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Category: Advertising

Addressable TV

TV advertising model where different ads are shown to different audience segments watching the same TV program. Those segments could be defined by behavioral, demographic, and geographic factors from 1st, 2nd, or 3rd party data sets.

Ad-ID.org

Ad-ID.org is an industry organization focused on providing an identity system and a consistent set of naming conventions for advertising assets. By creating a registry of unique IDs associated with information about advertising creatives, the system can function in a manner similar to how your driver’s license number can be

Ad Server

Technology used by both publishers (sell-side ad server) and brands (buy-side ad server) that decides which ad to show to a viewer and tracks whether the ad was viewed

Ad Pod

An individual Ad Pod is a group of ads that have, or are expected to, play back-to-back in one Ad Break.

Ad Break

A time in digital content where ad insertions–or replacements or deletions of existing baked-in ads–can occur without the action impacting the underlying entertainment programming. An Ad Break can be of varying lengths and can be placed at any point in the content (pre, mid, or post). An Ad Break typically

Ad Avail

A time in an Ad Break where an ad insertion–or a replacement or deletion of existing baked-in ad–can occur. An Ad Break can consist of one or more Ad Avails.

Variant

Program content that has been encoded into a particular bit rate, frame size and/or frame rate. ABR streaming technology provides consistent, high-quality viewing in situations where bandwidth may fluctuate, and where viewers may be on a wide range of devices by combining multiple variants into a single package that represents

Placement Opportunity Information Service

The Placement Opportunity Information Service (POIS) provides an interface to a repository of descriptions of opportunities for placement of content within an audio/video stream. Frequently these specify opportunities for insertion of advertising content within entertainment programming. The POIS may also contain attributes and constraints for each placement opportunity, platform compliance,

Advertising-based Video-on-Demand

A streaming video service that offers consumers access to on-demand video content which includes advertisements. This term is typically associated with a streaming service delivering TV though an application on a Connected TV.

Ad Identifier

The Ad Identifier (Ad-ID) is the advertising industry standard unique identifier for all commercial assets airing in the United States. Previously the industry used the ISCI system until 2003.

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