Get a mid-year update on the state of advanced TV in the new report, “Advanced TV and Innovation in Local Television.”

Included in the report is BIA’s local video and local digital advertising forecasts to examine opportunities for both traditional media players as incumbent seeking to protect their role in the market and newer pure plays gaining increasing traction in local media budgets.

The paper features interviews with a panel of industry experts from several leading companies representing different parts of the Advanced TV industry:

• Imagine Communications, Sarah Foss, Senior Vice President & GM Ad Tech
• IRI, P. Beauchamp, Principal, Media Center of Excellence
• IRI David Wyler, VP, Advanced TV & Digital Video
• iSpot, Robert Bareuther, SVP Business Development
• Operative, Lorne Brown, CEO
• Sinclair Broadcast Group, W. Linkenauger, VP, Advanced Advertising Support Operations
• Videa, Brett Adamczyk, Vice President, Business Development and Strategy
• WideOrbit, Eric Mathewson, Founder/CEO

Questions asked and answered include:

• What key partnerships or initiatives are you developing in the advanced TV realm?
• How do you view existing workflow technology in terms of its compatibility to the existing traditional buying and selling approach?
• How soon do you think advanced TV sales will have an impact on how TV commercial inventory is bought and sold today i.e., from the point of view of the advertising agencies/ marketers and TV program distributors (TV stations, TV networks, MVPDs, addressable platforms, programmatic TV platforms, OTT services and apps)?
• What is your opinion on the media community’s understanding and acceptance of how important workflow is to maximizing return on investment both for the media seller and advertising agencies/ marketers?

Report authors:

• Rick Ducey, Managing Director, BIA Advisory Services
• Mitch Oscar, Director of Programmatic TV Strategy, USIM and Executive Industry Adviser, BIA Advisory Services