VVibe.co runs a digital advertising platform for streaming apps and TV channels, helping small and medium-sized businesses reach audiences across 500+ apps and channels and up to 120 million households. Advertisers run campaigns on the platform and pay on a cost-per-view basis, with targeting based on socio-demographic factors, interests, and purchase intent to show ads to likely customers. It differentiates itself with SMB-friendly campaigns, a large and varied inventory, and a pay-for-views model that links cost directly to actual views. The goal is to help brands increase visibility and efficiently connect with the right audiences through streaming media.
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How does agentic buying work in CTV? Thursday, October 8th, 2026 - 9:00 am Given how much agentic AI pervades nearly every conversation these days, it's easy to overlook how nascent the technology still is, particularly when it comes to buying ads on connected TV. For example, model context protocol (MCP), the open-source standard AI agents use to connect to other applications, was only introduced by Anthropic in late 2024. And it was only last year that a group of ad tech companies developed the Ad Context Protocol based on MCP. Now, agentic ad buying is no longer hypothetical and, so far at least, it seems to operate with fewer mess-ups than consumer-facing agents, so long as there's a human making all the final decisions, of course. To find out what agentic buying looks like in practice, I spoke with David Nyurenberg and Sydney Brower from InterMedia, an independent agency that primarily does CTV ad buying for performance-based companies. A few months ago, InterMedia started using a combination of MCP and API integrations with Vibe.co and Olyzon. Vibe.co is the self-serve CTV buying platform that was recently acquired by Walmart, and Olyzon is a CTV ad decisioning startup that's also expanded into other digital channels. Vibe allows InterMedia to view CTV campaign reporting in Claude's dashboard and then order specific actions based on that information. Olyzon then connects those campaigns to DSPs and SSPs, enabling ad buying across other channels, such as display and digital out-of-home. This workflow gives campaign managers more "time and brain power" to devote to deeper, more client-driven thinking, said Brower, InterMedia's director of digital media and strategy. It also changes what it means to be an "expert," added Nyurenberg, InterMedia's SVP of digital. "Instead of being an expert in how to navigate a platform and push the buttons and knowing where to go," he said, "you're an expert in being judicious about what changes to make." How it came together. Vibe's Claude integration and Olyzon's Vibe integration are both very recent developments. For Vibe, the idea grew out of existing internal workflows, said Vibe Co-Founder and CEO Arthur Querou. Many of its employees had organically started using Claude or ChatGPT for ad buying on other channels, so offering the same capability for Vibe itself - the company uses its own ad buying platform to promote itself on CTV - was a natural next step. InterMedia was one of the first agencies to test Vibe's Claude integration, which was announced publicly last month along with a bunch of other AI-related integrations. According to Querou, more than 1,000 brands have adopted Vibe's MCP integration, and MCP-enabled buying now accounts for a large portion of ad spend on the platform. "SMBs use these tools," said Querou of the MCP. "They have limited resources, and so they want to be able to use AI to manage their campaigns." Around the same time, InterMedia was also testing Olyzon's AI orchestration layer, which was released on Wednesday during Advertising Week New York. Technically speaking, Olyzon uses APIs rather than MCP to connect to many of its partner platforms, including Vibe. That's because APIs are more deterministic, said Co-Founder and CEO Jules Minvielle, meaning they'll return consistent, repeatable results - which is obviously important when reporting specific data and figures. "An agent talking to an agent is not the same as having our agents writing what's needed directly in the API," said Minvielle. How it works. One of the benefits of these integrations is that InterMedia is now able to analyze data and make decisions all from one dashboard - in this case, Claude's. (This was also a huge selling point for Querou when Vibe was developing the tech: "There is no new platform I would use that doesn't have an MCP," he told me.) As a demonstration, while I watched, Nyurenberg prompted Claude with a question about how various CTV campaigns were doing in Vibe. The agent generated a report that outlined how much was being spent across several major publishers, including Peacock, Warner Bros. Discovery, etc., then broke down trends in the data (e.g., increased growth from one inventory source versus another) and pointed out ways to improve performance. (As a brief aside, you might be wondering who actually owns the agent. It's a bit unclear, even to the principal players. When InterMedia uses the agentic tool built into Olyzon's platform, both Nyurenberg and Brower consider that to be Olyzon's agent. But when InterMedia accesses Vibe through Claude, ownership becomes a little fuzzier. It reminds me of the ambiguity of digital purchases: Do you really own a game or movie if the company can revoke access?) The agent can also implement performance changes if directed to do so from within Claude, although Brower said she typically prefers to double check from within each DSP dashboard that everything's been inputted correctly first before giving the go-ahead. "You can trust AI to fly a plane, but I still want a pilot in the