Robert Andrews

BARCELONA — Mobile ads are going to have to change if they are to recapture interest from consumers whom they are putting off with too-pushy experiences, says a leading advertising executive. Facebook EMEA publisher ad technology head Yoav Arnstein says the industry has got it wrong. “With the shift to mobile, there is growing concern […]

Native advertising, ads that are presented in the form of editorial content, will ultimately replace classical display ads in digital, says an exec from WPP’s data-driven Xaxis unit. “The new inventory source is native,” Xaxis business development SVP Larry Allen tells Beet.TV in this video interview. “We see that effectively replacing display in the coming years.” Native […]

BARCELONA — The latest data-driven ad-tech operation under the WPP stable is Light Reaction, launched by WPP’s programmatic division Xaxis a year ago to put a performance spin on mobile-first ad sales. That company just named the former PubMatic exec Bob Walczak as its CEO, and Walczak says mobile could be the key that unlocks the door to […]

Just when you wrapped your head around “programmatic”, a new variant of the data-driven advertising technology is creeping on to the scene. In so-called “header bidding“, publishers offer inventory to multiple ad exchanges before alerting their ad servers, intending to garner multiple bids on the same inventory and so make higher prices. Now the Interactive Advertising […]

Nielsen looks set to take on Adobe for data-driven marketing suite services, after integrating its earlier eXelate acquisition. eXelate is a data management platform (DMP), a software tool brands can use to slice and dice their customer data, and was acquired by Nielsen a year ago in a move which pooled the data sets eXelate had […]

BARCELONA — With data suggesting a large percentage of online ad views are being called by fake users (malicious lines of code written by nefarious publishers racking up fraudulent clicks), advertisers have become worried. Now the boss of the world’s biggest ad agency holding group is repeating his call for online platforms to do more for […]

VIEQUES, PR – The prospect of dynamically tailoring individual scenes within video ads for targeted viewers is mind-blowing – and headache-inducing. Last year, a poll of senior global marketers said personalized ads made for higher response and engagement rates. But, for marketers and the agencies who make the ads, getting there is not easy, a panel convened by […]

Did your target customers visit your store after clicking your ads this morning? That’s what lifestyle publisher Meredith is promising to advertisers, using technology from Nielsen. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Meredith programmatic sales and strategy Chip Schenk says the company, which publishes FamilyCircle and AllRecipes, has extended a five-year partnership with the media measurement house for a […]

So-called “programmatic” technology for targeting and trading online ads has become pretty good at wringing certainty out of ad placement. But what about certainty on uplift? Paul Dolan thinks he can help with that. The exec from WPP’s Xaxis data-driven ad tech unit is also now GM at Light Reaction, a Xaxis off-shoot looking at adding something more […]

Trading of online ads using “programmatic” techniques – that is, data-driven or automated – is booming, with eMarketer forecasting the technology will account for 72% of all US digital display dollars by 2017. But programmatic is also changing. What once was just a more efficient way to trade ad inventory is now also taking on […]

A report being published by a team of hackers-turned-corporate warriors has estimated online advertising fraud is now netting $7.3bn per year for criminals who employ a team a worldwide network of “zombie” computers. White Ops, an anti-botnet and -malware cyber-security firm, conducted a report, Bot Baseline: Fraud in Digital Advertising, with the Association of National Advertisers, looking at ad traffic […]

VIEQUES, PR — The media ecosystem has become fragmented, with viewers demanding to watch their favorite content on the most appropriate device for their current context. That means advertisers, too, must catch up to deliver messages across multiple platforms, a panel debate convened by Beet.TV heard: FreeWheel FourFronts VP Neil, Smith AOL Head of Video Sales & Strategy, […]

VIEQUES, PR — Over the last few years, we have seen an avalanche of new advertising technology solutions come to market, all helping marketers reach consumers – and, arguably, all making their job even more complex. Now we may see an accelerating flurry of mergers and acquisitions, as larger players gobble up vendors to streamline the ecosystem again, a panel convened […]

VIEQUES, PR — In a world where there is insufficient supply of premium video to satisfy advertisers’ demand for ads, certain ad-tech vendors have found a way to help, by serving ads in between content. They are already a video paradigm agencies say will be most important to their clients’ portfolio, according to Forrester research commissioned […]

VIEQUES, PR — Programmatic advertising is expected to consolidate its place at the advertising table in the campaign for the upcoming US presidential election. Ad spending in the upcoming presidential election could trump the last poll by 20%, reaching $11.4bn, with digital breaking the $1bn barrier, according to a Borrell Associates forecast. And programmatic video could […]

VIEQUES, PR — Don Draper is going through a mid-life crisis. That is to say, the ad agency business is undergoing profound change, as the rise of technology and data-driven marketing continues turning the industry inside-out. Many people in the furnace of the fire know this much. But how exactly is the business changing, and what does that […]

VIEQUES, PR — Video ad-tech platform Coull is ready to play a bigger role in the video advertising value chain after launching its own ad exchange and supply-side platform. “We’ve been building out our own video platform, comprising of an exchange and an SSP,” CEO Irfon Watkins tells Beet.TV in this video interview. “We believe that […]

VIEQUES, PR — With ad buyers freaking out about fake video ad plays, ad-tech vendors are racing to quantify how many are truly being viewed by a human user, not just a line of bot code. Truth is, that race may already have been won. Integral Ad Science is amongst the outfits saying ad buyers […]

VIEQUES, PR — By now, brands are used to buying ad inventory in real-time. But what if you could adjust a content marketing campaign mid-flight, too? That’s what Jun Group wants to accomplish this year. So far, the New York-based ad tech startup has made a business of helping brands plant native ads in publisher content. “We […]

VIEQUES, PR — Perhaps better known to many professionals as an ad-tech analyst, now Joanna O’Connell has gone inside, joining MediaMath as chief marketing officer, to tell the world about the company as it nears its decade in business. O’Connell spent three years advising marketers as a Forrester analyst before building out AdExchanger‘s research and analysis capability. Joining a technology vendor may seem […]