Weapons of Mass Disruption...Australia's got several (Part 1): Linius Technologies
Imagine a quiet evening at home, watching TV, when one of those annoying blocks of TV commercials interrupts your favourite flick, as they always do. This time, however, something seems very different....rather than being bombarded with ads that seem to have as much relevance to you as beach wear has to space travel, you are served up advertisements that seem perfectly tailored to you specifically! Within that one block of commercials you see ads for your favourite holiday destination, car brand, smart watch and movie genre. No advertisements for diaper rash and baby food at all! Unless you are expecting, that is. The TV broadcaster seems to know exactly what your preferences are. Fiction, you say? Not for much longer if Linius Technologies (LNU) can help it.
Marc Kennis
Pitt Street Research
ASX-listed LNU has developed a technology that enables broadcasters to compile a video stream on-the-fly, including subtitles, audio tracks and commercials, all depending on who is watching TV at that time. So instead of seeing commercials that viewers in the entire neighbourhood, city or even State are getting served up, LNU's video virtualization technology can send a unique TV video stream with personalised advertising to each house. Imagine what this will do to the value of advertising space on TV!
Online advertising taught us that the value of advertisement goes up nearly threefold if it is specifically targeted to individuals based on their specific preferences. However, tailoring a TV broadcast to an individual viewer wasn’t possible, until now. We expect LNU to be able to close revenue sharing agreements with key players in the industry when it starts commercialisation of the technology later this year. The company has already received a lot of interest from the broadcasting industry and, together with its first commercial partner DigiSoft, will be showcasing the technology at the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) that will start in Amsterdam on 9 September.
We expect the IBC to be pivotal to LNU and believe the company should be able to sign additional commercial agreements on the back of IBC given its huge potential to shake up TV advertising. LNU’s Video Virtualization technology is clearly a Weapon of Mass Disruption if ever we’ve seen one.
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Marc is passionate about the Technology, Media & Telco (TMT) space, with interests ranging from electronics and leading-edge hardware to newly emerging content delivery models, such as OTT, as well as cyber security, Artificial Intelligence and computer gaming. Marc founded TMT Analytics with nearly two decades of institutional equities research experience under his belt, servicing clients in Australia, the UK, Europe and North America.
In his spare time, Marc enjoys exploring the mountainbike trails of Sydney's Northern Beaches or just kicking back in Manly.
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Marc Kennis
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Pitt Street Research
Marc is passionate about the Technology, Media & Telco (TMT) space, with interests ranging from electronics and leading-edge hardware to newly emerging content delivery models, such as OTT, as well as cyber security, Artificial Intelligence and...
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Marc Kennis
Managing Director
Pitt Street Research
Marc is passionate about the Technology, Media & Telco (TMT) space, with interests ranging from electronics and leading-edge hardware to newly emerging content delivery models, such as OTT, as well as cyber security, Artificial Intelligence and...
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