Re:Ban Targeted Advertising
by smileysteve on Friday April 13, 2018 @10:05AM
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Like when ESPN or Hulu show you the same ad for the same bad movie every ad.
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Re:Ban Targeted Advertising
by karljtaylor on Friday April 13, 2018 @10:14AM
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There's a handful of reasons that happens, but one of the biggest is that those ads are placed by a variety of different providers. More often than not when a large buyer goes to place a buy (think on the order of P&G promoting a new product, the snack conglomerates, movie studios etc.,) they'll place an order based on a certain number of impressions. they'll also mandate a certain viewability threshold and a number of other conditions.
In order to execute that buy, the media desk has to make purchases from a variety of platforms. Those platforms also buy and resell inventory from a mix of other places. Segments aren't very well defined, so you end up competing against yourself to buy the same inventory over again.
FWIW, a lot of those OTS services also have very traditional media desks. (e.g., https://nccmedia.com/)