LOS ANGELES – The term “programmatic advertising” has negative connotations for television networks that don’t want to see the value of their media inventories plunge. They fear the same “race to the bottom” that was seen in the digital display market, where websites could load up their pages with an almost limitless supply of banner ads. But broadcasters shouldn’t worry that [...]

LOS ANGELES -- It is now an industry whose transactions are mediated by a host of platforms. But Hans Fischmann thinks media buyers and sellers should work more directly. In this video interview with Mediatel Events director Justin Lebbon for Beet.TV, Fischmann, SVP, Sales Solutions, Operative, says both sides need to focus on their relationship. Margin at the margins Fischmann's Operative makes software solutions [...]

Blockchain technology not only is at the heart of cryptocurrencies, but it also supports the burgeoning field of nonfungible tokens (NFTs), the authenticated digital assets that can be bought and sold like other forms of property. While NFTs have been mostly associated with digital art, they also have applications in sports marketing. Turner Sports, a division of WarnerMedia, will soon launch [...]

After a year in which the consensus around traditional media measurement splintered and moved into the future, Nielsen has a big 2022 ahead. The company is advancing a product line-up it hopes answers industry demands for cross-media measurement. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Nielsen chief operating officer Karthik Rao talks about two of Nielsen's biggest initiatives. 1. Nielsen ONE alpha Nielsen used Consumer [...]

Pilots have begun in which the ad agency Dentsu will test using VideoAmp metrics, not Nielsen or Comscore, to measure ViacomCBS viewership. It is one more way in which media and agency businesses are looking for an alternative to traditional measurement. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Brad Stockton, SVP, US National Video Innovation, Dentsu, explains what is happening. Power of four Announced in [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Its smart TVs offer some of the best value in the market, so combining a direct ad offering with a growing sales footprint is proving powerful. Vizio, which has steadily built itself into a leading TV electronics brand, is now transforming itself by helping advertisers go directly to viewers of Vizio screens. But, in this video interview with Beet.TV, [...]

LOS ANGELES – Viewers of streaming services that have commercial breaks are familiar with the phenomenon of seeing the same ad repeated throughout a show. Advertising technology companies are working to prevent these occurrences on connected television (CTV), giving marketers the ability to cap the frequency of their ad placements. “It’s not a difficult problem to solve,” Ben Antier, co-founder and [...]

Discovery bought a 10% interest in OpenAP, the ad-targeting consortium whose owners include NBCUniversal, Fox and ViacomCBS. The media companies founded OpenAP in 2017 to create tools to help brands harness consumer data to improve the targeting of their advertising campaigns among several TV networks. Discovery in April had integrated OpenAP’s OpenID identifier for cross-platform measurement, and partnered with OpenAP on last [...]

Advertising has always been part of the attention economy, a concept that is at least as old as the web. Recently, after a couple of decades of measuring consumers' actions, sections of the marketing industry are striving to re-value media inventory in line with consumers' attention. But how do you measure and price attention accordingly? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Dentsu [...]

At the start of a new year, some in the industry are coming back to work looking for a shake-up. Bill Koenigsberg is one of them. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the CEO of independent media agency Horizon Media says he wants the TV industry to re-think the whole way the medium works. Radically different "If you look at the way the traditional [...]

Welcome to this episode of the BeetCast.  I am delighted to kick off our new season in partnership with our good friends at Mediaocean. I was sorry to miss so many of our colleagues at CES last week.   Another essential event impacted by the pandemic, and we were sorry not to be there.   Very disappointing, but innovation in our world continues [...]

LOS ANGELES -- When it comes to the synergy of advertising and music, streaming services don't have a monopoly. Labels, too, are getting in on the act. In this video interview with Howard Shimmel for Beet.TV's Beet Retreat Santa Monica, Erin Moran, the just-in Global Chief Revenue Officer of Warner Music Group's new WMX division, explains the opportunities. Rebooting the offering WMG launched WMX in November, transforming [...]

LOS ANGELES -- After the cryptocurrency hype, many people now know what a blockchain is. But what exactly is Blockgraph? In this recorded interview with Mediatel Events director Justin Lebbon for Beet Retreat Santa Monica, Aleck Schleider, chief revenue officer at Blockgraph, explained how the company's technology works. Ledger in the cloud Originally set up in 2017 by Comcast’s FreeWheel to help advertisers go [...]

Amid a tumultuous period in which its owner AT&T agreed to spin it out into a merger with Discovery, WarnerMedia has set itself up to count its audiences across platforms, by announcing the winners of a beauty contest. WarnerMedia has picked Comscore, iSpot.TV and VideoAmp from a field of up to around a dozen hopefuls that had vied to solve its [...]

FreeWheel promoted Mark McKee to general manager to oversee all parts of the advertising technology company, which is a unit of Comcast. In this new role, McKee is in charge of FreeWheel's sales, product, engineering, operations and support services worldwide, the company announced. He succeeds Dave Clark, who announced his departure after leading FreeWheel since 2017.  McKee previously was FreeWheel’s U.S. chief [...]

In response to the cry for standardization of complex, proliferating media metrics, a growing glut of cross-platform currencies is expanding by the week. In the latest such announcement, Comscore is launching Comscore Everywhere, what it's calling "a true single-source unified cross-platform measurement solution". In this video interview with Beet.TV, Comscore CEO Bill Livek explains the rationale. Common dataset Comscore Everywhere is a unification of [...]

LOS ANGELES – Data clean rooms that allow media buyers and sellers to match their consumer data without directly sharing it with each other are emerging as powerful tools in the advertising market. The technology promises to correlate target audiences with campaign messaging, improving the efficiency of marketing budgets. Disney Advertising Sales is harnessing clean-room solutions to help brands reach consumers [...]

LOS ANGELES – Media buyers and sellers fret that intermediaries in the programmatic advertising market are charging excessive fees, resulting in a “tech tax” that drains media budgets. These commissions are likely to fall as ad-tech companies seek greater scale, said Kevin Arrix, senior vice president of Dish Media, at Beet.TV’s Beat Retreat. “The pressure is going to continue to force [...]

LOS ANGELES – As video game publishers seek more ways to monetize their content, in-game advertising is seen as a source for growth. Because playing video games demands a person’s undivided attention, they can provide brands with a way to raise awareness and recall. Video games are “one of the most scaleable, cinematic, high-quality content channels you can possibly engage with,” [...]

The company had already streamlined its considerable ad sales offering as ertising/oneplatform/. Now NBCUniversal is consolidating the under-the-hood data that powers it all. In this video interview with Beet.TV, John Lee, Chief Data Officer, NBCUniversal, details the company's newly-launched data platform, dubbed "NBCUnified". Data difference The new NBCUnified platform comprises NBCU ID, Data Marketplace and Partner Integrations. Whilst NBCUniversal has had a data offering for [...]