
From 2013 ConnecTV to $33B Connected TV: The Synced-Advertising History
From the 2013 ConnecTV launch through Shazam, Realytics, FreeWheel, and the $33B Connected TV transformation — the full synced-TV and second-screen advertising history.

From the 2013 ConnecTV launch through Shazam, Realytics, FreeWheel, and the $33B Connected TV transformation — the full synced-TV and second-screen advertising history.

There is a vast amount of advertising – and customer-related data available, and marketers need to make the best of it. This means they need to use the best solutions to gather this data and find the most suited methods in order to drive the highest ROI. In order to harness this large amount of information marketers turn to data management platforms (DMPs), as a new report shows.
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