Programming & Performance

NBCU Becomes First National Broadcaster to Offer Shoppable Ads

Audiences can use their mobile cameras to buy products on their TV screens

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By Kelsey Sutton

May 6, 2019

You’ve heard of shoppable ads on social platforms like Instagram, search engines like Google and even video-on-demand platforms like Vudu. Now a national television broadcaster is trying to get in on the action for the first time.

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Kelsey Sutton

Kelsey Sutton is the streaming editor at Adweek, where she covers the business of streaming television.

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