SAN JUAN, PR -- For marketers, the single promise of so-called “addressable” TV technology used to be simply targeted advertising. But, in 2020, the promise is much greater than that. Now broadcast platforms are discovering they can offer advertisers a more diverse set of use cases than just targeting alone. In this one-on-one interview at Beet Retreat, Kevin Arrix, SVP of DISH Media, [...]

SAN JUAN, PR – Like clockwork every year, predictions are made that addressable TV is nearing a tipping point and will soon become ubiquitous. But TV buyers and sellers are still coming up against significant headwinds that have slowed adoption. “There’s this dark side of addressable with many challenges yet to be addressed, and we can only solve them as an [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- It turns out that many of the advanced software practices being applied to the advanced TV landscape in order to better target and understand advertising deployments can also be useful in a media world without pictures. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Tru Optik CEO and co-founder Andre Swanston says his company has branched out from just [...]

SAN JUAN– Addressability is an area that many are focused on this year, and WarnerMedia is no different. In an interview with Beet.TV at the Beet Retreat in San Juan, David Porter, vp of ad innovation and programmatic at WarnerMedia, emphasized that he’s excited about the progress they’re making in national linear addressable capability. They have worked both across the company [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- In an industry with a marketplace of buzzwords, "addressable" and "deterministic" TV have risen up the charts over the last year. But what is addressable TV, and what is deterministic data? In this video interview with Beet.TV, DISH Network's GM of data and analytics Kemel Bokhari offers his take. "We define addressable as deterministic data," Bokhari says. "That's when [...]

SAN JUAN, PR– Establishing a system of standards for the TV industry is something that will be crucial for its overall health moving forward. In an interview with Beet.TV at the Beet Retreat in San Juan, Dominick Vangeli, vp of advanced advertising products at NBCU, emphasized this importance, but explained that it will be a challenging feat. NBCU has gone through [...]

SAN JUAN, PR – The ability for marketers to use addressable targeting in TV advertising is a step-change from the medium's history as a mass-reach channel. So why aren't more advertisers and their agencies taking advantage? In this video interview with Beet.TV, the national sales VP at Comcast's ad sales unit explains. "The hesitation around addressable is education - being educated on the power of [...]

SAN JUAN, PR – Today, addressable TV inventory is a limited commodity that fetches a high price, and programmers and distributors tend to sell as much of it as they possibly can. But this approach won’t always increase the value of a linear TV portfolio and may even cause the value of spot inventory to take a hit. “The cannibalization of [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- In the world of proliferating platforms, advertisers are faced with more choice and more opportunity than ever before - and also a headache. Because, whilst there are many large open ad marketplaces working with common practices, many key media destinations are also closed shops. "Media companies are trying to put together all their portfolio of assets in one [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- By embedding sensors on a consumer's TV, automatic content recognition (ACR) promises to give advertisers and publishers precise data with which to target. But recent concerns and policies over consumer privacy put that powerful technology on a critical footing - gaining consumer permission is vital. ACR is practised by the likes of Samsung Ads, Vizio's Inscape, Nielsen's Gracenote, [...]

SAN JUAN, PR.  Having just completed a fifty-page deep dive TV[R]EV Special Report into the hows, whys, whos, whats and whens of addressable TV advertising, it was more than a little reassuring to hear many of those findings echoed by the top level TV and advertising executives participating at this year's Beet Retreat. We started our report by providing a definition [...]

SAN JUAN, PR– Addressability is evolving. In an interview with Beet.TV at the Beet Retreat in San Juan, Jonathan Steuer, chief research officer at Omnicom Media Group discussed the present and future of addressable. One of the exciting parts of the here and now is that supply enablement is finally moving forward. The sheer amount of inventory sources still presents a [...]

Having the largest, most comprehensive source of TV data available in the market has tremendous advantages. In an interview with Beet.TV, April Denn, regional sales director for Samsung Ads, explains that with this data, the company is looked at to solve three main problems. The first of these problems is to leverage this data and scale in order to drive incremental [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- Carpenters have an old proverb: "Measure twice, cut once." It's designed to convey the importance of accurate measurements in a skilled trade. Now it might also be applied to TV advertisers, whose ability to measure the efficacy of their spend is undergoing a revolution. Charter's Spectrum Reach ad sales division is one of the advocates of that revolution. In [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- Cable TV operators and other service providers may have been amongst the first to be able to offer their advertisers advanced TV targeting capabilities like dynamic ad replacement. But new advances mean the TV networks which historically run over the operators can also now offer equivalent functionality. "Up until today, addressable has been an MVPD or connected TV [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- It already provides an "addressable TV intelligence layer" to European broadcasters. Now TVbeat of London and Zagreb is coming to America. "The modern TV media company, they have fragmented inventory (just) as they have fragmented viewership. These companies are using different technology stacks. "When you have (an) ad server for VOD and you have (an) addressable linear server, these [...]

For me, and many of us in San Juan last week for the Beet Retreat, it was high point in our work life:  A small group of innovators having frank discussions about the future of television - exploring the challenges and solutions.  We made progress.  We created professional and personal relationships.  It was productive, fun and our efforts benefited a [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- With so many new platforms, opportunities and options for buying TV ads in the marketplace, smoothing the path to purchase is becoming the new black. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Sean Robertson, director of partnerships at DISH Media, talks about the importance of making it easy. "There's some third party solutions that have come across to help [...]

SAN JUAN, PR - 605 is officially entering the measurement market with a new product known as 605 Platform. What makes 605 Platform unique, according to Chief Revenue Officer Noah Levine, is that it has “100% deterministic data matching rights against 21 million households.” Levine explains that “deterministic data” is the ability to take a very large data set from, say, a large [...]

SAN JUAN, PR– Forrester Research vp and principal analyst Joanna O’Connell believes that she was early to the topic when she and her colleague researched the cross-channel video advertising landscape at the end of last year. A long will change, she says; right now, brands are mostly piecing together their disparate video planning, buying and measurement strategies. But undeniably, O’Connell says, [...]