Most TV Companies Unprepared for Advanced TV, Research Reveals

NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- SintecMedia, the world's leading provider of broadcast and digital management software, today announced the results of a groundbreaking research study of TV media executives and agency media buyers about the future of TV, problems facing media companies, and how media companies plan to manage advanced TV advertising and delivery. The study includes results from a survey in partnership with MediaPost as well as interviews with executives from market-leading companies including Charter Spectrum Reach, Hulu, Scripps Network, and Turner. 

The study finds that 59% of all TV media companies rely on homegrown technology to sell their inventory, a fact that will make it difficult for companies to adapt as Advanced TV forces new technology and process into the advertising organization. The study also finds that TV media executives believe that their companies are unprepared for changes. Less than one third, 31% believe that their company has what they need to sell digital and linear TV in a single streamlined process.

Additionally, TV media executives are not aligned with media buyers about several key advanced TV elements. While TV executives believe that TV ratings metrics will become the standard for multichannel and advanced TV advertising, agencies believe that the impression will become the significant metric. What's more, TV companies feel confident that the TV department will take on more digital sales while agencies believe that digital will take on more TV sales.

The study finds that demand for advanced TV inventory is founded on fast transactions, easy delivery and big scale. Technical and organizational friction within TV companies creates barriers that could frustrate media buyers looking for easy ways to buy audience-targeted campaigns from TV companies, potentially giving digital companies like Facebook and Google a window of opportunity. SintecMedia's research shows that TV companies are, however, in a good position to grab market share in Advanced TV if they can overcome technical and operational hurdles quickly.

"TV companies and digital companies are both vying for advanced TV market share, with widely varying business models. The Future of TV requires a profitable combination of quality content, multichannel distribution and ad sales built on a flexible, centralized technology stack.  This strategy empowers the media company to control their transactions and make decisions quickly," said Lorne Brown, CEO SintecMedia. "Our research shows that many TV executives are facing critical trade-offs to reap small rewards from compromised projects now compared to more ambitions strategic initiatives that ensure that they preserve their control and profitability in the future."

About the Survey
SintecMedia and MediaPost surveyed TV Executives, Digital Executives and Agency Media Buyers involved in the buying and selling of linear and digital advertising.  The survey includes 368 responses, and was conducted in Q4 2016. Additional research including interviews took place through Q1 2017.

Get the full study here: http://connect.sintecmedia.com/the-future-of-tv-2

About SintecMedia
SintecMedia is the preferred broadcast management for linear and digital, and a software partner for over 300 of the world's top media brands, including NBCU, CBS, ABC, AT&T, STARZ, Star India, Seven Australia and Sky. No other software company brings a comparable depth of experience to create truly innovative software that performs across all platforms, revenue models, and business units. Since 2000, SintecMedia has grown to over 1200+ employees in 12 offices around the world and processes more than $40 billion in linear and digital advertising revenue for the best-known companies in the industry. For more information, visit www.sintecmedia.com

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