Many in TV and marketing look forward to a future of “addressable advertising”. AT&T is executing on a version of that today – with its TV Blueprint<\/a> offering, the cable company is helping advertisers reach specific subscribers from its customer base.<\/p>\n We’re able to pull in data from over 15 million set-top boxes that are all connected,\u00a0aggregate that data in a privacy-compliant way and then optimize that against advertisers’ best potential consumer,”\u00a0AT&T AdWorks’ ad sales VP Chris Monteferrante<\/a> tells Beet.TV.<\/p>\n “The way it was done before was (targeting by) age and gender.\u00a0We can take age, gender and two or three other specific demographics.\u00a0We can do a specific match against our subscriber base.\u00a0From that base, we can segment that out and look at the behavioral data in those specific households and apply those with our predictive modelling.”<\/p>\n “We’re finding that audience – it may be on HGTV on Thursday nights in primetime – and booking that specifically.”<\/p>\n