New Solution, Utilized by Early Adopters Yahoo and TelevisaUnivision, Processes and Activates Campaigns to Reach Voters and Tailor Messages to the Ever-changing News Cycle

‍SAN FRANCISCO – April 4, 2024 – Samba TV, the leading provider of TV technology for audience data and omniscreen measurement, today unveiled critical new technology to arm political advertisers with next day precision ad targeting to better reach shifting voting audiences at the regional, state, and national level throughout the 2024 political season. Yahoo and TelevisaUnivision, two early adopters of the new solution, have integrated Samba TV’s innovative near-real time political audience segments to better empower political advertisers on their platforms.

“This election cycle will be more challenging than ever to reach voters,” said National Media Research Chief Innovation Officer Adam Wise. “As we are well underway with the presidential campaigns, it is crucial to integrate a comprehensive understanding of your audience into your targeting strategy, merging trusted first-party sources such as Samba TV with other campaign inputs.”

In a 24/7 newscycle, Samba TV’s first-party political audience targeting will keep campaigns one step ahead of competitors while accurately reaching the electorate wherever they spend their time, including viewership insights from news or debates. Samba TV’s Real Time Political Audiences facilitates the next day activation of digital campaigns to reach key voter groups with time-sensitive political messaging. Advertisers can now build customized political ad exposure segments and launch their targeted campaign the next day, the quickest turnaround in the industry. This game-changing capability ensures political advertisers are targeting the right voters in the most efficient and effective method possible.

“Hispanics are one of the biggest and most influential voter groups in the U.S.,” said TelevisaUnivision Senior Vice President of Product Management Brian Lin. “As political advertisers look to further engage with our audience, we look forward to partnering with Samba TV to enable a more effective way to inform Spanish-speaking voters across the country.”

“In one of the most consequential elections in history, coupled with a deeply fragmented media landscape, marketers are facing one of the most challenging political seasons to reach voters,” said Samba TV Co-founder and CEO Ashwin Navin. “What worked in the past no longer applies. The strategy of relentlessly hitting the same audience with political ads on traditional TV is outdated. In today's landscape, candidates must embrace a holistic approach that integrates traditional TV with real-time targeting across streaming and digital platforms to reach voters who are consuming media in entirely new ways. This tactic is vital for political advertisers seeking a competitive advantage in a pivotal election where the stakes are high for control of the White House, Congress, and regional seats of power."

“As we’re heading into the heat of election season, campaigns need to reach relevant voters with their message at the right cadence,” said Yahoo Senior Vice President of Product Strategy & Management Adam Roodman. “With Samba TV’s Real Time Political Audiences, political advertisers leveraging Yahoo DSP are able to optimize audience reach while controlling frequency to maximize results.”

As the only independent measurement provider with the closest alignment to the U.S. census and with coverage of the top Designed Market Areas (DMAs) throughout the country, Samba TV’s technology provides an unmatched level of reach, granularity, and precision. The technology enables the creation of audiences based on ad exposures from all 210 DMAs, ensuring that every regional, state, or national campaign has detailed, localized targeting to effectively reach and engage with voters. With the economy and jobs ranked among the top three topics for republican, democrat, and undecided voters this presidential election, Samba TV’s audience segments can be customized by viewers' exposure to ads across a spectrum of issue areas, allowing for campaigns to deploy targeted advertising that aligns with the values and concerns of their desired electorate.

About Samba TV

Samba TV has transformed the TV from a pane of glass on the wall to a window into the heart of audiences. We are the global leader in television technology powering real-time insights and audience targeting to enable unparalleled marketing efficiency and effectiveness. Our proprietary first-party data from tens of millions of opted-in televisions, across more than 20 TV brands sold in over one hundred countries, provides advertisers and media companies a unified view of the entire consumer journey. Our independent measurement has future-proofed advertising for the next generation, empowering advertisers to connect with their audiences on any platform, across every screen.