Programmers Must Protect Pricing In Addressable Surge: SpotX’s Cooke

The masses are coming. The online masses consuming TV through all manner of internet-connected devices, that is. All of a sudden, TV isn’t what it used to be. And neither will TV advertising be. The ability to target individual viewers may signal the death knell for a sector that has long sold its spots on loose, […]

Advertisers Can Value Campaign Inventory: SpotX’s Cooke

FORT LAUDERDALE — So far this year, programmatic ad tech platform SpotX has nestled in to its new majority-owner RTL, been joined in a partnership with new stablemate Clypd and struck an audience advertising data partnership with TiVo Research. So how are things about to pan out? “(It) is going to allow us the opportunity to live-sync […]

Programmatic TV And Video Are Two Different Worlds: SpotX’s Cooke

So-called “programmatic” tools and platforms have revolutionized how online display advertising is bought and sold, now it has making inroads to online video ads – next up, many hope it can do the same in plain ‘ol TV. But that is easier said than done. “One of the challenges in bringing about this programmatic ubiquity […]

Programmatic TV’s Future Is Four-Fold: SpotXchange’s Cooke

PHOENIX — What’s the future of “programmatic”, the collection of targeting and trading technologies currently revolutionizing display advertising, when it comes to television and video? It boils down to “four buckets”, says video ad tech platform SpotXchange’s programmatic TV VP Randy Cooke: “Linear stream is going to benefit from a tremendous amount of optimization.” “Addressability.” “Dynamic […]

One-to-One Data Will Change the Television Business, WPP’s Irwin Gotlieb

The availability of one-on-one data for marketers, driven by the recent comScore/Rentrak merger, will fundamentally transform advertising decisioning and  insight into consumer behavior, says Irwin Gotlieb, Chairman of GroupM, the media agency unit of WPP. He shares his views on advanced TV and data with Maria Mandel Dunsche, VP, head of marketing for AT&T Adworks. This […]

Beet Retreat ’15: Agenda

Session Location:  All sessions are in Studio 234, one meeting space, on the second floor.  There is no registration check in, just join us.  Individual tapings will happen, also on the second floor, in Studio 5 and the Gallery. Wednesday, November 11 4:00 – 6:00pm Keynotes: A Series of 20-Minute Conversations Jason Brown, VP, Advertising […]

The Growth of Addressable Television will Be Powered by Media Agencies, GroupM’s Gotlieb

Addressable TV, the sending of TV ads to specific cable or satellite boxes, is developing but its growth is limited by supply.   MSO’s including AT&T DirecTV, Cablevision and others offer only two-minutes per hour. But that is going to change. It will be driven by media agencies who will buy national programming and allocate […]

Beet Retreat ’15: “The Transformation of Television,” an Executive Retreat presented by

November 11-13, 2015 The W Fort Lauderdale with   Keynote Speaker: Irwin Gotlieb, Global Chairman, GroupM Jason Brown, VP, Advertising Sales, AT&T AdWorks Kristin Dolan, COO, Cablevision Systems Scott Ferber, CEO, Videology Lou Paskalis, SVP, Media, Bank of America Tracey Scheppach, EVP, Precision Video, Starcom MediaVest Group Eric Solomon, SVP, Precision & Planning, Nielsen Featured Speakers: […]