

More ecommerce sites are testing the value of their visitors to brands that are seeking to reach online consumers, especially at the lower parts of the purchase funnel. The commerce media market is growing and diversifying beyond retail media networks started by mass merchants like Amazon, Walmart and Target. “Across the board there’s a massive […]
If you want to go across platforms, you need to go full-stack. That is the message from one seasoned ad-tech exec, as he joins a new company to grant ad buyers’ multi-platform wish. After stints with Simulmedia, Innovid and, most recently, QTT, John Piccone just joined ad-tech software supplier Adform as regional president, Americas. Platform […]
The growing number of people who watch ad-supported streaming video gives marketers more ways to reach consumers who spend less time with traditional linear television. With the right tools, brands can gain sharper insights into the performance of their campaigns on connected TV (CTV) platforms. “When we’re looking at the connected TV space, there’s still […]
More than a quarter after a newly-public Innovid acquired TVSquared for $160 million, the companies are busy aligning their tech to offer customers a best-of-both play. TVSquared helps brands learn how TV advertising is driving traffic to their websites. In this video interview with Beet.TV, company president Jo Kinsella, who also took on leadership of […]
Brands have more ways to reach consumers at different parts of the purchase funnel, especially as ecommerce sites show advertising amid product listings. Many retailers also have collected consumer purchase data that can be harnessed for more effective ad targeting. “The continued advances in digital technology and in connectivity are enhancing the customer experience and […]
Consumers are spending more time watching video on televisions connected to the internet, giving advertisers more opportunities to reach them through ad-supported streaming services. The convergence between linear television and digital video is culminating in connected TV (CTV). “What’s interesting about CTV specifically is if you look at the mechanism by which users get their […]
In the fast-changing world of communications, media agencies routinely have to reconfigure themselves for new demands and to re-settle their earlier growth initiatives. In its latest such exercise, WPP’s GroupM has just undergone a multi-layered reorganization. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Kirk McDonald, CEO, GroupM, NA, outlines how the group is changing, and how […]
Once upon a time, they would have been merely ad buyers. Now retailers are also becoming media networks themselves. But who is spending for ads through the likes of Target, Walmart and Boots, and what does the future hold? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Elizabeth Marsten, Senior Director, Strategic Marketplace Services, Tinuiti, explains what […]
With the global situation and inflation hitting the economy, what is the outlook for the digital media business? Resilient with a pinch of evolution, according to one of the industry’s most looked-to joiner of dots. In this video interview with Beet.TV during his own Digital Media Summit (DMS) East this week, Terry Kawaja, Founder & […]
Fresh from merging with Grupo Televisa of Mexico, U.S. Spanish-language broadcaster Univision is pitching during the 2022-23 TV upfronts ad sales season with a bullish message. Ahead of the deal, Univision had been building its streaming business by acquiring ad-supported platform ViX, planning to integrate it with its own PrendeTV. They relaunched as a combined […]
Marketers increasingly have to balance the goal of reaching the right consumers in their advertising campaigns with their efforts to comply with privacy laws. Those regulations give people more control over how their personal information is used for marketing purposes. Amid these concerns about privacy, tracking cookies and device identifiers become less reliable for ad […]
NEW YORK – NBCUniversal has more than doubled the audience for its Peacock streaming service to 60 million monthly active users since last year. The media company today is touting its streaming growth in an upfront sales presentation that covers its content, technology and partnerships. “We are so thrilled that in less than two years […]
With a new Creative Commerce award track at Cannes Lions 2022, it is clear that, this year, the fusion of ecommerce and media is closer than ever. But, as more retailers become media networks, how is the opportunity set to shape up? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Todd Bowman, VP Services, Momentum Commerce, an […]
Mike Bologna is expecting a speed of industry change appropriate for someone just named “chief accelerator”. The advanced TV industry veteran recently joined BrightLine, which offers ad formats for connected TV, after previous stints at HyphaMetrics, one2one Media, MODI Media and GroupM. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Bologna explains why this year’s upfronts TV […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Thew new ability of TV manufacturers to understand exactly what happens on their customers TV sets is changing the business of ad targeting and analytics. Now, ad buyers can plan campaigns based on known consumption patterns, and can pay for them based on known outcomes. In this video interview with […]
Brands have a growing opportunity to lead consumers through the purchase funnel as commerce media provide them with multiple digital touchpoints. These interactions generate data that can help to sharpen their marketing strategies. “Retailers like Target have this tremendous environment where they invite consumers into their store every day online,” Brian Gleason, global chief revenue […]
Marketers want their advertising campaigns to reach consumers when they’re in the best frame of mind to receive messages about a brand or offer. The media context for an ad always has been important, but was overshadowed as advertisers relied on other data signals from tracking cookies and device identifiers to improve their digital ad […]
These days, it isn’t just content that gets an annual showcase moment. For NBCUniversal, the software is the star, too. A week after presenting its programming roster to ad buyers at its Peacock Upfront, the company is also unveiling the full list of its 2022 Commercial Innovations, a slew of ad formats. In this video […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – As much as advertisers may want more data to demonstrate the efficacy of their advertising campaigns on television, such guarantees are still somewhat elusive. That leaves other considerations such as contextual information and traditional measures of audience demographics. “We are still just too heavy in our age-sex demo guarantees,” Molly Finnerty, […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Lauren Schweitzer is seeing TV ad buying changing fast – but she knows buyers could be benefitting even more. The media landscape is marked out by a transition from linear TV consumption and ad buying, to on-demand, IP-delivered, addressable delivery. Schweitzer, GM, sales, DISH Network, says ad planners and buyers […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Julian Zilberbrand knows a thing or two about uniting companies’ different interests. As EVP advanced media at ViacomCBS, he led the development of advanced TV ad strategy in the company combining Viacom and CBS, and previously at Viacom itself. Now at the rebranded Paramount, Zilberbrand says the advanced TV opportunity is […]