Robert Andrews

There can barely have been a moment in time so filled with anxiety over digital advertising techniques as 2018. In the last few years since the advent of “programmatic”, many ad buyers have become used to using customer data from a variety of sources to piece together profiles that can target audiences through networks, wherever […]

Over the last few weeks, many consumers have been receiving a deluge of emails from data handlers, controllers and processors seeking to re-obtain consent for communication under Europe’s new GDPR. But could the complexity of the issue force some of the operators to simple stop doing business with Europeans altogether? That is what one analyst […]

What’s old is new again – but, in advertising, the old practices have also received a pretty significant upgrade. So says Tim Castree, global CEO of the Wavemaker agency formed from the merger of Group M’s MEC and Maxus. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Castree says traditional TV viewing is declining – but, by […]

In an age where datasets through warehouses have become commoditised, what can be a competitive differentiator? For Ari Weiss, CCO, North America, DDB, the difference is all in the brain. Specifically, the Cortex. That’s the name for the collaborative unit inside DDB’s We Are Unlimited, the agency dedicated to serving McDonald’s. Cortex, which launched two […]

With broadcasters like Turner experimenting with shorter ad loads in order to improve premium video ad experiences, what is the commercial break anymore – and what is the optimum length of an ad? Suddenly, all bets are off – and answers to those questions are becoming necessary. That’s why the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video, […]

If only broadcast owners really knew what ads viewers were watching, maybe then they could prove the value of their advertising to brands. But that prospect is no longer just a possibility, it is a reality, and NBCUniversal just became one of the latest to undertake the practice. It inked a deal with iSpot.tv, a […]

When you just took $7.5mn from one of the world’s leading pay-TV operators, you can afford to be bullish. In this video interview with Beet.TV, a founder whose company helps deliver one of the new-wave methods of measuring TV audiences says one of those in the crop of techniques is “over-hyped”. Samba TV CEO Ashin […]

Is it a brand’s job to tap in to challenging and sometimes dark political times, or to help consumer escape the darkness? Both, says one agency executive who was intrigued to see both opportunities presented to her at the recent NewFronts content shop. In this video interview with Beet.TV, MediaCom digital investment associate director Heidi Capnerhurst […]

It announced 20 million paying subscribers in May but nevertheless plans to offer advertising in its live TV offering this quarter. Hulu is on a growth curve. But is the joint venture building its subscriber base, and what role does advertising play in a subscription-driven company? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Hulu subscriber growth […]

How can brands opt out of advertising in the next PewDiePie before a controversy kicks up? After the scandal in which one of the world’s biggest video stars unwisely broadcast Nazi content, YouTube is hiring 10,000 moderators, as the brand safety concern rumbles on. But human moderation at this scale is a losing battle. YouTube and […]

UK license fee-payers may be already be familiar with Live Lounge, the BBC Radio 1 strand which sees artists visit the Radio 1 studio to record intimate performances. But now the BBC is going global and multi-media with its music offering. At NewFronts in New York, the event at which premium publishers tout their upcoming […]

Its core business is owning TV channels and movie studios – so why has Viacom bought in to the conference business? Connections, according to the man at the center of the deal. Back in February, the MTV owner – which is itself the target of a takeover by CBS – acquired eight-year-old VidCon, which examines how […]

Could a yogurt brand hold the key to the future of advertising? Abbey Thomas thinks so. The Tremor Video DSP chief marketer was talking with Beet.TV, fresh from the stage at this month’s IAB Video Symposium in New York, where she interviewed the food company’s own marketing senior director Eddie Revis. There, she discussed how Chobani […]

His agency was the product of a merger between two others; now Carl Fremont wants the industry to keep thinking differently. In this video interview, the president of the Wavemaker/Wunderman alliance urges advertisers and agencies to change their approach to meeting consumers’ expectation for a great experience. “Every brand really needs to find out what’s […]

It recently got acquired in to Oracle’s fast-growing ad-tech stack, after majoring on helping advertisers understand the context within web pages. But Grapeshot is not yet done bringing “contextual intelligence” to market. The tech company crawls the web, indexing and interrogating pages to identify their inner content, so that it can make that intelligence available […]

There’s a reason it’s called “brand content”. While one of the publishers most commonly associated with the practice is certainly skilled at creating its own content, it says the involvement of paying sponsors is critical. Vice Media head of sales Dawn Williamson says those campaigns don’t just look better; they perform better, too. “We often […]

There are now so many device options for receiving television “over the top“, that the space underneath the bottom of TV sets is becoming cluttered. But one stands head and shoulders above others, according to a boss from one tech company helping advertisers deliver in to the new channels. “(There is) anything from smart TV, a Samsung or […]

Three years ago, Kellogg’s didn’t spend a cent on YouTube.Last year, it tripled its spend. In fact, once a digital laggard, Kellogg’s now spends up to 70% of its marketing budget on digital, a company president told this week’s NewFronts event, at which content publishers touted their upcoming roster to advertisers. What did Kellogg’s like […]

In a world of data, where is the emotion? Over the last few years at Beet.TV, we have reported on several new approaches to ad targeting that ask that same question. In one of the most notable, Unruly Media’s system indexes web video by emotion – like “exhilarating”, “sexy” and “cool” – so that advertisers can […]

At this week’s NewFronts event in New York, where publishers tempted ad buyers to spend ahead on their upcoming content line-up, one of the world’s leading news publishers sought to convince brands that news, in 2018, is not such a bad channel after all. There is a lot of bad news to go around, with […]