Robert Andrews

For so many years, ad buyers’ complaint was that the connected TV (CTV) ecosystem had too little inventory. Well, after an explosion of new services and a tsunami of viewer adoption, that has changed. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Tim Sims, chief revenue officer of The Trade Desk, says CTV has crossed the threshold. […]

The life of a modern media exec is all about balancing amazing new capabilities with traditional tech that is actually drying up. Case in point – GroupM agency Wavemaker is having to negotiate the ongoing deprecation of audience identifiers like cookies. But, even as it does so, the agency is embracing advanced new tools, says […]

What exactly is the power of advertising via connected TV (CTV)? Not just targeting but also fine-grain measurement of the kind that TV advertisers never had before. That is according to one tech executive who helped a US supermarket chain use CTV to great effect. Win-win for Winn-Dixie In this video interview with Beet.TV, TVSquared […]

Accounting may not sound like the sexiest part of the media industry – but it is certainly one of the most important, and one which frustrates many media providers and buyers alike. That is why Hudson MX this week unveiled a new platform, FinanceAssist, designed to reinvent media accounting for the modern era. In this […]

The upfronts are no longer just the season of the year when TV and ad execs get together to lock in a bundle of ad-spending commitments for the year ahead. Thanks to new connected TV consumption and new ad selling techniques, things are becoming more flexible than that. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Neil […]

LOS ANGELES – Samsung has quietly engineered itself a position as the number-two ad-supported connected TV service on its own TV sets – by mixing a sprinkle of traditional TV norms with a fresh digital approach. Samsung TV Plus, a free streaming TV service, launched in 2018 and now numbers 160+ channels in the US. […]

FFayetteville, ARK – Retailers now have a big new opportunity – to become advertising platforms that can help brands reach the right consumers, and track ads’ efficiency. Walmart is now helping its brand product providers do just that, using attribution technology to connect consumer purchase outcomes back to ad exposure. But, in this video interview […]

According to the accepted depiction of the marketing “funnel”, television is a medium marketers best use to drive initial brand awareness. But that is only because, without access to return-path data, TV has never been able to boast the kinds of user attribution that new digital media do. Now that TVs have got connected, however, […]

If you were to chart their rise, graphs are having a moment. Over the last few years, we have heard of “the social graph” and of “identity graphs”. Now there is another piece of infrastructure that has entered the ad industry lexicon – the “device graph”. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Scott Schiller, chief […]

New technology that delivers TV over the internet allows advertisers to start planning and buying TV ads with digital-style tactics. As they do so, many buyers nevertheless want connected TV to start functioning like TV per se. But, in this video interview with Beet.TV, one ad data enabler says the baby should not be thrown […]

If you are a marketer that wants to reach younger viewers, you should not necessarily go to traditional TV anymore. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Dan Robbins, VP of ad marketing and partnerships at streaming TV platform Roku, says that key audience has made a great migration. And that poses challenges – but also […]

At this point, everyone in advertising knows the world of digital ad targeting is moving away from technologies like cookies. But, when executives talk about migrating to “people-based” methods in their place, what does that really mean? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Viant CEO Tim Vanderhook explains what a “people-based” demand-side ad platform really […]

How do you sell take-out when no-one’s going out? In the new world of over-the-top (OTT) TV advertising, Brooke Bowhay is navigating the pandemic by looking beyond fragmentation, leaning on mobile and leveraging delivery. Bowhay is director of planning and activation for ad agency Carat, which won the Jack In The Box account in 2017. […]

Keen to get money flowing back after a horrific year of pandemic effects, broadcasters are set to open up as many ad buying channels as possible when the annual US season of upfront ad deals begins in the spring. Amid the ongoing boom in subscription video services (SVoD) like Netflix and Disney+, which are cornering […]

If video killed the radio star, then podcasts, smart speakers and new-wave sales techniques are putting the medium back center-stage. Developments like those – plus in-ear gadgets and in-car systems – mean a new era. That is according to Ken Lagana, EVP of digital sales and strategy at Entercom, the number-two radio group in the […]

The cable TV industry initiative aimed at securely sharing viewer data whilst keeping privacy in mind just levelled-up, by striking a partnership that gives it access to a huge consumer identity graph. Blockgraph – owned by Comcast NBCUniversal, Charter Communications, Inc. and ViacomCBS – is partnering with TransUnion, the consumer data company which has been […]

The mouse house is big – but few advertisers would want to reach the entirety of Disney’s audience footprint. That’s why Lisa Valentino is offering technology to support refined audience targeting capability. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Valentino, executive Vice President, Client Solutions & Addressable Enablement, Disney Advertising Sales, explains how how developments announced […]

LAFAYETTE, CA – When TV advertising rebounds, it’s going to be a game enjoyed by different players. Shifting viewing behavior has been compounded by pandemic business economics. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Mark Rotblat, CRO of Tubi, the ad-supported video platform acquired by Fox last year, says that leaves providers in the category sitting […]

LOS ANGELES – The journey to the future of advertising identity is long and winding. Amid the deprecation of third-party cookies and limits on other tactics like mobile identifiers, the industry is striving to develop new methods with which to identify audiences. In doing so, perhaps it has become so used to reading about forthcoming […]

Connected TV is a medium that promises personalized and interactive ads – but, in 2021, new privacy laws, viewer identification challenges and connecting the ecosystem will provide challenges. That is the view of Adam Gilbert, head of partnerships at media agency Initiative. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Gilbert, whose team has accounts including Salesforce, […]