Digital Trends Media Group Unveils Digital Trends Plus – A Premium CTV Solution for Brands and Agencies

Digital Trends Plus offers brands first-party audience targeting, premium CTV inventory, and real-time analytics for seamless, high-impact advertising.

PORTLAND, OR – Digital Trends Media Group (DTMG), the leading independent technology and lifestyle media publisher, today announced the launch of Digital Trends Plus, a premium Connected TV (CTV) advertising solution designed to provide brands and agencies with direct access to high-value audiences across the most recognized CTV platforms.

With over 200 million engaged viewers, Digital Trends Plus empowers advertisers to activate campaigns with first-party audience targeting, ensuring that brands reach the consumers who matter most. Integrating seamlessly into programmatic and managed service buying, Digital Trends Plus offers transparent insights, premium inventory quality, and a fraud-free environment.

A New Era of CTV Advertising

Advertisers can leverage 30-second cutdowns of Digital Trends’ organic and branded video content, deliver their own custom assets, or utilize Digital Trends’ Attention+ unit, a high-impact creative format that drives engagement and purchase intent​.

This CTV offering brings interactivity, shopability, and more refined audience targeting to TV advertisers. Digital Trends’ world-class content informs tech/electronics consumers and leads directly to commerce outcomes. Now, this unique capability can be extended to brands in the dynamic CTV environment

“CTV is the future of premium digital advertising,” said Ian Bell, CEO & Publisher. “With Digital Trends Plus, we are providing a smarter way for our brand partners to reach consumers who are actively engaged with technology and lifestyle content. Our audience is highly curated, high-intent, and deeply connected to the products and brands they discover through Digital Trends.”

Unlocking High-Value Audiences with First-Party Data

Digital Trends Plus is built on DTMG’s proprietary first-party data segments, allowing brands to target tech enthusiasts, mobile consumers, gaming fans, auto intenders, EV adopters, TV(A/V) enthusiasts, streaming lovers, and more. These curated audiences are dynamically activated across top-tier CTV platforms, including Roku, Vizio, Samsung TV Plus, Sling, FuboTV, and Tubi​.

Key Features of Digital Trends Plus

  • First-Party Audience Targeting: unlock access to Digital Trends’ premium audience segments built from proprietary user engagement data.
  • Premium, Fraud-Free CTV Inventory: verified by blockchain for enhanced security and efficiency​
  • Real-Time Decisioning Engine: AI-driven targeting ensures ads are dynamically optimized for performance
  • Seamless Buying Options: available via managed service (IO) or self-service (PMPs to preferred DSPs)​
  • Advanced Attribution & Analytics: custom dashboards provide transparent, real-time campaign insights.

“With Digital Trends Plus, we are redefining what premium CTV advertising looks like,” said Brian J. Quinn, Chief Revenue Officer at Digital Trends Media Group. “Brands are demanding greater control, precision, and transparency in their media buys, and we are delivering a turnkey, first-party data-driven solution that ensures they connect with the right consumers at the right time, on the most impactful CTV platforms.”

Get Started with Digital Trends Plus

For more information, contact Digital Trends Media Group at sales@digitaltrends.com​

About Digital Trends Media Group
Digital Trends Media Group is an award-winning publishing company encompassing various millennial-focused media brands including Digital Trends and Digital Trends en Español; the men’s lifestyle publication The Manual; and a number of other popular titles. Offering easy-to-understand reviews and entertaining news and videos about the latest and greatest in tech and entertainment, Digital Trends Media Group serves more than 125 million unique visitors each month across partners and platforms. The company’s syndication partners include Apple TV, Android TV, ABC News, Roku, MSN, Flipboard, Apple News, Yahoo, and more. Digital Trends Media Group is headquartered in Portland, OR. For more information, visit www.digitaltrends.com.