QTT®, a video platform that bridges existing standard digital and TV advertising technologies andmakes linear TV advertising behave digitally, today announced the launch of QTT^® Marketplace. QTT Marketplace is an open-platform destination for advertisers and agencies accustomed to digital platforms to access directly a wealth of premium, curated local and national television inventory – and for television inventory owners to tap more directly into the rapidly growing digital ad pool.

The QTT Marketplace launch follows the completion of a family of QTT patents delivering seminal steps in the integration of the pan-device digital and linear television advertising ecosystems.

The QTT Marketplace is a new extension of QTT software developed to allow agencies and media buyers to see the linear ad packages – including rates, scheduling and number of spots -- made available by QTT licensees including MVPDs, broadcast television stations and broadcast and cable networks.  An ad campaign can then proceed seamlessly via any respective demand-side platform (DSP) and SSP through the VAST standards and Deal IDs to complete a brand-safe transaction that delivers the campaign’s message to premium audiences.

“A+E Networks has been on the forefront in building scalable demand-side partnerships,” said Ethan Heftman, SVP Advanced Advertising and Digital Sales at A+E Networks. “QTT and its Marketplace are a one-two punch that automates access to new demand while ensuring control over our pricing and inventory.”

“At FOX, we continue to find ways to better serve our clients and look for solutions to drive incremental yield while reducing the workflow efforts to leverage our advanced TV technologies,” said Dan Callahan, SVP Data Strategy and Sales Innovation for Fox. “Earlier this year, we partnered with Operative to move all linear sales to a single cloud system and, in turn, this allowed a seamless partnership with QTT to connect specific cable network linear avails to digital ad platforms.”

“More and more digital advertisers are looking to linear TV to increase their reach efficiently,” said Bill Rosolie, SVP Advertising Sales at ReelzChannel.  “We see QTT as a platform to unlock the value of target-rich audiences across our portfolio of independent networks.”

"In our environment where most ‘game-changing technology’ really isn't, the QTT Marketplace is," said Eric Fischer, Founder and CEO of buying agency HJA Strategic Marketing.  "Their ability to provide a solution for digital-first advertisers to seamlessly access unduplicated linear TV audiences at scale, and conversely provide linear TV networks access to thousands of digital advertisers, adds a whole new dimension to the TV buying ecosystem."

Leveraging the existing Video Advertising Standard Template (VAST) tag, the patented QTTapproach allows digital platforms to develop their own solutions to bring linear television inventory to complement their digital buys. As the first sell-side advertising platform (SSP) integrated with QTT, Magnite, the world's largest independent SSP, developed its own proprietary solution that complements QTT’s patented technology and exposes linear inventory programmatically to buyers based on existing TV measurement currencies.  Because digital attributes such as Video Ad Serving Template (VAST)-based impression pixels aren't available on linear platforms, Magnite’s methodology captures, and reports ratings based upon viewing windows agreed to by media owners and marketers.

“Our clients have been asking for streamlined tools to enable programmatic monetization of their linear inventory and complement their CTV advertising efforts,“ said Todd Randak, SVP Strategy and Partnerships at Magnite. “With QTT we can now offer premium linear TV opportunities through the Magnite platform as if they were any other digital video ad.”

“The conversion of linear-enabled avails to VAST tag-enabled avails, is a pivotal development,” Piccone noted.  “And, importantly, the QTT Marketplace keeps the control in the hands of the respective parties in a transaction.  Advertisers get full transparency and accountability for their buys.  Broadcasters, cable programmers and MVPDs maintain complete control over their inventory and pricing.” 

