Beet Retreat

MIAMI — If you thought advertising technology was becoming like rocket science, you may surprised how right you are – next up, TV ad-tech is going in to space. TV ad technology provider INVIDI, which enables household-level TV ad targeting for broadcast companies more used to beaming out a single message en masse, is getting excited about a technology […]

MIAMI – Former Starcom MediaVest Group advanced television specialist Tracey Scheppach not only believes that addressable TV advertising works for all marketers but that a sweet spot exists in terms of spending. “An area that I think is ripe for this innovation is what I call mid market,” Scheppach explains in an interview with Beet.TV. […]

MIAMI – “If it’s not broken why fix it” is just one of many conversations agencies must have with their clients when the subject is advanced television targeting. And it’s often long-time TV advertisers that need the most hand holding as they march into the data-enhanced future. To Larene Mantel, it’s been “a challenge and […]

MIAMI – Lots of attention has been paid to data surrounding the two minutes of local television time that can be devoted to addressable advertising. But national programmers haven’t had access to this data bonanza, which is something that analytics provider 605 hopes to change. The launch of 605 was announced on November 10 by […]

MIAMI – As it builds out and scales up its Audience Targeting Platform, NBCUniversal is seeing big increases in budgets and clients taking advantage of more precise targeting via linear television. And while its various TV and digital targeting products are tied to specific platforms, the company is weaving the “connective fiber” that will create […]

MIAMI – As it goes even deeper into live television streaming, Twitter is trying to make new advertisers feel comfortable with its platform. The effort includes Nielsen guarantees and measurement by Moat for third-party audience verification. Twitter was a natural outlet for the National Football League, according to Ryan Moore, the company’s Global Agency Development […]

MIAMI – As the footprint for addressable television advertising continues to grow, its become clear media companies are casting the widest net possible for bringing new marketers into the TV fold. Disney ABC is no exception, as it builds out products showing successful data-driven campaigns attributable to better viewer targeting. “What we’re excited about is […]

MIAMI – While CNN mines new and younger-skewing distribution outlets to future proof itself, TBS and TNT want to re-aggregate audiences at some of the very same nascent channels. To Turner’s Nick Johnson, it pays to view the media landscape on a continuum. “We have sort of these mature off channel distribution points that scale […]

MIAMI – The great video ad-tech consolidation wave is continuing, with a twist.  AT&T and DISH have announced plans to acquire addressable TV ad-tech vendor INVIDI. But they are not doing it alone – the pair are joined in the deal by fellow acquirer WPP, the world’s largest ad agency holding group, though it is AT&T […]

MIAMI — “Multi-screen”, “converged”, “transmedia”, or “platform-neutral”? The number of ways you could describe the new challenge of reaching consumers across multiple devices is mindboggling. But one word is inarguable – “complex”. That’s why the FreeWheel Council for Premium Video, a collection of video providers advocating alongside the video ad-tech vendor, is aiming to stitch back together […]

MIAMI – Bill Livek has many ways to describe advanced advertising targeting—a train, a steamroller, a big snowball. Whatever the metaphor, it’s particularly advanced at the local level, says the President of measurement provider comScore. “The thing that we’re seeing is that advanced targeting is more advanced in local markets,” Livek says in an interview […]

MIAMI — TV is changing, and advertising with it. As TV services light up with internet connectivity, so, too, does the promise of serving individually-targeted ads to TV, in the same way as they already are online. Just don’t expect that prospect to go large any time soon. “There’s a lot of experimentation going on […]

MIAMI — Big brands are used to using mass media to reach mass audiences. Now that they can use the same media to reach tightly-defined ones – like individual TV-viewing households – they are having to learn new tricks. “The juggling act between scale and targetability is the fulcrum that we have to juggle,” says MasterCard’s media […]

MIAMI – Having just dipped its toes into addressable television advertising, Bank of America is planning additional campaigns and looks forward to being able to do sequential messaging to specific consumer targets. “I think there’s a ton of opportunity in the space,” says SVP of Marketing Andrew Deming. The company’s overall goal is a shift […]

MIAMI – AT&T AdWorks is seeing marketers in certain industry verticals redirect money from direct mail to addressable television advertising, along with using addressable TV for increased frequency against certain consumer targets. This synopsis by Brian Cordes, Director of Client Relations for AT&T AdWorks, was shared at the annual Beet Retreat this week. In an […]

MIAMI — That Lumascape is a pretty mess. In other words, customers like the new super-powers bestowed on them by ad-tech – but they are confused by a procession of vendors that all claim to do the same thing. That’s why Dan Bruinsma is looking forward to the kind of consolidation heralded by the latest big ad-tech M&A […]

MIAMI — The auto industry is a pretty specific one. Despite the end products being badged by just a handful of marques, it is individual local dealers, and not the brands themselves, with whom customers end up transacting. Not only that. Despite copious research being carried out online, most purchases are overwhelmingly still made on the forecourt, […]

VIEQUES, PR — Programmatic ad buying is less a media revolution than an evolution, one in which GroupM eschews the term “trading desk” in favor of an “upgrade to the toolset” available to agencies, according to the company’s President of Programmatic Buying, Joe Kowan. Interviewed at the 2016 Beet Retreat by Matt Spiegel, MediaLink’s SVP/GM […]

VIEQUES, PR — Mobile devices may dominate headlines but marketers aren’t creating enough ads for them, while accurate cross-platform measurement—with the exception of Apple, Facebook and Google—is still very much a work in progress, according to Travis Johnson, the Global President of Ansible, a unit of IPG Mediabrands.  Johnson also heads mobile for IPG Mediabrands. […]

VIEQUES, PR — Header bidding in programmatic advertising—not necessarily a new concept but one that’s gaining in popularity—can only benefit publishers and advertisers when both possess an intimate knowledge of the techniques involved, according to longtime practitioner Sam Cox. Simply stated, header bidding enables publishers to avoid the “waterfall effect” of how ad exchanges offering […]