Roku Adds Live TV, Introduces New Analytics and Planning Tools for OTT Advertisers
Roku Adds Live TV, Introduces New Analytics and Planning Tools for OTT Advertisers
Date Published: 2019-08-13
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Today Roku announced partnerships to strengthen its live TV offerings on its free Roku Channel. But we need to go back to May to fully capture the meaning.Back in May ROKU announced a new analytics and planning platform for advertisers going over the top (OTT), which is a fancy way of saying "streaming video" rather than linear TV.
Roku, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU) announced Activation Insights, a powerful new tool to target audiences that have shifted to OTT. The capability combines a comprehensive review of a brand's linear TV campaign performance, with an analysis of the potential OTT audience missed and the optimal budget spend on the Roku® platform.
Activation Insights is part of Roku Ad Insights Suite, which helps brands measure campaign reach and effectiveness across linear TV and OTT. With deep first-party insights from Roku's 30.5 million active accounts brands can now better model potential investment with Roku and estimate an unduplicated, incremental audience - whether the audience is light TV viewers and cord-cutters or viewers who were under or over exposed to a brand's ads on linear TV.
"Smart marketers are significantly increasing investments in OTT to reflect the dramatic shift to streaming," said Scott Rosenberg, SVP and GM, Platform Business, Roku. "By adding the ability to tie advertising performance on linear with a specific audience that advertisers can gain on OTT, we are addressing a long-standing industry challenge for OTT media planning. We believe it's no longer a question of when advertising budgets will shift to streaming but how much."
According to Magna Global, OTT accounts for 29 percent of TV viewing but so far has only captured 3 percent of TV ad budgets. Roku provides significant scale and reach to help advertisers catch up to where consumers already are. Additionally, Roku offers advertisers some of the most advanced tools in OTT to deliver more effective, targeted and measurable campaigns.
With Roku's Reach Insights measurement tool brands such as Baskin Robbins and RE/MAX found that a sizable audience was no longer being reached via their linear TV campaigns. Eighty-six percent of people age 18-49 who saw a Baskin Robbins ad on the Roku platform did not see the ad on linear TV, leading to a 10.6 percent incremental reach. Additionally, 81 percent of users age 25-54 who saw a RE/MAX ad on the Roku platform did not see the ad on linear TV, leading to a 9.2 percent incremental reach.
"This year's TV upfront made one thing very clear, OTT is the new cable and powerful new video channel to reach today's consumers," said Michael Piner, SVP, Video and Data Drive Investments, MullenLowe. "Roku's tool helps show us just how effective OTT is at reaching our advertisers' valuable consumers. It gives us a detailed look behind the GRP, allowing us to identify key audiences we're missing or over/under exposed to Linear TV ads but that can be effectively reached on their Roku devices."
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Today, on August 13, 2019, Roku announced that it expanded its free, live TV selection with five more channels, including the Fubu sports network.TechCrunch reported:
The Roku Channel continues to expand beyond ad-supported movies and premium subscriptions, with today's announcement of the addition of several more live TV channels available to anyone with a Roku streaming device or Roku TV. The company says today it's adding five free live TV channels to this offering, including most notably, fubo's Sports Network.
The fubo Sports Network is streaming service fuboTV's first-ever TV channel designed for distribution outside its own platform.
The fubo Sports Network is streaming service fuboTV's first-ever TV channel designed for distribution outside its own platform.
Why are These Related?
As Roku beefs up its Roku Channel content and turns to live TV as well, its commanding lead in the United States market as the largest streaming operating system pulls in more advertisers and enhanced tools make it not only more appealing as a streaming outlet, but even further broadly as a competitor to linear TV advertising, which still relies on archaic measurement and attribution reporting.Streaming video ad attribution is better -- Magna Global has said so, and the leading platform in the United States just got yet more powerful.
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