As more consumers are beginning to view television content on tablets and other mobile devices, the concept of TV Everywhere is getting more play than ever. At the Beet.TV executive retreat earlier this month, Beet.TV’s Andy Plesser sat down with KIT Digital Global Lead Analyst Alan Wolk to discuss where the TV Everywhere evolution stands, […]
With the proliferation of second screen applications and social media, television networks have at their disposal more tools for innovation than ever. However, while networks are beginning to experiment with these tools they have been slow to adopt, says KIT Digital’s Global Lead Analyst, Alan Wolk in an interview at the Beet.TV executive retreat earlier […]
With Google's new IP-delivered TV service in Kansas City, and the anticipated launch of the Apple TV "dual app" scenario, the home remote control is inexorably moving to a tablet, says Alan Wolk, Global Lead Analyst at Kit Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV
SAN JUAN, PR — By embedding sensors on a consumer’s TV, automatic content recognition (ACR) promises to give advertisers and publishers precise data with which to target. But recent concerns and policies over consumer privacy put that powerful technology on a critical footing – gaining consumer permission is vital. ACR is practised by the likes […]
Last month’s Beet Retreat in San Juan was an extraordinary gathering of 180 industry leaders for three days of deep learning, conversations and networking. We covered a broad range of topics from streaming video and data to commerce media and, of course, AI. The participants were deeply engaged. Their conversations were both honest and aspirational. […]
The OTT streaming service Tubi will be acquired by Fox Corporation, it was announced today. Last month at the Beet.TV executive retreat, we interviewed Tubi CRO Mark Rotblat about the company. We have republished the interview and story with today’s news: It may be a fundamentally different business model, but there is one thing advertiser-supported […]
SAN JUAN, PR – “What we’re seeing now is an acceleration towards standards based and IP enabled delivery, which is giving ad sellers and the TV industry a lot more flexibility around what they can do,” notes Chris Curley, Partner Lead at Google. But, he cautions, there’s still a lot of work to be done […]
SAN JUAN, PR — At this point, many executives in the advertising industry might have hoped that the mechanisms for buying traditional TV ads and new digital video ads would have aligned. But, whilst technology has brought buyers to that point, institutional factors mean many ad buyers still plan their clients’ spending in separate lanes. […]
SAN JUAN, PR — For a company that has been around since 2017, Adcuratio has been awfully quiet. But that changed in December, when A+E Networks and DISH announced a deal that would leverage the Princeton, NJ-based outfit’s technology to help A+E offer national ad sales via its addressable services. “This has been a product […]
SAN JUAN, PR — They seem like two entirely different kinds of advertising tactic. But Lance Brothers doesn’t think linear and connected TV have to exist in two different strategies. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Lance Brothers, chief revenue officer of NCSolutions, the former Nielsen Catalina Solutions that helps brands target, measure and optimize […]
SAN JUAN, PR — Not many entertainment companies out there can claim the audience scale that Disney can. After several acquisitions like Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox in recent years, that scale has growth even further, as the company also looks to develop a stronger relationship of its own with paying customers. In […]
SAN JUAN, PR — With so many interconnecting points and possibilities in the new world of advanced TV ad targeting, ad buyers are getting confused about who is who, what is what, and how effective it is. That is the view of one technology leader who thinks simplicity needs to be restored. In this video […]
SAN JUAN– We’re at the tipping point for addressable. In an interview with Alan Wolk of TVREV at the Beet Retreat earlier this month in San Juan, Tracey Scheppach, CEO of Matter More Media, explained that we’re now on the right path to increase the addressable inventory. Scheppach was a pioneering advance TV senior executive, […]
SAN JUAN, PR — Nielsen is working with seven US TV networks to beta-test addressable TV advertising technology, ahead of a planned full launch later this year. A+E Networks, AMC Networks, ViacomCBS, Discovery, Fox, NBCUniversal and WarnerMedia will run dynamically swapped-out ads ads in live linear TV feeds, under the scheme launched in January. “The […]
SAN JUAN, PR — In the last decade of media, the industry may have conditioned itself to think of digital platforms and online connectivity as offering the best opportunities. But that before the rise of super-powered new TV ad capabilities, and before the sun started to set on some of digital’s key levers. In this […]
SAN JUAN, PR — In a world of incredible opportunities to reach audiences across new devices, proliferating devices also pose a problem to advertisers looking to understand their marketing effectiveness. “The trend in TV today or video overall is heavily fragmented across channels<” says Jessica Levine, VP of enterprise solutions, in this video interview with […]
SAN JUAN, PR — In the not-to-distant future, blockchain-enabled technology could help TV advertisers more accurately measure the effectiveness of their ads and reduce fees paid to intermediaries. That is the promise of Blockgraph, a division of Comcast’s FreeWheel that has been working on realizing the potential. The initiative was launched in December 2018, counting […]
SAN JUAN, PR — AT&T’s Xandr digital ad unit is expanding its overseas markets, starting with Latin America. The division includes prior acquisitions like AppNexus and Clypd, making Xandr a key player for helping AT&T TV and video services offer targeted advertising capabilities. Now Allison Paley, Xandr’s director of corporate strategy, wants to take tehat […]
SAN JUAN, PR — It turns out that many of the advanced software practices being applied to the advanced TV landscape in order to better target and understand advertising deployments can also be useful in a media world without pictures. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Tru Optik CEO and co-founder Andre Swanston says his […]
SAN JUAN, PR — In an industry with a marketplace of buzzwords, “addressable” and “deterministic” TV have risen up the charts over the last year. But what is addressable TV, and what is deterministic data? In this video interview with Beet.TV, DISH Network’s GM of data and analytics Kemel Bokhari offers his take. “We define […]