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Primesite East appoints Ranjit Banerjee as group account director
MUMBAI: Primesite, Mudra Group‘s specialist out-of-home communications unit, has appointed Ranjit Banerjee as group account director for its Kolkata office. Prior to this, Banerjee was senior manager at Outdoor Advertising Professionals (a joint venture of Rediffusion YR between Selvel Vantage Group).
Primesite senior vice president Mandeep Malhotra, “I am happy to have Ranjit on board. He will head Primesite Kolkata as well as be involved in opening doors for all other business like Kidstuff, Celcius, Ten Integrated and Terra. I am confident that his experience in the Calcutta and east markets will surely take Primesite Kolkata to the next level of professional excellence.”
Banerjee has over 12 years of professional experience and has handled clients such as Aircel, Maruti, Airtel, Bacardi, PSI and USL. He started his career with Sight, a local Outdoor Advertising media owner in 1997. Thereafter, in 2001 he moved to Ogilvy & Mather where he supervised the execution of various campaigns as well as tracked the outdoor media campaign for competition.
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IAS launches Total TV suite to boost transparency in CTV ads
New solution offers programme-level insights across platforms and publishers.
MUMBAI: In the world of streaming, what you see is not always what advertisers get and that’s exactly the problem IAS is looking to fix. Integral Ad Science (IAS) has unveiled ‘IAS Total TV’, a new suite of Connected TV (CTV) solutions aimed at bringing what it calls “linear-like” transparency to the fast-growing streaming ecosystem. In simple terms, it is an attempt to make digital TV advertising a lot less of a black box.
The offering aggregates programme-level data covering genre, ratings, language, shows and specific content from major platforms including Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount and Prime Video, along with opted-in publishers via Publica. All of this is housed within the IAS Signal interface, giving advertisers a unified view of where their ads actually appear.
The timing is hardly accidental. According to Nielsen, as of Q4 2025, 74.2 per cent of all TV viewing in the United States is ad-supported. Of that, streaming alone accounts for 45.6 per cent outpacing traditional television and cementing its position as the largest ad-supported medium. Advertisers have followed suit, funnelling premium budgets into CTV, but often without a clear, standardised view of performance or placement.
That gap is precisely what IAS is targeting. By combining content insights with media quality, supply path data and campaign outcomes, the platform aims to give marketers more control over when, where and alongside what content their ads run. The goal is not just visibility, but accountability ensuring ads land in brand-suitable environments rather than disappearing into opaque inventory pools.
The suite also promises practical gains. Marketers can access real-time, aggregated transparency across shows and platforms, streamline campaign controls across digital video channels, and leverage third-party verification to improve efficiency and pre-bid decision-making. Measurement tools extend to quality reach and incremental conversions, offering a clearer link between spend and outcomes.
At a time when high CPMs and fragmented data make CTV both attractive and complex, the push for transparency is becoming less of a luxury and more of a necessity. IAS’s move reflects a broader industry shift, where the race is no longer just for eyeballs, but for clarity on what those eyeballs are actually watching.
Because in streaming’s premium playground, knowing the content may just matter as much as owning the audience.
