AdScribe Supports Publitalia 80 to Deliver Next-Generation HbbTV Interactive Advertising in Italy

Published: 20 June 2019

AdScribe Supports Publitalia 80 to Deliver Next-Generation HbbTV Interactive Advertising in Italy

AdScribe, a subsidiary of Zenterio, announced that it has successfully brought next-generation, targeted advertising to Italian television viewers on compatible HbbTV devices. In partnering with AdScribe, Publitalia '80, the advertising sales house of the Italian free-to-air television network Mediaset Group, is now capable of displaying even more impactful and attractive creative output to engage brands' customers. Campaigns are built and managed using Engage Studio, AdScribe's innovative HbbTV authoring tool.

Drawing on AdScribe's extensive experience designing and deploying similar technology and campaigns around the world, Publitalia '80 have further enabled the interactive advertising features as part of a broadcast product offering, including full integration of campaign metrics with Mediaset's addressable advertising platform. Moreover, Engage Studio will enable greater creativity and scaling of campaign creation through an intuitive and user-friendly interface.

AdScribe Engage Studio is a complete, end-to-end multiscreen platform that enables TV platform operators and broadcasters to create and operate an interactive advertising and promotions business. With Engage Studio, operators and broadcasters can promote their own content and services or generate revenue from third-party advertisers. Engage Studio supports a wide variety of ad formats from static banners through to fully interactive applications with embedded video.

Moreover AdScribe Engage Studio authoring tool allows operators to build and deploy campaigns far quicker and with more creative freedom than traditional template approaches. The advertiser receives detailed reports on all interactions, as well as any data the viewers opt to submit. In some cases, viewer data may be auto-populated from a subscriber database, making the process seamless and ensuring a higher completion rate.

"Partnering with Publitalia '80 is further proof that our efforts are going in the right direction and that our Engage Studio platform is well-positioned within the next-gen TV ecosystem,\" said Donal O'Connor, CEO at AdScribe. "Interactive advertising is already a reality for broadcasters, creating new ways to keep and increase viewers' engagement and offering publishers and brands digital-like formats to promote their products on the TV screen."

"This project represents a further step ahead in Publitalia '80 and Mediaset's strategy to provide enriched advertising to their viewers with a scalable tool,\" said Paola Colombo, general manager, adtech and business development at Publitalia '80. "In 2019, we will strengthen our offering around HbbTV ad formats, and we selected Engage Studio to help us to rationalize and scale the creation of interactive content."

More information about AdScribe is available at www.adscribe.tv or www.zenterio.com.

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