SAN JUAN, PR — Fred Godfrey knows marketers want tangible results – he just thinks the advertising industry needs to do better at bringing them from the back-end to the front-end.
Origin is a creative technology company used by marketers to bring interactive ads to connected TVs (CTV) and other devices.
In this video interview with Beet.TV, Godfrey says the focus must shift to developing better ad creative.
Interactive creative
Godfrey spoke about the potential for CTV ads.
“A lot of time and attention and money goes into technology ‘behind the glass’, but where we thought it was really lacking was in front of the glass, in terms of the creative itself,” Godfrey says.
“At the end of the day, that’s what the person is seeing. If you can actually really almost alarm them with something that isn’t creepy – relevant or personal – … (a viewer may say), ‘They’re talking about the town that I live in and they know the weather in my city and hey know today’s date!’
“Suddenly you’ve really got their attention, and that changes the game because they now feel like they’re being spoken to respectfully.”
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Performance problems
All of that may be the “front” of the screen, but there are still plenty of things getting worked out behind it.
Godfrey says many marketers are now keen to “see some kind of tangible, validating outcome in what their money’s getting them”.
“The problem with connected TV is, we haven’t really figured out how to define ‘performance’ because there are too many other questions that need to be answered first,” he says.
Godfrey says: “We need to strip back to the basics and understand what is it that a brand and an agency thinks that they want. Are they transferring ‘performance’ benchmarks from other screens to the big screen, or is there something else?
“One of the reasons performance is a difficult topic right now is because that delivery piece is getting muddled too much into performance because that’s where KPIs stand for in the P being performance. But that should just be table stakes.”
Creative tools
Origin's offerings include:
Godfrey says Origin built Ad Studio because it wanted to make “creatives that were truly dynamic and flexible and agile – not just overlays that can be different based upon someone’s DMA or their geo, but actually have the core message, the story, within that creative”.
But he acknowledges the difficulty of encouraging viewers to interact with a medium that is largely “lean-back”.
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Origin is an award-winning creative technology company whose zero code TV advertising solutions have reshaped the way marketers captivate and communicate with consumers inside and outside the home.
Fusing pioneering CTV ad formats with proprietary technology and direct media partnerships that span the streaming ecosystem, Origin's solutions are embraced by brands, agencies and platforms who are seeking to deliver a stronger storytelling experience to their audience.
Founded by media veterans Fred Godfrey and Stephen Strong, Origin is driven by a relentless belief that the time has come to challenge tradition and enrage the status quo. Learn more at www.originmedia.tv.