Publica by IAS, a leading Connected TV (CTV) ad server owned by Integral Ad Science, has formally announced its new global partnership with Vevo, the world's leading music video network. This collaboration enables Vevo to improve their advertisers’ targeting capabilities, enhance their streamed content with a traditional TV-like viewing experience, and maximise CTV advertising revenue via the introduction of a programmatic unified auction for the premium ad slots within their streamed ad breaks.

The partnership enables Vevo to provide advertisers with enhanced buying techniques similar to those of linear TV. This includes competitive separation, frequency management, and the ability to purchase the first slot within ad pods, much like standard TV commercial breaks. 

"As the Vevo catalogue continues to expand, we are excited to partner with Publica to ensure that we are providing a high quality and curated best-in-class viewing experience, while ensuring that our advertising partners can effectively reach our global audience of music lovers," said Natalie Gabathuler-Scully, EVP, revenue, distribution & data operations, Vevo. "By providing advertisers with greater control and increased transparency, they can better optimise their CTV campaigns when reaching our engaged viewers."

Key Publica by IAS technology products that Vevo has implemented include:

• Advanced Ad Serving — Vevo has the ability to deliver advanced CTV ad breaks with the granular controls required by advertisers to target, and with the ability to optimise each slot by revenue per second within the pod.

• Advanced Ad Pod Decisioning — Gives Vevo the ability to guarantee an advertiser first pod placement, and own a pod by brand category, helping with competitive separation and buy side frequency management.

• Unified Auction — Enables Vevo to run a controlled, unified auction of all demand sources to extract the highest yielding ad per slot in each streaming ad pod. Vevo is also using the Publica 'Live Logs' feature to enable real time transparency into each of the programmatic auctions within which the company's inventory is cleared; this permits Vevo to optimise yield and data strategies in real time to ensure they do not lose demand to supply path optimization (SPO).

CTV advertising is escalating rapidly and poised to grow in 2023 to $25.9 billion, according to GroupM's mid-year forecast. 

Publica by IAS has been instrumental recently in helping the IAB Tech Lab to build out the new protocols that bring increased security and targeting to streaming ad breaks via the introduction of OpenRTB 2.6, and also ads.cert 2.0 that secures the practice of SSAI. In implementing Publica CTV ad decisioning technology, Vevo can ensure its CTV inventory is being targeted and served in the most secure way possible, providing its advertisers with the controls and transparency they require. Advertisers have programmatic access to Vevo inventory via a number of leading global supply side platforms (SSPs).

"We're excited about about our new partnership with Vevo, and we look forward to providing them with the ad decisioning technology to grow their global advertising revenues, offer outcomes to their advertisers, and empower them with the ad serving capabilities to improve their streamers' viewing experiences on CTV," said Sean Galligan, CRO, Publica by IAS.

Named Best CTV Ad Server in the 2023 VideoWeek awards, Publica by IAS helps global publishers and TV manufacturers deliver a seamless ad experience to audiences via the introduction of Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI), while also helping publishers maximise revenue by running a unified-auction between multiple SSPs and DSPs.