Roku, Inc. and advertising platform Innovid are
launching an analytics solution designed to measure daily demographic reach and frequency on TV campaigns that run across the Roku platform and linear TV.
The solution marries OTT and linear
TV occurrence and identity data from Roku’s 30.5 million active accounts as of June 30, with Innovid’s 75-million household OTT ad-serving footprint.
This, according to the
companies, is expected to help marketers hone advertising inventory allocations for Roku and other publishers, including reducing “over-frequency,” without additional tagging or
integrations.
“As marketers follow viewers from linear TV to OTT, they need tools to evaluate audience overlap and incremental reach across screens and suppliers,” said Alison
Levin, vice president, ad sales and strategy, Roku. More than half of Roku’s audience are cord cutters, she reports.
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“The ability to manage daily incremental reach and frequency
across OTT and linear TV is very much needed as we continue to scale spend in OTT, and will help give us more confidence that our clients’ investment in OTT is driving measurable results,”
added Dentsu Amplifi President Mike Law.
The product is now being tested by several Innovid and Roku clients, including Verizon. The companies report that they plan to expand the solution
beyond Roku, to include all of OTT.
The new solution expands on Roku Ad Insights, a suite of analytics tools designed to measure ad effectiveness in OTT, introduced in 2018. Innovid’s ad
technology has been part of Roku’s ad framework since 2015.