The new-wave opportunity to precision-target TV ads at individual households may be novel and may be plagued by operational inefficiencies - but that doesn't mean ad buyers should sit on their hands. In this video interview with Beet.TV, ViacomCBS' advanced and addressable ads SVP Mike Dean explains addressable TV is worth a shot, and why operators are ready to help them [...]

LOS ANGELES - The growth in streaming services that carry advertising is giving marketers another way to reach consumers through connected devices like smart TVs. Those ad-based video-on-demand (AVOD) services are seeing greater interest from advertisers as part of their overall media strategies. "We look at AVOD as part of the whole from a video perspective — a holistic video approach," [...]

TORONTO - If you had told Richard and Maurice McDonald, the founders of McDonald's in the 1940s, that, one day, they would get to use fine-grain customer data to electronically target fans of particular meals in the palm of their hands, they might have looked at you crazy. But, in 2021, that is exactly what ad men like Simon Ross are [...]

Is it a targeted TV ad, swapped-out in a slot carved out for addressability, or is it a traditional linear TV ad, the same one that was always destined to be played out? Thanks to a new technology that brings control to how commercial breaks are constructed, the answer could be either. In this video interview with Beet.TV, FreeWheel's Sara Wallace explains [...]

The Trade Desk's new deal with a Publicis Groupe agency division gives it a boost as it aims to popularize its audience identity system across the industry on a non-profit basis. Publicis Groupe's Epsilon is integrating its CORE ID, a audience identity system for Publicis' clients, with The Trade Desk-based Unified ID 2.0, a post-cookie solution for making identity buyable. In this [...]

LOS ANGELES - This year's upfront sales season for broadcasters will bring heightened attention to ad-based video-on-demand (AVOD) services. The platforms saw significant gains in viewership as consumers looked for fresh programming, especially sports fans who had to go without live games for a few months after the pandemic began. "When we look at a lot of the shifts we've seen [...]

Once upon a time, the ability to target ads at individual linear households was confined to just two minutes of local cable air-time per hour. But new services have expanded the addressable ad opportunity. As a result, addressable TV is coming out of the shadows. In this video interview with Beet.TV, WarnerMedia Ad Sales VP of product marketing and market research Elsa [...]

The most predictive signal for economic action is search and it's the gateway to all lower funnel activities, says Kevin Krim, CEO of EDO. We’ve covered Kevin’s over the past 10 years in his leadership roles at Bloomberg and CNBC.We’ve spoken many times about the changes in TV news from linear to IP delivered.   It’s been a fascinating sector to cover, [...]

Advertisers are working through a period of major upheaval as rapid shifts in consumer habits coincide with developments in technology, media and the regulatory environment. Amid these changes, executives from a variety of businesses in the past few months have shared their insights with Beet.TV  on what to expect — and the changes they'd like to see as advertisers aim [...]

Little by little, the advertising world is picking up the pieces left by the deprecation of third-party cookies, creating alternative mechanisms to reach digital audiences. In the latest, Publicis Groupe is partnering with The Trade Desk to integrate their two respective identity solutions. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Joe Doran, chief product officer of Publicis' Epsilon agency, explains what is happening. Integration time "Without [...]

LOS ANGELES - IRIS.tv is taking an $18 million Series B funding round to tackle problems in connected TV and online video advertising. The LA company offers a contextual video marketplace which uses natural language processing to automatically add and structure video metadata, helping ad buyers decide which inventory to buy against. In this video interview with Beet.TV, co-founder Richie Hyden explains what [...]

The growing variety of video channels give viewers more choices than ever before, while challenging mass marketers to devise ways to reach large-scale groups of consumers. Ad-based video-on-demand (AVOD) services provide a way to reach younger audiences that are more elusive to traditional linear TV. "There's a lot of value that advertisers have in combining some of their linear TV buys [...]

The promise of using data to bring precision to TV ad planning, coupled with the ability to laser-target ads at specific households, hang like shining incentives around addressable television. But new research undertaken by a team of sell-side TV companies and intermediary tech suppliers channels' ad buyers concern and confusion. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Nick Troiano, the CEO of a [...]

With a glass half-full, the era of addressable and connected television promises advertisers precision targeting to individual households and digitals-style, data-informed ad planning. Many in the industry with the scars from trying to make it happen would tell you a different story. That is why, in the last two years, we have seen a series of initiatives and consortia aiming at harmonizing [...]

This year's upfront sales season will include a stronger presence from streaming platforms that carry advertising and whose audiences have grown substantially in the past year. Those ad-based video-on-demand (AVOD) services present challenges and opportunities for marketers that aim to reach consumers who are more averse to traditional commercials. "We're in a hypergrowth stage in terms of the transition that consumers [...]

A new report shows ad buyers have a laundry list of changes they would like to see to addressable TV ads, if audience-based buying is to become more popular. But recent changes may suggest some of their prayers may get answered. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jay Prasad, chief strategy officer, describes some of the findings of a new survey of [...]

SAN FRANCISCO - Samba.tv, the company whose software reports TV viewing behavior from millions of American devices, says it has to change tack to cope with changing privacy expectations. Launched in 2008 and backed by investors including Mark Cuban, the outfit works by having software embedded on the chipsets of millions of viewing devices which bundle Samba’s recommendation features. Last month, Samba [...]

This week, our podcast guest is  with Gila Wilensky, President of of Xaxis US. She was appointed to the head the agency one year ago, coming from GroupM’s Essence where she was Head of Media Activation for North America. In 2013, Gila  joined the growing Google account at Essence and built a team to run Google’s SEM and biddable media efforts.  Gila [...]

National broadcasters increasingly will make more of their advertising inventory addressable, giving marketers a way to show different commercials to different households during the same programming. Instead of being limited to two minutes an hour among multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), addressable advertising will become a bigger part of the 14 minutes an hour that national networks sell themselves. "Addressable advertising on [...]

TORONTO - Television viewing habits have grown to resemble the consumption of digital media as video-on-demand platforms become more popular. Consumer demand for instant gratification in their viewing experience is changing their tolerance for structured commercial breaks. "We're quickly recognizing that that is not how consumers want to consume content in a digital environment where they're used to that instant gratification [...]