AOL to Up Video Production for its Media Brands In 2016, Maymann

LAS VEGAS — AOL wants to make more video this year to catch up with unmet demand for watching online content, says AOL content and consumer brands EVP Jimmy Maymann. The publisher  has a host of productions on the go, but Maymann says appetite is voracious. “When people log on to the internet, a third of what they do is watching […]

 
 

Conde Nast Finds A Fit For Films Beyond The Page

LAS VEGAS — Can a magazine make a movie? That’s what is happening at Conde Nast, the periodical publisher more used to turning pages than rolling film. But, in the multi-media digital era, all bets are off, and all screens are on. “We have 22 films in different stages of development, and four television shows in production as […]

 
 

The New York Times Will Make Money with Virtual Reality in 2016, Mark Thompson

LAS VEGAS — It’s no Oculus Rift, and it costs about 40 times less – but Google’s cardboard virtual reality headset has given The New York Times a runway to a VR future. Now the publisher plans to put branded content, as well as high-impact editorial, inside this new world. For its new NYT VR app, the […]

 
 

Havas Synchs with Universal Music For Marketing ROI, Dominique Delport explains

LAS VEGAS — Time was, artists rejected the overtures of marketers. In a little-known example, R.E.M. once rejected Microsoft’s lucrative request to use “It’s The End Of The World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” in its Windows 95 TV commercial, leaving that honour to The Rolling Stones. In these days of cashflow uncertainty, however, […]

 
 

SpotX Readies Expansion to Asia

LAS VEGAS — The last couple of years were pretty big ones for digital video supply-side advertising platform and programmatic marketplace SpotX. In July 2014, the big European broadcaster RTL Group acquired a controlling interest in the company. Then, last year, the outfit rebranded from its former name, SpotXchange, as it gained traction in Europe thanks to […]

 
 

After SpotX And Clypd, RTL Group Seeks More Investments In 2016

LAS VEGAS — Over the last couple of years, the giant European TV RTL Group has assembled a clutch of investments designed to advance its position in digital video. In the summer, the group even rolled them up in to a division called RTL Digital Hub. Now the Hub is on the hunt for more ad-tech acquisitions. […]

 
 

Tech Compels Marketers To Change: Havas’ Delport

LAS VEGAS — CES no longer attracts just geeks and tech journalists. This year, swarms of ad agency and ad-tech delegates are in Las Vegas to soak up what’s next in gadgets and software. Speaking from there, Havas Media Group global MD Dominique Delport concludes: “Every marketer should become a user experience designer. We are now living […]

 
 

GroupM’s Gotlieb: “We Refuse to Accept the IAB’s Viewability Standard”

FORT LAUDERDALE  –  If you want to price digital advertising appropriately, don’t just look at the rapidly-growing supply of inventory, look beneath the surface for what is really real. That’s according to veteran ad exec Irwin Gotlieb, the chairman of ad group GroupM. “Supply measured without taking in to account things like viewability and bought […]

 
 

Don’t Throw Baby Out With Bath Water: GroupM’s Gotlieb

FORT LAUDERDALE — The rapid development of advertising and marketing technology is allowing buyers to mash up disparate data sets to better inform campaigns. But don’t risk losing the expertise that comes with old-world data, says an advertising veteran. “In the past, you used Nielsen data for TV, print data for print, econometric data to look for correlations […]

 
 

Programmatic Auctions Don’t Cheapen TV Ads: DISH’s Sears

LONDON — Back in October, US satellite TV company DISH unveiled a test allowing advertisers to buy impression-by-impression ads on linear TV through a programmatic marketplace. Powered by IPON WEB and plugged in to programmatic marketplace vendors DataXu, RocketFuel and TubeMogul, the system was billed as an industry first. When programmatic and auction-based ad technology first took hold in the […]

 
 

Programmatic Audio Powers Emotional Data Ads: Havas’ Houssaini

LONDON — So far, “programmatic” systems of online ad trading have been applied to static display advertising and video advertising. Now, everyone’s talking about its value to TV advertising. But what about radio, music and podcasts? Havas is working with an audio exchange and other partners to deliver programmatic audio advertising in France and the Netherlands. […]

 
 

TV Squared Sees Ad Campaign Predictions In Its Future

LONDON — The software which powers decisions that fuel video and TV ad spending and targeting is getting more and more sophisticated. But what if it could actually predict the future? That’s what Edinburgh-based TVSquared is pushing toward. One of the company’s two main software pieces is ADvantage, a platform providing offering insight in to how […]

 
 

Adobe’s Three Solutions For TV Everywhere

FORT LAUDERDALE — It may seem confusing to viewers in other parts of the world, but TV Everywhere is America’s system for ensuring cable TV subscribers can access their bundles on internet devices. Problem is, not too many consumers know that. Adobe, whose Primetime powers the authentication back-end that enables TV Everywhere, recognizes the problem. That’s why Adobe […]

 
 

YuMe’s DSP Joins Stack For Programmatic Boom

REDWOOD CITY, CA — 2015 was the year in which YuMe, one of the many vendors bringing technology to bear on video advertising efficiency, launched a demand-side platform (DSP), software for helping advertisers and agencies plan automated, programmatic video ad buying. So what exactly does the so-called YuMe For Advertisers (YFA) do? Product SVP Venkat Krishnan […]

 
 

TubeMogul To Take Cross-Screen Planning Self-Service: Rondon

FORT LAUDERDALE — In November, video ad tech vendor TubeMogul unveiled software to let marketers plan their video and TV ad campaigns. In future, it aims to give users more control over the tool. The tool “will ultimately be self-service”, the company’s TV strategy senior director Oscar Rondon tells this Beet.TV panel discussion. “If you […]

 
 

The Importance Of Video Ad Measurement, By A+E’s Boykoff

FORT LAUDERDALE — Until now, effectively measuring digitally-bought video and TV ads has to discover true effectiveness has been a bit of a problem – but that’s set to change, according to US TV channel operator A+E Networks‘ digital analytics VP Lee Boykoff. “There was a mature measurement system in place for TV. As we moved into mobile […]

 
 

OTT Activations In Europe Are Catching Up: YuMe’s Hanks

LONDON — Smart TV sales revenue in Europe jumped 10.2% last year, according to GFU Connections for those TVs have historically been patchy, but now the market looks like picking up. “OTT has been a little behind in Europe than it has in the U.S., primarily because the activation of consumers has been a little slower,” according […]

 
 

Sky Aims To Make Non-Linear Go Large, West Says

LONDON — European satellite operator, channel owner and telco Sky is celebrating two years of growth in its pioneering addressable TV advertising platform, AdSmart. Deputy MD Jamie West tells Beet.TV the service, which allows advertisers to target individual household set-top boxes using more than 532 attributes held by Sky about its customers, has clocked up 700 advertisers, 4,000 […]

 
 

Cablevision’s Kristin Dolan: TV Addressability Helping Smaller Advertisers

FORT LAUDERDALE — New York cable TV company Cablevision‘s Total Audience has been making waves for allowing ad deals to benefit from super precision. But getting there hasn’t been a walk in the park. “Once the sales reps see incremental sales revenue … they become converts. But bringing the horse to water required a lot of time […]

 
 

AI Is Next Big Thing To Happen To Marketing: PHD CEO Cooper

LONDON — God forbid the idea that marketers are not sentient. But sentience is also coming to the world of automated advertising, in the shape of artificial intelligence. That’s the name of a book, Sentience, released by Omnicom agency PHD earlier this year. “Anybody in marketing needs to understand a bit about AI,” says PHD‘s worldwide CEO Mike Cooper. […]

 
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