Observed Signal · May 20, 2026 · Partnership · Source: Adweek · Impact: 2/5 · Sentiment: Positive
Viant Brings Ad Fontes News-Bias Targeting to CTV
Demand-side platform Viant has integrated Ad Fontes Media’s reliability-and-political-bias scoring into its CTV buying platform, allowing advertisers to target news inventory at the individual show level based on content-level reliability and bias signals. The integration is live in Viant’s platform and — according to the companies — is the first product of its kind on connected TV. The product enables buyers to set quality thresholds and bid on programming by show rather than relying on broader app- or domain-level signals. Vanessa Otero, founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media, framed the move as part of a longer effort to increase advertiser investment in news environments.
Introduces a new, granular content-level targeting signal (reliability and political bias) for CTV buys, improving contextual targeting and brand-quality controls; relevant to advertisers and DSPs but not industry-shifting.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- Viant launched a partnership and integration with Ad Fontes Media to enable news-bias and reliability targeting on CTV.
- The integration is live now in the Viant platform.
- The product applies Ad Fontes Media’s reliability-and-bias framework to individual news shows across CTV publishers.
- Advertisers can target and bid at the show level instead of relying on app-level or domain-level signals.
- Vanessa Otero is the founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media and commented on the initiative.
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State of Streaming Adds Viant Technology Profile
Viant Technology is an independent, people-based advertising platform and demand-side platform (DSP) headquartered in Irvine, California. Founded in 1999, the company operates the Adelphic DSP and focuses on programmatic Connected TV (CTV) and household-level targeting. Viant was delisted from NASDAQ and went private in 2024. The company positions itself around identity-driven, household-level ad targeting within CTV environments and describes its product footprint as programmatic, CTV, and identity solutions.
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