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MNTN wants your first TV ad to earn its keep
Television used to be a place to look important. MNTN wants it to be a place to count customers - and has built the buying, creative and measurement tools to make that argument.
Dave Morgan
Dave Morgan is the founder and CEO of Simulmedia, a New York adtech company that pioneered data-driven linear TV advertising and now runs the cross-channel TV+ platform, the Skybeam self-serve CTV buying tool, and the PlayerWON in-game video ad network. A lawyer turned three-time adtech founder, he earlier built Real Media (a predecessor of 24/7 Real Media, sold to WPP for $649 million) and TACODA (a behavioral targeting pioneer acquired by AOL for $275 million in 2007). Morgan returned to Simulmedia's CEO seat in October 2024 to chase the connected-TV opportunity, and he is a long-running MediaPost columnist known for his '96/4' rule about the gap between CTV viewership and CTV ad dollars.
Simulmedia
Simulmedia is a New York adtech company that turns TV advertising into a measurable, performance channel. Founded in 2008 by Dave Morgan, it pioneered data-driven linear TV and now spans streaming, cable, broadcast, and in-game inventory through its TV+ media-buying platform, Skybeam self-serve tool, and PlayerWON in-game ad product. Its software plans, activates, optimizes, and measures campaigns across screens, backing managed buys with delivery guarantees and closed-loop measurement so advertisers of any size can reach and prove TV audiences.
Vibe.co
Vibe.co is a New York-based ad tech company that turns connected TV into a performance marketing channel. Its self-serve, end-to-end platform lets brands of any size create, target, buy, and measure streaming TV campaigns from a single dashboard - with AI handling creative generation, audience targeting, and incrementality measurement. Founded in 2022 by serial ad-tech entrepreneurs Arthur Querou and Franck Tetzlaff, Vibe.co reached a $100M revenue run rate in under two years and raised a $50M Series B at a $410M valuation in September 2025.