David Kaplan

ORLANDO, FL — Artificial intelligence functions as a tool that handles mechanical and repetitive tasks, freeing human creators to focus on imagination, storytelling, and artistic expression that only humans can deliver. “AI is an enhancer, not a replacement of the human,” Denise Colella, VP, Global Digital Strategy Group at Adobe, told Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan […]

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — Among advertisers’ hopes for artificial intelligence is the ability to shape and reshape creative moments within scenes streaming on CTV to bring more emotionally resonant ad experiences at scale. “Every piece of content that we all watch elicits a different emotional reaction or an association. So why shouldn’t the creatives […]

Television has evolved beyond its traditional broad reach positioning to deliver the precision targeting capabilities once exclusive to digital channels, fundamentally changing how healthcare brands approach video advertising strategies. “Television is delivering the kind of precision targeting that we once thought only possible in digital,” Ashley Luongo, CRO of TV ad platform OpenAP, told Beet.TV […]

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA – Advertisers demanding lowest-cost CPMs while publishers reduce yield creates a destructive cycle that undermines premium content production and ultimately eliminates quality advertising environments that benefit no one. “That race to the bottom isn’t a good thing for this entire ecosystem,” Erika Loberg, global head of CTV at OpenX, told Beet.TV […]

ORLANDO, FL — The combination of media and commerce promises to eliminate the linear consumer journey and enable marketers to achieve objectives from awareness to conversion within single video experiences. “The convergence of media and commerce is no longer evolving — they have converged to the point where they are one and the same. Commerce […]

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — Contextual targeting has evolved from supplementary tactic to primary solution over the past year, enabling advertisers to move beyond inconsistent audience-based signals toward more robust and reliable connections with consumers. “A year ago at CES, we started talking about the idea of leveraging these signals in more interesting and meaningful […]

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA – For all the talk about artificial intelligence impact on creativity, the data use cases are quickly coming into view among various parts of the ad industry. For example, the ability to autonomously generate audience segments in real time rather, than relying on predefined demographic or behavioral categories, could fundamentally change […]

The combination of connected TV ads, retail media, and artificial intelligence offer marketers many compelling propositions. One possible value is the ability to know that an ad led to a completed purchase rather than having to rely on the “guesswork” of proxy metrics like ad clicks. In a larger sense, that could fundamentally change how […]

ORLANDO — Brands averaging 12 agencies with separate systems and priorities create organizational chaos that artificial intelligence accelerates rather than solves.  What’s needed, according to Publicis Groupe’s Linsey Loy, is proper integration through unified identity frameworks and shared operating models. “If you think of yourself or your company like a house, if everyone has their […]

Artificial intelligence is generating new interactive data signals from creative content that enable moment-based messaging, fundamentally changing how brands reach audiences beyond traditional television daypart structures. “I think if you can provide signals based on moments, and that’s what AI is going to do in creative and content, you can have more powerful dynamic messaging,” […]

Pretty much everyone acknowledges artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping competitive dynamics in ad tech. But how are these new capabilities playing out practically? “AI allows brands and marketers to really compete at all levels. Independent agencies now have an opportunity to level the playing field against many of the bigger partners,” Bill Todd, general manager […]

ORLANDO, FL — United Airlines uses real-time operational data to hold connecting flights for delayed passengers. The airline, which is about to celebrate its centennial year, does so when the delay won’t impact final arrival times. Travelers worried about a missed connection receive a text with reassuring messages that transform potential stress into brand loyalty […]

LAS VEGAS — The retail media network explosion mirrors the programmatic advertising boom 15 years ago in a lot of ways to Digitas North America’s’ Chelsea Monaco. As the convergence of shopping, advertising, and media becomes more solidified, the wide retail media could look a lot smaller in the near-future.  “If you look at what […]

While marketers looking to achieve both branding and performance goals have been flocking to Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (aka “FAST”) channels the last several years. The problem is that FAST lacks adequate measurement and targeting infrastructure. And that’s creating gaps that walled gardens currently cannot fill for content distributors. “[FAST] is underserved right now from […]

Marketers need to demand more of artificial intelligence than just seeing it as a tool to find the lowest-cost ad prices. “AI shouldn’t be just finding cheap CPMs. No one wins at that. It’s about connecting the sellers and the buyers,” Rebecca Bonell, senior director, Business Development at OpenX, told Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan. This […]

Consumers spend approximately 11 minutes deciding what to watch when they turn on their televisions, creating a premium opportunity for native advertising placements that influence content selection and brand messaging before streaming begins. “The first thing that you see when you turn on your TV is, well, what do I want to watch? The average […]

LAS VEGAS — Organizations struggling to move from siloed data to actionable cross-channel insights should start small and prioritize progress over comprehensive solutions that never launch. “It’s about simplification and everyone seems to be wanting to boil the ocean, and that’s always hard,” Cristina Marinucci, VP Global Growth & Omni Commercial Insights at Mondelēz International, […]

LAS VEGAS — The “too-late target” is a perennial problem of the programmatic age. And it’s particularly cringeworthy when an ad tech professional experiences a targeted ad after they have already purchased the item they’re subsequently seeing on their digital screen.  “If I go into an electronic store to buy a new laptop or a […]

Television advertising for pharmaceutical brands has evolved beyond general demographic targeting to enable condition-specific audience layering that eliminates wasted impressions while maintaining the mass reach needed for awareness campaigns. “Where we used to do a broad kind of demo targeting, now we can bring in these condition-based audiences that allow us to become more precise,” […]

Retail data has evolved from custom audience building within a handful of networks to becoming a critical component that enhances first-party data sets, creating more dimensional customer understanding when integrated through clean room environments. “When you’re looking at Acxiom data plus retail data, it just makes a more three dimensional picture more so than if […]