NEW YORK — Supply-side platforms and holding companies are forging deeper partnerships as SSPs evolve beyond their traditional role of simply facilitating inventory transactions, according to Caley Lewis, VP Americas at Index Exchange. “SSPs are no longer just simply facilitating inventory to the DSPs, or actually playing a more valuable role in making sure that we’re driving that benefit or supplemental [...]

The age-old advertising mantra of finding the right person with the right message at the right time is arguably more achievable today, even if the increasingly packed ecosystem of partners and platforms makes strategic decision-making harder than ever. “Data is more important than ever,” Daniel Robinson, senior director, DSM strategic partnerships at Cint, told Beet.TV in this video interview at Possible [...]

This spring has been one of the roughest on allergy sufferers. But for fans of the Netflix hit series Bridgerton, “Polin season” and “pollen season” was the right marketing treatment supplied by Haleon, the global consumer health company behind brands like Advil, Sensodyne, and Flonase.  In this case, adding a dose of allergy reliever Flonase sponsorship to Bridgerton’s third season was [...]

NEW YORK - Despite years of predictions that the traditional TV upfront marketplace is on its way out, Pooja Midha, a longtime industry executive who is a board member of Combe and She Runs It, insists the upfronts remain not just relevant, but essential. “For as long as I’ve been in the industry, people have asked, 'why we still do the [...]

The advertising toolkit is undergoing a radical overhaul. Blunt instruments are rapidly giving way to precision tools, capable of dissecting campaign performance with unprecedented granularity. The imperative for advertisers is to "embrace the change," according to Paul Zovighian, VP, marketplaces, Index Exchange. He pointed to the rise of companies using artificial intelligence to refine their campaigns, a stark contrast to older methods. [...]

A CTV campaign leveraging United Airlines' commerce media network, Kinective Media, reached over 250,000 net new households and drove 20% of sales for a luxury brand client, The Trade Desk revealed in a recent Beet.TV interview. The campaign demonstrates how The Trade Desk is combining its traditional demand-side platform capabilities with new audience segments from retail and commerce partnerships. Jeff Daniel, [...]

One of the time-honored traditions of the 50-year-old TV upfronts has been to declare them dead. And yet, every year, the same star-studded spectacles return, along with networks and media buyers eager to lock in deals before Cannes.  While it’s tempting to knock the annual advertising marketplace as the “same-old, same-old,”  Travis Scoles, EVP of Advanced Advertising at Paramount, is quick [...]

MIAMI - Artificial intelligence and deep learning are radically transforming how advertising strategies are developed, measured, and executed—but the human element remains central to success, said Salom Berlin, vice president and media director at Interpublic Group's Mediahub Worldwide. In a recent interview, Berlin described how deep learning has evolved from a back-end optimization tool into a core driver of personalization, prediction [...]

At this year’s NewFronts, Samsung Ads made a bold statement about the future of television advertising: it’s free, shoppable, data-fueled — and it’s redefining performance marketing. Michael Scott, vice president and head of ad sales and operations at Samsung Ads, laid out a sweeping vision that places FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV) and smart data at the heart of the company’s [...]

In an industry obsessed with metrics, Marc Guldimann, co-founder and chief executive of attention-tracking firm Adelaide, is calling time on one of digital advertising’s most entrenched holdouts: viewability. “I think it's been widely established that attention is a better proxy for media quality than viewability,” Guldimann said in this interview with Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan. “And it's a little bit surprising [...]

Kinective Media by United Airlines is heading back to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity with momentum and a message: commerce media, driven by first-party data and high-intent travelers, is poised to redefine how brands engage audiences across the digital landscape. James Rothwell, managing director of brand marketing at Kinective Media, says the return to Cannes marks a pivotal moment [...]

Connected TV advertising promises to reach audiences with precision yet the path to achieving this is increasingly fragmented. For advertisers, this means not only understanding the shifting consumer behaviors and technological advancements but also fostering partnerships that can cut through the noise and deliver measurable business outcomes. That approach is central to PMG's strategy, according to Mike Treon, head of CTV and [...]

MIAMI - A decade after launching Cognitiv with the vision that deep learning would revolutionize advertising, Chief Executive and Co-Founder Jeremy Fain says the industry is finally catching up to that belief — even if much of the current buzz around AI is misplaced. “We started 10 years ago with this idea that deep learning would be the key to predicting [...]

NEW YORK - In today’s content-saturated marketplace, standing out requires more than just an ad budget — it demands cultural relevance and cinematic ambition. That’s the message from Mark Book, head of content at Digitas North America, who is spearheading a bold push into brand-funded entertainment with the launch of Digitas Pictures. Speaking in a recent interview with Lisa Granatstein, editorial [...]

NEW YORK - We’re living through a renaissance in brand storytelling, one that demands both emotional intelligence and platform precision, said Atit Shah, Chief Creative Officer of Digitas North America. In an interview reflecting on the evolution of the Digitas NewFronts over the past 18 years, Shah described a creative world that has moved from experimental silos into fully integrated storytelling [...]

NEW YORK — Sports programming exacts a gravitational pull on TV, whether linear or streaming, like no other viewing form. With ReachTV, sports programming is transcending the home and the bar to plant itself in airports across North America. Looking strictly online, sports video evolved dramatically from its short-form programming roots to become a significant player in live sports distribution, [...]

MIAMI - Sargento Foods is embracing artificial intelligence and deep learning to sharpen its marketing edge, increase efficiency and connect with new generations of consumers. “It shouldn’t be surprising that Sargento is experimenting with deep learning in marketing,” Shawn Walter, senior marketing manager of media and digital at Sargento, said in this interview with Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan at the Possible [...]

NEW YORK – Digital video advertising is continuing its growth trajectory, just in time for the overlapping NewFront and Upfront periods, with connected TV rebounding strongly after a slowdown and set to dominate advertising budgets in the coming year, according to new research from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). “Digital video, which encompasses connected television, online video, and social video continues [...]

The artificial intelligence revolution could transform a wide variety of aspects of the media campaign lifecycle - yet most industry players are still in the foothills of implementation. Despite the transformative potential of both generative AI and emerging agentic AI technologies across media planning, buying, optimization and analysis, only about a third of companies have fully integrated these tools into all [...]

MIAMI – Building an in-house media operation isn’t anything special anymore. But when a major pharmaceutical company boasts of such an enterprise within its walls, it’s always worth paying more than a little attention. After all, as an advertising category, pharma is huge, as Kantar notes the industry spends roughly $18 billion a year on media. Building internal media expertise enables large [...]