My guest on this week's episode is James Borow , the Vice President of Product and Engineering at Comcast's new Universal Ads effort, which was introduced this January . James was previously the Global Director of Product Strategy at Snap. The topic of our conversation is the evolving TV advertising ecosystem. Among other things, we discuss: The current state of performance advertising on TV; The historical process of buying linear TV advertising inventory; The boundaries between CTV and linear TV advertising; How advertisers approach measurement with CTV; Where YouTube fits into the CTV space; What linear TV can do to provide performance capabilities to marketers; The demographics of TV that make it attractive to marketers. Thanks to the sponsors of this week’s episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast: INCRMNTAL . True attribution measures incrementality, always on. ContextSDK . ContextSDK uses over 200 smartphone signals to detect a user’s real-world context, allowing apps to deliver perfectly timed push notifications and in-app offers. Interested in sponsoring the Mobile Dev Memo podcast? Contact Marketecture . The Mobile Dev Memo podcast is available on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts
