Is there anything getting more attention than attention metrics in conversations among advertisers, agencies and media companies during the ongoing NewFronts/Upfronts season? For Neala Brown, SVP for Strategy & Operations at Teads, it’s about time. And there’s still so much to talk about. After years of research and development, attention metrics are evolving from an […]
LAS VEGAS — The open internet has become increasingly fragmented over the last decade. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Katie Secret, EVP of marketing at Teads (formerly Outbrain), described how the proliferation of channels, content types, and platforms has created a need for more holistic ad solutions that can show value across the entire […]
Editor’s Note: Outbrain Inc. and Teads combined on February 3, 2025 and are operating under the new Teads brand. David Kostman now serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the new Teads. LAS VEGAS – The upcoming acquisition of Teads by Outbrain will create a “real powerhouse for the open internet” that can offer advertisers a […]
Outbrain on Thursday said it agreed to buy video advertising platform Teads from Altice International in a $1 billion deal that will create a digital media platform reaching 2 billion consumers worldwide. “It’s a real a transformational deal,” David Kostman, chief executive of Outbrain, said in this video interview with Beet.TV contributor Rob Williams. “The […]
Teads is taking its attention optimization capabilities in digital advertising and expanding them to the world of connected TV. The company is also making attention measurement more actionable for planning, optimizing and managing campaigns. “We made a commitment at the end of that presentation to two things,” says Neala Brown, SVP of Strategy & Insights […]
CANNES — The changing face of television advertising is a hot topic among digital innovators, as discussions intensify around experimental technology and consumer-first design. With massive streaming migrations and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) within the sector, executives descended on Cannes Lions to debate the latest. Beet.TV was fortunate to host some of those […]
CANNES – Marketers are continually seeking indicators of the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns. That goal has become more difficult as consumers seek more control over how their personal data are shared with brands. In this environment, marketers are seeking more information about how much attention people pay to advertising and about the context in […]
CANNES — Sometimes, losing can be a win. In the swiftly evolving landscape of digital media and advertising, signal loss is fueling innovation and change. That’s according to Monique Pintarelli, the North America President of Teads, a global media platform. In this fireside interview with Tameka Kee for Beet.TV, Pintarelli explains what alternatives are bubbling-up […]
CANNES – The popularity of ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence that’s adept at creating a variety of text-based content, has helped to ignite interest in the technology among media and marketing executives. That group includes attendees of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The term “AI” is among the five key […]
CANNES — The modern media world is filled with possibilities and outstanding potential outcomes – but getting them can be a winding road. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Monique Pintarelli, President, North America, Teads, agrees the industry has too much friction and fragmentation. That is why her company aims to combine artificial intelligence and […]
Teads is leaning into measuring attention – for one simple reason – it drives results brands care about. While there has been a great deal of interest in tracking attention in the ad world, much of it has been focused on finding better ways to evaluate creative or media outlets. But through its research, Teads […]
In the last couple of years, the media industry has been paying more attention to attention as a new way to measure media effectiveness. But attention as a metric doesn’t just have to focus on what an audience saw. Monique Pintarelli, President, North America, Teads, thinks it can also be used farther down the funnel. In this […]
MIAMI – Amid the disruptions of the past few years, including a worldwide pandemic, war in Ukraine and high inflation, people are looking for leaders they can trust. That single characteristic is also the basis for effective leadership in business. “You need to ensure that you can build trust across the organization,” Monique Pintarelli, president […]
CANNES — Across the digital ad world, “attention” is rising as a potential metric, even a currency, to fit the new working reality. But what is “attention”, and how can it improve on the norms on offer right now? In this video interview with Tameka Kee for Beet.TV, Monique Pintarelli, Chief Revenue Officer, Teads, explains why her company […]
The writing is on the wall for one of the main ways marketers have used to targeted audiences. So what comes next? “Cookies”, small files on devices which contain client-side information about users which sites can access, were already facing a challenge from the way that modern consumers now use digital media – which is […]
Report: CMO Growth Summit Cannes 2019, presented by Teads
When shovelware has taken over, stop digging. Over the last few years of media evolution, many brands have moved in to new formats by simply re-using their old creative. That doesn’t cut it, says Jim Daily, Teads president, in this video interview with Beet.TV. The executive’s company is best known as the company which brought you […]
It is best known as the company which brought you out-stream, the video advertising format which serves auto-playing video advertising between text paragraphs in news stories. But Teads doesn’t want to be a one-trick pony. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jim Daily, Teads president, explains how the vendor is branching out from out-stream. “That’s what […]
MIAMI – It is best known for popularizing the “outstream” ads that allow online publishers to break out of the need to have video content against which to place video ads. But now Teads wants to break out of another box – its own. Whilst the ad-tech vendor famously allowed publishers to place video ads between […]
Video ad tech vendor Teads has already made waves for introducing auto-playing video ads in between text paragraphs – in its words, “inventing” the so-called “outstream” format. Now it is set to offer interactive video ad units, too, by acquiring Brainient of the UK. The acquisition is announced on Monday. Terms are not. But Brainient’s […]