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Navigating the Ad Tech Maze
In an ideal world, digital advertising should work like broadcast advertising, but with even better targeting and variable ad pod lengths. However, the ad tech business has the nuances of stock market trading, combined with the technical challenges to support all devices of the splintered multi-platform world that is streaming. And everyone involved knows there are gaps between where things are and where they should be.
What follows is a summary of the Streaming Media West Connect 2020 panel Streaming Ad Tech Relationship Advice, with our experts weighing in on their key issues. If you re not where our speakers are, you ll be making a lot of choices and will likely have to create your own path.
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Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen: Between remote production and cloud distribution, those were things that were we were already seeing more of before COVID hit, and we ve only seen it accelerate in the last six months. How has that accelerated technology pace impacted the industry from your perspective? And do you think it ll slow down again once, we get back to normal, whatever that looks like?
Peter Wharton: One of the biggest shifts is this move to the cloud. And the most difficult part of that, the Holy Grail, was actually doing live production, because a lot of production imposes a lot of challenges to make the cloud hard to do, from high bandwidth and very low latency and lots of signals, it makes that one of the most difficult things, but
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Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen: Obviously, one of the things that s going on is that scripted content production has very much ground to a halt. It is slowly creeping back up, but we actually have a question from the audience. That s one that was already on our list, which is, are we in any danger of running out of new content? Is the era of peak TV just on pause? Is it over? Where do you see the creation of new content coming from? Is it going to be more unscripted content, reality content, animation? Michelle, your thoughts on that?
The Art and Science of OTT Recommendation Algorithms
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Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen: Michelle, what are you seeing as you talk to services in the industry and technology providers, in terms of improving the types of recommendations that are delivered to viewers and helping them find the content they want to watch?
Michelle Abraham: Well, definitely, using some sort of algorithms recommendation engine a part of most services and Jon and Peter are right in that. Oftentimes, there are reasons for what s shown at the top. There s all of the analytics that support that, there are business reasons for recommending certain shows over others that don t necessarily factor into what the consumer has actually watched in the past. So, you do find