Robert Andrews

Around the world, advertisers that pinned their strategies on delivery against premium content are praying for a resumption in top-tier sports and other programming. Until then, broadcast groups are thinking creatively to give them the next best delivery opportunities – and ensure ad budgets can keep flowing. In this video interview, Amit Chaturvedi, EVP, Product […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has up-ended all the norms of traditional TV ad buying, with the usual upfront ad sales season largely suspended. That is what happens when brands, uncertain about their future prosperity, decide against making hefty upfront ad purchase commitments. But, in their pursuit, instead, of agility and flexibility, could those brands be accelerating […]

Until recently, the common understanding of connected TV services was that they were mostly popular with younger cord-cutters and the typical view of addressable TV ad targeting was that it worked mostly at the local level. But ad agencies are now enjoying recent developments which are widening both of those apertures – audience breadth and […]

Just two months after merging, programmatic ad platform Rubicon Project and video management platform Telaria are taking on a new name, Magnite. It is a rebranding that involved hundreds of staff from the companies operating under lockdown. But now president and CEO Michael Barrett says he is looking forward to reconnecting with those staff in […]

By now, ad buyers have become sorely aware of the impact of ad fraud. A study for the ANA last year pegged the problem at $5.8 billion globally. But, even though that is declining on previous years, ad fraud has primarily been seen as a problem in the display and online video arenas. When it […]

With resources constrained and a new importance placed on sure-fire customers, marketers are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by using data tools and data to find more bankable targets through advertising. In recent weeks, we have heard from several executives who have suggested ad buyers are moving further down the marketing funnel, looking to improve […]

As advertising technology evolves to serve a world that is increasingly about video and TV, traditional methods will fade to black, leaving a new class of vendor in charge. That’s the view of one ad-tech executive trying to bring about the change. “In the world we’re living in today, where you have parallel auctions, header […]

Over the last few weeks, we have heard from a range of broadcasters that have responded to the coronavirus pandemic with a single watchword – “agility”. But software vendors, too, have learned to think on their feet and find new customer categories. Case in point – Cisco’s WebEx has been supporting video calls and presentations […]

SAN FRANCISCO  —  Inscape’s addressable TV data consortium is kicking off with nine programmers this week, the latest cooperative to try bring scale and simplicity to the targeted TV ad opportunity. Fox, ViacomCBS, NBCUniversal, E.W. Scripps and AMC Networks will begin their tests of Project OAR, on June 24, while Disney Media Networks, Discovery Networks, […]

As the advertising world prepares for a world without third-party cookies, many of the alternative “identity graph” approaches start with email addresses. LiveIntent is looking forward to that world. It is an ad-tech vendor whose technology already has sight of more than three billion unique online identifiers. Its nonID identifier uses email newsletters – a […]

At a time when TV networks’ programming plans are on the ropes, is there an opportunity for ad buyers to rebalance the relationship between buy side and sell side? We have already seen the annual upfront TV ad sales season delayed, and a new call for a further delay plus significant reform, as advertisers and […]

Where does a beer brand go to market when bars are shut and sports competitions are sidelined? In Molson Coors case, down the “rabbit hole”. That is the name the brewer gives to digital media in which audiences can bury themselves away from the pandemic reality. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the company’s North […]

When the world is on fire, how can corporate America help citizens douse the flames? In 2020, the nation is living through a virus pandemic and racial tension. Marketers had already been challenged to respond to the former, now they are also contending with the latter. So, how should brands best behave? Using a unique […]

The global COVID-19 pandemic has slowed ad spend and TV networks’ production schedules. But it could also “accelerate” adoption of ad-supported connected TV channels – and, with it, of ad fraud that might creep in. That is according to an ad-tech exec who sees a need emerging for technology solutions to address the growth. In […]

Given the current state of the pandemic, the traditional TV UpFronts events have been cancelled or have gone virtual.  Negotiating in this climate has proven challenging to the nation’s marketers as they assess TV ad investment. In an announcement, the ANA demands upfront sales, which were due to be for ads airing between October 2020 […]

Will 2020 end up looking like a “V”, a hockey stick or a cliff edge? So far, the advertising industry has been whacked by the COVID-19 pandemic. But, in this video interview with Beet.TV, Frost Prioleau, CEO of Simpli.fi, a local-focused programmatic ad platform, gets under the hood of current ad trends, which some sectors […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many advertisers to re-think their spending. But a shocking new report published during the pandemic has given them even more reason to scrutinize programmatic ad-buying supply chains. According to the report by ISBA, the trade body for UK advertisers, the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) and auditor PwC, 15% of advertiser […]

LONDON — Advertisers tempted to dodge advertising in coronavirus news during the pandemic should use technology to precisely spec-out which kinds of content they are comfortable with. That’s the view of a specialist programmatic ad adviser to the advertising community. Early in the pandemic, it became clear that a large number of advertisers were using […]

For Disney, subscription video may have been the headline-grabber over the last year. By April, Disney+ had passed 50 million subscribers. But, while SVoD grows, other parts of the Mouse’s empire are busy revolutionizing how they sell ads and deliver them to relevant audiences. The Disney Advertising Sales footprint, of course, includes ABC, ESPN, NatGeo, […]

What if the “new normal” were better than the old one? Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic has up-ended traditional business practices, a growing school of thought, amongst those that are successfully pivoting, posits that these changes were overdue and are, ultimately, beneficial. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Denise Colella, SVP, Advanced Advertising Products and Strategy […]