Samba TV

Samba TV

Technology, Information and Internet

San Francisco, California 23,334 followers

We create data at the heart of TV, powering a more scientific approach to advertising and a better viewing experience.

About us

Television remains a vibrant cultural influence and an essential source of entertainment and information worldwide. Tremendous growth in content choices, and viewing platforms that allow us to watch anything, anytime, on any screen, has actually made it harder for viewers to discover and keep up with all the great programming available. It’s also more competitive for content providers to keep your attention, and for marketers to make strong, measurable connections with their target consumers. Technology that improves the viewing experience, enables content discovery, and addresses audience fragmentation across screens will strengthen television’s business model and relevance to consumers. Data is at the center of any solution to make TV better. Samba TV's technology is built into Smart TVs and easily maps to smart phones and tablets. By recognizing what's on screen, Samba TV learns what viewers like and using machine learning algorithms, enables discovery of shows and actors in a whole new way. Likewise, our data and measurement products are transforming the way stakeholders across the media landscape are thinking about their business. Given the dramatic growth in streaming services, connected devices, time-shifting, and multi-screen viewership, our data products solve real problems and create a meaningful competitive advantage for our clients.

Website
http://samba.tv
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Company size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2008
Specialties
Connected TV, OTT, Smart TV, Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), Interactive TV, Social TV, Addressable TV Advertising, Ad Detection, Mobile Ad SDK, Ad Mediation, Mobile Display Ads, Mobile Video Ads, Smart TV Advertising, Multiscreen Advertising, and TV Analytics

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    The 2024 election season is in full swing, and political advertisers are leveraging Samba’s comprehensive data and measurement solutions for their national and local campaigns. Timing is critical for these campaigns, and Samba’s near real-time political segments enable political advertisers to target audiences quickly to maximize their reach and mobilize voters! Samba offers standard political segments that can be implemented in minutes, and can create custom audience segments for targeting audiences that have seen a TV political ad or program as soon as the day after viewing. We implement these custom audience segments through our direct integration partners, including OpenX who is a premier political SSP partner. Learn more about our solutions for political advertisers 👉https://lnkd.in/gxgciAqT #PoliticalAdvertising #2024ElectionAdvertising #TVData #Measurement

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    Want to go beyond traditional ratings to optimize ad buying for TV and digital? Samba TV's comprehensive TV data is now helping power the Havas Meaningful Rating Point (MRP) product for cross-platform planning and measurement. The MRP provides a real-time analysis of an audience’s reach and engagement, while GRP and other traditional ratings only quantify reach after viewing has occurred. “We’re excited to expand our partnership with Samba TV and build customized solutions that enable us to perform advanced analytics and data science where we need it,” said Mike Bregman, Chief Activation Officer for Havas Media Network North America. “Through this partnership, we will leverage Samba TV data in our cloud environment for custom model development, personalization and activation in a truly meaningful way for clients in the US. Samba’s granular, real-time data is an ideal complement to Nielsen and Comscore data that we leverage in the MRP and across Converged to plan, activate, and measure for campaign optimization.” “Havas Media has always been an innovator with data and we are proud to see what our collaboration with Samba’s TV data unlocks for advertisers across the US,” said Ashwin Navin, Chief Executive Officer at Samba TV. “Being independent of any media platform, our viewership data can be deployed to measure and optimize digital walled gardens, the open web, as well traditional media, so Havas Media advertisers can feel confident that they are getting efficient reach and tools to reduce excess frequency across platforms.” Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/g-a-AKrF #TVData #TVMeasurement #MRP #GRP #Advertising

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    The results are in, and Samba TV data clearly shows that Snap Inc. campaigns have a significant impact in driving audiences to watch new shows and stream movies 📺 🔥 . Newly released research leveraging Samba TV’s Causal Attribution and Snap’s Intent to Treat control methodologies showed an average lift of 84% in tune-in rate among audiences exposed to an advertisement on Snapchat across a robust variety of studies. “Snapchat is the preferred platform for younger generations to stay connected, and the Samba TV studies prove that entertainment advertisers make a significant impact by tapping into our large and highly engaged audience to find new viewers for TV shows and movies.” - Elana Sulzer, U.S. head of entertainment at Snap. "Our research provides actionable insights for entertainment marketers, demonstrating Snap's emergence as an essential partner in marketers' media strategy, increasing advertiser confidence in leveraging the platform to reach this unique demographic." -Ashwin Navin, Co-founder and CEO of Samba TV Read more 👉https://lnkd.in/geScb7mp #TVMeasurement #DataIntegration #TVData

