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	August 25, 2008 Personal TV: The Reinvention Of Television Personal TV With Targeted Commercials Will Take The Waste Out Of TV Advertising by David Graves with Jaap Favier, Alice Bresciani, Erik Hood

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Executive Summary

TV advertising has been suffering from media fragmentation and ad skipping. Under pressure from advertisers, traditional television networks finally team up with cable multiple system operators (MSOs) and telco services to build a modern ad-supported television delivery system called Personal TV. It will serve non-skippable, interactive targeted ads to the set-top box (STB) and insert them at runtime in both linear and video on demand (VOD) programs. Advertisers will use the system to send interactive ads just to their target consumers or to address a mass audience by inserting an ad at the same time in many different programs at a certain time of day. The benefit for viewers is a free VOD system. The full industry shift to Personal TV will take a decade, but given the impact of this system on media strategy and planning, marketing leaders should start today by joining one of the experiments.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Consumers Are Fleeing Ad-Supported TV . . . And Advertisers Will Follow Them
• "Personal TV" With Addressable Ads And Content Will Rejuvenate Television
• The Three Phases Of Personal TV
• The ROI Of TV Ads Will Vastly Increase Due To Targeting And Interactivity

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Marketing Leaders: Start Experimenting With VOD Advertising

WHAT IT MEANS

• TV Becomes The Great Integrator
• Supplemental Material
• Related Research Documents

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