Robert Andrews

If the health of the advertiser business is a bellwether for the state of the economy, then listen up to the world’s largest media investment group. In this video interview with Beet.TV, GroupM chairman Irwin Gotlieb sounds a worrying call. “The troubling aspect of it is that we see more and more clients who are […]

The deployments are different in every market around the world but, slowly but surely, addressable TV – technology which helps advertisers target individual viewers – is rolling out globally. But don’t bet on this granular-targeting super-power usurping the traditional construct of TV ad-buying – wherein the goal is to reach a mass audience, measured roughly […]

The technology which allows publishers to entertain ad bids from multiple demand sources simultaneously has made in-roads to facilitating a healthy chunk of display ad sales in the last couple of years. So what is next on the radar for header bidding? The tech begun by deploying on the client side and for display ads […]

MIAMI — These days, consumers have more choices than ever before about how to consume video and TV content. And that means a new spectrum of opportunities – and challenges – for content owners and distributors. For companies more used to selling the context of their content to advertisers, the hot new possibility – in […]

MIAMI — The medium of television is moving faster than than it has in decades, maybe even ever, as new opportunities to deliver, measure and monetize programming emerge almost weekly. In advertising, buyers are getting excited about a world in which planning moves beyond the broad demographic audience targeting of yore, to a world of […]

After programmatic ad-trading technologies have begun facilitating so much of the digital display advertising online, and have made in-roads to channels like online radio, some voices have started to wonder whether programmatic could, one day, power all media – online and off. For one publisher, that day may already have come. According to Conde Nast […]

Header bidding, the technology which now allows publishers to entertain bids for ads from multiple demand sources simultaneously to gain higher prices, has been operating for just about two short years. But in that time it has gained much favor amongst display ad sellers. Now it is ready to shake up one of the fastest-growing […]

It has only been around for about two years – but, already, header bidding, the technology which allows publishers to entertain bids from multiple ad buying sources simultaneously to achieve higher yield, is changing fast. Quickly cornering segments of the display market, now header bidding is ready to thread its way in to richer ad […]

A leading NBC ad sales executive has stressed the importance of effective measurement for programming and ads across a plethora of screens, as the company convenes a summit to bash industry heads together on the topic. Nielsen’s Total Audience Report solution, for reporting cross-platform viewing of TV and digital content using a single metric, was  delayed earlier this year […]

MIAMI — We are nearing the end of a year in which the murmurings of discontent toward the biggest tech companies grew in to a crescendo. Media companies, advertisers, politicians, police and all manner of citizens have lined up to take pot-shots at the platforms. At this point, no-one would bet against lawmakers taking significant […]

Over the last few years of digital marketing evolution, two accepted wisdoms have bubbled up. First, that TV is a top-of-funnel advertising medium – good for sparking interesting, but difficult to tack consumers all the way through to purchase. Second, that digital media are supremely measurable, but that they can make little impact on the […]

MIAMI — It is the “new oil” that is fuelling value creation in businesses across the world, and now the TV ad sales business is really getting its motor running on data. Advertisers’ own primary data, off-the-shelf datasets and more… a new world of viewer information has opened up to make TV ad targeting to […]

MIAMI — It has a large and increasingly switched-on populace, and, when it comes to television, more and more of that consumer base is going straight to over-the-top. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the CEO of a company GroupM has established to work on addressable TV advertising in the UK has an observation that may […]

MIAMI — The partnership Comcast and Nielsen announced last month came as TV and advertising companies are making bigger and bigger demands for data that understands the modern viewer, according to one of the women familiar with the deal. The deal involves Comcast agreeing to give its set-top data to Nielsen’s local TV measurement service. “The need […]

It may have just bought ad-funded Mashable, but Ziff Davis’ portfolio was already stuffed with tech and lifestyle media brands. So how does the publisher plan to adapt to latest ad-tech trends? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Ziff Davis ad ops VP Michael Irenski explains the company likes to roll up its sleeves. Case […]

There is no shortage of horror, in digital media circles, that it is big platforms which are gobbling the lion’s share of ad spending. The latest Zenith figures estimate Google and Facebook took 96% of spending outside of China last year. But one of the world’s biggest media-buying agencies says there are bigger problems than […]

MIAMI — The announcement was made in the summer but, already, it seems like cable operator Charter and TV ad data tech outfit 605 have converted their partnership in to visible results. In July, the pair announced 605’s methodology and technology would be used by Charter to fuel census-based TV measurement and analytics. In this recorded […]

It took only a few short years of “programmatic” advertising for a new sub-variant, “header bidding”, to come on to the scene. But one publisher thinks that technology, which lets ad sellers entertain bids from multiple demand source simultaneously to achieve higher yield, should not be talked about as a distinct product. “Header itself, overall, […]

MIAMI — A European ad-tech firm founded by Adstream executives is examining a US launch for some time in 2018. Honeycomb TV, operational in the UK, France and Spain, was founded in London to help deliver TV ads to broadcasters for play-out. And the experience negotiating European regulatory terrain may stand it in good stead. […]

MIAMI — At the end of a year in which the “transparency” debate and the arcane structure of agency and tech platform fees have come under pressure, some vendors have begun to accede to demands for a new way of working. Case in point: Videology, one of the leading providers of technology to enable advanced […]