Robert Andrews

HOLLYWOOD — In the new programmatic buzzword of “header bidding”, publishers no longer have to run auctions for ad buys sequentially; they can audition multiple demand sources simultaneously, to get the highest price. The practice has been around a few years, but spent 2016 bedding in. In 2017, however, header bidding is changing. No longer confined […]

Storyful may be best known as a service mixing technology and editors to help news organization verify genuine online video from the fake stuff. But now the outfit, acquired by News Corp in 2013, is also turning its expertise toward brand content. Storyful these days doesn’t just help news orgs – it also helps advertisers and […]

News Corp’s social media news agency Storyful may have started out life validating user-uploaded news content for news publishers. But that doesn’t mean advertisers, too, cannot benefit from the Dublin-born company’s efforts. Two years ago, Storyful opened up the same offering – verifying, validating and licensing user content – for re-use by brands and their agencies. […]

HOLLYWOOD, Florida — If you thought the Super Bowl was the place advertisers can make the biggest impact with sports viewers, it may be time to step in to the 21st Century. Right now, hundreds of thousands of consumers around the world are watching each other play video games. And those broadcasts are proving to be […]

HOLLYWOOD, Florida — Magazine and digital publisher Time Inc is shooting toward a future where it can sell across the spectrum – from high-touch, human sales, to automated online transactions. Now the outfit is bolstering that last part, by making an acquisition which will put more of the automation power in the hands of its ad […]

HOLLYWOOD, FL — The ad-tech sector must do more to clamp down on a wave of “fake news” and ad fraud that is threatening both publishers and advertisers. That is according to the new chair of the US branch of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Jim Norton was elected to the post this week in the organization […]

HOLLYWOOD BEACH, FL  — An expanded partnership between programmatic ad-tech firm AppNexus and exchange Index Exchange is one of the moves already changing the nature of ad trading’s so-called “header bidding” technique. The pair announced they have worked to produce tight technical integrations for server-to-server header bidding. “Header bidding” is a technique that has only recently grown up, in which […]

The world of ad-tech is tipping steadily from platforms that are managed by vendors for clients, to those that clients use themselves, and AOL is the latest provider to move with the tide. AOL has just turned on self-service capability for the supply-side platform inside its AOL ONE digital advertising offering. It makes it easier for small-scale […]

Last year, Time Inc bought itself in to the ad-tech ecosystem, by acquiring ad data outfit Viant. Now Viant is making an acquisition of its own. Earlier this week, the company announced it is buying Waltham, MA-based Adelphic, a six-year-old demand-side platform for ad buyers. But why? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Viant chief revenue officer Jeff Collins […]

LAS VEGAS — Toyota dealerships in five US states now know exactly how many people were driven to their showrooms by TV ads, after an addressable TV campaign worked on by vendors in marketing data and mobile location. In June, Gulf States Toyota, which comprises 150 dealerships, targeted 652,200 AT&T/DirecTV viewers believed to be in-market for a new […]

LAS VEGAS — Time was, data was the oil that powered backward-looking reports examining the effectiveness of already-executed campaigns. But that’s all changing now, as new technology allows ad-tech platforms to show live data and let clients respond by tweaking campaigns mid-flight. That’s according to one ad-tech exec whose company helps advertisers use data segmenting to target linear […]

LAS VEGAS — The Consumer Electronics Show gets bigger and bigger each year – and it changes, too. Once a mecca simply for new gadget fans, now the show attracts marketers and advertisers eager to understand the new technologies that will represent the consumer engagement platforms of tomorrow. But that places a responsibility on advertisers to take […]

LAS VEGAS — Maybe the full-page, print-style ad format isn’t the optimum format, even for an app that launched to replicate the modality of a printed magazine. In October, Flipboard, the flippable content aggregation app that borrows its interaction method from the page-turning paradigm, launched Storyboard, a new ad format for buyers. Speaking with Beet.TV at the […]

LAS VEGAS — USA Today is currently in production on a second “season” of its own virtual reality series, as it gears up to offer brands new ways to sell into the medium. A year ago at the Consumer Electronics Show, chief revenue officer Kevin Gentzel announced to Beet.TV the company would be making daily VR content. Now […]

LAS VEGAS –  Mobile has already shaken up the landscape for how brands interact with consumers. Now a new wave of technologies is provoking yet another big reconsideration for advertisers. That is according to an ad-tech exec who was just named to head Group M’s reconstituted data and technology division. Brian Gleason, who already headed Group […]

LAS VEGAS — The tectonic plates of the ad-tech ecosystem have shifted in to alignment, allowing now advertisers to do many of the newfangled techniques that have been talked about for years. That’s according to one media-tech exec whose company just passed some milestones of its own. 4C Insights ingests social media platform data and TV ad data […]

LAS VEGAS — Discovery Communications already has its own data management and optimisation platform for linear TV ad trading. Now it wants to bring it back to digital, too. “Discovery Engage, which is our linear optimisation platform, we started on the linear side,” Discovery Communication data analytics VP Sam Garfield tells beet.TV in this video interview. “We’re […]

LAS VEGAS — It began as a live radio show, before the digital age forced it in to an on-demand box. But now The Young Turks, a video broadcaster producing progressive politics commentary, is set to make hay from a return to its live roots. Sixteen years ago, co-founder Cenk Uygur launched The Young Turks on […]

LAS VEGAS — The age of addressability is upon us, promising clients laser-targeted audience relevance – but the power will come at a price, and the potential must be carefully executed against imminent new European legislation. That is according to one ad agency boss now helping clients understand and benefit from the changes. “We are definitely entering […]

LAS VEGAS — Artificial intelligence will come to play an increasingly important role in the decisioning and consumption of digital content and advertising, according to one of communications agency OMD‘s big thinkers. In this video interview with Beet.TV, OMD strategy and product development director Jean-Paul Edwards says AI is nothing new – but it is now ready […]