How National Brands Create Local Relevance With Connected TV

The proliferation of content options across platforms, screens, and devices, and the continued splintering of audiences brings increasing fragmentation woes for marketers. If you’re a national brand, local relevance is becoming all the more important. It requires honing the ability to personalize and localize messages and consumer experiences with contextually, dynamic and relevant content.

Today, national brands face a number of challenges.

Beyond navigating the continued consumer and channel fragmentation, they need insights at a national to local level to efficiently reach the right audience. Most often, the impression distribution of national footprints is naturally skewed, leaving gaps in harder-to-reach markets.

As such, brands are seeking more effective ways to reach local audiences and drive business outcomes. BIA Advisory estimates national brands will spend $62.7 billion in 2019 to target local consumers.

At the same time, we’re witnessing a dynamic local-media marketplace flourishing with the growing adoption of addressable over-the-top (OTT), in addition to an explosion in streaming TV offerings and inventory by station operators, publishers and virtual multichannel video programming distributors (vMVPDs).

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