Robert Andrews

SAN FRANCISCO — When Acxiom acquired LiveRamp back in 2014, the potential pairings were clear to see. But one tie-up that was not immediately obvious was video. Relative to modern consumption habits, video viewing had still not truly taken off, and video didn’t even garner a mention in the companies’ announcement. Fast-forward, however, and video […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Since it started in 2012, supply-side platform Clypd has focused on building an ad sales platform for TV owners. It has started to unpack its technology, making it available to a wider set of customers. That started this month, when Nielsen launched Advanced Audience Forecasting, a tool for TV audience forecasting, built on […]

For advertisers, the US local cable TV market has historically been bought using broad geographies, demographics and programming day-parts to try reaching the right audiences. But Comcast’s ad sales division is now helping buyers use data and advanced analytics to more precisely reach the viewer of their dreams, no matter what screen they are watching […]

SAN FRANCISCO — It is often said that, when it comes to advanced TV advertising, the UK has a lead through the Sky’s AdSmart offering. But, when it comes to insights in to advanced TV advertising, one company is now bringing capabilities to Europe that it says have existed in the US for years. Alphonso‘s […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Brands are rushing to spend on advertising in connected TV platforms – and agencies remain important to helping them do so. That is the view of one of the leading ad-tech platforms helping to inject ever-more video in to its historic programmatic operations. “Connected television spend on our platform from Q4 2016 […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Often, the end goal for a TV advertisement is to drive a consumer to purchase a product in a store. But what if the point of purchase was the start, not the end, of the whole strategy? That’s a question IRI, a marketing data company, is posing to advertisers.  Founded to capitalise […]

Is Cannes Lions still relevant? That’s the question occupying Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity managing director Jose Papa. The festival has long been a Mecca for advertising types – and, increasingly, those from other industries, too. But, last year, the Wall Street Journal reported ad agencies were cutting costs amid a downturn that was just beginning. At the […]

An infamous no-show from most of the technology and marketing industries’ biggest annual gatherings, Apple looks like breaking its usual policy this year. Execs from the company will take to the stage at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this coming June, despite typically not attending. “We’ve got Angela Ahrendts and Tor Myhren,” says […]

SAN FRANCISCO — An initiative from three big ad-tech players to create a single pool of user identities is nearing technological completion and could go live from this coming Q2, according to an exec from one of the players involved. AppNexus, Index Exchange and LiveRamp created The Advertising ID Consortium last May in an effort to reach […]

Europe’s new consumer data privacy rules have been touted as having a massive impact on the digital advertising world. But, for companies and countries which already sing from the same hymnsheet, could the impact be muted? In this video interview with Beet.TV, one of the biggest ad-tech companies discusses the likely effects – or non-effects […]

More than 40% of US companies remain open to fines of up to €20 million for non-compliance with new European consumer data legislation. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came in to effect back in 2016, whilst the final deadline for compliance comes this May. Now any global company which deals with EU citizens’ data must […]

PALM SPRINGS, Calif —  To date, the biggest beneficiaries of programmatic digital ad buying have been the larger ad buyers, those which are buying at such scale that every efficiency adds up to a big gain. But an emerging school of thought has it that the next wave of digital ad targeting growth won’t come […]

PALM SPRINGS, Calif — The publisher whose brands include AskMen, PCMag, Mashable and the Ookla Speedtest service has a clear focus on the tech vertical. But Ziff-Davis doesn’t want to leave its advertisers to rely on off-the-shelf “tech” audience segments to reach their customers. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Ziff Davis Senior Vice President, Strategy and […]

PALM SPRINGS, Calif — Blockchain technology may be commonly associated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but there are a host of vendors out there trying to bring blockchain benefits to other sectors, and advertising is not missing out. Among the use cases cited for blockchain in ad-tech is improving transparency by making transactions supremely recordable and […]

PALM SPRINGS, Calif — Over the last year, the scourge of digital ad fraud has risen up to become one of the industry’s biggest bogeyman. But what if you could cut ad fraud by up to 600%? That’s what Mike Zaneis claims he can do, for companies that follow his organization’s recommendations. Zaneis heads up […]

PALM SPRINGS, Calif — In an online advertising world increasingly excited about the application of customer data sets and segments, the conversation usually is confined to consumer data. But what if you are a marketer that sells not to consumers but to businesses? Anudit Vikram has got you covered. He is SVP at Dun & Bradstreet, […]

PALM SPRINGS, Calif — After a year in which calls for “transparency” in advertising technology reached “cacophony” on the controversy scale, advertisers understanding of the issues has increased significantly – and their demands are growing in lock-step. That is according to one ad exchange operator which reports a maturation in the questions marketers are asking […]

PALM SPRINGS, Calif — After another year of outcry over insufficient transparency in the digital advertising chain, supply-side platform PubMatic kicked off the year by making two pricing pivots geared toward soothing concerns. As the company’s platform sales VP Kyle Dozeman tells Beet.TV in this video interview: “The first was the removal of our buy-side […]

PALM SPRINGS, Calif — When it launched a decade ago, it was purely an analytics suite for cross-platform video publishers. In time, TubeMogul expanded to take on a bigger role powering the advertising that powers video. But now that ‘TubeMogul’ has become Adobe Advertising Cloud, it’s no longer mostly a video advertising company. In mid 2015, […]

PALM SPRINGS, Calif — Gone are the days since MSN was Microsoft’s only horse in the advertising race. Nowadays, the company’s ad offering encompasses Xbox, Outlook and a whole lot more. So Microsoft enlisted AppNexus to be its supply-side platform (SSP), the software ued to automate the sale of a publisher’s ads at scale. In […]