ThinkAnalytics enhances ThinkAdvertising to make hyper-targeting a reality for TV

New features drive increased advertising revenue opportunities and reduces costs/time-to-market with highly predictive affinity categories, household composition, and intent to purchase

London and Los Angeles(30 Sep 2021)

ThinkAnalytics, a global provider of cloud-based personalized content discovery, viewer insight, and targeted advertising solutions, today announced enhancements to ThinkAdvertising that bring even more sophisticated, digital-style ad targeting to the TV sector, and provide opportunities for video service providers to build additional revenue streams.

Chief among the enhancements is the ability to blend comprehensive, dynamic, first-party behavioral data with a broadened set of enriched metadata for the ultimate in hyper-targeted segmentation. These rich user profiles are highly attractive to new and existing TV advertisers that want to reach highly segmented audience niches that they recognize, value, and can measure.

Also new is support for the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) taxonomy used by media buyers for digital ad campaigns, which makes it easier for advertisers to buy and run cross-media campaigns that include TV ads. ThinkAdvertising automates the creation of valuable audience segments using more than 160 IAB audience affinities – for example, people interested in luxury cars or adventure vacations.

With its focus on first-party data, ThinkAdvertising now makes it possible to predict a viewer’s purchase intent. By tracking viewing behavior, the solution can dynamically capture and build audience segments that demonstrate an enhanced interest in a particular purchasing category at a particular time. For example, a sudden interest in searching for and watching programs about trekking vacations signals that the viewer will likely be interested in being served ads from companies that offer trekking tours.

Similarly, ThinkAdvertising makes it possible to identify those important but elusive “light” TV viewer categories that TV advertisers are keen to reach but have found so difficult to engage with until now. 

“Targeted or addressable advertising has fallen far behind what’s available in the digital media world because it has been hampered by the lack of accurate targeting attributes,” said Tony Mooney, SVP of Advertising at ThinkAnalytics. “ThinkAdvertising is a critical component in the TV fight-back, helping video service providers capture more advertising dollars by providing new and existing TV advertisers with engaged hyper-targeted audiences and a great ROI from their TV campaigns.”

“Our breakthrough features for consumer profiling and predictive behavioral analysis make hyper-targeted advertising a reality for TV,” said Peter Docherty, CTO of ThinkAnalytics. “Based on our latest proof of concepts with customers, viewer engagement is up thanks to improved ad relevancy, as are those all-important ad premiums. Through our powerful combination of AI, information science and data science, we are uniquely positioned to deliver advanced ad profiling along with a rapid, cost-effective implementation in the cloud that will help to drive a new era of data-driven, digital TV advertising.” 

ThinkAdvertising is available as part of the Think360 suite or as a standalone solution. It can be easily integrated with other analytics platforms and ad decision services to deploy highly targeted advertising campaigns. 

For more information on ThinkAdvertising visit www.thinkanalytics.com/contact

About ThinkAnalytics

Think360 is the leading content discovery and viewer analytics solution worldwide, enabling video service providers, studios, broadcasters, and media companies to deliver personalized experiences to their customers resulting in significant uplift in viewer engagement, loyalty and ARPU. ThinkAnalytics delivers content discovery and viewer insights to over 80 service providers serving approximately 400 million subscribers in 43 languages with 6 billion recommendations per day, making the company the largest independent content discovery platform worldwide.

Customers include: Astro, Deutsche Telekom, DirecTV Latin America, HBO Latin America, Liberty Global, OSN, Proximus, Rogers, Singtel, Sky, Tata Sky, and Vodafone.