cockpit to watch it," she said. And it's still not a perfect system, of course. Even with the help of MCP, integrating data and functionalities from multiple sources still takes troubleshooting and manual standardization efforts, said Brower, as DSPs often use different terminology to refer to the same concepts. Still, after just a few months, InterMedia is already using its agentic workflow for the majority of its biddable campaigns, and hopes to integrate direct insertion order functionality into Olyzon's tool as well. What's next? InterMedia is an early adopter, but others will join before long, Nyurenberg said. He predicts that many larger agency holding companies and brands, which are already developing their own agents for audience identification and campaign planning purposes, will start building similar media buying integrations in house. But many will likely rely on stitched-together tech from various software-as-a-service partners. "The agency is going to have to evolve," said Nyurenberg. "They're going to have to be experts in agentic and AI who are also experts in marketing." Unsurprisingly, Minvielle has a similar take on how the digital marketing industry will evolve thanks to AI. He pointed to a similar debate swirling around demand-side platforms roughly 15 years ago, when holding companies were deciding whether to build their own tech or work with third-party partners. "My conviction here," Minvielle said, "is that, in 18 months, every single media buyer in the world will be equipped with a platform like ours." Tagged in:
Vibe Adds Fairing buyer data to CTV Attribution. Vibe Adds Fairing to CTV Attribution Streaming TV has expanded beyond brand awareness campaigns into performance marketing, but attribution remains difficult when viewers see an ad on a television screen and complete a purchase later on another device. Unlike search or social advertising, CTV often lacks a direct click signal connecting exposure to conversion. Vibe, a streaming TV advertising platform focused on performance marketers, is addressing that gap through an integration with Fairing, a zero-party data measurement and attribution platform. The integration allows Vibe advertisers to include live streaming TV placements in Fairing's post-purchase surveys and return buyer responses to Vibe as conversion signals. The approach adds a consumer-reported layer to CTV measurement, giving advertisers another way to understand which channels or programs buyers associate with their purchases. Technology and functionality. Under the integration, live Vibe campaign placements automatically populate Fairing's survey answer options. When customers complete a purchase, they can identify the TV channel or program they remember seeing. When a buyer credits television for the purchase, Fairing sends the response to Vibe's Conversions API in real time. This creates a feedback loop between post-purchase research and campaign measurement. The setup is designed to reduce manual maintenance because survey options change alongside the media plan. Vibe advertisers can then use placement-level responses while campaigns are running rather than relying exclusively on an aggregated TV performance report after the campaign ends. Fairing's methodology represents zero-party data, because the information is directly supplied by the consumer rather than inferred from browser or device tracking. Advertiser impact. The integration gives performance marketers an additional signal for evaluating streaming TV placements. Buyer responses can potentially help teams identify channels and programs that consumers associate with purchases and adjust budgets during an active campaign. It also provides a common survey-based measurement approach across television, paid social, search and podcasts, according to the companies. For agencies managing multi-channel budgets, this could make qualitative buyer feedback more operationally useful. Rather than remaining in a separate research dashboard, responses can feed back into the campaign environment. The method does not eliminate attribution models or incrementality testing. Instead, Vibe and Fairing position buyer-reported responses as an independent measurement layer alongside those approaches. Strategic outlook. CTV measurement is increasingly becoming a competitive requirement as advertisers move streaming video closer to performance media. The challenge is not simply proving that an ad was delivered, but establishing credible connections between exposure, consumer behavior and business outcomes. The Vibe-Fairing integration illustrates one approach: ask consumers directly what influenced their purchase and use that information alongside technology-based measurement. Because post-purchase responses depend on consumer recall and self-reporting, they should not automatically be treated as definitive causal attribution. Their value is complementary - particularly when combined with modeled attribution, conversion data and controlled incrementality testing. The integration is available to Vibe advertisers through its integration marketplace. Setup requires Fairing on Shopify or another supported storefront and a one-time OAuth connection to Vibe, with no developer work required. Top insights. * Buyer-reported attribution: Fairing surveys capture consumers' stated TV influence after purchase. * Placement-level data: Buyers can identify the channel or program they remember seeing. * Real-time conversion feedback: TV-attributed responses are sent to Vibe through its Conversions API. * Mid-campaign optimization: Advertisers can use responses to inform budget decisions while campaigns are live. * Complementary measurement: Survey data sits alongside attribution models and incrementality testing.
