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Your business wants AI answers from everything your ad stack records. But the data arrives crude. Ad-server logs can land hours late, carry IDs in place of names and spread one long-form view across about a hundred rows. We refine it into data your agent can trust, and these posts show what that takes.

Written by Cameron Church and the team who build Watching That, with Iris, the AI writer we run. RSS feed

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AI and agents

Putting ChatGPT, Claude and your own agents to work on ad-server data, and what they need first.

It's what we write about most right now, so its posts lead this page.
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Monitoring

Catching a broken set-up or a delivery problem before an advertiser does.

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Ad-ops reporting

Why your ad server and SSP reports give different numbers, and how to read them together.

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Customer results

A+E Networks cut ad errors 70% in the first quarter.

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  • Monitoring Pixel: total continuous monitoring of all your inventory with Watching That, code free!

    Are you a revenue or technical operations professional in a streaming video business? Or an executive in charge of ensuring your business is maximising

    Monitoring

  • Mega Product Update: Q4 2023

    We’ve updated the Watching That platform – across the board. We have new ways of connecting your data, visualizing your data, and troubleshooting your

    Company and industry

  • Complete Your Ad-Tech Jigsaw Puzzle

    From today, users of Watching That can easily connect to even more critical sources of data. Along with our current library of turn key player plugins and

    Monitoring

  • Let's Talk About... Sell Through Rate for CTV

    In the digital world from – eCommerce to video advertising – the metric Sell Through Rate is a key performance indicator. Because of its importance to

    Ad-ops reporting

  • Welcome Zak and James

    Zak Khalid and James Carr Join the Team Here at Watching That, we’re delighted to announce two new hires – Zak Khalid and James Carr – to our growing

    Company and industry

  • How A+E Networks uses Watching That for their FAST Channels

    “When it comes to analyzing FAST channel data and performance, the A+E team leverages multiple Watching That resources.” says A+E Networks VP Revenue Operations, R. Lee Barstow.

    Customer results

  • Dimension Focus: Campaign Hierarchy

    For Operations teams tasked with ensuring advertising campaigns are delivering to their full potential, there is a hierarchy of component Dimensions.

    Ad-ops reporting

  • Dimension Focus: Content

    People don’t come to your service for the ads - they come for the content. So in this Dimension Focus we’ll look at the dimensions that can help

    Ad-ops reporting

  • Watching That Named a 2023 Cynopsis Measure Up Awards Finalist

    Watching That was named a Finalist in the 2023 Cynopsis Measure Up Awards. An archive post on how always-on data powered the monitoring module at the time, alongside customisable reports and troubleshooting support from a team with a background in video and data analysis.

    Monitoring

  • Dimension Focus: Device Type

    In this Dimension Focus we explore the Device Type dimension. Device Type Device Type is a dimension that describes what device an ad was viewed on. But

    Ad-ops reporting

  • Trump was indicted. Here’s how we knew it was big news.

    Our data platform is always-on, so when something big happens it shows up in the data we collect. On March 30 2023, at 17.30 the news broke that former US President Donald Trump had been indicted. Across the USA, viewers turned to streaming news to hear the full story.

    Company and industry

  • Dimension Focus: FW: Selling Partner

    In this post we’re spending a little time with one of our most commonly used Dimensions, FW: Selling Partner. Most of our Freewheel customers use selling

    Ad-ops reporting

  • IAB's Compass report points the way for the UK’s CTV future

    As an IAB Member, we were excited to see the release of the Compass report on CTV this week. Sitting alongside reports on Gaming, Shoppable Advertising,

    Company and industry

  • Surviving CTV’s Awkward Adolescent Phase

    This text is based on a talk Cameron Church gave at the Future of TV Advertising Global event in December 2022. Read the full article below, but

    Company and industry

2022 4 posts Earlier product
  • The Future of TV Advertising Global: 5 Things We Loved (1 Thing We Didn't)

    This week the Watching That UK team descended on King’s Cross for Mediatel’s Future of TV Advertising Global event. Our CEO Cameron graced the stage at

    Company and industry

  • The Tyranny of Data Decay, and How To Avoid It

    Whether we’re talking about dentistry or data, decay is real, but it’s also very preventable. The concept of data decay refers to how the value of data The concept of data decay refers to how the value of data reduces over time. When we’re talking advertising and media - the timeframes are tiny, and the impact of the decay is huge.

    Ad-ops reporting

  • CTV Predictions for 2023

    Last year gave us plenty of surprises, with global issues affecting life at every level, let alone the media industry. The is no doubt that these issues Predictions for the Connected TV (CTV) industry for 2023 by watching that monitoring platform

    Company and industry

  • How Did We Do? Our 2022 CTV Predictions Revisited

    This time last year we made six predictions about what was going to happen in CTV this year (2022). Did we get it 🎯 spot on, in the right ⚾️ ball-park, or Watching That Predict the future for CTV Connected TV.

    Company and industry

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