Moving $$ from Linear to Digital: What Now?

Media consumption patterns have driven a monumental shift from linear to CTV, causing competition for attention among viewers. What should advertisers and brands focus on to effectively reach their audiences in the next 12–18 months? Bill Schild, GM, The Americas, Channel Factory, offers his insights.

A generational shift in consumption

Younger generations have already earned a digital native status, making their streaming media consumption habitual rather than a learned experience. FAST channels and other free media (YouTube Shorts, TikTok, etc.) have expanded their relationship with streaming media. This has been exacerbated by shifts from long to short-form video and more opportunities for live sports, gaming, and UGC on streaming platforms. Older generations are less likely to switch to streaming, staying loyal to linear and keeping the simplicity of their current setup with broadcast and cable.

The takeaway? With two different audiences utilizing various degrees of media consumption, brands and advertisers must be flexible, tailoring their strategies to meet their audiences based on platform and generation.

Hyper personalization

While panel-based methods have been the foundation for linear advertising, digital methods provide broader targeting capabilities. CTV ads are now ultra-personalized using several tactics, including Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) data, Household data, Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO), personalized calls to action using QR codes, and advanced contextual based on real-time consumption.

Measurement Capabilities

The improvement in measurement for CTV is significant, specifically when understanding overall campaign performance. This stems directly from gathering a much more holistic view using cross-device attribution. That said, you also have a better chance of managing reach and frequency than the traditional linear method.

AI-driven ad creative and optimization tools

The capabilities around AI-based creative design are moving extremely fast. They can provide a much broader testing landscape and help reduce ad production costs significantly. With Apple Intelligence rolling out, more opportunities exist to automate and fine-tune creative campaigns in real-time. This allows creative teams to reallocate budgets and resources and find greater efficiencies to improve each component of the ad experience.

Agencies will have greater opportunity to test their creativity, deploy multiple rollout strategies, and achieve greater performance optimization.

Mitigating Risks

With all the benefits CTV brings, it also comes with some associated risks, specifically around data leakage from a device perspective. As our households continue to increase device connections, so does the ability to build data graphs, allowing for a much broader consumer knowledge.

This begs the question of whether the increased information is worth the worry about consumer protection and the associated rights that come with it.

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