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presented by         Beet.TV is producing a three-hour leadership summit on the fast-moving changes in digital advertising advertising.  Topics will include the impact of data on addressable advertising, the growth of programmatic buying and the emergence of new screens for consumption. The twelve participatants will include leaders from digital ad agencies, publishers, […]

Jun Group, an opt-in video platform that helps brands drive video views on video content, has seen siazable growth in mobile over the past couple of years.  At the Beet.TV executive retreat earlier this month, we spoke with CEO Mitchell Reichgut who spoke about this mobile boom, as well as how Jun Group’s service works.

Thanks to social media, digital content and the second screen, networks are able to engage television viewers on a new level.  At the Beet.TV executive retreat earlier this month, we heard from Lisa Hsia, EVP, Digital Media at Bravo, who told us about how the NBCUniversal-owned cable channel is tapping into these channels to provide […]

Online video advertising is still in its infancy and earlier this month thought-leaders came together at the Beet.TV executive retreat to discuss where this nascent industry is headed.  In her keynote speech, Ashley Swartz, CEO of Furious Minds, spoke about the emergence of this new advertising format and offered up some key takeaways—”The 10 C’s”—on […]

In the U.S. market, global video portal Dailymotion has embraced brand-sponsored programming as a way to differentiate itself and scale revenue.  In a video interview at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat, Dailymotions’ SVP of Sales, Joe Tartaglia, states, “The video landscape is really competitive, so for us to be able to work with brands directly […]

Xaxis, GroupM’s “agency trading desk,” is focused on transforming data into audience portraits.  Christina Beaumier, VP of Global Client Development at Xaxis, says, “We aggregate all of GroupM’s demand for audiences and then reach out into the marketplace to find the right inventory for those audiences.”  In this session from the recent Beet.TV executive retreat, […]

Video is growing quickly at AOL.  The company is now streaming around 700 million videos a month and reaching about 42 million unique viewers.  “If you think about the scale, these are actually TV numbers,” Tal Simantov, General Manager of AOL On, told us in an interview at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat.

“Kaltura is the first and only open source video platform,” says CEO Ron Yekutiel.  In an interview at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat, Yekutiel spoke with us about Kaltura’s structure and the benefits of open source video.

When open source video platform Kaltura first launched. it appealed primarily to the media vertical, as the media industry was the first to use video online.

VIEQUES, PR — The traditional way of thinking about online advertising exchanges is evolving, says Joanna O’Connell, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research.

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico — Last week, thought leaders in online video advertising came together to discuss the problems, the challenges and the opportunities of the industry at the Beet Retreat 2013.  In this wrap-up video Ashely Swartz, CEO and Founder of Furious Minds, discusses the main thematics that came through in the panels and conversations.

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico — Innovid, leader in interactive online video advertising, has just released their 2012 Q4 Benchmark review, providing insight into the effectiveness of interactive video advertising.  The company’s co-founder and CTO, Tal Chalozin, shared some of the key findings of Innovid’s benchmark at the Beet Retreat 2013 in Vieques, Puerto Rico.

As part of efforts to evolve the DirecTV Everywhere service and help advertisers reach customers on digital and mobile devices, DirecTV has partnered with leading video advertising technology provider FreeWheel.

BERLIN — “Television has been the same for the last fifty years or so,” says Mattias Hjelmstedt, co-founder of Magine, a Stockholm-based entertainment platform that has gone “back to the drawing board” to think about “what television would look like if it was invented today.”  We spoke with Hjelmstedt and Magine CEO Erik Wikström at […]

BERLIN — Augmented reality is "a really exciting growth space at the moment," says Tom Wood, Commercial Director and Co-Founder of mobile augmented reality agency Kudan.  We had the opportunity to speak with Wood at the at The Europas in Berlin to find out more about how the company is working with advertisers to integrate […]

Automated systems pioneer Equilibrium broke into the social video game with the launch of EQ Network at SXSW last year.  EQ Network is the world’s first HD social video network and we had the opportunity to speak with CEO Sean Barger earlier this month the 2nd Screen Summit at CES to find out more about […]

BERLIN — Crane.tv, an online video-magazine for contemporary culture, has made the online video revolution economically viable with a profitable business model that revolves around creating, distributing and monetizing high quality online video content.  We had the opportunity to speak with CEO Constantin Bjerke at The Europas in Berlin to find out more about the […]

BERLIN — The growing number of on demand entertainment options has made choosing a movie or television show a chore.  Personalized discovery engine Foundd  is taking a new approach to content recommendation, taking the pain out of deciding what to watch.  We spoke with Foundd founder and CEO, Lasse Clausen, at The Europas in Berlin […]

San Francisco-based commerce company Delivery Agent announced a partnership with Samsung as the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas.  We had the opportunity to speak with Delivery Agent SVP Sales & Business Development, Jody Stark, at the at the 2nd Screen Summit at CES to find out more about the partnership.

‘Vampires’ is a documentary web series about a group of people in New Orleans who believe themselves to be vampires.  We caught up with the show’s creators, David Schatanoff, Austin Smoak and Dan Ast, at the IAWTV Awards at CES to glean some advice on producing documentary content for a web audience.