Robert Andrews

How detailed do you want to be about the way you measure your media effectiveness? And how can you patch together technology infrastructure to get you there? That was the subject of a conversation between Tim Castree, GroupM north America CEO, and Howard Shimmel, president of his own Janus Strategy & Insights at Beet Retreat […]

Over the last few years of growth in data-fuelled, personalized TV advertising, one truth has been clear – the possibilities are great, but the proportion of programmatic spend within overall US TV ad spend is forecast to remain small. eMarketer puts that figure at 5% of the total in 2019. That opens up a disconnect […]

The technology is in place, now ad agencies need to use it to better approach the opportunities afforded by advanced TV ad targeting. Fortunately, many ad agencies are now putting together the pieces involving audience data sets and software tools, according to Philip Smolin. “We’re seeing a number of agencies that are on the leading […]

Local TV may be commonly thought of as that linear channel from which advertisers are retreating to digital – but Brendaon Condon says it doesn’t have to be that way. The chief revenue officer at Comcast Spotlight, Comcast Cable’s ad sales unit, says he can help bring ad spend back to local cable – by […]

It is the company that has long offered the infrastructure for local TV networks’ ad management around the US. Now WideOrbit wants to service ad buyers, too. The San Francisco-based company offers a software platform that handles scheduling, billing, content management and invoicing for mostly local TV ads. “It really is the infrastructure of the […]

The idea of “the attention economy” is at least a couple of decades old. This Wired story introduced the early digerati to the concept in 1997, though it had already been circulating in several forms since the 1970s. Yet, fast-forward to 2019, and it seems proliferating content plus diminishing, an obsession with data and ad […]

Local TV ad sales execs, in recent years, have come under pressure from online channels that can prove their worth and from national TV that can deliver mass-reach campaigns. But the emergence of digital attribution technologies plugged in to local TV ad sales now promises to bring ad spending back to local TV operators. That […]

After 11 sessions, audience debate and a reception at the new headquarters of GroupM Worldwide at f the World Trade Center, what did it all boil down to? On August 7, Beet.TV convened executives from advertising, media and technology companies for Beet Retreat in the City, “We’re Going Local!”, an afternoon of hashing-out how new […]

Why would an advertiser want to precision-target individual TV-viewing households when who they really want to reach is…  everybody? That is a key question being asked of the emerging technology of “addressable TV”, which supports such targeting. eMarketer has revised down its 2019 forecast for US addressable TV ad spending, from the earlier $2.54bn to […]

What happens on the road can also go off-road. That is what Comcast Cable’s Spotlight ad sales division is thinking about one of the software suites it launched to power new-wave TV ads. The group’s Instant Impact is an analytics platform that shows the impact on web traffic from airing an ad on Comcast, within 30 […]

How do you generate more revenue when one of your main customer groups is turning away in droves? Offer something wonderful to your other key customer group. As US TV viewership declines, more companies are coming to think of the new capability of advanced viewer targeting as a way to ratchet up advertiser value from those […]

They may be natively digital, but the new wave of direct-to-consumer (D2C) ecommerce brands is being built, in large part, through advertising on television. And one major TV network’s ad sales chief says the old box in the corner can give these sorts of brands the digital capabilities they need. “If you look at something […]

TV platforms have been gaining super-powers which allow them to help advertisers precision-target individual households and control their ad frequency. Until now, it has been mostly the large national networks and OTT platforms benefitting from the new tools. But local players don’t have to be left out. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Janet Balis, […]

eMarketer forecasts that ad spending on addressable TV platforms (those which allow buyers to target viewers or households) will constitute 3.7% of total US TV ad spend in 2019, an overall market which is now otherwise in marginal decline. If the new technology is going to help restore growth to TV ad revenue, it is […]

Local cable operators are able to turn around declining TV ad spending when they add technology which demonstrates how TV ads drive outcomes like website visits. That is according to one executive who is seeing advertisers double their TV ad spending as a result. “For as long as we started this company, people have been […]

Internet-connected television devices are giving marketers the ability to precision-target ads to individual households. But the “addressable” TV advertising opportunity doesn’t have to start and end simply with an all-targeting approach to a TV campaign. Some marketers are using the new-wave of addressability features to support an old-fashioned linear TV ad campaign, too. That is […]

It is only two months old – but now the new digital marketplace for ad trading that has just been built by AT&T is announcing three new non-AT&T supply partners. “Community”, the platform created by AT&T’s Xandr ad-tech unit, will support buying ads in content owned by A+E Networks, AMC Networks and Cheddar, Xandr announced. […]

What does $150 million get you in ad-tech these days? If you are the new-look LiveRamp, it gets you Data Plus Math – the price which the reconstituted Acxiom is reportedly paying for the Boston-based data-matching company. But, if you a rival of Data Plus Math, that eye-popping deal isn’t a threat, it’s to be […]

CANNES — At this point in the evolution of media, many major-brand advertisers are looking far beyond local news as a marketing channel. To many, news itself has become a problematic channel, whilst the increased scale offered by national or global distribution has proved more attractive. But some of that could be about to change, […]

CANNES — Many observers saw the future destruction coming. Craigslist’s local ads posed a clear threat to classifieds, social networks presented rival sources for community news; all began long ago. Still, local news publishers, when they were in the throes of attempting to build their own digital platform, often found it hard to see that […]