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Rahul Sharma

Rahul Sharma

Head of Product, Streaming at Moloco, focused on CTV monetization and AI-powered advertising — formerly Director of Product at TikTok and Group Product Manager for YouTube Ads at Google.

Aug 3, 2026

7:46
How would you, how would you describe that? How would you define that opportunity, Rahul?
7:52
I think that's a...
7:53
It's always a tough one to, uh [laughs] sort of simplify to one sentence.
7:57
Well, let me sort of try it, it this way, right? I think what you can do now with connected TV is be able to put, leverage the deterministic data that a retail media user has in a responsible way to show the ad to your prospective customers in the household while they are paying attention.
8:19
Like, what's been the strength of TV forever? It's been the undivided attention that a 15, 30-second non-skip ad brings, right? What we are seeing in our experience, and, like, US is a few years ahead in terms of adoption of fast and ad-supported, uh, uh, um, um, uh, content, and hence we have a much larger, uh, sort of footprint here.
8:42
But what we have seen in our experience is if the advertiser has a story to tell, if that's what really is driving your conversions, then CTV is a great channel for you, right? And what now with machine learning and AI and this convergence of, you know, again, a responsible, clean room manner, what you can do is have very high efficiency.
9:06
So instead of just spraying and praying on your ad shown to everybody who's watching a certain piece of content, you can now say, "Okay, this is the cohort of users that I wanna reach out to," right? It could be, uh, users who have bought in the past, have not bought again, users who you're trying to cross-sell to another category, right? And all of that is now possible because of all the...
14:06
Thank you.

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