SAN JUAN, PR -- John Hoctor started Data+Math with the idea that TV was “under credited.” Meaning that the medium as a whole was not getting the credit it deserved and was thus becoming undervalued.   “What we set out to do was to apply larger data sets to the problem,” says Hoctor, who is now LiveRamp’s GM of Measurement, following the [...]

SAN JUAN, PR– When it comes to the division between linear and digital, addressability and measurement are two considerations that continue to be redefined. In a conversation with Alan Wolk, co-founder of TV/REV, at the Beet Retreat in San Juan, Julie Anson, director of strategic investment in advanced TV at MAGNA Global, gave some insight as to how her company [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- Whilst the rise of subscription video (SVOD) services in the last five years may have conditioned people to expect that paid digital services would become the norm and TV advertising will wither away, that is not quite the full story. In a more nuanced version, there are two other dynamics playing out: In parallel, the rise of [...]

To Courtney Maron, the managing director of enterprise partnerships at Omnicom Media Group, the most exciting part of connected TV is that it combines the familiarity of linear with the targeting of digital. For now, however, that excitement is still about potential rather than the current reality. “We’re not necessarily there yet when it comes to being able to get the [...]

SAN JUAN, PR —Asaf Davidov, Hulu’s Director of Ad Sales Research, has seen the company grow rapidly over the past five years. When he joined in 2015, they had just 10 million subscribers, a number that's now grown to 30 million subscribers and 72 million ad-supported uniques. In terms of upcoming opportunities, Davidov spoke of how Hulu is attempting to make [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — EDO (short for Entertainment Data Oracle) is looking to capture from “middle of the funnel” metrics for TV advertising by tracking matching search activity to ad activity. “Search is an ideal measure of consumer intent,” notes EDO’s Chief Revenue Officer Scott Grunther. “It starts with the premise that people are watching with a device in their [...]

SAN JUAN, PR —“TVision is a data and analytics company. And what we focus on is measuring something that’s never been measurable before, which is how do people actually watch TV. “ That provocative statement from TVision  President Luke McGuinness sums up the company’s approach to TV measurement.  TVision recruits panelists who agree to use TVision's measurement device, but McGuinness says that [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- These days, most broadcasters are busy offering their advertising customers new ways to use their platform data to better target audiences. But what about advertisers who want to do the same across the whole TV and video landscape? That need has become priority #1 in the new TV industry, as a raft of new initiatives and consortia launch to harmonize, [...]

SAN JUAN, PR - Advertisers will soon put their own data about customers and prospects to better work in the art of TV targeting. Samsung Ads, the unit of the Korean hardware giant that helps advertisers leverage real audience viewing data, straight off the TV itself, to target ads, says it will soon be digging farther in to "first-party". "I think you'll [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- TV manufacturer Vizio is beginning to issue over-the-top firmware updates to 10 million connected TV sets, to better deliver ads from FreeWheel, Google and Xandr. The process is part of Project OAR, a consortium kicked off by Vizio's own ad-targeting division Inscape to achieve better scale in the sale of connected TV advertising. Its Project OAR aims to [...]

When it comes to helping customers focus on their business objectives, Samsung Ads boils it down to two key ideas: reach and response. In an interview with Beet.TV, Justin Evans, global head of analytics and insights at the company explains just what this entails. From a reach perspective, Evans says that clients are anxious about missing out on customers if they [...]

The idea that brands can be content producers and publishers is no longer a new one. But, after perhaps 15 years in which marketers have done that, ow times are changing, according to an executive who is watching them change their strategy. "The conversations that I'm having with partners and different industry people is that they really are changing how they look [...]

SAN JUAN, PR -- The explosion of devices, platforms and services through which to serve digital content and marketing messages gives brands and their agencies big new opportunities. And also some big headaches. Because, whilst embracing multiple destinations and even closing the loop to consumer action can maximize audience, it also means many different masters to serve. In this video interview with [...]

Like many others in the TV ecosystem, 605 has worked to create data sets that continue to grow the advanced TV marketplace. Noah Levine, CRO of 605, presented a new company offering to the industry at the Beet Retreat in San Juan this week that lends a new data perspective. 605 Platform is built on 605’s TV viewership dataset, of which [...]

Gaming, like streaming, has become an enormous part of a burgeoning ad model. In an interview with Beet.TV, Karl Meyer, head of sales, media and entertainment at Samsung Ads, explains that his company is able to use unique metrics to help this corner of advertising grow. Gaming provides a target audience for Samsung in age and gender, but also with the [...]

Thew new science of TV advertising is all about generating real, measurable business results - not simply getting a message out to viewers. Over the last year, we have seen several technology companies apply such technology even to linear TV broadcasters, using either automatic content recognition (ACR) that can "listen" to what audiences are really watching or using a traditional panel [...]

Karina Dobarro, svp of multicultural and brand strategy at Horizon Media, sees music as a critical avenue to reaching the diverse audiences that clients want to connect with. In working with music video platform Vevo, Horizon Media is carving out a strategy to engage with multicultural customers when they’re most engaged. “Vevo is reflective of a multicultural shift, when you look [...]

OpenSlate launched eight years ago to measure content as people began watching more than just linear TV. The goal was to translate nature and quality to advertisers and marketers in an unfamiliar content landscape – specifically on YouTube and Facebook, where brand safety has been an issue. At the end of last year, Nielsen took a minority investment in OpenSlate to [...]

The writing is on the wall for one of the main ways marketers have used to targeted audiences. So what comes next? "Cookies", small files on devices which contain client-side information about users which sites can access, were already facing a challenge from the way that modern consumers now use digital media - which is to say, via a multitude of [...]

Being a large company in the direct marketing ecosystem is more a blessing than a curse, but it still takes careful strategy to work with advertisers with specific performance needs. In an interview with Beet.TV, Steve Bagdasarian, vice president and general manager of media and monetization at Publishers Clearing House, explains how the organization views performance. Bagdasarian describes performance as the [...]