Tech

With many of today’s consumers opting to shop online and Amazon’s vast inventory and quick logistical services, there is a clear appetite for brands to claim a stake and sell. But, what do brands need to know to do this right?

Impression-based selling and automated transactions have been hot topics in the broadcast TV industry for years. Unfortunately, traditional approaches rule today’s buys. 95% of local spot TV transactions are still completed with manual, traditional workflows.

As Global Head, Vice President, and General Manager of eCommerce at Lenovo, Ajit Sivadasan is focused on managing the customer’s experience with the brand as well as the purchasing experience on Lenovo.com. We sat down with Ajit to ask him about Lenovo’s experience over the past year and what challenges and opportunities lie ahead.

If I was to predict 2030, I would have predicted that machines would be helping us make some of the most important decisions of our lives, what to buy, where to go, who to meet, and more.

About a year ago, the world was forced indoors: feeling scared, confused, and downright anxious, the abundance of streaming services available for download provided a sort of escapism to a fraught America.

Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) is under fire as two new complaints have been filed from the European privacy campaign. The company’s setting of the IDFA breaches regional privacy laws on digital tracking because iOS users are not asked for their consent for the identifier’s initial storage.

In its truest form, SPO was designed to bring advertisers and publishers closer together, remove the noise, and pull back the curtain that historically formed between the two.

Our industry has changed and the seemingly separate worlds of digital and linear TV are colliding. As this convergence continues to become more commonplace and the viewing experience preferred by consumers rapidly evolves, the benefits of services have become impossible for traditional broadcasters to ignore.

As augmented reality experiences have become more mainstream, they have also become more and more robust, looking and feeling realistic. But until recently, they have been largely confined to a single-user experience.