Let’s Recognize and Celebrate Our Differences, Dish’s Sean Robertson

Diversity in the workplace is an imperative but it has to happen in the context of the wider issues of racial separation in our society, says Sean Robertson, a veteran of the advertising and media industry who is Director of Partnerships at DISH. We need to understand our differences and celebrate them.  Galvanized by recent […]

 
 

Addressable Extends Ads’ National Reach: DISH’s Arrix

For marketers, the single promise of “addressable” TV technology used to be simply targeted advertising. But, in 2020, the promise is a lot more than that. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Kevin Arrix, SVP of DISH Media – responsible for ad sales at DISH and Sling – describes two more emerging use cases… Targeted […]

 
 

Transparency, Speed Driving CTV And OTT Growth: Telaria’s Lowy

PHOENIX – The two main attributes of connected television and OTT for advertisers are transparency and speed, says Adam Lowy, who’s witnessed the growth of convergence on the publisher side and now at software platform Telaria. Lowy joined Telaria in the fall of 2018 from Dish and its Sling TV service, where he had been […]

 
 

Programmatic Speeds Satellite TV Advertising, DISH’s Robertson

As more TV sets get connected to the Internet, more of them are also being used to place ads bought in real-time to reach specific audiences. By comparison, satellite TV platforms may seem like anachronism. But being beamed from space doesn’t mean satellite can’t also benefit from programmatic. In this video interview with Beet.TV, General […]

 
 

OTT is Providing Quality to Supply to Buyers, DISH’s Kevin Arrix

Programmatic ad spending in television is still forecast to be a modest 4% next year – but initiatives to bring TV and digital video together could move that needle. In fact, programmatic methods of buying – that is, using data and targeting capabilities to buy individual audiences, not groups of viewers against whole shows – […]

 
 

Cross-Platform Deal With comScore Has Broad Industry Potential: Adam Lowy of DISH MEDIA And Sling TV

LAS VEGAS – Three years ago next month, when DISH launched streaming service Sling TV, the company had bigger ambitions than just serving addressable ads on Sling. It was the recent measurement deal with comScore that delivered the missing piece: uniformly measured addressable TV for both streaming and linear programming. Now buyers can reach specific […]

 
 

comScore Has Cross-Platform Addressable Partnership With DISH, Sling TV

LAS VEGAS – Longtime partners comScore and DISH have crossed the platform threshold, so to speak, with their partnership to provide uniform addressable advertising measurement across the Sling TV over-the-top service and DISH linear television. The deal gives advertisers a view of their campaign’s performance across Sling’s connected TV, mobile and desktop impressions, as well […]

 
 

Navigating New Solutions: Simulmedia, IAB, DISH, Videology, Google Execs Discuss

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 […]

 
 

Digital Programmatic Disciplines For Television Are A Game Changer: DISH/Sling’s Adam Lowy

MIAMI – With addressable and programmatic advertising converging in the form of OTT television, expect a lot more one-to-one brand messaging and interactive viewer functions like commerce. “By bringing the strength of programmatic from the online and digital space over to this converging marketplace, it really changes the game of how you can buy and […]

 
 

Car Ads Run Like ‘Wildfire’ On Addressable Sling: DISH’s Lowy

It is now two years since Sling was reborn as an over-the-top TV experience for cord-cutters in the DISH Network stable. In that time, DISH hasn’t just been helping position the service as a paid platform for the post-cable era. It has also been using Sling as a Trojan Horse in to the new world […]

 
 

Cross-Screen Measurement Will Tempt OTT Spenders: one2one’s Power

Advertising through over-the-top TV services is still nascent, still essential and still waiting to be fully unlocked by better measurement. That is according to one executive in the space who co-founded her own company to help advertisers benefit from the opportunity. “I think we’re early days for OTT, the targeting layer just started,” one2one Media’s […]

 
 

The Four Phases Of Sling TV’s Addressable Odyssey

It is now two years since Sling TV was launched by DISH – enough time for the pair’s journey down the advanced TV ad sales road to go pretty far. In this video interview with Beet.TV, DISH’s advanced TV ad sales director Adam Lowy explains how DISH began the journey, and where it stands today. Lowy […]

 
 

comScore Tracking TV Viewing Data in 35 Million Home with Charter/Spectrum Agreement

If bigger is better for companies like Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable, it’s also a boon to cross-platform measurement providers like comScore. Often overlooked by headlines heralding the continued merging of cable providers are the gains made in tracking consumer behavior and the ability to match it with product and service consumption—benefitting both programmers […]

 
 

Kawaja on AT&T/Invidi Deal, Adobe/TubeMogul and Accelerated Consolidation in the Year Ahead

Following a record year for mergers and acquisitions in the digital advertising and media space, “the volume is going to continue” in 2017. That’s the forecast from LUMA Partners Founder & CEO Terry Kawaja, whose advice for startups in the artificial and virtual reality space—plus the Internet of things—is don’t be too early. In an […]

 
 

AT&T’s Welch On INVIDI Deal: ‘Huge Opportunity’ For Cross-Screen Addressable Ads

LONDON – If where you spend your time and money says a lot about your priorities, AT&T has anted up in a big way on cross-screen addressable advertising with its participation in the acquisition of INVIDI Technologies. “We’ve been spending a lot of our time and a lot of our money on addressable television,” Mike […]

 
 

INVIDI Acquired By AT&T/DISH/WPP – Next Stop, Outer Space

MIAMI – The great video ad-tech consolidation wave is continuing, with a twist.  AT&T and DISH have announced plans to acquire addressable TV ad-tech vendor INVIDI. But they are not doing it alone – the pair are joined in the deal by fellow acquirer WPP, the world’s largest ad agency holding group, though it is AT&T […]

 
 

Addressable TV Opens Door To Closed-Loop Campaign Reporting: Experian’s Pinnow

Addressable television advertising removes the conjecture surrounding the fragmented viewing behavior of today’s audiences, according to Brienna Pinnow. “With addressable, I don’t have to guess if my audience is watching Shark Tank or Sharknado,” says Pinnow, who is Director of Product Marketing for Experian Marketing Services. “I actually get to target the right person at […]

 
 

2016 Election Cycle Attracts Digital Buyers To D2’s Addressable Households

WASHINGTON, D.C.-When competitors DISH and DIRECTV came together in 2014 to offer addressable television advertising solely for political campaigns, early takers were traditional TV buyers. But in the 2016 election cycle, digital buyers wanted in. “I was amazed at how quick the political ad agencies were to accept this and to want to use” D2 […]

 
 

Programmatic Auctions Don’t Cheapen TV Ads: DISH’s Sears

LONDON — Back in October, US satellite TV company DISH unveiled a test allowing advertisers to buy impression-by-impression ads on linear TV through a programmatic marketplace. Powered by IPON WEB and plugged in to programmatic marketplace vendors DataXu, RocketFuel and TubeMogul, the system was billed as an industry first. When programmatic and auction-based ad technology first took hold in the […]

 
 

MultiChannel Providers Zero in on Partnerships, Ad Opportunities

FORT LAUDERDALE — As multichannel video providers adjust to the daily shifts in the TV, consumption and advertising businesses, many are diving deeper into advertising opportunities. At the recent Beet.TV executive retreat, operators shared their vision on how partnerships look in the years ahead especially as they dovetail with the growing programmatic ad business. At […]

 
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