Design in Canva, run on TV. Vibe is now a publish destination in Canva, and the first CTV destination in Canva's publish menu. Design a video ad in Canva, publish it straight into your Vibe creative library, and attach it to a streaming TV campaign without downloading, renaming, or re-uploading a single file. The biggest blocker to launching CTV is the creative. That single barrier keeps advertisers who already run social and search off the biggest screen in the house. Creating a good ad used to involve a lot of resources, and performance marketers are focused on prioritizing strategy, rather than creative production. Now that Vibe lives in Canva's publish menu, marketers can leverage the same design surface they're already using - and get their ads on television. Canva for Vibe is live today for every Vibe advertiser, at no extra cost. It's the second partner in the creative management category Vibe opened in July with Segwise. Why Vibe built this. Producing video takes time, money, and people. For most marketing teams, the budget for CTV exists and the audience is clearly there. What's missing is the production capacity to turn out TV-ready spots on a regular cadence. And performance marketers would rather spend their hours on audiences, testing, and measurement than on exporting files and chasing specs. So Vibe is working through creative production from several angles at once. In July, Segwise gave you a way to turn brand footage into CTV variations at scale. The Canva integration turns the design surface your team already uses, into TV ready ads. The creatives land in your Vibe creative library, ready to attach to a campaign. The goal is simple. Whoever makes the creative should be able to get it onto TV without a production detour. From Canva to your Vibe creative library. Vibe appears in Canva's publish menu as a native Canva app, in the same list as your social and ad destinations. The first time you publish, Canva asks you to connect your Vibe account and pick which advertiser account should receive the creative. That authorization happens once. After that, Publish to Vibe behaves like every other destination in the menu. On the Vibe side, the creative lands in your library alongside your other assets. You attach it to a campaign exactly as you would a file uploaded manually, and it shows up with the same metadata, the same preview, and the same controls. This changes who can move work forward. Your brand designer, your social lead, and your agency partner can all publish finished spots into the advertiser account they've been given access to. Your media buyer no longer has to collect files from Slack threads and email attachments before a campaign can launch. The library becomes the handoff point, and the handoff takes seconds. For teams running several brands or regions, the advertiser account picker keeps things clean. Each design goes to the account it belongs to, so a spot for one brand doesn't end up in another brand's library. Specs enforced before your export. Vibe's specs are MP4, 16:9, 5 to 90 seconds, and 1280x720 minimum. Those requirements now run inside Canva, before anything is exported. A design that comes in at 4 seconds, or falls under the resolution floor, gets caught while you're still in the Canva editor. Moderation runs automatically. Creative that runs on premium inventory has to meet that inventory's standards. Everything published from Canva into Vibe runs the same moderation pipeline as everything else. Automatic scan on upload, channel-level inventory rules (Disney and HBO Max hold different standards than the long tail), and human review when something is flagged. So the speed doesn't cost you placement. A creative designed in Canva is eligible for the same inventory across Vibe's certified supply as one that came out of an agency. What to run first. Don't start from a blank canvas. Open the best-performing vertical video you ran last quarter, resize it to 16:9 in Canva, trim it to 15 seconds, and publish it to Vibe. From there, Vibe's targeting does the part it's built for: audience, device, and daypart across Vibe's premium inventory. Once that first spot is live, you have a baseline, and every new Canva design becomes another variation to test against it. Getting started. Open a video design in Canva, go to the share menu, select Vibe, authorize the connection, choose the advertiser account, and publish. Then open your Vibe creative library and attach the creative to a campaign. If you don't have a Vibe account yet, you can create one and connect it in the same sitting. More on building with Vibe: * Introducing Segwise for Vibe, the first partner in the creative management category * Vibe for Developers, the open API that powers Vibe's partner integrations Sep 23, 2026 Last updated: Sep 29, 2026
Vibe opens Connected TV advertising to APIs and AI agents. Vibe Makes CTV Advertising Programmable Connected TV advertising is beginning to move beyond the dashboard. Vibe, a streaming TV advertising platform aimed at performance marketers, has expanded access to its campaign infrastructure through a public API, Model Context Protocol connection, command-line tool and reporting agent. The company says the changes are designed to let advertisers manage CTV campaigns through their existing software workflows, including scripts, internal applications and AI assistants, rather than requiring every campaign operation to happen inside a dedicated advertising interface. Vibe's latest product expansion reflects a broader change in how performance marketing teams are using software. Instead of treating advertising platforms as standalone destinations, marketers increasingly connect campaign systems to internal data, automation tools and AI assistants. The company's Vibe Developer Platform provides a public API that allows technology partners and in-house development teams to integrate CTV campaign management into their own applications. Vibe's MCP connection extends that model to AI interfaces, allowing advertisers to query campaign performance, explore streaming inventory, review audiences