Robert Andrews

ORLANDO — These days, there isn’t a big brand that doesn’t profess “sustainability” to be a key goal. But is a passion for good things any more than a marketing stunt? To Brad Hiranaga, sustainability is anything but. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the chief brand officer of breakfast cereal maker General Mills says aiming for […]

ORLANDO — If only there were an instruction manual for everything. Like many marketers, Rahul Malhotra wishes there were one for brands. He is the head of brand strategy and stewardship at Shell, one of the largest oil companies – in fact, one of the largest companies of any sort – in the world. In this video […]

ORLANDO – After a few years in which the advertising business seemed to get consumed by numbers and efficiency, is creativity returning the fold? If the agenda for next year’s upcoming Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is anything to go by, it certainly is. In a new addition to the advertising festival’s agenda, CLX (“Connect. Learn. […]

ORLANDO — If you thought the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity was down-sizing, think again. In a new addition to the advertising festival’s agenda, CLX (“Connect. Learn. Explore”), a new mini-event within the overall programme, will add a series of curated discussion sessions. CLX is a partnership with media consulting firm, MediaLink, which has […]

ORLANDO — Once upon a time, a marketer spending millions on a TV campaign had to wait until its conclusion before digesting the results and tweaking the mix on the next buy. But A+E Networks is now letting ad buyers recalibrate the mix mid-campaign. The TV channel operator earlier this year began offering performance-based guarantees […]

ORLANDO — After a spate of controversies in the last couple of years, ad agencies are enduring choppy waters, as many brand clients look use software, for themselves, to execute some of the traditional functions of their agencies. A recent Association of National Advertisers (ANA) survey showed 35% of marketers expanded their in-house media buying capabilities […]

ORLANDO — If there is one kind of publisher that knows a lot about people, it must be a genealogy site. Ancestry lists more than 20 million members, all desperate to build connections with relatives – living, deceased or as-yet unknown. It’s all about reducing the boundaries between people. But there is another kind of […]

Is live or on-demand TV a bigger opportunity for advanced ad targeting technology? A growing number of companies is choosing both, rather than either. Case in point – Simulmedia, which had, until now, majored on lighting up advertiser access to linear TV spots using data techniques, is now adding over-the-top TV ad inventory to its offering. Through […]

ORLANDO — If any industry should know how to shake off an image problem, it should be the marketing industry. After all, isn’t that its core competency? But, in this video interview with Beet.TV, Deloitte Digital’s chief marketing officer Alicia Hatch says marketers are suffering at the hands of technology, and need to reboot their perception. […]

2018 was the year Amazon became the number-three digital ad platform in the US, according to eMarketer‘s analysis. But that is a fraction of the platform’s overall revenue, led by retail sales. At the nexus of those two channels, Criteo, an advertising technology platform best known for offering retargeting capabilities, is trying to help smaller […]

ORLANDO — For corporate America, “diversity and inclusion” rose up the imperative ranks in 2018 like probably no year previously. But those qualities are not just nice-to-haves or boxes to tick – they also lead to natural uplift in business effectiveness. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Mastercard chief marketing and communications officer Raja Rajamannar […]

If over-the-top TV providers want to command a bigger share of the US TV advertising pie, they are going to need to prove their effectiveness to advertisers. That is what Roku is endeavoring to do, by launching a new Measurement Partner Program. The scheme involves a number of aspects like audience demographics, brand awareness, store visits, […]

Last year, Fox, Turner and Viacom teamed to co-found OpenAP, a new consortium to agree on commonality in the way granular audience-describing datasets are described and made available. The idea was to smooth the path to a future in which data would play a much bigger role in how TV ads were targeted. But OpenAP […]

SANTA BARARA — Is relevance still… relevant? For years, marketers have talked about reaching a point in the advertising ecosystem where they can know so much about their audiences that they can craft and customize the most precise messages and content for consumers. That is still the hope, but getting there is going to take […]

The last few years saw an explosion in the use of data sets bought from third-party organizations for ad targeting. But, in 2018, brands can use their own marketing data to target ads, too. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Nielsen EVP, Advertiser Direct & Marketer Cloud Damien Garbaccio observes three trends affecting brands: “Brands are […]

SANTA BARBARA — For years, marketers have tried combatting growing consumer resistance to advertising with a hopeful refrain – if only they could make their ads more “relevant”, perhaps marketing would cross a rubicon and become useful. The theory is all well and good – but how do you actually make it happen? Perhaps inconveniently, […]

SANTA BARBARA — In a sea of loosening “social” graphs, it is an oasis of strong communities. Now Reddit wants to be an advertising powerhouse, too. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Reddit COO Jen Wong discusses the company’s strategy to marry content, distribution and customer data produce relevance and addressable TV. On March 19, […]

TORONTO — It’s nearly half a year since the upfronts, the annual season where television companies tout their upcoming content slate in order to lock up advanced ad sales. But Stuart Garvie is still having nightmares about the process. The CEO of the world’s largest media buying agency, GroupM, in Canada says the process, which […]

TORONTO — It’s a smaller media market with a highly concentrated ownership – so how does a media agency make the best from Canada these days? In this video interview with Beet.TV, GroupM Canada chief investment officer Sebastian Rennie opens up on a two-pronged approach. “I think it’s about finding the combination of two things, […]

TORONTO — If you are an auto maker, aiming the TV ads for your hard-wearing SUV at winter drivers in snowy North America may seem like ample targeting. But, when it marketed its new Atlas, Volkswagen Canada wanted to go a step farther. Recently, the company worked with Canadian telco and TV company Rogers to […]