{"id":11521,"date":"2025-04-17T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T17:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=11521"},"modified":"2025-04-17T10:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T17:18:37","slug":"lg-tvs-integrated-ads-get-more-personal-with-tech-that-analyzes-viewer-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/lg-tvs-integrated-ads-get-more-personal-with-tech-that-analyzes-viewer-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"LG TVs\u2019 Integrated Ads Get More Personal With Tech That Analyzes Viewer Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The newer technology is going much farther than what was predicted in the book 1984<\/em>. Best to not let it connect to the internet and use something else for streaming. Though, I’d be suspicious they’d hide the ability to use some cable WiFi hotspots or cellular data without you knowing. Consequently, new cars have become spy machines along the line of smartphones, and they include the cellular data connection. I’d personally make sure I could disable it without it triggering a check engine light. All that to say, it’s getting harder to buy devices that aren’t intended to seriously violate your privacy and make you the product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/04\/lg-tvs-integrated-ads-get-more-personal-with-tech-that-analyzes-viewer-emotions\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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LG licenses tech for interpreting TV users’ feelings and convictions.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Scharon Harding<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LG TVs will soon leverage an AI model built for showing advertisements that more closely align with viewers’ personal beliefs and emotions. The company plans to incorporate a partner company\u2019s AI tech into its TV software in order to interpret psychological factors impacting a viewer, such as personal interests, personality traits, and lifestyle choices. The aim is to show LG webOS users ads that will emotionally impact them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The upcoming advertising approach comes via a multi-year licensing deal with Zenapse, a company describing itself<\/a> as a software-as-a-service marketing platform that can drive advertiser sales \u201cwith AI-powered emotional intelligence.\u201d LG will use Zenapse\u2019s technology to divide webOS users into hyper-specific market segments that are supposed to be more informative to advertisers. LG Ad Solutions, LG\u2019s advertising business, announced the partnership on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technology will be used to inform ads shown on LG smart TVs\u2019 homescreens, free ad-supported TV (FAST) channels, and elsewhere throughout webOS, per StreamTV Insider<\/a>. LG will also use Zenapse’s tech to \u201cexpand new software development and go-to-market products,” it said. LG didn\u2019t specify the duration of its licensing deal with Zenapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zenapse\u2019s platform for connected TVs (CTVs), ZenVision, is supposed to be able to interpret the types of emotions shown in the content someone is watching on TV, partially by using publicly available information about the show’s or movie\u2019s script and plot, StreamTV Insider reported. ZenVision also analyzes viewer behavior, grouping viewers based on their consumption patterns, the publication noted. Under the new partnership, ZenVision can use data that LG has gathered from the automatic content recognition software in LG TVs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With all this information, ZenVision will group LG TV viewers into highly specified market segments, such as \u201cgoal-driven achievers,\u201d \u201csocial connectors,\u201d or “emotionally engaged planners,” an LG spokesperson told StreamTV Insider. Zenapse’s website<\/a> for ZenVision points to other potential market segments, including “digital adopters,” “wellness seekers,” “positive impact & environment,” and “money matters.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies paying to advertise on LG TVs can then target viewers based on the ZenVision-specified market segments and deliver an \u201cemotionally intelligent ad,\u201d as Zenapse\u2019s website puts it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This type of targeted advertising aims to bring advertisers more in-depth information about TV viewers than demographic data or even contextual advertising (which shows ads based on what the viewer is watching) via psychographic data. Demographic data gives advertisers viewer information, like location, age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, and income. Psychographic data is supposed to go deeper and allow advertisers to target people based on so-called psychological factors, like personal beliefs, values, and attitudes. As Salesforce explains<\/a>, \u201cpsychographic segmentation delves deeper into their psyche\u201d than relying on demographic data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs viewers engage with content, ZenVision’s understanding of a consumer grows deeper, and our… segmentation continually evolves to optimize predictions,\u201d the ZenVision website says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LG\u2019s partnership comes as advertisers struggle to appeal to TV viewers\u2019 emotions. Google, for example, attempted to tug at parents\u2019 heartstrings with the now-infamous Dear Sydney ad<\/a> aired during the 2024 Summer Olympics. Looking to push Gemini, Google hit all the wrong chords<\/a> with parents, and, after much backlash, pulled the ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The partnership also comes as TV OS operators seek new ways<\/a> to use smart TVs to grow their own advertising businesses <\/a>and to get people to use TVs to buy stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With their ability to track TV viewers’ behavior, including what they watch and search for on their TVs, smart TVs are a growing obsession for advertisers<\/a>. As LG’s announcement pointed out, CTVs represent “one of the fastest-growing ad segments in the US, expected to reach over $40 billion by 2027, up from $24.6 billion in 2023.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as advertisers’ interest in appealing to streamers grows, so do their efforts to track and understand viewers for more targeted advertising. Both efforts could end up pushing the limits of user comfort and privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LG is one of the biggest global TV brands<\/a>, so its plan to distribute emotionally driven ads to the 200 million LG TVs currently in people’s homes could have a ripple effect. Further illustrating LG TVs’ dominance, webOS is estimated to be in 35 percent of US homes, per data<\/a> that Hub Entertainment Research shared this week. As such, LG’s foray into advertising driven by AI\u2019s ability to understand and appeal to viewer emotions could lead to other CTV OSes following suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For its part, LG thinks it can use Zenapse’s tech to make “future innovations that could shape new emotionally intelligent experiences for the TV screen,” a spokesperson told StreamTV Insider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it stands, targeted ads are a divisive approach to what we might consider a necessary evil: advertising. While targeted ads rely on tracking techniques that many find invasive, they could also result in ads that are more relevant and less annoying to the people seeing them. In cases where advertising is inevitable, some prefer ads that appeal on a personal level over messaging that can be inappropriate or, even, disturbing and offensive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this stage, we don\u2019t know how the ads shown on LG\u2019s webOS might evolve with Zenapse\u2019s technology. But it seems like LG and, likely, other smart TV OS operators will try to strengthen their abilities to understand your convictions, beliefs, and values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newer technology is going much farther than what was predicted in the book 1984. Best to not let it connect to the internet and use something else for streaming. Though, I’d be suspicious they’d hide the ability to use some cable WiFi hotspots or cellular data without you knowing. Consequently, new cars have become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11522,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521\/revisions\/11522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}