups and Fox Stations Others offering programmatic solutions for digital inventory include Wide Orbit ITN Magnite and O N X The Omnichannel Network ExchangeItamp8217s possible that some if not many of these parallel efforts will consolidateThis is a major movement that has the potential to cause the next seismic shift in the volatile media and advertising industries Iamp8217ll be on a panel at the CIMM Summit in New York on September 16 2025 with RMT president Audrey Steele TVB EVP Brad Seiter and Audyns CoFounder Todd Gordon where we will address these new developments and open the floor to audience questions and commentaryMuch of the advancement in successfully making linear TV programmatic should be credited to unsung hero Brian Wallach who championed the idea at Freewheel and in his consulting role for tvbeat Brian is now an advisor to UltiMedia and to RMT as wellI know how hard it is to do something good for the industry The first programmatic TV system was my Next Century Media deployed in the 90s by TCI and other major MVPDs for addressable TVamp160 The next generation of linear amp8211 and cross platform amp8211 programmatic has been a long time coming and I believe all sides of the industry will be better for itPosted at MediaVillage through the Thought Leadership selfpublishing platformClick the social buttons to share this story with colleagues and friendsThe opinions expressed here are the author39s views and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillageorgMyersBizNet

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