Two Steps To Scaling Addressable TV Heights: Invision’s Marshall

FORT LAUDERDALE — This year, the promise of “addressable TV”, allowing advertisers to target individual TV sets, became a reality. But it remains just a slither of a US TV industry that is worth circa $75 billion. “There’s two parts to scaleability with addressable:,” says Invision CEO Steve Marshall, whose company helps deliver ads to “addressable” […]

Programmatic Buying Moves Closer to TV, Brings More Digital Dollars, Invision’s Marshall

One of the biggest challenges in selling video in a package across both TV and digital screens has been the use of different metrics, but that’s poised to change with audience buying strategies, says Steve Marshall, CEO of multi-platform advertising sales software firm Invision, in an interview with Beet.TV. As the TV industry begins to integrate capabilities […]

TV Ad Firm Sees Growth in Addressable Buying, Invision’s Marshall

Addressable delivery of ads is on the rise by early adopters in recent years, says Steve Marshall, CEO of multi-platform advertising sales software firm Invision, in an interview with Beet.TV. Many MVPDs are moving aggressively to sell their inventory on an addressable basis, he says. “We are focused on helping sellers to automate their platforms,” […]

Addressable Prospect Looks Different Overseas: INVIDI’s Downey

FORT LAUDERDALE — The US pay-TV providers with which many ad tech vendors partner, have access to just two minutes per hour of ad time in local programming. But the US TV system is an outlier in a global context. Smaller, more integrated national systems in other countries seem to make partnering for programmatic or addressable initiatives […]

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: […]

Programmatic TV Going From Seed To Roadmap: Havas’ Keller

It’s taken some time to convince them, but advertisers are now on-board and enthusiastic for the various ways “programmatic” ad-buying can help them better target and automate their messages. Havas Media channel investments EVP Melissa Keller says her agency has gone from “seeding” experiments with clients last year, to implementing full-on “roadmaps” this year, in an […]

Programmatic TV Challenges: Transparency And Management, Execs Say

Slowly but surely, television is opening up to the “programmatic” ad sales revolution that has happened in online display and video. What are some of the biggest inhibitors? One factor is lack of a common, open format for audience targeting data, says Havas Media channel investments EVP Melissa Keller. In an interview with Beet.TV, she targets […]

Breaking: YouTube Opens Advertising Program to the Masses–“Cash in on Your Creativity”

Click To Play YouTube, which has offered an advertising revenue sharing opportunity to about  100 "qualified" partners, meaning "established" content creators like Ford Models, Rocketboom and Beet.TV, is now offering advertising participation to vast range of content creators. Update: 2:00 PM EST:  Ad revenue will split on a CPM basis with "a majority" of the […]

Facebook Has Video, Finally!

Click To Play Here’s my interview with Chris Hughes, one of the three co-founders of Facebook — and the only one to graduate Harvard. An Ivy League degree and a great business at 23. Not too shabby.  I interviewed him last summer on the Stanford campus.  This video was on my post on July 26.  […]

Online Video Sharing Sites Battling Various Lawsuits, Hollywood Reporter’s RealPop Finds

Google,  YouTube, Grouper, Veoh and MySpace are facing several copyright infringement cases, according to a report by Steve Bryant, who authors the essential ReelPop, the blog about the online video business published by the Hollywood Reporter. Steve did a bunch of research and has published information about several pending cases.  Of course we at Beet.TV […]