Robert Andrews

Tom Kershaw is deadly serious about header bidding. Last year, his company felt the pain of the new technology, which allows publishers to entertain multiple simultaneous ad bids for higher yield. Rubicon conceded it had been slow to roll out – an admission that sent its stock tumbling, forcing it to make wide-ranging lay-offs and prompting it […]

Header bidding, the ad-tech practice through which publishers are now able to entertain multiple ad bids simultaneously rather than in a waterfall sequence, has apparently worked wonders for display ad sales. But, for video, the situation looks altogether more challenging. For one, the VAST and VPAID tags on which client-side video depend impose time-out limits […]

In the last couple of years, header bidding, the ad-tech practice through which publishers are now able to entertain multiple ad bids simultaneously rather than in a waterfall sequence, has tantalised buyers and seller alike. But, whilst the technology is now getting more widely deployed on display ads, arrival in video ads will take some time. […]

MIAMI — Slowly but surely, TV advertising has arrived on the internet. But now it needs to start functioning more like TV advertising again. In this video interview with Beet.TV, one of the leading platforms helping brands deliver ads to over-the-top TV platforms says the potential is huge – but OTT ads are a different […]

Publishers around the world are racing to provide their advertisers with more scale, more data and targeting capabilities more like they are used to from pure-play digital platforms. News Corp just took another step in that direction by launching News IQ, a platform uniting first-party data, brand data, media properties and data science tools to […]

MIAMI — One of its main brands may be History but, when it comes to the future, A+E Networks knows it doesn’t have all the skills in-house to make its ad inventory more targetable. That is why A+E recently partnered with 605, the newly-formed company helping MVPDs optimize their ad spaces using data and technology. In this […]

Since time immemorial, TV ads have been bought with a blunt instrument – broad age-and-gender demographics of viewers to shows. But that time is changing. Thanks to the infusion of a raft of new data points, TV ad planning, buying and insights are getting smarter. At the Beet Retreat, comScore EVP Cathy Hetzel and chief product […]

In the digital, cloud-stored era, the new bottomless treasure-trove of shows from the entire history of TV is changing the whole nature of what constitutes a “new” series – and, with it, how marketers should insert themselves in to the rhythm of a season. At the Beet Retreat in Miami, Disney/ABC sales and marketing SVP […]

It is now two years since Sling was reborn as an over-the-top TV experience for cord-cutters in the DISH Network stable. In that time, DISH hasn’t just been helping position the service as a paid platform for the post-cable era. It has also been using Sling as a Trojan Horse in to the new world […]

Advertising through over-the-top TV services is still nascent, still essential and still waiting to be fully unlocked by better measurement. That is according to one executive in the space who co-founded her own company to help advertisers benefit from the opportunity. “I think we’re early days for OTT, the targeting layer just started,” one2one Media’s […]

What is the relative marketing impact of advertising in different kinds of digital video? Many debate the benefits of so-called “premium” video but, in this video interview with Beet.TV, Videology CEO Scott Ferber breaks out a three-tier stratification of that construct, with with different impact ratios for each: 4:1 – Full episode player (eg. Fox, NBCU, […]

MIAMI — TV ad rates are known for being amongst the highest in the business. So what happens when ads get pumped to a TV set over an internet connection? According to an executive from publishers’ advertising trade body, OTT TV ads should be higher-priced than those on TV. Asked how the over-the-top rates should […]

When GroupM launched Finecast, after a year of development, this fall, it may have seemed like yet another industry attempt to crack the addressable TV advertising opportunity. But, in the smaller UK market, Finecast has quickly gained real traction – and now its boss wants to give it to the world, too. The agency’s business […]

Maybe, one day, the addressable, programmatic, data-driven buying of TV ads will appear on our TV screens. That used to be the view in TV land – “one day”. But one ad exec elbow-deep in the data says that day is already upon us. “I spend a lot of time in the marketplace talking with […]

It has been providing programmatic advertising buying services for a decade. But now AppNexus’ video efforts are kicking up a gear. At its customer summit in New York, the company made three announcements it hopes will make it easier for advertisers to buy ads in over-the-top and connected TV environments: Direct integration with Pluto TV and TUBI. […]

It may be a digital world, but two of the big marketing data providers are now partnering to help brands better understand how their audiences behave in analogue spaces. LiveRamp is partnering with Criteo. In the deal, Criteo becomes LiveRamp’s first European partner for its IdentityLink product, helping to piece together an omnichannel view of […]

Over the last few years, the digital advertising world has become incredibly complex, and – perhaps us coincidentally – fairly rife with fraudulent buys, too. So leave it to a simple little text file to clean up the whole sorry mess. That’s what the IAB Tech Lab is aiming to do with its Ads.txt initiative […]

It is now two years since Sling TV was launched by DISH – enough time for the pair’s journey down the advanced TV ad sales road to go pretty far. In this video interview with Beet.TV, DISH’s advanced TV ad sales director Adam Lowy explains how DISH began the journey, and where it stands today. Lowy […]

In a digital advertising world increasingly dominated by Google and Facebook, there is still a clutch of large-scaled ad-tech platforms that give the duopoly a good run for its money. But is the two giants’ lead unassailable if those platforms continue working alone? That is a question three of them set out to answer this […]

It is barely a year since a hard-hitting ANA report blew the lid off practices in which US advertising agencies were accused of keeping up to 20% of clients’ media budgets for themselves after engaging in “pervasive” kick-backs and rebates. Some agencies have sought to demonstrate they are cleaning up not only their own practices but also […]