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Rodrigo Madriz on the TechTO stage

Rodrigo Madriz

Co-founder & CEO, TMT LAB

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Rodrigo Madriz co-founded and runs TMT LAB, the Toronto company behind Spot Direct — software that indexes a broadcaster's feed frame by frame so an advertiser's digital campaign can be switched on the second its television spot airs. He demonstrated it at MarketingTO in 2019, two years into a deployment with Mexican broadcaster Televisa.

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2019. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Rodrigo

In their words

in very simple terms it maps and indexes every single frame of broadcast video, it makes that information available and actionable to those who actually bought those frames

TechTO MarketingTO, Jun 2019 · watch at 00:10

what we believe is there is not a TV versus digital argument

TechTO MarketingTO, Jun 2019 · watch at 06:10
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Quick answers

What is Rodrigo Madriz known for?

Co-founding TMT LAB, the Toronto company behind Spot Direct, which synchronises online advertising with the exact moment a television commercial airs.

What was his TechTO talk about?

A live demo of Spot Direct at MarketingTO in June 2019 — how reading a broadcaster's playout feed frame by frame lets an agency start, pause and resume a digital campaign in real time, and what that did to engagement in two case studies.

Where does Spot Direct run?

He said on stage that TMT LAB had been working with Televisa, Mexico's largest media company, for two years, and was looking for a Canadian broadcast partner to launch it here.

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