Elon Musk is sabotaging Linda Yaccarino after hiring the former head of advertising at NBCUniversal Media to run social-media platform X. Despite her efforts, Musk is “undermining her in virtually everything she does.” That’s the message from Lou Paskalis, a longtime marketing executive who is chief strategy officer for Ad Fontes Media, in this interview […]
Digital ad targeting isn’t just going through change. It may be ceasing to exist as the we’ve has long known it. That, to Lou Paskalis CEO and Founder of AJL Advisory, is a a good thing, For too long, privacy and targeting have been at odds. In fact, according to Paskalis, the work targeting is […]
I hope you are well and enjoying the summer. All is well here. We are going to slow down a bit for the second part of August and ramp up fast after Labor Day. We are taking a break from the BeetCast. We are finishing up the season with this episode and will be back […]
NEW YORK – Marketing needs to become more relevant to corporate business outcomes, while the digital walled gardens suffering from hygiene issues need to clean up their act, according to Bank of America’s Lou Paskalis. For starters, agencies need to perform a basic assessment for their clients and not avoid tough challenges, Paskalis, who is SVP, […]
CANNES — “No news is good news”, the saying goes. Those concerned about an informed citizenry would beg to differ. And advertisers, too, should sit up and care about the health of the news ecology. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Lou Paskalis, Chief Strategy Officer, Ad Fontes Media, explains why ad buyers should come […]
Ad slots in TV news programming are not being sold at a high enough rate – but new developments which are reducing the number of ads seen by audiences could, ironically, end up raising their price. That is the view of one man making media buying decisions at one of the world’s leading financial services […]
Banks needs to get creative in order to reach unique customers in different ways. The new opportunities presented by a plethora of different marketing channels mean brands need to generate more messaging in more formats and more combinations than ever before. That is according to the man who spends advertising money for Bank Of America. […]
ORLANDO — Bank Of America is switching more advertising investment back to traditional channels and away from “walled-garden” digital environments, as it grows concerned about the inability to measure and capitalise on the big digital opportunities. In this video interview with Beet.TV, BoA SVP for customer engagement and investment officer Lou Paskalis explains the change the […]
Twitter’s new partnership with Bloomberg for 24-hour, live news reporting gets a big thumbs up from Bank of America. “I really believe that this is as good as a combination of chocolate and peanut butter. This may be the Reese’s peanut butter cup moment for the media industry,” says the banking giant’s SVP, Enterprise Media […]
LOS ANGELES – By their very nature, financial institutions are held to standards of conduct that most marketers never have to worry about. So when Bank of America’s Lou Paskalis talks about brand advertising showing up alongside digital content that promotes terrorism, he’s unflinching about what needs to change. “We just can’t be in business […]
BARCELONA — Advertising via mobile phones may now be an established strategy – but it is an opportunity that still requires plenty of refinement. At Mobile World Congress, WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell told Beet.TV mobile technology still wasn’t attractive enough to make it a truly engaging ad medium, while P&G marketing VP Sophie Blum said […]
Call it cross-channel or cross-platform addressability. To Bank of America’s Lou Paskalis, it comes down to “orchestration.” But he wonders whether marketers are up to the challenge of adding value to spontaneous consumer experiences in what could amount to a long-tail investment commitment. “Let’s call it what it really is. Orchestration. I think it’s the […]
CANNES – At the end of this year’s television Upfront presentations, Lou Paskalis sensed a “digital divide” between media sellers. He credits ESPN, NBCUniversal and Turner for having making data an integral part their value propositions by virtue of the data pedigrees of their executives. In an interview with Beet.TV, the SVP of Global Communications, […]
CANNES — Marketers need to define their agency relationships clearly, outlining the acceptable and unacceptable behaviors, and address any gaps in expectations, says Lou Paskalis, Senior VP, Enterprise Media Executive at Bank of America, in this interview with Beet.TV. He spoke about the recent Association of National Advertisers’ report on kickbacks. He serves on the transparency committee at the […]
What keeps the Senior Vice President of Media at Bank of America up at night isn’t the fear of digital advertising fraud, transparency or viewability. It’s ad blocking, and Lou Paskalis says a main conversation at this year’s Cannes advertising confab must address a different approach to engaging with consumers. Ad blocking, Paskalis says in […]
FORT LAUDERDALE — You can have all the ad tech in the world but, in this day and age, is it really advertising that can connect with consumers any longer? Bank Of America media SVP Lou Paskalis thinks brands need to take a leaf out of the books of publishers and broadcasters they historically have advertised […]
FORT LAUDERDALE — Bank of America is working with Starcom and NBC on dynamic ad insertion in live streaming sports programming as part of its ongoing efforts to dig deeper into customized advertising strategies, says Lou Paskalis, Senior VP Enterprise Media at Bank of America in this interview with Beet.TV. “That allows us to get to the best […]
Lou Paskalis sees a world, not too far from now, in which advertising as an industry is over. Media evolution is coming to necessitate a shift in the way brands reach consumers, from old broadcast to as era in which they must work hard using content to engage. “We’re at the end of the advertising era […]
Consumers have more content available than ever – but they are also swimming in a sea of ads. With so many opportunities available, it has become tempting for marketers to deploy unavoidable ad tactics. But so much pushy-pushy has ended up being counterproductive, says one major-brand ad exec. Instances of ad blocking are, perhaps, testament to that. […]
CANNES — The large number of media accounts currently up for review comes down largely to issues of pricing, trust and transparency, according to Lou Paskalis, Bank of America’s SVP-Global Media Investment. “We are in an upheaval we’ve never seen before in this business, and marketers realize they need a new pathway to market, and they’re […]