Most of the major smart TV platforms, in the last couple of years, have emerged as serious plays in supplying data that can report on actual viewer behavior when it comes to shows, ads, games, anything that happens on the screen. And now LG is levelling-up its own capabilities, by making an investment to take a majority stake in Alphonso. But, in [...]

LOS ANGELES - MediaLink has been an essential part of CES for many years: from its jam-packed parties, to VIP panel sessions  -- and for its hundreds of business development meetings for its clients. This year, with CES all virtual, MediaLink is  all in, albeit in a very different way, including a gala "party" on January 12 where invited guests will [...]

Connected TV ad sales may offer a degree of automation on the sales side and targeting beyond age and gender demographics. But that doesn't mean it isn't still a relationships business. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Roseann Montenes, VP, Precision & Performance Ad Sales, A+E Networks, explains why she is focusing on people. Connecting people In November, Montenes' A+E joined Crown Media Family [...]

it may have historically lacked the ability to track and target individual listeners, but radio's intimacy has always made it a personal medium. Now that audio listening channels can take advantage of digital signalling, many think that the unique properties of new-wave radio plus the addressability of digital can combine to make an appealing offer. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Sarah Foss, [...]

They have been the fabric of digital ad targeting for two or three decades - but now third-party cookies are being deprecated, whilst mobile device identifiers are being switched to consumer opt-in. Taken together and coming off the back of consumer privacy policy changes, it represents the biggest threat to the accepted norms of digital ad targeting in years. But the demise [...]

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, [...]

LOS ANGELES -  Clicks and ad exposures are nice. But, in the current economic situation, you could forgive a marketer for wanting to jump straight to sales. Fortunately, a growing range of advertising software vendor agrees, as we see an emerging crop of tools allow publishers to connect ad exposure and end results into an outcome attribution, which many media organizations [...]

BOSTON - The advertising marketplace has grown more complex amid increased fragmentation among media channels, including various digital platforms on connected devices. Centro, a provider of trading and media operations software for digital advertisers, sees an opportunity for continued automation among buyer and sellers of advertising in a more omnichannel environment. "The biggest challenge is complexity," Derek Newman, product lead of [...]

As someone who launched a new TV ad-tech platform just as a global pandemic began, Pete Bruckbauer ends 2020 having seen the value in good timing. Now he wants the industry to realize the benefit of alignment. Xandr, where Bruckbauer is senior product manager, launched Invest TV, a platform for TV ad buyers to transact using data across multiple linear programmers, [...]

For one man, the turning of a year also represents the dawning of a new age. Raja Rajamannar, in his new book, Quantum Marketing: Mastering the New Marketing Mindset for Tomorrow's Consumers, says the industry is emerging into what he calls "the fifth paradigm" of marketing. Rajamannar is Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of Mastercard and current president of the World Federation [...]

In the new audio odyssey, all boats may be rising. Streaming audio - in the shape of both podcasts, digital music, smart speakers and more - is opening up to advertisers. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Diana Anderson - SVP, Group Director, National Audio and Local Digital Activation of the media agency Carat - says her clients are eager to buy more [...]

Marketers next year will keep looking for ways to develop omnichannel media strategies that reach target consumers more efficiently. Advertisers want to move from planning and measurement of siloed media outlets toward a more holistic approach that avoids over-exposing viewers to the same ads too often. "There's a lot of value for clients in being able to plan and then measure [...]

After a year of unpredictability, brands are striving to get closer to guaranteed business outcomes. But, to do that to best effect, they are going to need to start acting before the campaign has ended. That is the view of Wenda Harris Millard, the industry veteran who is now vice chairman at strategic advisory MediaLink. Toward certainty In this video interview with Beet.TV, Millard [...]

The withering of the third-party cookies and mobile identifiers that have made up much of traditional digital ad targeting is up-ending the business of marketers reaching audiences. As those methods wane, many ad planners are contemplating the switch from targeting users to targeting the content they read or watch - commonly called "contextual" targeting. But, whilst "context" may seem to simply describe the media [...]

Consumers can't be truly "identified" via various data sets. Their feelings and moods can vary as much as the profile of another person. The key to identity in marketing is to reach a consumer who "belongs," who opts in by providing first party data, says Rishad Tobaccowala, longtime senior advertising executive at the Publicis Groupe, now an independent advisor, author [...]

COVID-19 lockdowns may have reduced the number of commuters listening to radio in their cars. But the future nevertheless looks bright for anyone involved in audio programming. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Michael Smith, NPR Chief Marketing Officer, says the public broadcaster's podcast listenership is skyrocketing, with digital audio set to diversify still further. Podcasts are booming "People are not in their cars [...]

In a new data-led marketing world, driven by technology, marketers are being left behind.  The obsolescence of marketing has begun, declares Raja Rajamannar, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and President, Healthcare Business, Mastercard, in this podcast from Beet.TV It is imperative that marketers understand AI, augmented reality and other emerging technologies to remain relevant.  Already the role of CMO has been [...]

From his early days at Conde Nast, to the adtech world of PubMatic, to his present senior post at AT&T, he's "always been alone."  The feeling has been most acute at industry events, which somehow appear "unfamiliar,"explains Kirk McDonald, Chief Business Officer of AT&T's Xandr unit.* Fully qualified, he often saw himself as an "imposter" at these gatherings. I interviewed him this [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -  Online learning can be a useful solution for children whose schools are closed.  But not for  those living in poverty, where there is often little Internet connectivity. For the Boys and Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico, which serves primarily the island's poor, some 80 percent of club members don't have suitable access to learn online. The organization, which [...]

LONDON -- He wasn’t happy with the circumstances of his departure from WPP in 2018, the giant advertising holding company he founded. With S4 Capital, he is proving a point: he can create an agile, digital-only marketing enterprise, says Sir Martin Sorrell in this interview. Today (November 9) S4 released impressive Q3 results. We spoke about the impact [...]