He had a successful exit when his start-up Tru Optik was sold to data giant Transunion last year.   But it was  tough sledding, building an advanced media data business five years ago.  Now a super-hot sector, Andre was ahead of his time. While he made early progress with product development and industry partnerships, funded from a few early stage angel investors, access to [...]

It has been an incendiary few years, with an increasingly partisan society, campaigns to stop hate and an advertising industry that has struggled to reconcile its own aversion to controversy with behaving responsibly. Beyond aligning with a variety of social causes, the second half of COVID-19's first year seemed to create a realization that media buyers did not need to have [...]

This is the Global Forum on Responsible Media, which was originally streamed on June 23. You can watch the full program  here, on this page. Please find information on the event including the speakers and agenda here. Please follow and join the conversation on Twitter and LinkedIn by using #ResponsibleMedia This program is presented by Beet.TV and GroupM with the 4A's.  It is sponsored [...]

LONDON - Give ad spend direct to broadcasters and responsible companies, not the new generation of CTV fraudsters. That is the message from the connected TV division of the world's biggest media buying agency. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Finecast CEO Jakob Nielsen says it is safer and more responsible to swerve open CTV marketplaces. From linear to CTV "Linear TV will stop [...]

There's a growing theory that diminishing views to ad-funded content may be offset by increased effectiveness from targeting and personalizing those ads. But that is only going to come about if ad production and delivery channels are themselves wired up to support this addressability. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Anush Prabhu, US Chief Strategy Officer and Global Chief Strategy Officer, Creative [...]

GroupM has taken a stand on what it calls media responsibility, outlining a framework of five key pillars.  This initiative is the basis of a half-day Global Forum on June 23, produced by Beet.TV in collaboration with GroupM and the 4A's. We spoke with Kirk McDonald, CEO of GroupM NA about the event and his hope that the dialogue coming out [...]

Consumers have more ways to find their favorite programming among viewing devices and services. The growing fragmentation of the media market challenges advertisers to obtain a more unified view of people's viewing habits. "The lines between what traditionally has been referred to as 'television' or 'digital' are becoming increasingly blurred," Kimberly Gilberti, senior vice president of product management at ratings company [...]

While we are focused this week on our June 23 Responsible Media event around  initiatives from GroupM, other media agencies charting their own course to to a more inclusive, sustainable media landscape. In this week’s episode of the #BeetCast we explore the topic through the initiatives of the Publicis Groupe and the Spark Foundry agency. Our guest is Jason Smith, President, [...]

Ad-supported television faces an existential threat as more consumers avoid commercials by subscribing to streaming video services that offer an ad-free experience. That ongoing shift will challenge marketers to adopt new ways of doing things. "There's one over-arching thing we all need to recognize, which is that the old model doesn't work," Adam Gerber, global chief investment officer at Essence, a [...]

As digital ad identifiers like cookies decline in value, advertisers are being forced to look back to what many consider the old-school art of contextual ad placement. But, infused by software, context is a tactic that, whilst it appeals to audience's emotions, can also be super-charged by programmatic. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Sean Clayton, executive director, solutions officer at WPP's [...]

WPP's GroupM seeks to make advertising work better for everyone — marketers, consumers and media — with a media-buying framework it calls "Responsible Investment." The effort aims to advance brand safety, data ethics, responsible journalism, sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion. Improving the media ecosystem requires tackling ad fraud and enhancing measurement methods to help understand consumer engagement with media, Adam [...]

When the industry talks about advanced ad targeting, it is often the big national networks and publishers that get first-look. But spreading the benefits of targeting and measurement in streaming and connected TV is important for local TV operators, too. In this video interview with Beet.TV, John Vilade, head of sales at TV proprietor TEGNA's Premion division explains why. Pandemic progress "Streaming had been [...]

So many in the industry have become accustomed to utilizing data-driven software for optimizing outcomes in performance-driven marketing. But, for one man, that overlooks the latent promise of data to improve the initial awareness at the point brands first meet audiences. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Robert Redmond, IBM Design Principal, Head of AI Ad Product Design, says machine learning now [...]

Vevo is assembling an ad-tech supergroup as it partners-up to strike the right note in its journey to a connected TV (CTV) future. The music video service was once weighted heavily toward online and on-demand viewing. But, in this video interview with Beet.TV, Vevo advanced TV VP Rob Christensen says CTV is exploding. CTV booming "Prior to the pandemic, when you look at five [...]

These days, many of the headlines about TV networks' advanced advertising technology solutions concern big national players. But, under the hood of the TV industry, local players still have tremendous value. So says a man whose technology is helping local TV providers bring more value, in turn, to their advertisers. Value in local "If we help the broadcast groups that are working with local [...]

Disney is already looking ahead to 2022 as this year's upfront sales season wraps up. The media giant got an early start this year with its first presentation in February that included the rollout of a programmatic platform called Disney Real-Time Ad Exchange (DRAX). "We felt it was important to start the conversations early, both with clients and our agency partners," [...]

This week our guest is Doug Rozen, CEO of Dentsu Media Americas.  Doug has been a media innovator for many years.  We’ve covered him extensively at OMD then 360i and now as the newly named head of media at Dentsu Americas. Doug articulates the vision of his company  as becoming more meaningful to the consumer and to brands.  He speaks about [...]

For the past 15 months,  the ANA,  has shifted completely to virtual, with all the organization's hundreds of events, meeting and training going online. This will change this week with the ANA Media Conference in Aventura, Florida, one of the first major industry events to take place in person, albeit with a sizable portion of attendees connecting online, says ANA CEO [...]

Standard Media Index, leading data and analytics company, this week introduced software tools to help compare the cost of streaming video and linear TV. Its Pricing Intelligence Suite includes a digital CPM for streaming video along with a traditional and advanced audience effective CPM (eCPM) for linear TV. "The combination of these two products provides a unified view of CPMs across [...]

In this year's US upfront ad sales season, ad buyers are pushing content owners to be able to give them automation and to limit the frequency with which viewers are exposed to their ads across different screen types. With that challenge, it may seem like the ongoing limits being placed on digital user identifiers would hamper the process. But, piece by piece, [...]