Robert Andrews

Video ad tech vendor Eyeview, which has been more used to helping deliver digital video advertising, is now getting in to the main TV screen in the living room. CEO Oren Harveno tells Beet.TV the company is  working with Cablevision and DISH to deliver ads to so-called “addressable” TVs, at the individual household level, plus with Clypd and […]

In the age of media proliferation, walls between established media types are collapsing. Nowhere more so than in moving images. Where, once, online video was seen as an entirely separate channel from TV, the emergence of multi-faceted screens and cross-screen planning and buying is forcing redefinition. “It’s not TV, digital or mobile – now people are […]

What will AOL and its users get out of the company’s recent acquisition by Verizon? Better content and better ads, says the outfit’s ad tech chief. Integration plans have recently been reported, but tentatively centre around using Verizon customer data for personalization. “Verizon feels they have an oil field filled with valuable data, AOL has […]

So-called “programmatic” tools and platforms have revolutionized how online display advertising is bought and sold, now it has making inroads to online video ads – next up, many hope it can do the same in plain ‘ol TV. But that is easier said than done. “One of the challenges in bringing about this programmatic ubiquity […]

COLOGNE — Programmatic ad tech data software provider eXelate says it is ready to amplify Nielsen across Europe, after its acquisition by the audience company earlier this year. “The first thing on the list is to extend the number of Nielsen-branded audiences – demographic, FMCG, retailer – across Europe (from the UK),” eXelate Europe MD Matt Bennathan tells […]

Mobile is helping push scientifically-accurate programmatic advertising technology to new heights for ad tech vendor Rubicon Project – next up, the company reckons it’s time to put creativity back in to advertising. “One of the big things you’re going to see with mobile is storytelling becoming more and more important – when you’re trying to […]

The ability to share online video spots has reinvented the video advertising business, says Alex Debelov, CEO of Virool, a platform enabling viral ads. “It’s a really interesting phenomenon which has never happened in advertising,” he tells Beet.TV in this video interview. “For the last 50 or 60 years, when marketers were producing spots for […]

COLOGNE — Over the last couple of years, we have heard a lot about Teletrax, now part of 4C Insights, whose technology lets advertisers buy slots on digital media in sync with their TV airings. But another vendor is playing in a related space. Like Teletrax, Munich-based Wywy also uses TV monitoring stations around the world to understand […]

LONDON — The Weather Channel has blazed a trail for programmatic advertising in the States, now it wants to do the same around the world – aware of the many different market challenges it will face. The company has been using so-called “programmatic” technology to sell ads for a year or two now. “I’m going to […]

COLOGNE — An industry which is such a mix of technology, creative and business skills should be pulling employees from across the board. But is that really happening? One ad exec says future requirements compel execs to hire more diversely. “I’m lucky enough to work in an organisation where I don’t really see that challenge quite so […]

Get set for another big wave in media disruption. That’s according to Joe Ripp, the media executive who has led some of the biggest beasts in the business. “I was vice-chairman of AOL in its heyday when it owned the internet – I watched the transformation of that,” he tells Beet.TV. “We are in another transformation all […]

Bob Jeffrey doesn’t like losing. When the advertising agency exec lost out on some business from long-standing client Microsoft, Jeffrey took it hard, but then moved on strong. “That was very painful,” he tells Beet.TV in this video interview. “I take everything pretty personally and emotionally. I thought we had done great work. This was a […]

Not many kids spend their evenings, curled up in bed, reading mundane acts of national policymaking under the bed covers. But that’s exactly what Tom Rogers did – a few years later, he was writing those rules. “I was an avid reader of TV Guide as a kid – stacked ‘em up on my bedside table,” Rogers […]

So-called “addressable TV’, the ability to deliver personalized TV ads to individual households, is set to revolutionize the business – if only it can get off the ground in earnest. “There’s a lot of talk about addressable TV. The market is trying to look for what is real,” comments digital ad group 4C Insights‘ CEO […]

COLOGNE — The sea of advertising technology platforms in which the industry is which the industry is currently swimming is threatening to overwhelm. Whilst each platform promises to make life better and easier, the reality may be the opposite. “There is a proliferation of ad technology – it’s only made the business of video harder.,” according […]

Advertisers these days seem worried about a litany of technologies with which bad industry actors and consumers alike can bypass advertising. The latest is ad blocking, which Apple’s iOS 9 now supports on mobile web. But that threat to mobile could benefit another media, one ad tech exec reckons. “It is incredible. Things like ad blocking, view […]

Programmatic advertising is booming, as more ad buyers and sellers switch on to technology that automates, targets and better controls the trading of online inventory. So far, the tech has revolutionized web ads, next up is video. “Programmatic has been huge in display, programmatic is a bit different in video,” according to video ad tech […]

COLOGNE — So-called “programmatic” technologies for automating, planning, targeting and executing online advertising buys have revolutionised the online display ad sector – now they are making in-roads in to video. “Programmatic is changing the media landscape,” according to video ad tech platform vendor TubeMogul’s managing director Nick Reid, in this video interview with Beet.TV. “IHS […]

COLOGNE — Many operators out there are busy launching initiatives to super-target digital TV viewers. But, when you’re a telco with paying subscribers, you’d better be sure you don’t do anything that annoys your paying customers, says a Belgian quad-play provider. “As a telco, we see our users not only as an audience, we see […]

COLOGNE — Medialaan, the commercial media operator serving the Flemish-speaking Flanders region of Belgium, began making full shows available online last year. Now it is gearing up to better-monetize its full-show assets with online advertising. “It’s been better than we expected,” Medialaan digital head Olivier van Zeebroeck tells Beet.TV in this video interview. “After one year, without […]