LONDON — 2014 looks like being an even bigger year in video for Group M’s Xaxis data targeting unit. Group M parent WPP last week announced it would merge stablemate 24/7 Media’s collection of publisher-side technologies in to Xaxis to cater to an ad market seeing publishers and advertisers ...

Digital viewing of videos on digital devices by cable and satellite subscribers, known in industry parlance as TV Everywhere, is growing at a rapid clip this year, says Marty Roberts, Senior VP of Sales & Marketing at thePlatform in an interview with Beet.TV at the recent VideoNuze event in New York. ...

LONDON — The rise of super-targeted “programmatic” online ad buying may be cast as the rise of “Maths Men” over “Mad Men” – but one ad exec says marketers should refocus on using the new wealth of numbers to tell traditional creative stories. “The ...

LONDON — For all the talk about the collection of online ad buying processes come to be known as “programmatic”, two ad execs suggest the real definition of the method depends on pricing architecture, not technical approach. Videology global accounts SVP Jana Eisensten tells Beet.TV bidded, ...

NEW YORK — The number of ads in digital programming has risen this year, but the completion rates remain steady, says Brian Dutt, Manager of Advisory Services at FreeWheel in an interview with Beet.TV at the VideoNuze event in New York this week. Consumers see about 12 video ads per video view, up ...

Akamai is commonly thought of as the content powerhouse in the sky, thanks to its online server capacity. But soon it wants to start turning consumer devices in to a video delivery network. Elaborating on October’s announcement, in which Akamai struck a relationship to add its software to Cisco ...

LONDON — The new-wave automated decisioning for digital ad spending has come a long way in the last two years. But is the party about to end? “As programmatic increases in its success, as it really ramps up, it will become a slight victim of its success – some of those things that ...

Consumers’ usage of online ad-blocking software is growing, according to recent PageFair research - and that’s a problem for video, as well as text content. Video ad management platform Videoplaza sees the risk to video advertisers paying for pointless inventory, and is trying to crack the ...

The automation of media buying, which has become pervasive in the digital world, is inexorably coming to television planning and buying.  While not  auction based,  the tools of programmatic ad operations are becoming part of the linear television media world.   This development has major  implications ...

LONDON — In the rise of programmatic advertising’s “Maths Men“, the ad industry is overlooking the importance of creatives that turn on real emotions, says a viral video expert. Social media video agency Unruly Media has been building a data set quantifying the emotional response ...

Computer giant Lenovo has selected  video ad tech provider TubeMogul to manage its global programmatic media operations, the companies announced today.   It is an expansion of an existing relationship.  In October, we spoke with Gary Milner, director of global digital marketing at Lenovo, about the ...

LONDON — One medium has long relied on imprecise, demographic viewer measuring; the other boasts super-detailed data-driven insight. But TV and internet channels are learning to hybridize the ways they quantify advertising audiences, one exec says. Nielsen media client consulting VP Andrew Bradford ...