Re:Ads Don't Work That Way (2014)
by mekkkkkk on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @05:14AM
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Very interesting! Tangentially I've worked a lot with video streaming, and one technology that there was a lot of buzz around was to splice personalized ads into regular linear TV broadcasts. Basically it replaced the original broadcast ads with personalized ones, completely seamless and unnoticeable. I don't know if it was ever implemented, but it sounds like it would tap into the same mechanism that you propose.
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It did, under the name server-side ad insertion (SSAI).
https://videoweek.com/2020/08/12/server-side-ad-insertion-ex...