and launch campaigns through tools such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini Enterprise using their Vibe accounts. A command-line interface gives technical teams another route for scripting campaign operations, while Vibe Agent provides natural-language reporting inside the platform. The underlying proposition is straightforward: campaign management becomes a programmable service rather than something confined to a graphical user interface. Vibe tested that approach internally. According to the company, its growth team used the API to create 250 account-based CTV campaigns, each with its own audience and creative. The company says the work required less than 15 minutes of hands-on effort, compared with an estimated 40 to 125 hours if configured manually. It also reported that the system matched creative to the correct account on 98% of campaigns on the first pass. Those figures are Vibe's own internal results rather than an independent benchmark, but they illustrate the type of workflow the company is targeting: high-volume, customized campaign creation driven by automation. The expansion also extends beyond campaign execution into the data and measurement layer. Vibe added integrations with Stella for causal CTV measurement; Clay and Omnisend for enriched account and email-based audiences; L2 for voter and consumer audiences; Freshpaint for HIPAA-compliant conversion tracking in healthcare; and Segwise for converting existing brand footage into CTV advertising creative. That integration strategy matters because performance marketers rarely keep audience, CRM, analytics and creative data inside a single system. Connecting those sources to CTV activation can reduce the operational work required to move first-party information into television campaigns. The addition of SOC 2 Type 2 certification also addresses an important enterprise consideration. Advertisers increasingly want to use first-party customer information across media platforms, making security controls and compliance documentation part of the technology evaluation process. Vibe's approach puts it into an increasingly competitive CTV technology market that includes established programmatic platforms, streaming publishers and broader advertising ecosystems from companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Its differentiation is less about introducing another CTV buying interface and more about making CTV infrastructure accessible through APIs and AI-driven workflows. For enterprise teams, that could make CTV easier to incorporate into automated marketing operations. A campaign could theoretically begin with an instruction in an AI assistant, draw audience information from an existing system, activate through Vibe and return performance data to the same workflow. The challenge will be maintaining governance as those workflows become more autonomous. Access permissions, audience eligibility, creative approvals, budget controls and measurement standards all need to remain explicit when software can execute advertising actions. Vibe's expansion therefore points toward a broader evolution in media buying: CTV platforms may increasingly function as infrastructure that other applications and AI agents can operate, rather than destinations marketers must continually navigate themselves. Market landscape. CTV advertising has traditionally relied heavily on platform interfaces, managed-service workflows and fragmented technology integrations. APIs and AI agent connections introduce a different model in which media buying becomes increasingly programmable. The shift is particularly relevant to performance marketing teams running large numbers of customized campaigns. API access can support automation, while MCP-style connections allow AI systems to interact with advertising infrastructure through structured tools and account permissions. At the same time, advertisers need stronger controls around first-party data, privacy and security. Vibe's SOC 2 Type 2 audit and integrations covering healthcare conversion tracking illustrate how enterprise requirements are becoming part of CTV platform architecture. The broader market is moving toward interconnected media stacks in which DSPs, audience platforms, measurement providers, creative tools and AI systems exchange data rather than operating as isolated destinations. Top insights. * Vibe expanded CTV campaign access through an API, MCP connection, CLI and reporting agent, making streaming TV infrastructure more programmable. * The platform connects campaign activation with audience, measurement, creative and compliance tools, addressing fragmented workflows across performance marketing teams. * Vibe's internal test created 250 account-based CTV campaigns through its API, demonstrating the potential for automated high-volume campaign personalization. * New integrations with Stella, Clay, Omnisend, L2, Freshpaint and Segwise extend Vibe's reach across measurement, audience data, healthcare and creative production. * SOC 2 Type 2 certification strengthens Vibe's enterprise positioning as advertisers increasingly connect first-party customer data with CTV campaigns.
Walmart has made a strategic investment in Vibe.co, a connected TV advertising platform. The retail and e-commerce giant was advised on the transaction by Altman Solon, a strategy consulting firm specialising in telecommunications, media, and technology. The investment is described as positioning Walmart for its next stage of growth and strategic development. No financial details of the deal were disclosed. Vibe.co operates in the connected TV advertising sector, which has seen increasing activity as retailers expand their digital advertising capabilities. The transaction reflects continued momentum in strategic deals across the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors.
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Industries
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$78.9M
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Founded
2021
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