Author: Tom MacIsaac

  • Patent granted for online video advertising

    After 10 years, the Lightningcast team has finally been recognized as having invented online video advertising! Read full article

  • Another Dirty Little Secret About Location Based Mobile Advertising

    Over a year ago I published an article here titled “The Dirty Little Secret About Location- Targeted Mobile Ads.” Here’s another secret. The ‘secret’ disclosed in the article — that much of the location data available from marketplace sources, like mobile SSPs and exchanges, was fabricated, is now widely accepted, having since been studied and…

  • The Dirty Little Secret About Location Based Mobile Advertising

    As Sir Martin Sorrell said, location targeting in mobile is the holy grail of marketing. Reaching consumers when they are out and about, on the go, interacting with both the digital and real worlds together can actually fulfill the longstanding goal of ‘right ad, right person, right place, right time’. Read full article

  • Local Advertising Will Dominate Mobile Ad Spending

    Mobile is local. Mobile devices are inherently local tools. Not exclusively – no doubt people use their smartphones for all sorts of things that they might also do on a wired computer at home or at work – but more and more we are seeing data that enforces the intuitive idea that people use their…

  • The Television Industry Re-Made

    A couple of months ago, I wrote a piece called “The Virtual MSO” which described a vision for the Internet video service of the future, the platform that would support it and how the Virtual MSO will fundamentally re-shape the pay television industry. Here, I handicap the winners and losers in that new world order.…

  • The Virtual MSO

    The Virtual MSO Here’s a term you’re going to be hearing more and more in 2010 — the Virtual MSO [cable company]. Web video and traditional TV have been on a collision course for a while. For most of that time, the discussion has been Web-centric, with the media and analysts asking whether Web-based video…

  • And the walls came tumbling down

    That cracking sound you hear is the walls of the clubby world of cable beginning to crumble. Everything in the media world — ­ especially the world of media distribution –has changed as a result of Comcast taking control of GE’s NBCUniversal. Many people think this is a deal to preserve the status quo —…

  • Will “TV Everywhere” go anywhere?

    Add this to the list of things the Internet has changed: Your cable or satellite company now wants to let you, as a subscriber, watch the content you’ve paid for on any device you want, any time you want. The cable crowd has little choice: consumers are accustomed to time shifting their television viewing using…