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    Were you one of the 25.2M U.S. households that watched the first presidential debate of 2024 last night 🇺🇸 ? There’s a good chance the answer to that depends on your age. Older people comprised a high proportion of debate viewers, with households A65-74 and 75 both over-indexing by double digits, while millennial and Gen Z households were more likely to skip the face-off between Biden and Trump. Overall, it was the most watched linear event of 2024 to date outside of the Super Bowl and a few NFL playoffs games, as Americans gear up for what promises to be a heated election 🔥. Looking at some key swing states, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin saw slight over-indexes in viewership compared to the U.S., while households in Georgia and Nevada were less likely to watch. From an advertising perspective, though Biden and Trump will both spend hundreds of millions on ads this year, Biden's campaign has ramped up to a greater degree. During 2024 to date, Biden’s campaign has served 5x the ad impressions as Trump’s. Will this trend continue 👀 ? We’ll be sharing additional advertising data as the candidates continue their ad blitzes. #SambaTVInsights #PresidentialDebate2024 #PresidentialDebate #BidenVsTrump #CNNDebate

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    Cannes Lions this year was one for the history books for Samba TV! We introduced Samba AI to the global stage, with tremendous response from brands and agencies in the US, Europe, and Asia. Highlights included thought-provoking speaking engagements, interviews that we participated in, as well as many discussions with partners and clients leveraging Samba AI for contextual advertising and media measurement in new and fascinating ways. Many thanks to the CEO of The Female Quotient, Shelley Zalis, for inviting Christina Park from Samba TV to join Emily King, Brent Poer, and Kate Jhaveri on a panel that addressed various topics, such as a subject that Samba has been pushing to the forefront in our industry which is ethnic representation with entertainment content. Per our recently released State of Diversity report, only 39% of top-billed actors in the top 50 TV shows released this year were Hispanic, Black, Asian or another non-white ethnicity, highlighting how essential it is for our industry to engage in these important conversations. There was also an interesting discussion with The Female Quotient’s Amber Coleman-Mortley, focusing on the strategic imperative studios have to prioritize inclusivity and diverse representation. Mike Bregman from Havas took the stage with Ashwin Navin at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM)'s #CIMMSummit to discuss how AI is already impacting measurement and the potential for future campaign optimization. Mike shared how Havas is using the industry’s best video datasets, including Samba TV, to power their Meaningful Rating Point (MRP) product for cross-platform planning and measurement. We were also honored to hear Havas Media announce the launch of their new group-wide operating system for the Converged platform, a tool that integrates Samba TV data. We are more excited than ever about the future of our industry and the new opportunities that AI presents for measurement, insights, and data. With Samba AI powering new innovations, we’re taking the learnings from a week on the Riviera and hitting the ground running. Reach out to our team to learn more!

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    Who’s excited for summer movies🎥☀️? We know Snapchatters are. Recently released research from our partnership with Snap Inc. shows that ads from the service drove a 91% lift in theatrical ticket sales. Read more about how Snap Inc. joined up with Samba TV to assess the incremental impact of Snapchat ads on Fandango ticket sales by comparing ad-exposed audiences with a control group. 👉👉https://lnkd.in/ePPWwuzD #SambaTVInsights #TVData #TVMeasurement

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    We are thrilled to share that Samba TV has been awarded iProspect Australia's Loudest Dreamer Award for Q1 2024! Shoutout to the stellar work of Bruce Park, Simeon Swain, and Yasmin Sanders with our clients. The Loudest Dreamer is part of iProspect's Reward & Recognition program, celebrating excellence across the business. #IProspectAustralia #TVData

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    iProspect Sydney is happy to announce The Loudest Dreamer Award for Q1 2024 is Samba TV for their amazing support over that period across some awesome briefs. Bruce Park, Simeon Swain & Yasmin Sanders have been superstars supporting our clients! iProspect's Loudest Dreamer is part of iProspects Reward & Recognition program ensuring all good work is celebrated across the business. Marcelle Gomez Ken Lam Nick Kavanagh Jason Smith Mark Byrne Jean-Yves Scauri Sorcha Doran Ludimila Vieira de Freitas Luke Amasi Faiq Rafique Zoe McGregor Willa Porges

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    Inclusive and diverse representation across the entertainment industry is both a strategic necessity and business imperative to capture and keep audience attention. This week at #CannesLions2024, we brought together leading marketers from Fox Entertainment, Publicis Imagine, and TikTok to discuss the power of diverse storytelling by exploring its impact on audience engagement, brand building, and ultimately, the bottom line. Thanks for hosting us, The Female Quotient! Check out our latest State of Diversity Report to learn more about how diversity affects viewership and engagement: https://lnkd.in/gDUz3kNf #canneslions #tvdata #tvmeasurement #diversity #representation #inclusivity #dei

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Series C
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