Jason Fairchild

To those who knew him, John “JG” Gentry wasn’t just a CEO. He was a colleague who showed up with genuine care and curiosity.

CTV advertising platforms often try to sell small businesses on how closely the channel resembles the digital marketing avenues they’re used to working with, like paid social. For Wildgrain, a DTC subscription service for artisan breads and other grain-based foods, this argument proved to be very compelling.

Talking about outcomes is practically a mandate, especially in the CTV space, where ad buyers and vendors alike are heavily invested in streaming television’s potential as a lower-funnel, performance-driving channel.

Aperiam has a new approach to VC investing that now also involves a strategic consulting practice and matching startups in its portfolio with brands looking for programmatic solutions.

TvScientific really wants digital marketers (and their wallets) to open up to the idea of CTV as a performance channel. So, the CTV ad platform unveiled a cost-per-outcome model to emphasize its confidence in CTV ads leading to conversions.

Nielsen is reverting back to its panel-based C3 and C7 ratings that track average commercial time over three or seven days. The currency switch-up just weeks ahead of the upfronts has only added to the industry’s mounting frustrations with Nielsen.

With over half of all TV now consumed via streaming services, measuring it in a granular way is possible for the first time. Given this newly-available feedback loop, Jason Fairchild, CEO and co-founder of tvScientific, shares how advertisers can actually apply the scientific method to TV advertising.

Most marketers agree that digital and social are performance channels, whereas they’re less convinced that performance marketing works on CTV because it’s a less interactive, lean-back experience. But CTV is a lot more like digital than many marketers think, said Jason Fairchild, CEO of TV performance marketing platform tvScientific. “CTV is like digital in that you don’t have to guess at what works – you know.”

On Thursday, CTV performance advertising company tvScientific announced a $20 million Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners, bringing the company’s total funding to $21.5 million. The company’s goal is to automate its two self-proclaimed specialties: measurement optimization and campaign activation.

TV is finally beginning to mine the powerful digital marketing capabilities that big search engines and social networks offer. But there’s a long history of trust issues in digital advertising, writes Jason Fairchild, CEO of tvScientific.

“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Since the 1950s, marketers have instinctively bought into the power of TV advertising, despite the fact that we have never been able to effectively measure its impact. This somewhat inconvenient truth, coupled with the high cost of TV advertising, […]

“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is by tvScientific CEO and co-founder Jason Fairchild. The fastest growing segment of the $72 billion TV ad market is CTV advertising. There are dramatic changes happening within TV advertising, which has traditionally been dominated by roughly […]