‘Our Acquisition of Teads Gives Marketers Full-Funnel Reach’: Outbrain’s David Kostman

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 Expands Attention Optimization To CTV Outcomes: Neala Brown

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 […]

Transformation Of TV Highlights: Teads, VIZIO, Disney, MNTN, Effectv & Telly Execs On Addressable, Outcome-Driven Ads

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 […]

Media Context Has Key Role in People’s Attention to Ads: Fireside Chat with OMD’s Chrissie Hanson and Teads’s Monique Pintarelli

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 […]

‘Signal Loss is Driving Innovation’: Teads President Monique Pintarelli

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 […]

AI, Attention Are Among Key Cannes Themes: Teads’ Jeremy Arditi

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 […]

AI Can Activate CTV: Teads’ Pintarelli

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’ Brown: Attention Can be a Proxy for Outcomes – But the Industry Needs to Get Prepared

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 […]

Attention Can Drive Omnichannel Results: Teads’ Pintarelli

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 […]

Trust Is Key Attribute for Effective Leadership: Teads’s Monique Pintarelli

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 […]

Teads’ Pintarelli Pays Attention To Making Attention Pay

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 […]

Ads Need More Creativity, Personalization: Teads’ Daily

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 […]

Beyond Out-Stream – What Teads Did Next: Jim Daily

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 […]

Teads Offers Personalized Video Ads After Brainient Acquisition

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 […]

‘We Invented Outstream’: Teads’ Jim Daily After $47m Fundraising

When Teads and French vendor Ebuzzing merged in 2014, the combined pair said they planned to acquire other firms. Three rounds of financing later, and the outfit looks set to do just that. The company, which helps publishers deliver auto-playing video ads between text paragraphs, just secured €43m ($47m) in debt financing from a syndicate of five banks. […]

Teads Brings Outstream Video To Google, Facebook Mobile Platforms

CANNES — By now, many advertising buyers are getting used to outstream video – the technology that lets them place video ads on pages that don’t even carry video, between text paragraphs. By and large, those ads run on publisher sites. But Teads, one of several vendors behind the technology that supports outstream, doesn’t want to […]