About QTT^®

QTT^®, based in New York City, is a first-of-its-kind cloud-based television advertising solution that requests and receives ads from programmatic digital ad exchanges to enable linear cable television ad insertion utilizing existing cable and broadcast TV infrastructure.  QTT is integrated with leading SSPs and DSPs and converts a single DSP/SSP digital ad call into a linear TV ad placement, facilitating private marketplace deals with the local broadcasters and broadcast and cable networks who have licensed the solution.   QTT^® is a division of Viamedia, the Lexington, Kentucky, based provider of comprehensive audience and impression-based local video cross-media advertising solutions.  Its platform has exclusive cable TV ad inventory from more than 60 MVPDs in 31 states across 69 DMAs, offering advertising on cable TV networks to more than 6,000 local, regional and national advertisers. QTT is and can be deployed well beyond Viamedia’s footprint. For more information about QTT, please visit  https://viamediatv.com/qtt.  For more information about Viamedia, please visit https://viamediatv.com.

For more information, contact:

Tom Campo or Bob Gold

Bob Gold & Associates

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QTT@bobgoldpr.com

Published on Independent Communications News April 28, 2021

Published on businesswire.com June 2, 2020

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Viamedia, the television industry’s largest independent local ad management company, today named John Piccone to the newly created position of President of QTT, Viamedia’s newly formed business division launching a cloud-based television advertising solution bridging the gap between linear TV and digital advertising. Piccone is responsible for QTT’s overall business, product, communications and marketing strategy.

Viamedia is excited to announce @johnpiccone as its QTT president. His dynamic leadership, extensive experience and insight will be invaluable as we continue to expand our QTT offering.

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“Having been an advisor to QTT for several months now, John has demonstrated that he is a dynamic leader whose extensive experience and insight will be invaluable as we continue to expand our QTT offering,” said Viamedia President and CEO Mark Lieberman. “The technical results from our initial market trials and integrations with our MVPD partners have been stellar. QTT is bringing us one step closer to the full convergence of TV and digital advertising, and John is the right man to help us get there.”

QTT is a first-of-its-kind solution that requests and receives ads programmatically from digital ad exchanges to enable real-time linear cable television ad insertion utilizing existing cable TV infrastructure. With this patent-pending technology, Viamedia can significantly increase cable ad dollars and advertisers’ marketing options by tapping into the surging programmatic digital advertising marketplace. Without needing any headend installation or changes to set top boxes, Viamedia was able to deploy QTT in over 650,000 households, 25 markets and 13 partner MVPDs in only 5 days in May. The balance of Viamedia’s footprint will be rolled out as well as with non-Viamedia MVPDs later this year.

“I am very excited at the opportunity of helping bring the digital and linear television advertising worlds together,” Piccone said. “QTT is a complete gamechanger. For years, the marketplace has been waiting for a simple solution to allow digital advertising platforms to buy linear TV advertising while respecting the existing business rules that have made television advertising so powerful. With QTT, the wait is over. This is the opportunity of a lifetime, and I’m honored to be a part of it.”

Piccone is a seasoned ad tech executive with more than 20 years’ experience in sales and business development. In his most recent post, he was president & chief revenue officer of Simulmedia, the largest independent seller of linear television advertising. Before that, he led commercial development, product introduction and marketing for leading advertising technology companies such as Innovid, HealthiNation, BlackArrow (later acquired by Cadent) and 24/7 Real Media (acquired by WPP and later merged with Xaxis).

Viamedia has also tapped Brendan Condon, a programmatic TV innovator and former chief revenue officer for Comcast-owned Effectv (previously Comcast Spotlight), as a strategic advisor to help with third party network and operator deployment nationwide. With more than 30 years’ experience specializing in multi-platform sales, including linear, digital video, mobile and addressable advertising, Condon will be working with cable operators and agency heads to help drive adoption of QTT.

About Viamedia

Headquartered in New York City, Viamedia provides a comprehensive audience and impression-based local video and digital advertising platform. As part of the platform, Viamedia has exclusive cable TV ad inventory from more than 60 Cable TV Distributors in 34 states across 76 DMAs, offering advertising on cable TV networks to more than 6,000 local, regional and national advertisers. Viamedia also offers those advertisers a complimentary suite of impression-based digital products including Viamedia’s proprietary QTT as well as OTT, mobile, display, email, search, and social, in those DMAs and beyond. Viamedia’s success is built on its proprietary software, people and processes. For more information, please visit https://viamediatv.com.

To schedule a demo of QTT, contact us at info@viamediatv.com.