FCC plan would give consumer control of set-top box
By Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff January 31, 2016
The Federal Communications Commission’s plan to make it easier for cable TV subscribers to buy their own set-top boxes could not only lead to lower costs for consumers, but also a burst of attractive new offerings.
“It is going to spur innovation, and I think it is a good kick in the posterior for the pay TV companies,” said Mukul Krishna, the senior global director for digital media with Frost & Sullivan in San Antonio, Texas.
On Wednesday, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler unveiled a proposal that would require cable and satellite companies to open up their systems, so that consumer electronics firms could build compatible boxes and sell them directly to consumers. Currently, the overwhelming majority of cable subscribers rent their set-top boxes from the cable companies.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/01/...story.html
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Three Group to Tackle Excessive and Irrelevant Mobile Ads.
Three UK and Three Italy have successfully collaborated with Shine Technologies on implementing Shine’s ad blocking technologies in their networks. This will enable rapid roll-out of the technology to all other Three Group operators.
Network-based ad-blocking is a more powerful and effective solution for customers than application-based technologies as it reaches a broader range of mobile advertising.
Our objective in working with Shine is not to eliminate mobile advertising, which is often interesting and beneficial to our customers, but to give customers more control, choice and greater transparency over what they receive.
Our three principal goals in deploying ad blocking capability will be:
1. That customers should not pay data charges to receive adverts. These should be costs borne by the advertiser.
2. That customers’ privacy and security must be fully protected. Some advertisers use mobile ads to extract and exploit data about customers without their knowledge or consent.
3. That customers should be entitled to receive advertising that is relevant and interesting to them, and not to have their data experience in mobile degraded by excessive, intrusive, unwanted or irrelevant adverts.
Over the coming months Three will announce full details of how it will achieve these objectives and will work with Shine Technologies and the advertising community to deliver a better, more targeted and more transparent mobile ad experience to customers.
Tom Malleschitz, Chief Marketing Officer, Three UK, said: “Irrelevant and excessive mobile ads annoy customers and affect their overall network experience. We don’t believe customers should have to pay for data usage driven by mobile ads. The industry has to work together to give customers mobile ads they want and benefit from.
These goals will give customers choice and significantly improve their ad experience.”
For Further Information Contact:
Three UK Press Office
07454 959 715 / three@mww.com
Roi Carthy, CMO, Shine
+972-545-255-764 / roi@getshine.com
https://www.getshine.com/three-group-ad-blocking
.....this reminds me of a conversation at Slick's, (wrt advert target & control)
Now for GOOGLE:
_________________________
Digital Marketing
How Google Plans to Control TV Advertising and Crush Agencies
by Jay Baer
Jay Baer is President of Convince & Convert, a keynote speaker, a podcaster, and the author of five books including Hug Your Haters: How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers.
AdWeek ran an interesting story a few days ago about Google’s foray into television advertising. As I’ve been saying for years, Google’s ultimate plan is to be the middle-man for all advertising, everywhere.
There are clearly inefficiencies in the buying and selling of traditional media. It requires multiple phone calls and emails and spread sheets. Why? Because sellers of media will not make their inventory and their pricing transparent, believing (perhaps correctly) that to do so will result in lower prices.
The Internet Puts People Out of Business
Let’s see if there are other industries that were based in large measure on a slow, inefficient buying process with a lack of transparency. How about travel agents, financial agents, and insurance agents?
The Web does a lot of things well, but its long-term legacies will be instant knowledge and the creation of efficient markets in either broad (amazon, ebay) or targeted (expedia, eTrade, Geico) categories.
Google Has Chosen Advertising as Its Market
To me, the agency community seems frighteningly slow to realize that Google is looking to take away all agency services that are not strategic and creative, and replace them with Google-owned software. Google Ad Planner. Google Analytics. Google Web Optimizer. And now Google Radio, Print, and TV ad insertions. ALL of these are services that agencies could charge for as recently as 30 days ago in some cases.
