The OTT streaming service Tubi will be acquired by Fox Corporation, it was announced today. Last month at the Beet.TV executive retreat, we interviewed Tubi CRO Mark Rotblat about the company.  We have republished the interview and story with today's news: It may be a fundamentally different business model, but there is one thing advertiser-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) services have in common with [...]

VIA BEETCAM -- People can learn a lot from a crisis. And we can also learn a lot about businesses. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Rob Norman, senior advisor to GroupM, the world's largest media agency, says the coronavirus pandemic will allow us to assess brands against their stated goals. "We've had any number of enterprises in the package goods business, [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- In 2020, advertisers know there is a plethora of platforms through which they can reach over-the-top TV viewers. The complicated bit? Measuring your campaign holistically, when every platform is like an island. In this recorded interview session, Robert Bareuther, SVP of business development at iSpot.tv, says advertisers are asking for unification. "They're all saying how hard it is to measure [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- Not everyone in the advertising industry wants to share their data or to collaborate. Caroline Horner says she is used to hearing openness from people in the internet industry, who will say " "I'm going to put the data out there because it's going to be interesting and it's going to evolve the place", "What if we try [...]

SAN FRANCISCO– As an industry, TV is still feeling its way towards the large-scale use of outcome-based measurements. In an interview with Beet.TV’s Jon Watts at LiveRamp's RampUp Summit, Jim Nail, principal analyst at Forrester Research, explained that companies are starting to get a handle on it, but there’s still a long way to go. Part of this has to do [...]

VIA BEETCAM– The media industry is reimagining what it looks like going forward given the Coronavirus pandemic. In an interview via BeetCam, Ashley J. Swartz, CEO and founder of Furious Corp., discussed some of the upsides and challenges involved with shifting the industry to working from home. There are no longer tools in the arsenal to maintain the face-to-face culture of [...]

VIA BEETCAM  -- The coronavirus, COVID-19, has come as a shock to the global economy - and the media industry is likely to feel the force, too. Until the virus spreads more widely in the west and until more media organizations start reporting results, the full impact is hard to forecast - but brands have an opportunity to change their approach, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO– When thinking about contextual advertising, ZEFR thinks about how brands can align with specific types of content that make sense based on their specific preferences. In an interview with Beet.TV’s Jon Watts at LiveRamp's RampUp Summit, Jeremy Greenspan, svp and head of programmatic Sales at ZEFR, explained how the conversation around contextual has shifted as of late around [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- How much methods should a broadcaster use through which to take advertising dollars, and how much control should it exert? Those were some of the questions being asked at the recent Beet Retreat San Juan 2020, when Julian Zilberbrand stepped up. Zilberbrand, EVP of audience science at Viacom, was asked by Furious Corp CEO Ashley J. Swartz about [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Political campaigns have long been amongst the keenest to use digital marketing tactics to reach voters. At the 2020 US presidential election, that is set to go in to overdrive. And it's not just web, app and online video publishers who are set to benefit. In this video interview with Beet.TV, LiveRamp's chief evangelist for advanced TV Gayatri Bhalla [...]

SAN JUAN PR -- The looming deprecation of a key technology advertisers have historically used to track and target users has sent the industry in a scurry for a replacement. Google has declared it will phase out all third-party cookies – the tiny, user-side files that store information – from its Chrome browser by 2022. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Xandr corporate strategy director [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- Until now, the shimmering promise of targeted TV ads was stuck in a marginal concept - that it could only be executed in live, linear TV, and only within a sliver of ad inventory. But that is all set to change. US addressable TV is going national. In a session dubbed Addressable for National & Linear: Solving the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO– As the third-party cookie is phased out, the industry must rethink its approach around all media types. In an interview with Beet.TV’s Jon Watts at LiveRamp's RampUp Summit, Liane Nadeau, head of programmatic at Digitas North America, described how this is especially true for figuring out how programmatic fits into the landscape. There’s an influx of solutions appearing around [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- The new TV landscape offers advertisers the opportunity to better plan, target and measure their campaigns, in a manner more reminiscent of digital marketing. But how are advertisers adapting to the palette of options presented by OTT (over-the-top) and connected TV delivery? In a panel called "Buy-Side Perspectives – The Big Asks" at the Beet Retreat San Juan [...]

SAN FRANCISCO– Data is an ecosystem, and maintaining that ecosystem is paramount to the health of the industry, says Luma CEO Terry Kawaja. Speaking with Beet.TV’s Jon Watts at LiveRamp’s RampUp Summit, Kawaja says that LiveRamp’s partnerships-driven business helps the industry to function. “Everyone either contributes data, utilizes data or applies data in a cooperative fashion,” he says. “None of [...]

SAN FRANCISCO– Accuracy is everything when it comes to consumer data. In an interview with Beet.TV, David Oliveira, vp of media vertical partnerships at TransUnion explored how their precise date has given them a tremendous advantage in addressability. TransUnion aims to develop solutions for the connected consumer in mind. They have a comprehensive and accurate data set around identity, combined with [...]

SAN FRANCISCO– Addressability boils down to how a marketer engages with a consumer. But what does it mean to drive a meaningful consumer journey? In an interview with Beet.TV’s Jon Watts, Travis Clinger, vp of global strategy and partnerships at LiveRamp described how his company is aiming to drive this. For LiveRamp, crafting this engagement means taking their marketer’s data and [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- At the upcoming "upfronts" TV ad sales season ad buyers will be striking deals with broadcast platforms to use attribution technology that can prove the business impact of their ad spend. That is according to an ad-tech boss whose platform is facilitating some of the deals. John Hoctor is president of Data + Math, a company that maps [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- The ability to send tailored ads to individual TV households has been talked about for a long time. Now, after many early attempts, finally addressable TV is reaching scale. But just how advanced is the infrastructure behind "advanced TV"? In a Beet Retreat panel, Addressable Tech: Next-Gen Solutions: Fixing the Plumbing, three industry executives were asked that question. Chris [...]

SAN JUAN, PR - “What we’re seeing now is an acceleration towards standards based and IP enabled delivery, which is giving ad sellers and the TV industry a lot more flexibility around what they can do,” notes Chris Curley, Partner Lead at Google.  But, he cautions, there's still a lot of work to be done delivering a seamless and relevant user [...]