With the Summer Olympic Games beginning in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, July 23, many ad agencies would have committed their brands' TV ad spending months ago. But what if those agencies wanted to buy or change their campaigns during the competition? NBC has partnered with video ad-tech firm Innovid to ensure that ads delivered through NBC's digital streaming platforms can be tweaked in [...]

As people divide more of their time spent with media among a wider variety of devices, cross-screen measurement has become a key pursuit for marketers and advertising agencies. Any improvement to those metrics starts with setting some common standards that help to define how audiences are counted. “People are hearing what advertisers are needing in terms of cross-screen and cross-media measurement. [...]

Younger audiences have been at the forefront of watching video on connected devices like mobile phones, tablets and smart TVs. Team Whistle seeks to engage those audiences with original content while also supporting brand integrations that help marketers prolong exposure to their brands. The digital sports and entertainment company has more than 50 series distributed among more than 30 different platforms [...]

For many of us, 2020 marked the emergence into a whole new world - one ravaged by pandemic and one awakening to a thirst for fairness. For Marlo Skiko, it also marked another change. From being EVP ad ad agency Starcom, Skiko went brand-side at Ford Motor Company, as US and global head of media. In this fireside interview with Mindshare North [...]

Measuring the effectiveness of brand integrations in television programming can be challenging with traditional surveys that ask viewers to recall whether they saw a product placement. Research technology platform MediaScience aims to reduce possible biases in those study results by comparing how people respond to different versions of the same programming – one with the product placement and one without. “The [...]

BOSTON – Progress Partners, a full-service merchant bank providing M&A, capital raise and SPAC advisory services for emerging technology and media companies, has named Domenic Venuto to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Venuto joins Progress during a dynamic period in the industry, and as the bank is expanding its offering with a new venture fund, a SPAC, and expansions into [...]

For years, we’ve covered Roku and it never ceases to be an amazing story: It  has emerged as a huge force in the TV industry’s transformation to streaming. It is a handy device and system for consumers to find what they want, a programming platform with original content, and a powerhouse advertising platform. Roku has just wrapped up its Upfront negotiations. The [...]

In the last 20 years of digital advertising, technology, it seems, has often been used to squeeze out optimization, efficiency and impact. But what if it could recalibrate the creative works that make all that happen? That is what is beginning to happen, as a new generation of AI-driven technology sets its sights on the creative process. Creative ad-tech rising In this video interview [...]

LOS ANGELES - In a world filled with technology and two distinctly different kinds of television, it all comes back to people. That is Ivan Markman's view. As chief business officer Ivan Markman at Verizon Media, Markman just signed a deal to launch a new Unified TV Report, using Nielsen and Vizio data to help advertisers understand both linear TV and [...]

LOS ANGELES - Automated bidding for commercial time is becoming more predominant as advertisers demand more flexibility in their over-the-top (OTT) and connected (CTV) media buys. That shift comes as video publishers seek to monetize their growing audiences for higher-quality programming. “The programmatic CTV landscape has changed dramatically just in a handful of years,” Nicole Scaglione, global vice president of OTT [...]

Half a billion dollars can buy a lot of independence. For the man who just sold his company for that amount, the deal represents digital freedom for advertisers, in particular. Mediaocean agreed to acquire ad server Flashtalking for $500 million. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Flashtalking CEO John Nardone explains why he hopes it means liberation from industry giants. Another brick in [...]

The popularity of ad-free streaming services like Netflix and Disney+ has led to speculation about the future of ad-supported television. Native advertising that seamlessly integrates product placements within programming is emerging as a viable way for brands to reach consumers. “We’re looking at providing a more integrated, less interruptive experience that we think is responding to consumer trends as we move [...]

Consumers have more ways to watch video than ever before, making it more difficult for advertisers to measure those viewing behaviors. Surveying consumers in a panel helps to supplement sources of viewing data, including set-top boxes and automated content recognition (ACR) from smart TVs and other connected devices. “The reason the panel remains critical is because we need the means to [...]

How much of brands' digital ad spend is simply wasted? That's the question Bob Liodice wants an answer to. In April, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), of which Liodice is CEO, issued a call seeking a consultant to conduct a study to help the organization understand how much actual spend is siphoned off in assorted fees. In this video interview with [...]

How do you re-orient an entire industry to account for a radical new consumer viewpoint? Piece by piece. That's how Lauren Wetzel sees it. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the North America president for ad-tech company InfoSum, explains how the new privacy imperative is driving brands and media players to delve deeper into data. At the forefront "The past handful of years, following [...]

Mediaocean will purchase Flashtalking, a digital ad serving company that is known for powering dynamic creative optimization for brands, for $500 million,  The Wall Street Journal first reported the deal this morning. Citing sources, the Journal says the deal could be a precursor to an IPO next year for Mediaocean. Last month, we spoke with Mediaocean CEO Bill Wise on his [...]

How can modern marketers combine two of the leading priorities of the age? It all boils down to a need to balance two key pillars - performance and responsibility - according to MediaMath chief partnerships officer Laurent Cordier. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Cordier talks about how those imperatives can come to the fore. Performant and responsible Cordier says there are two key [...]

Companies have differing needs for capital as they grow past the startup phase, build scale and support ongoing innovation to remain competitive. Before joining digital media authentication firm DoubleVerify as chief executive last year, Mark Zagorski was well acquainted with these stages in a career that has included a variety startups. Most recently, he led DoubleVerify through an initial public offering [...]

Welcome to this episode of the #BeetCast In this episode, I am very happy to welcome our good friend and industry leader Sean Cunnigham, CEO of the VAB, previously known as the Video Advertising Bureau. The VAB is the essential advertising industry organization for the television programmers, networks and the entire TV industry. An ad man in previous life, Sean has been [...]

Advertisers are grappling with stricter regulations on data sharing and the loss of tracking technologies that help with audience targeting. These shifts have made first-party data collected directly from consumers more valuable for buyers and sellers of media. As a sell-side platform (SSP) that represents publishers, PubMatic is a key part of the advertising supply chain. The media marketplace is undergoing [...]