Premion Achieves TAG Brand Safety Certified Seal

Premion, a premium CTV/OTT advertising platform for regional and local advertisers, today announced that it achieved the TAG Brand Safety Certified Seal from the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG). Created by the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Association of National Advertisers and Interactive Advertising Bureau, TAG is a global certification program fighting criminal activity, increasing trust and […]

CTV-OTT Advertisers Plan To Increase Spending By 22% In 2022

Most advertisers buying connected TV and over-the-top inventory plan to increase their spending on streaming by an average of 22%, according to a new study from Advertiser Perceptions and Premion, Tegna’s local OTT/CTV ad unit. Among those responding to the study, 25% called CTV/OTT the most important or valuable media type in 2021, topping linear TV, paid search and social.

Premion Shows Station Groups The Way To OTT Revenue

Over-the-top advertising has become a surprisingly important business for companies that have been stockpiling television stations. Streaming revenue is letting broadcasters, including Cox Media Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group and the NBC and Fox O&Os, claim a foothold in the technology field and create advanced advertising products for clients enamored of digital and social media.

Premion Expands Deal With Polk To Help Auto CTV Campaigns

Premion, Tegna’s connected TV advertising company, said it expanded its relationship with IHS Markit to use Polk Automotive Solutions data to target ad campaigns and measure their results. Automotive advertisers using the Premion platform to create regional and local streaming campaigns will be able to incorporate Polk audience segments and data on sales, make and model, price and vehicle type.

Cadent Expands TV Identity Graph Partnership With Premion

Advanced TV platform provider Cadent today introduced an expansion of its long-standing agreement with Premion, a premium CTV/OTT advertising platform for regional and local advertisers. Under the terms of the new agreement, Cadent Viewer Graph, Cadent’s proprietary and cookieless matching technology, will unify audiences across Premion’s inventory of branded networks and providers so that advertisers […]

Tegna Extends Partnership With FreeWheel

The partnership enables enhanced, automated access for media buyers to Premion’s CTV/OTT ad platform.

Premion Expands Regional Sales Leadership Team

Premion, a premium CTV/OTT advertising platform for regional and local advertisers, today announced the addition of two new regional sales leaders to address the accelerating growth of streaming TV advertising. Effective immediately, Amanda Dunlap will serve as Southwest regional sales director and Tracy Kalfas is joining as Midwest regional sales director. These appointments expand Premion’s […]

Premion Gets TAG Certification Against Fraud

Tom Cox, president of Premion: “This recognition validates what we’ve been doing from the onset — directly sourcing inventory from premium, known publishers and using cutting-edge technology to detect and filter for fraud.”

Tegna And Gray Form OTT Partnership

Gray will acquire a minority ownership interest in Tegna’s Premion and resell Premion in all of Gray’s 93 television markets.

Comscore To Provide Measurements To Premion

Comscore and Premion have entered into an agreement for Comscore to be the measurement provider for Premion’s OTT offering. Part of Tegna Marketing Solutions, Premion is a CTV/OTT advertising platform enabling local, regional and national advertisers to reach desirable audiences in premium, long-form, live and on-demand video programming delivered across a broad array of streaming platforms and devices […]

John Vilade To Head Premion Ad Sales

Premion, Tegna’s CTV/OTT advertising solution for regional and local advertisers, named John Vilade its new head of sales and vice president. Vilade joins Premion from TRUSTX, where he was chief revenue officer. He is responsible for leading Premion’s national and regional sales organization and driving revenue growth, go-to-market development and execution. Vilade is based at Premion’s […]

Tegna Unit Using Blockchain To Curb Fraud

Tegna’s over-the-top advertising unit Premion is using a new suite of blockchain-based technology from MadHive to prevent fraud, target campaign and verify ad delivery.

Tegna’s Premion Giving OTT Refunds

Premion, the seller of OTT advertising inventory for a number of platforms, says it is refunding money to advertisers for specific campaigns that ran during 2018 due to “system issues.” Premion, owned by Tegna, says its Premium Audience Selects segments have “not been delivered correctly,” and that it affects up to 17% of Premion total revenue.

Premion Expands Regional Sales Leadership Team

Tegna’s premium CTV/OTT advertising solution adds Shawn Edwards, Doug Tierney and Tony Mastromatteo to lead its efforts in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia markets.

Premion Launches Data Management Platform

Tegna’s OTT ad platform is designed to let advertisers be able to target specific audience segments such as auto intenders, travel enthusiasts or homeowners.

Tegna Launches OTT Advertising Business

The new Premion is designed to deliver leading premium long-form OTT content to local and regional advertisers through one solution.