TV is the Final Frontier for Google
There are 2 components to Google’s TV strategy that if successful, will put a ton of broadcast media reps (buyers and sellers) on the street.
First, Google wants to deliver their menagerie of hundreds of thousands of advertisers directly to TV networks – and especially local stations. Imagine if your local CBS affiliate only needed 1 salesperson instead of 7 because most ads were bought direct through a Google interface. That’s the plan.
Second, Google wants to deliver precise, real-time results tracking for television. They want to do away with Nielsen and all forms of panel and meter measurement. Already, Google is serving ads in the EchoStar satellite network, and providing second by second data on which ads are watched, skipped, paused, etc. They then combine data from online marketing and print and radio campaigns to provide advertisers with a comprehensive report on which media tactics and which creative executions are driving sales.
Are there any clients out there that might want to know precisely how their TV fares versus their radio and print? Ummm, yes.
Old Media is Denying Their Own Peril
What’s equally amazing and aggravating in the AdWeek article are the quotes from all manner of old guard TV folks and their hand maidens. They point to the newish effort by cable companies to join forces to provide the type of online marketplace and measurability for TV that Google is offering. The problem is, it doesn’t matter how great Project Canoe is (which is literally what it is code named – so much for futuristic nomenclature) – they have a grand total of zero advertisers on board. Whereas, Google has hundreds of thousands of marketers logging into their system every day.
Ultimately, efficient markets will win. It’s as inexorable as water flowing to a point of least resistance. Even Forrester is ignoring the eventuality of Google getting a major foothold in the traditional media buying space, as analyst David Graves was quoted “It seems that the television establishment, both buyers and sellers, are likely to want to buy it person to person.” Not for long, and when Google opens up the billions of dollars in spot TV revenue pent up in the mouse clicks of their PPC user base, watch how fast those “face to face” advocates start learning how to buy and sell remotely.
http://www.convinceandconvert.com/digital-mar...-agencies/
........interesting food for thought
By Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff January 31, 2016
The Federal Communications Commission’s plan to make it easier for cable TV subscribers to buy their own set-top boxes could not only lead to lower costs for consumers, but also a burst of attractive new offerings.
“It is going to spur innovation, and I think it is a good kick in the posterior for the pay TV companies,” said Mukul Krishna, the senior global director for digital media with Frost & Sullivan in San Antonio, Texas.
On Wednesday, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler unveiled a proposal that would require cable and satellite companies to open up their systems, so that consumer electronics firms could build compatible boxes and sell them directly to consumers. Currently, the overwhelming majority of cable subscribers rent their set-top boxes from the cable companies.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/01/...story.html
___________________
Three Group to Tackle Excessive and Irrelevant Mobile Ads.
Three UK and Three Italy have successfully collaborated with Shine Technologies on implementing Shine’s ad blocking technologies in their networks. This will enable rapid roll-out of the technology to all other Three Group operators.
Network-based ad-blocking is a more powerful and effective solution for customers than application-based technologies as it reaches a broader range of mobile advertising.
Our objective in working with Shine is not to eliminate mobile advertising, which is often interesting and beneficial to our customers, but to give customers more control, choice and greater transparency over what they receive.
Our three principal goals in deploying ad blocking capability will be:
1. That customers should not pay data charges to receive adverts. These should be costs borne by the advertiser.
2. That customers’ privacy and security must be fully protected. Some advertisers use mobile ads to extract and exploit data about customers without their knowledge or consent.
3. That customers should be entitled to receive advertising that is relevant and interesting to them, and not to have their data experience in mobile degraded by excessive, intrusive, unwanted or irrelevant adverts.
Over the coming months Three will announce full details of how it will achieve these objectives and will work with Shine Technologies and the advertising community to deliver a better, more targeted and more transparent mobile ad experience to customers.
