Gracenote and Magnite Bring Greater Content Intelligence to CTV Curation

Magnite (MGNI) and Gracenote expanded their collaboration to curate custom connected TV advertising deals across on-demand and live content.

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Magnite (MGNI) and Gracenote expanded their collaboration to curate custom connected TV advertising deals across on-demand and live content. Gracenote translates advertisers' targeting criteria into content segments for inventory on Magnite SpringServe. Buyers can activate the resulting deals through Magnite ClearLine or their preferred advertising buying platform. Advertisers and agencies can now request custom deals for the U.S. market through Gracenote.

News Explained

The newly disclosed scale is Gracenote’s content graph, which links 58 million TV and streaming titles to shared identifiers and source-verified metadata, providing a common content reference across inconsistent source records.

Key Figures

TV and streaming titles: 58 million titles

TV and streaming titles

58 million titles

Content graph coverage

Key Terms

connected tv (ctv), demand-side platform, bid request

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connected tv (ctv) technical

"custom connected TV (CTV) deals"

Connected TV (CTV) is a television set that uses an internet connection to stream video apps and services instead of or alongside traditional broadcast or cable signals. For investors it matters because CTV shifts where viewers spend time and how ads are bought and measured, creating new revenue opportunities and competitive pressures for media companies much like a smartphone changed where people spend their attention and advertisers place their money.

demand-side platform technical

"with their preferred demand-side platform"

A demand-side platform is an automated tool advertisers use to buy digital ad space across many websites and apps in real time, combining audience data, budgets and bidding rules to decide where and when ads appear. It matters to investors because DSPs make ad spending more efficient and measurable—improving targeting, lowering wasted spend and enabling faster scaling—so businesses that operate or rely on them can show stronger revenue efficiency and more predictable marketing returns.

bid request technical

"using other signals in the bid request"

A bid request is an invitation asking potential buyers, brokers, or dealers to submit price offers to purchase a specific lot of securities, assets, or contracts. It typically specifies what is for sale (quantity and type), any terms or conditions, and a deadline for responses; submitted bids are proposals rather than binding agreements until the requestor accepts one. The term applies to public or private auctions, asset sales, underwriting or syndication processes, and similar situations where competing purchase offers are solicited.

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Buyers can now access custom CTV deals across on-demand and live content

NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Gracenote, Nielsen's content intelligence business, today announced an expanded collaboration with Magnite, the largest independent sell-side advertising company, to curate custom connected TV (CTV) deals. 

Using its proprietary, first-to-market content graph, Gracenote translates advertisers' targeting criteria into content segments, enabling the creation of custom deals by targeting specific CTV inventory on the Magnite SpringServe platform. Buyers can then use the resulting deal IDs to activate campaigns directly through Magnite ClearLine or with their preferred demand-side platform.

For example, live sports are expanding across streaming platforms, further fragmenting the viewing experience. Buyers who once turned to a single network for in-game inventory now must navigate multiple apps selling ad space during the same event. Gracenote IDs span that content landscape, allowing Magnite to curate packages containing inventory from participating services carrying the game.

"As TV investment shifts to CTV, advertisers have more ways to reach audiences, but audience signals alone don't tell them what's on screen," said Jake Richardson, vice president of partnerships at Gracenote. "With Magnite, we're bringing CTV content intelligence into deal creation, giving buyers the context to assess relevance, suitability and brand alignment before they bid."

Inconsistent content descriptions and categories can make it challenging for buyers to evaluate CTV inventory at scale. Gracenote's content graph unifies those disparate source records into shared identities for 58 million TV and streaming titles, linking durable, portable identifiers with source-verified metadata such as genre, content rating, language and mood. Even when a content ID is missing, the graph can identify some programming using other signals in the bid request.

Through Magnite ClearLine Curation, this intelligence expands advertisers' options for finding and selecting relevant CTV content and provides a more consistent foundation for campaign planning and placement decisions.

"Our partnership with Gracenote enriches publisher inventory and helps buyers discover valuable programming," said Kristen Williams, senior vice president, Strategy Partnerships at Magnite. "Curation at the platform level brings greater consistency and scale to a fragmented CTV landscape while preserving what differentiates each publisher's offering. Together, we're making it more intuitive for buyers to find content that fits their brands and reach audiences invested in what they're watching."

Advertisers and agencies can now request custom deals for the U.S. market by contacting Gracenote.

About Gracenote

Gracenote is the content intelligence business unit of Nielsen. We standardize the way the global media and entertainment ecosystem indexes content and associated metadata, allowing it to flow between creators, distributors, platforms and advertisers. By providing unmatched depth across 58M titles and 80K+ channels and catalogs, we power the modern search, discovery and navigation experiences that connect people to the TV, movies, music and sports they love — in 70+ languages across 80+ countries. For more information, visit gracenote.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

About Magnite

We're Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world's largest independent sell-side advertising company. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV, online video, display, and audio. The world's leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. Anchored in bustling New York City, sunny Los Angeles, mile high Denver, historic London, colorful Singapore, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.

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How can advertisers request custom Magnite and Gracenote CTV deals?

Advertisers and agencies can contact Gracenote to request custom deals for the U.S. market. Buyers can activate the resulting deal IDs directly through Magnite ClearLine or their preferred advertising buying platform.