It’s been a long day of sessions at Paul Kagan’s “Getting Personal” conference on interactive TV and targeted advertising. Here are three key messages I heard on how to move iTV and advanced advertising to the next level.
- Operators need an effective management system, including a management interface, for both their content assets and their interactive applications and services. It must standardize across multiple delivery platforms.
- The approach to iTV must move from a bottom-up activity to a top-down push. In other words, the operators need to be aggressive in their commitment. This isn’t grass-roots activity anymore.
- EBIF is still exceedingly important. With all the talk of tru2way, EBIF is what will make iTV applications possible on legacy set-tops.
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