CANNES – A powerhouse panel of marketing and technology executives convened at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity under the moderation of AJL Advisory founder Lou Paskalis to explore how innovation is transforming media strategy. The panel included Dave Morgan of Simulmedia, Brian Mandelbaum of Attain, Jonah Goodhart of Mobian and Sam Bloom of PMG, each touting how their companies [...]

CANNES — Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool for content production—it is reshaping how marketers understand identity, audiences and growth, according to industry leaders at a Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity panel moderated by Dave Morgan, founder and chief executive of Simulmedia. The session, featuring Rukmini Iyer, corporate vice president at Microsoft, and Alex Steer, global chief data [...]

AMENIA, NY — The retail media landscape is heading toward a decisive split between sustainable businesses and complementary revenue streams as brands demand accountability from an increasingly crowded marketplace. “Some retailers, as publishers, are driving sustainable businesses right now, some are complementary revenue, and that that’s something in the next 12 months or 18 months that we’re really going to see [...]

AMENIA, NY - Brands that want to make their marketing dollars go further need to think smarter about where they invest and how they amplify those investments, said Heather Sparks, executive vice president and head of content at Publicis Groupe’s Zenith. Speaking with Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan at the Beet Retreat Berkshires, Sparks outlined how strategic choices in brand advertising can [...]

CANNES - At a Beet.TV panel moderated by Tameka Kee, executives from VML, The Trade Desk, WPP Media and PayPal Ads argued that the future of commerce-driven advertising will depend on blending cultural insight with frictionless shopping experiences. Tyler Murray, chief enterprise solutions officer at VML, said his agency defines creative commerce as work that “is driving conversion, but we hope [...]

CANNES – As television advertising dollars flow into streaming environments, the programmatic machinery built to transact those ads is growing increasingly complex. A cottage industry of platforms providing aggregation and curation services is on the rise. This has prompted agency leaders to push for greater supply path optimization (SPO) to ensure transparency and value for their clients. These are the views, at [...]

CANNES - As brands seek more meaningful ways to engage with diverse audiences, TelevisaUnivision’s new U.S. advertising chief Tim Natividad says there is significant untapped potential in the Hispanic media market, and the tools to reach it have never been more robust. Natividad, who recently joined TelevisaUnivision as president of U.S. advertising sales and marketing, spoke at the Cannes Lions International [...]

CANNES - The emerging concept of “agentic commerce,” where AI agents act on behalf of consumers to make purchases and go well beyond traditional product recommendations, has become a hot topic for brands. WPP Media executives Larisa Dumitrui and Aisha Khan explored its implications in this panel discussion moderated by Beet.TV contributor Tameka Kee at the Cannes Lions International Festival [...]

AMENIA, NY — Connected TV and commerce are becoming more tightly joined. And that’s creating new ad formats that capture consumers at moments of peak engagement and peak purchase intent. “CTV and commerce are great together. It’s a way to engage the audience at the highest points of relevance,” Cassidy Diamond, Vice President of Brand Partnerships and Demand Facilitation at Magnite, [...]

CANNES - Kicking off one of Beet.TV's fireside chats at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Lou Paskalis, founder and chief executive of AJL Advisory, said advertising technology has finally “caught up to the aspiration,” enabling marketers to engineer relevance into every interaction with consumers. Paskalis praised Sam Bloom, head of partnerships at digital marketing agency PMG, for helping [...]

CANNES — Retail media is booming, but with more than 250 retail media networks (RMNs) in play, and counting, brands and agencies are facing what one panelist called “overwhelming complexity.” At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, industry leaders from Dentsu, The Trade Desk and Instacart agreed: the way forward lies in collaboration, simplification, and data-driven accountability. Too many networks, [...]

As artificial intelligence transforms the advertising world, brands will need flexible, modular platforms to thrive — not rigid, one-size-fits-all solutions. That’s the vision Simon Asselin, chief technology officer at digital advertising firm Infillion, shared in a recent discussion on the future of advertising technology. Asselin likens the idea of "composability" to building a Formula 1 race car: assembling the best parts [...]

CANNES - With retail media networks multiplying and brands demanding better measurement, Instacart’s Adam Silverblatt believes the industry is headed toward consolidation, and accountability will be the deciding factor. Speaking at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Silverblatt, Instacart’s head of off-platform ad sales and strategy, said retail media is evolving beyond its roots as a search-driven, bottom-funnel tactic. “Retail media [...]

AMENIA, NY — When it comes to media operations, artificial intelligence may be “democratizing” everything between competitors. However, the playing field may be anything but level when AI is used internally with media operators.  “There’s a quote that I really like: ‘The future’s already here. It’s just not equally disseminated.’ That’s a hundred percent true within organizations for AI,” Moe Chughtai, [...]

AMENIA, NY — First-party data has earned its valorization the last few years, particularly among the brands that tend to own it. But that doesn’t mean third-party data, which has had its ups and downs and ups again lately, is inherently less useful. “When people even outside of advanced TV hear about third-party data, they have a gut reaction that it’s [...]

CANNES – The scramble for first-party data may have been a necessary reaction to signal loss, but it has left many brands with a new problem: a trove of information they don’t fully know how to use. For many, the promise of a unified customer view remains fractured by internal technology silos and a lack of the specific expertise needed to [...]

CANNES – Connected TV audiences have raced far ahead of the infrastructure meant to support them, ad and media leaders said in this panel discussion hosted by Beet.TV at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Consumers have embraced streaming as their default, but advertisers, agencies and platforms are still grappling with fragmented systems, outdated standards and uneven measurement, panelists [...]

CANNES – What happens when an AI identifies a perfect customer persona that doesn’t actually exist? While AI models can optimize campaigns with breathtaking speed and efficiency, some theories suggest this could make knowing a real person’s identity less critical. For Brian Silver, EVP of marketing solutions at TransUnion, that creates a need for a “validation path” to connect AI-generated insights back [...]

CANNES — In a noisy marketing environment, how does a brand cut through the hubbub and deliver truly personalized experiences? Mike Ng thinks they need a holistic, 360-degree view of their customers — and predictive AI can lend a hand. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Ng, chief revenue officer, Epsilon, said connected identity fuels AI to provide “one view, one vision, [...]

CANNES - Retail media was a hot topic at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, with experts from top brands and agencies discussing its growing importance and potential for innovation. Among the highlights, Jon Watts, managing director of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement, moderated a panel featuring leaders in retail media, including Joe Maceda from Mindshare, Sean Ransenberg [...]