Anoki AI

Anoki AI Wins AI Marketing Copilot of the Year

Anoki AI announced that ContextIQ, its AI-native CTV planning platform, was named “AI Marketing Copilot of the Year” in the 9th annual MarTech Breakthrough Awards. ContextIQ provides scene-level video understanding—analyzing visuals, audio, dialogue, objects, emotional tone and narrative—to inform CTV planning and activation. The platform’s Copilot capability includes features called Creative Analyzer and Brief-to-plan prompting, enabling natural-language briefs to generate contextually matched scenes, brand-suitability filtering, scale forecasts, and activation-ready media plans. The recognition highlights Anoki’s approach to contextual intelligence for Connected TV and the product is available to Anoki partners.

CNN’s FAST Channel CNN Headlines Hits First-Year Milestone

CNN is marking the first year of its free, ad-supported FAST channel, CNN Headlines. The channel soft-launched in July 2025 and added a 5 p.m. newscast in August 2025 to complete its rollout. CNN Headlines has shown strong audience growth: the channel nearly doubled its audience since January and reported quarterly gains versus a year earlier. CNN Headlines has expanded distribution through device and TV partners and is overseen by Melody Taylor, senior director of U.S. programming at CNN and executive producer of the channel.

FAST Channels Drive CTV Ad Format Innovation

FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV) channels are being used as a low-cost, high-volume sandbox for experimentation in CTV advertising, where publishers and tech partners are testing new formats, targeting tools and programmatic buying methods. Anoki and Amagi — partners since 2024 — developed scene-level contextual targeting and in March released an overlay in-scene ad format that serves contextually relevant creative within scenes in real time. Anoki’s ContextIQ platform enables marketers to block/whitelist titles and filter scenes by content. Early case-study results reported by Anoki show measurable lifts in visit intent and brand association. Agencies such as Dentsu have tested the format and performance-focused advertisers are increasingly open to buying FAST inventory to tie creative more tightly to on-screen context.