Robert Andrews

Historical definitions of television are breaking down under the weight of digital video delivery. What was once defined by a physical hardware device and strict broadcast quality standards is now simply any screen where video is consumed. This shifting paradigm forces advertisers to rethink how they deliver their messages across all devices and moments. “People […]

Proving that an ad actually moved the needle – rather than just touched a customer who was already buying – has become a central challenge for retail media networks. Best Buy Ads is betting that a layered measurement approach, combining geo-based incrementality testing with SKU-level attribution and marketing mix modeling, will give advertisers the confidence […]

For years, brands have treated influencers as glorified billboards while simultaneously judging them by conversion metrics they were never designed to deliver. The result has often been a mismatch between brand goals and measurement, with creators consistently under-credited for the discovery, trust-building, and purchase intent they generate before a single transaction occurs. That disconnect is […]

The days of connected TV serving merely as a way to chase cord-cutters are over. Streaming has graduated from an incremental reach play into something advertisers increasingly expect to deliver measurable business outcomes. Where brands once viewed streaming as a top-of-funnel branding exercise separate from their performance budgets, they are now demanding evidence that premium […]

TV’s long-running fragmentation problem is driving renewed interest in what the industry calls “convergent TV,” the ability to plan, buy, and measure across linear, streaming, and online video through a single platform. The infrastructure supporting such unified approaches has matured considerably since the early days of programmatic and demand-side platforms. “The days of getting a […]

If you want to get to the future, you may have to let go of the past. But companies that have operated the same way for 30 or 40 years are finding those very practices now stand as barriers to adopting AI. “The brands that are really achieving a new level of adoption of AI […]

The remote control used to be simple – flip through channels, land somewhere, stay a while. Now the act of watching television has become its own kind of labor – but that complexity, one executive argues, is exactly where the advertising opportunity lies. Ying Wang, general manager of Xumo Advertising, believes the fragmentation that frustrates […]

The connected television advertising market is bifurcating between the abundant dreams of programmatic and the reality of scarce, premium content. The industry may be finding itself in a hybrid model where tentpole events like the World Cup must be booked far in advance, while performance-focused campaigns demand the nimble optimization that digital platforms provide. That […]

A confluence of major sporting events, election spending, and rapid artificial intelligence adoption is set to make the U.S. advertising market grow faster than many anticipated this year. The IAB expectation shared with Beet.TV suggests a nearly double-digit expansion, suggesting robust health despite lingering economic uncertainty. Underpinning this growth are three distinct drivers: A slate […]

The average cost of an ad-free streaming subscription has nearly doubled since 2020, climbing from around $9 to $16 a month. For millions of American households, the math is starting not to add up. That financial pressure is reshaping viewing habits in ways that free ad-supported streaming television, or FAST, is well-positioned to exploit. Audiences […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The promise of artificial intelligence in advertising has long been one of simplification and speed, a force to unify disparate signals into clear, actionable insights. In practice, however, the technology is often creating the opposite effect, adding new layers of fragmentation and opacity to an already complex media ecosystem. Instead […]

The pitch sounds almost too clean: give your ad operations team the output of 15-to-20 people, without hiring a single one of them. For publishers still manually logging into half a dozen ad platforms to manage campaigns, it may also sound overdue. Agentic AI has become advertising’s buzziest concept in 2025 and into 2026, but […]

Is the honeymoon over for commerce media? After five years of what one industry leader calls “easy growth,” the sector now faces harder questions about sustainability, shared language, and whether it can truly integrate into the broader advertising ecosystem. With ad spend forecasted to exceed $150 billion across the US and Europe, according to IAB […]

The data has never been more abundant. The problem is what to do with it. Three-quarters of U.S. buy-side leaders now believe traditional ad measurement approaches are underperforming, according to a February 2026 eMarketer report, a figure that suggests the dashboard era may have run its course. The answer, said Holly Yonosko, chief analytics officer […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The ad industry talks a lot about removing friction. Warner Bros. Discovery is trying to do it by threading agentic AI into its advertising workflows and rebuilding its ad tech stack from the ground up around open, API-driven architecture. WBD has already moved parts of its ad workflow through agentic […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – With more than 350 retail media networks now vying for advertiser dollars, the channel has become so saturated that brands risk cannibalizing their own organic visibility by over-investing in paid placements. That’s the cautionary message from one media agency executive, who argues the industry’s obsession with return on ad spend is […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The connected TV advertising market is booming, with spending projected to surpass traditional TV by 2028. But all those sophisticated targeting capabilities and premium ad formats that make CTV so appealing – could they actually be hurting advertisers’ bottom lines? As marketers layer more bells and whistles onto their CTV […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. omnichannel retail media is projected to generate $71.67 billion in 2026, as retailers work to unify in-store and digital operations. But, with more than 240 networks now vying for advertiser dollars, retail media is getting as crowded as crowded as Walmart on Black Friday. The explosion of options has […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Consumers are spilling their deepest secrets and most specific needs to artificial intelligence platforms. To some, that is creating a goldmine of raw commercial intent previously unseen in traditional search engines or social media networks. But tapping into this highly personal data carries significant risks of breaking trust if mismanaged, […]

For decades, television was the ultimate brand-awareness machine and little else. You bought the spot, hoped the right eyeballs landed on it, and moved on. No signal came back. Now, according to one Roku executive, that era is definitively over. More Americans now watch television via streaming than through traditional linear broadcast. “Performance on CTV […]