Robert Andrews

Coming in to view, the new world of using audience data to precision-target connected TV advertisements depends on a solid understanding of who those consumers really are. But do marketers have what they need to succeed in this new world? “Identity is really at the center of data-driven TV,” says Jason Manningham, General Manager of […]

Whilst national TV networks upgrade their technology to support better targeting, buying and measurement of TV and digital video ads, local TV operators risk being left out. That is according to one technology supplier who doesn’t, as some might, see local as back water – he sees it as an opportunity. “One of the parts […]

If advertising viewability is, as many folks say these days, “table stakes”, where does that leave one of the original digital ad verification vendors? Integral Ad Science’s (IAS) new CEO says she is focused on differentiation, on Internet TV and on big platforms. “Many marketers are asking IAS, ‘Hey, get in the OTT game’, says […]

With power, comes responsibility. And, for a company that is currently tracking the whereabouts of 150 million Americans on the go, that responsibility is great. Which is why Foursquare CEO says he takes consumer privacy deadly seriously. “We’ve turned down millions of dollars of requests from customers who ask for something that violates our ethics […]

In 2019, barely a week goes by without another big scandal or controversy concerning a big technology company, the rules around its platform access or the use of its audience data. And all that comes on the heels of the prior two years of ad-tech outcry, when advertisers lamented the opaque and often fraudulent digital […]

The dreams go back a long way. In the 1990s, conceptual fantasies of shopping, browsing and navigating on-demand “interactive TV” were everywhere – and it seemed like the future was just around the corner. Then… not much. The internet boomed and video eventually graced connected screens. But interactive TV was still largely an unrealized dream. […]

Can a TV group from Luxembourg crack the US market for digital video advertising? Last year, acquiring SpotX, pan-European RTL Group created Video Marketplace (VMP), an initiative to combine various source of online video ad inventory which its AdConnect sales house represents. Now the outfit is doubling down on its US presence. “(When) I stepped […]

The in-brief news publisher Axios has been talking about launching a paid tier for a couple of years now. In November 2016, CEO Jim VanderHei told a conference such a tier could cost $10,000. Fast-forward to 2019, and VanderHei says a subscription scheme is still being tested, and could be coming soon. “We’re beta testing […]

The online advertising world is now navigating a set of seemingly contradictory trends. On the one hand, technology which pieces together the various parts of audience’s online identity is becoming important. Yet, on the other, regulation is now limiting some of the excesses of ad targeting. The digital marketing world’s arch deal-maker says that adds […]

The business of corporate investment isn’t quite like gambling, despite what can frequently be uncertain outcomes. But, for one former media agency boss who now is now part of a private equity company, the next gamble make in marketing is clear. “If I were a betting person, I would go long on identity,” says Laura […]

Data may be the new oil – but, sometimes, you can just wring more miles out of the same oil. That is the view of one ad-tech exec who says the emerging imperative is not to get more audience data but, rather to tie together existing available pieces in a better way. “I think more data […]

In the days after the desktop web was the only channel game in town, many publishers struggled to adapt to a world without cookies. Then, new regulations and changing consumer sentiment put the brakes on advanced ad techniques which sought to solve the cookie problem. But the latest emerging tech promises to give open-web publishers […]

Back in November, we reported how MediaLink CEO Michael Kassan was seeking out some big-name entertainment companies to serve as foundational partners for Connect Learn Explore (CLX), a new strand at Cannes Lion International Festival of Creativity. With just a few weeks to go before the annual ad industry shindig kicks off in June, it […]

The TV ad-buying landscape remains a highly analog business – but, no sooner have digital platforms begun making in-roads to the process, already the newfangled technology of blockchain is staking its claim. After a year or two of talk and theory, now several vendors are out there, promising to enhance media-buying transparency with blockchain, a […]

For publishers which want to take advantage of header bidding but which find the main open-source technology too onerous to manage, Rubicon Project thinks it has an answer. Discovery Inc., Clearing House, AutoTrader, Southern Cross, Austereo and Domain are amongst the publishers participating in a closed beta of the new Demand Manager. a solution which […]

The little TV startup that began when a couple of college kids hacked together a satellite dish, tinfoil and a wireless transmitter is now dreaming of a world in which viewers are put in control. Philo was formed out of Tivli, after a pair of Harvard students devised a way to give viewers a better way […]

Around the marketing world, everyone is talking about the rise of direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands – those that don’t rely on anyone else’s retail channels and which exert great control over their advertising capabilities. But, whilst not every brand is a Casper, Allbirds or Soylent, many other traditional companies which are reliant on marketing partners could […]

It’s the mother of all roll-ups. Engadget, TechCrunch, HuffPost, AOL, Yahoo, Flurry, Verizon and a host of other media properties, all part of what once was called “Oath” and is now just “Verizon Media”. But how do advertisers take advantage of that mega media platform, and what exactly is Verizon Media’s offering? In this video interview […]

With YouTube’s TV and Originals still evolving, the company is trying new ways to bring more valuable ad inventory to this year’s digital content NewFronts. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Tara Walpert Levy, YouTube VP, Agency and Brand Solutions, says YouTube TV, the cable-free $49.99-a-month TV service, is now being offered to advertisers outside of Google Preferred, […]

The global combination of Sky and NBC Universal’s ad operations is continuing apace, with news that the European platform will adopt NBCU’s CFlight unified advertising metric. Sky’s Sky Media ad sales house, which sells inventory for both Sky’s owned-and-operated channels and others’, will adopt CFlight across all content and platforms in the UK from autumn […]