Robert Andrews

Over-the-top TV advertising technology holds the potential to drive more specific outcomes for car salespeople.. In fact, the ability to track which car ads were seen by which viewers and which viewers went along to a showroom as a result could be a game-changer, says one broadcast company owner offering that functionality. “Automotive is a […]

ORLANDO — MasterCard’s “Priceless” marketing campaign has been running in various guises since 1997 now. This year, the company has tried to infuse it with “multi-sensory marketing”. But being MasterCard’s chief marketer isn’t all about experience, however. The financial services company is also swimming in consumer financial data to better customize its own offerings and […]

Compared with some of the more troubled parts of the digital advertising ecosystem, TV has always been considered cleaner. Whilst online ad buyers, over the last few years, have wrung their hands over viewability, fraud and supply-chain transparency issues, television – if only because it has been, by definition, disconnected – has sailed on by […]

Local TV is perfectly capable of overhauling the the historic system it uses to sell advertising – because that system has been hiding in plain sight. So says the president of Hearst’s television operation in this video interview with Beet.TV. The industry is embarking on a shift, from the historic method of measuring and selling […]

ORLANDO — It is three years now since the ANA’s K2 Transparency Report kick-started a procession of outcries in media land, accusing agencies of operating a system of rebates and kickbacks that worked against brand clients by hiding substandard effectiveness, leading to ad-tech vendors also being accused of obfuscating “ad-tech tax” fees siphoned away from real advertising spend. […]

They are two of the most talked-about terms in the new digital advertising landscape. But what is the state of “identity graphs” and “people-based marketing“, really? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Chad Engelgau, Global Chief Data Strategist and Head of Client Management at IPG Mediabrands, explains. Identity graphs: “Identity graphs really help you anchor […]

It may date back to 1973 and have been overt-taken in the digital communication fashion stakes by Slack and social – but could email be due a comeback in marketing and communications? Of course, email marketing has remained popular throughout but, as brands got hooked on the targeting powers of digital advertising, many switched strategy. […]

Web publishers are losing advertising sales to closed platforms like Facebook, and may need to start operating like those big guns if they are to claw it back. So says one of the main web ad exchanges that is now moving in to the new world of audience identity solutions. In this video interview with […]

Local TV broadcasters are eyeing replacing the method through which they have made money for decades – but they have so much to gain, says an executive urging them to do just that. Many broadcasters are contemplating a shift, from the historic method of measuring and selling TV eyeballs using rough “gross rating points” (GRPs) […]

Giving publishers better tools to understand the all-over identities of their audiences is the key that will help them compete for advertisers against big tech platforms. That is the growing consensus amongst a cluster of companies aiming to use so-called “identity graphs” to help publishers fight the “walled gardens” of Facebook and Google. “People spend […]

The opportunity is massive, but the silos are deep. In the emerging world, there are enough possibilities and platforms that the market is becoming fragmented. Marc Bourget wants to bring it back together. Bourget is product management VP at Samba TV, a tech platform which helps advertisers approach the new world of connected TV. “All […]

It’s the walled gardens’ world; we just live in it. That is the growing fear in pretty much all walks of society these days. None more so than in media, where, on the one hands, publishers lament the attention and time gobbled by social networks, apps and search platforms, and, on the other, advertisers grumble […]

Three years after it set out to create a digital advertising supply chain platform that set out to ease publishers’ worries, trade association Digital Content Next‘s own private marketplace is now facilitating more than “eight figures” in ad sales, according to the man running the non-profit organization. Over the last few years, a growing number […]

If you are in the ad targeting game, it helps to know who your viewers or readers are. Traditionally, TV has suffered from inadequate knowledge about those viewers. The industry has come to call this “probabilistic” targeting. But its flip side, “deterministic” targeting, promises to give advertisers more accuracy by using real viewer data to […]

The advertising these days is fond of talking about the perils of “walled gardens”, the publisher platforms which don’t allow the transport of data beyond their own confines. But Erica Schmidt is more interested in “open parks”. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the global CEO of IPG Mediabrand’s unit Cadreon says “identity graph” technology […]

What if AI could perform many of the functions of modern marketing? That future is coming in to view. Today, technology’s ability to collect and interpret vast quantities of data means marketers are swimming in reports, often leading to insights which can inform recalibrations in strategy. But the emerging possibility of “predictive” technology, underpinned by […]

A few years after the technology began its surge, artificial intelligence continues being talked about in advertising and marketing circles. But, beyond the abstract, understanding for how AI can help real use cases tends to remain spartan. So, what can AI really do for P&L? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Manish Mittal, SVP of […]

“Waste not, want not”. The origin of that aphorism apparently goes back centuries but, in the super-charged TV ad market of 2019, it may be as relevant as ever. Especially for brands. In this video interview with Beet.TV, an ad agency leader says, when he buys ad campaigns across media types, he sees a lot […]

NBCUniversal parent Comcast acquired FreeWheel in 2014, but that affiliation doesn’t appear to have affect FreeWheel’s ability to strike deals with other broadcasters. In a deal announced today, Discovery Inc, which already was a FreeWheel customer, says it will now take on FreeWheel’s “unified decisioning platform to enable holistic advertising management for Discovery’s full roster […]

The outcry over “transparency” in the digital ad ecosystem grew to a crescendo three years ago now, when the ANA’s K2 Transparency Report accused agencies of operating a system of rebates and kickbacks that worked against brand clients by hiding substandard effectiveness. That was just one piece of the problem. Ad-tech vendors also stood accused […]