Programmatic Buying Moves Closer to TV, Brings More Digital Dollars, Invision’s Marshall

One of the biggest challenges in selling video in a package across both TV and digital screens has been the use of different metrics, but that’s poised to change with audience buying strategies, says Steve Marshall, CEO of multi-platform advertising sales software firm Invision, in an interview with Beet.TV. As the TV industry begins to integrate capabilities […]

 
 

Programmatic TV Going From Seed To Roadmap: Havas’ Keller

It’s taken some time to convince them, but advertisers are now on-board and enthusiastic for the various ways “programmatic” ad-buying can help them better target and automate their messages. Havas Media channel investments EVP Melissa Keller says her agency has gone from “seeding” experiments with clients last year, to implementing full-on “roadmaps” this year, in an […]

 
 

Programmatic TV Challenges: Transparency And Management, Execs Say

Slowly but surely, television is opening up to the “programmatic” ad sales revolution that has happened in online display and video. What are some of the biggest inhibitors? One factor is lack of a common, open format for audience targeting data, says Havas Media channel investments EVP Melissa Keller. In an interview with Beet.TV, she targets […]

 
 

News Corp’s MCN Using Programmatic To Sell TV Ads with AOL in Australia

Australia is one of the world’s leading online advertising markets. So how will the year ahead play out in the nascent field of “programmatic” TV advertising? TV companies have to get onboard or risk being left behind, says one sector exec. “2015 will be the year many of them realize they’ve got to get on this […]

 
 

Programmatic TV Yields More Targeted Ad Outcomes, AOL’s Ackerman

As programmatic buying starts to take root in TV, industry players are finding benefits both in efficiency in the buy as well as in the outcome, says Dan Ackerman, Senior VP of ONE by AOL, in an interview with Beet.TV about the future of TV advertising. “We are seeing the benefits for programmatic on TV […]

 
 

TV Ad Firm Sees Growth in Addressable Buying, Invision’s Marshall

Addressable delivery of ads is on the rise by early adopters in recent years, says Steve Marshall, CEO of multi-platform advertising sales software firm Invision, in an interview with Beet.TV. Many MVPDs are moving aggressively to sell their inventory on an addressable basis, he says. “We are focused on helping sellers to automate their platforms,” […]

 
 

Marketers Want Better Cross-Screen Attribution, Havas’ Keller

One of the biggest goals for marketers today lies in achieving better attribution across screens, says Melissa Keller, EVP, Channel Investments at Havas Media, in an interview with Beet.TV about the future of TV advertising. “As a media agency, our goal is to guide them through the right media mix and right amount,” Keller says. Consumers […]

 
 

AOL Sees an “Open” Ecosystem in the TV Ad World

It won’t happen for a few years, but eventually television advertising buying and selling will take place, in a connected, “open” marketplace,  says Dan Ackerman, SVP of ONE by AOL: TV the newly formed adtech platform at AOL Inc. This interoperability for TV, pervasive in digital video,  is one of the long term goals of […]