Even with all the gains in targeting and tracking, brands will not achieve the full potential business impact and return on TV investment if they’re taking a siloed approach. Integration at every stage is the key to unlocking TV — the most powerful performance engine that has ever existed.

Prioritize seamless experiences by integrating data-driven strategies

The excitement around the programmatic potential of OTT isn’t just blowing smoke; the ability to better control targeting against specific audiences, measure performance more effectively and allow for more agility in planning and deployment are huge improvements to the old set-it-and-forget-it TV norms.

That, however, is not enough. Marketers must consider the full picture of how audiences are engaging with their brand and how effectively their ads are priming the audience to convert and purchase further down the funnel.

The upper funnel is essential for creating more demand to fill the bottom of the funnel. To get the full benefit of TV ads, marketers need to create a digital dovetail to extend the reach and impact of their spots with real-time digital activations that can capture demand in the moment.

The great bane of a traditional TV advertiser’s existence is second screening — people watching TV with a phone or laptop in hand. But the best brands recognize second-screening as an opportunity to transform initial interest or curiosity driven by a TV spot into consideration by applying more targeted, direct messaging on digital channels in real time.

That’s how marketers can leverage the massive scale of one-to-many TV messaging into precise targeting and personalization against their most valuable audiences in digital channels. They can also deploy consideration messaging that capitalizes on real-time opportunities as demand is created to move people down the funnel and measure the direct impact of TV spots in real time, keeping brand dollars accountable to business impact.

Take a converged approach to TV media planning to avoid leaving money on the table

In many ways, OTT forms the bridge between traditional TV and digital marketing channels, so it’s not surprising that brands are focusing on OTT first. But many marketers fail to recognize or account for the unique strengths of linear TV.

OTT offers numerous unique benefits. It’s programmatic and more agile, targeted, and trackable than traditional linear TV. Still, to reap the full benefits of investment in TV advertising, businesses must take a converged approach to linear and OTT.

That doesn’t mean they have to stick to traditional linear strategies. An audience-driven linear approach allows marketers to take advantage of crucial one-to-many moments when many people gather together to watch …read more

Source:: Digiday

Author: Aaron