Andy Plesser

CANNES —  Fullscreen, the popular MCN, along with its parent group Otter Media, is developing a means to measure the impact of video views of custom advertising, says Kevin McGurn, Head of Sales, in this interview with Beet.TV The new measurement system, meant to quantify a gross rating point (GRP),  is being developed with Nielsen and Millward […]

CANNES –  Hulu, the giant video portal supported by three of the four U.S. television networks, has become the biggest ad-supported, IP-delivered platform in the living room, says Mike Hopkins, CEO in this interview with Beet.TV Regarding advertising, he says that Hulu has found the right mix of targeting ads and managing the ad load […]

CANNES – When Paris-based Teads launched back in 2011, there was very little conversation about the viewability problems around video advertising, but that has changed and the bet by co-founder Bertrand Quesada looks like it is paying off. The company has recently raised a $30 million round and has over 400 employees in 26 cities in 18 countries. […]

CANNES – The  rate of change in the automation of advertising buying and selling and the industry will reach full automation in short order, say Mike Cooper, Worldwide CEO of Omnicom’s PHD media agency unit.   In the interview he also comments on the unprecedented number of media agencies in review by clients. We spoke […]

CANNES – Powering real-time advertising buying is determined  by a number of signals, including data on which commercials are being aired at a particular time. Xaxis, the automated media buying unit of GroupM, launched a product last year called Xaxis Sync. It  synchronizes TV ads and serves related ads via mobile and other platform in real-time. […]

CANNES – No longer pie-in-the sky, the long-anticipated technology enabling brands to deliver TV ads  to specific households is finally becoming a reality for cable and satellite operators including AT&T, says Maria Mandel Dunsche VP of Marketing for AT&T AdWorks, in this interview with Beet.TV Not only are brands delivering targeted ads, the technology to […]

CANNES – Cadreon, the digital marketing platform of IPG Mediabrands, will introduce its programmatic TV buying platform created in partnership with TubeMogul, next month with its first campaigns, says Arun Kumar, Global President, in this interview with Beet.TV Kumar says that the new platform has been demonstrated to several agency clients during the Cannes Festival. […]

CANNES – An unprecedented amount of media agency assignments are in review.   Morgan Stanley has put that amount at $25 and considers the situation material to the stock price of big advertising marketing companies  Michael Kassan, CEO of powerhouse media consultancy MediaLink, is helping many big brands in their agency reviews.   He likens […]

CANNES – WPP is “placing its bets” with a variety of investments and initiatives outside what has been typically been a media holding company, explains CEO Sir Martin Sorrell in this interview with Beet.TV  The latest is a content creation agency created in alliance with Daily Mail and Snapchat, the company announced this morning in Cannes. […]

CANNES – Technology is allowing advertisers to target specific audiences and even individuals, rather than demographic groups.   With this targeting is coming new ways for attribution modeling determine the impact of media, explains Brian Terkelsen, President of MediaVest, in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him about attribution models, addressable TV and the […]

CANNES – From a backstage conversation at last year’s Cannes Lions with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, the Festival for the first time will recognize the impact of gender inequality on creativity, explains Philip Thomas, CEO  of the Cannes Lions Festival, in this interview with Beet.TV  The award is called the Glass Lion. We spoke with him about […]

The opportunity for advertisers to deliver TV ads to specific homes , via cable and satellite boxes and connected TV’s is “totally transformational” and it is happening now, says Irwin Gotlieb, Chairman of  GroupM,  WPP’s media buying umbrella group.  He says the media industry of the future  will see 2015 as the the year that addressable […]

Storyful, acquired by News Corp in 2013, has for several years been an authoritative tool for leading publishers to find and verifying consumer-generate and various forms of social content.  It has expanded its reach to the advertising world with an agreement with the the giant media agency Starcom MediaVest Group.  The alliance was announced last month. We […]

CHICAGO – The emergence of targeted, household-level TV advertising, will spawn a “renaissance” of creative ad making, says Tracey Scheppach, EVP of Precision Video at Starcom MediaVest Group, in this interview with Beet.TV She explains that creativity will be essential in delivering the right message to the targeted household.   But this renaissance is not happening quite […]

Addressable TV, delivering advertisements to a specific household’s cable or satellite box, is becoming a viable, albeit a nascent new medium with “hundreds of millions of dollars” being spent.  GroupM’s advance television unit Modi Media has implemented 100 addressable campaigns so far this year, says Michael Bologna, President, in this interview with Beet.TV Addressable works for brands, […]

Visible World, a pioneering video adtech firm that helps marketers deliver ads to specific household cable and satellite boxes, will be acquired by Comcast, according a report published by the Wall Street Journal. Last year, we spoke with founder and CEO Seth Haberman about the company and the prospects for “addressable” television.   We have […]

Becoming sort of holding company within its parent WPP, Xaxis is launching new, stand alone businesses.  The latest is called Light Reaction, a company that measures the impact of mobile advertising, says Brian Lesser, Global CEO of Xaxis in this interview with Beet.TV The new unit is an amalgam of two acquisitions of ActionX and […]

Colorado video adtech company Altitude Digital, has raised $30 million in financing, enabling it to expand its supply-side platform offering (SSP) to publishers globally, explains Jeremy Ostermiller, CEO, in this interview with Beet.TV The financing was announced in April. More on the growth in the Denver-based company in this report in the Denver Post. We […]

LONDON – Adoption of programmatic video advretising is moving more quickly in Canada, a number of European and Asian markets than in the U.S., says Ryan Jamboretz, Chief Revenue Officer of Videology, in this interview with Beet.TV He says that more than half of the company’s revenue is now coming from outside the U.S. We […]

Koomona is an Israel-based start-up that uses machine learning technology to help publishers allocate inventory and sell at the highest price.  The company has been in the market for the past 18 months.   It provides solutions in display and mobile and will enter the video sector next, says Amiad Solomon. Solomon, who founded  and sold […]