Tom Malleschitz, Chief Marketing Officer, Three UK, said: “Irrelevant and excessive mobile ads annoy customers and affect their overall network experience. We don’t believe customers should have to pay for data usage driven by mobile ads. The industry has to work together to give customers mobile ads they want and benefit from.
These goals will give customers choice and significantly improve their ad experience.”
For Further Information Contact:
Three UK Press Office
07454 959 715 / three@mww.com
Roi Carthy, CMO, Shine
+972-545-255-764 / roi@getshine.com
https://www.getshine.com/three-group-ad-blocking
.....this reminds me of a conversation at Slick's, (wrt advert target & control)
Now for GOOGLE:
_________________________
Digital Marketing
How Google Plans to Control TV Advertising and Crush Agencies
by Jay Baer
Jay Baer is President of Convince & Convert, a keynote speaker, a podcaster, and the author of five books including Hug Your Haters: How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers.
AdWeek ran an interesting story a few days ago about Google’s foray into television advertising. As I’ve been saying for years, Google’s ultimate plan is to be the middle-man for all advertising, everywhere.
There are clearly inefficiencies in the buying and selling of traditional media. It requires multiple phone calls and emails and spread sheets. Why? Because sellers of media will not make their inventory and their pricing transparent, believing (perhaps correctly) that to do so will result in lower prices.
The Internet Puts People Out of Business
Let’s see if there are other industries that were based in large measure on a slow, inefficient buying process with a lack of transparency. How about travel agents, financial agents, and insurance agents?
The Web does a lot of things well, but its long-term legacies will be instant knowledge and the creation of efficient markets in either broad (amazon, ebay) or targeted (expedia, eTrade, Geico) categories.
Google Has Chosen Advertising as Its Market
To me, the agency community seems frighteningly slow to realize that Google is looking to take away all agency services that are not strategic and creative, and replace them with Google-owned software. Google Ad Planner. Google Analytics. Google Web Optimizer. And now Google Radio, Print, and TV ad insertions. ALL of these are services that agencies could charge for as recently as 30 days ago in some cases.
TV is the Final Frontier for Google
There are 2 components to Google’s TV strategy that if successful, will put a ton of broadcast media reps (buyers and sellers) on the street.
First, Google wants to deliver their menagerie of hundreds of thousands of advertisers directly to TV networks – and especially local stations. Imagine if your local CBS affiliate only needed 1 salesperson instead of 7 because most ads were bought direct through a Google interface. That’s the plan.
Second, Google wants to deliver precise, real-time results tracking for television. They want to do away with Nielsen and all forms of panel and meter measurement. Already, Google is serving ads in the EchoStar satellite network, and providing second by second data on which ads are watched, skipped, paused, etc. They then combine data from online marketing and print and radio campaigns to provide advertisers with a comprehensive report on which media tactics and which creative executions are driving sales.
Are there any clients out there that might want to know precisely how their TV fares versus their radio and print? Ummm, yes.
Old Media is Denying Their Own Peril
What’s equally amazing and aggravating in the AdWeek article are the quotes from all manner of old guard TV folks and their hand maidens. They point to the newish effort by cable companies to join forces to provide the type of online marketplace and measurability for TV that Google is offering. The problem is, it doesn’t matter how great Project Canoe is (which is literally what it is code named – so much for futuristic nomenclature) – they have a grand total of zero advertisers on board. Whereas, Google has hundreds of thousands of marketers logging into their system every day.
Ultimately, efficient markets will win. It’s as inexorable as water flowing to a point of least resistance. Even Forrester is ignoring the eventuality of Google getting a major foothold in the traditional media buying space, as analyst David Graves was quoted “It seems that the television establishment, both buyers and sellers, are likely to want to buy it person to person.” Not for long, and when Google opens up the billions of dollars in spot TV revenue pent up in the mouse clicks of their PPC user base, watch how fast those “face to face” advocates start learning how to buy and sell remotely.
http://www.convinceandconvert.com/digital-mar...-agencies/
........interesting food for thought
