After years of experimentation, ad agencies are finally getting serious about buying ads through connected TV (CTV) devices and over-the-top (OTT) TV services. That is according to one man who can plug them directly in to the TV set itself. Samsung Ads, a unit inside the giant Korean electronics manufacturer, tracks what audiences are watching on Samsung Smart TV screens, in order [...]

For marketers, the single promise of "addressable" TV technology used to be simply targeted advertising. But, in 2020, the promise is a lot more than that. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Kevin Arrix, SVP of DISH Media - responsible for ad sales at DISH and Sling - describes two more emerging use cases... Targeted advertising: the classical use case for [...]

Samsung Ads, the media conglomerate’s ads division, provides the measurement and targeting at scale for the billions of smart TVs operated by the company. “These four to five billion smart TVs, connected on a daily basis – they’re smart about that and now our data is one-to-one deterministic,” says Karl Meyer, head of sales, media and entertainment for Samsung Ads. “So [...]

The history of media buying may have involved rough guesstimates of consumers' activity. But new software that can provide exact intelligence on audiences' behavior is giving ad agencies super-powers to be more "thoughtful" about how they reach people. That is according to Ly Tran, chief media officer of Proof Advertising, an Austin-based ad agency. In this video interview with Beet.TV, she talks about how [...]

Kristi Argyilan, president of Target's Roundel unit, will be among the featured speakers at the annual Beet.TV executive retreat taking place in San Juan on February 5-7. From her days as president of MAGNA Global to her pioneering work at Target and for the formation of Roundel, Kristi is among the most admired, innovative executives in the media and marketing industries. We [...]

Although the TV world has spent the last five years considering the subscription video (SVOD) boom, a growing trend in ad-supported TV services (AVODs) is opening new opportunities for new entrants and for advertisers alike. Alongside Peacock, Pluto TV, Tubi and others, Samsung launched its own Samsung TV Plus, its own gateway to over-IP TV services on its smart TV sets. Amongst [...]

LAS VEGAS - Consumers are living in an age in which there’s almost an expectation that any product or service that they purchase will be customized. In an interview with Beet.TV, Jim Cridlin, global head of innovation and partnerships at Mindshare explains that television is now headed on this path. “You see a tremendous explosion in the technologies that can produce [...]

Ampersand, the TV advertising and sales company owned by Comcast, Cox and Charter, is putting its vast data network of 38 million households to work with a new external platform that lets partners create audiences on the front end and measure performance on the back end. Called The AND Platform, the launch follows NCC Media’s rebrand in September to Ampersand, a [...]

Music video distributor Vevo may not favor comparisons with the traditional giant of televised music video broadcasts, MTV - but there is one screen where many will find the parallel impossible not to draw. Having historically found two-thirds of its users from mobile, now - thanks to a strategy called "Vevo Everywhere" - it is finding 20% of its audience is [...]

LAS VEGAS -- The upfronts, the annual season in which US premium content owners tout their upcoming roster of programming in a bid to win advance ad bookings, is around the corner. But, this time, things could look a little different. So says the strategy chief of an ad-tech firm aiming to help the industry buy and sell better across four [...]

LAS VEGAS– With a streaming landscape that continues evolving, client expectations have changed as well. In an interview with Beet.TV at the Consumer Electronics Show, Roseann Montenes, vice president of precision & performance ad sales at A+E Networks, explains that these changes vary depending on how each client defines “performance”. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to client expectations, but focusing on performance [...]

It may have started out solely on YouTube and may have been cast simply as an online version of MTV, but music video network Vevo has bigger ambitions than that. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the company's ad sales SVP Jesse Judelman explains that partnerships with a host of other platforms have given it large scale that rivals traditional TV [...]

When OpenAP, a TV industry consortium for making advanced TV targeting more straightforward, announced the addition of CBS to its repertoire last year, it was just the latest addition to a roster that now numbers: Fox ViacomCBS NBC Universal Univision But Ed Davis isn't stopping there. In this video interview with Beet.TV at Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the consortium's chief product [...]

A new year, a new decade may have only just begun but, for some, minds are already turning to the key point in the US TV ad sales calendar. Upfronts season peaks in May, when video and TV content owners showcase their upcoming repertoire in a bid to secure advance ad buyers from brands and their media agencies. In this Consumer Electronics [...]

One of the foundational acquisitions for Sir Martin Sorrell's new S4 Capital group is now working alongside a sibling company to light up opportunities in "dynamic creative optimization" for digital ads. But, in many cases, it has had to help clients build foundational architecture to get there. In December 2018, Sir Martin Sorrel's new vehicle S4 Capital merged with MightyHive, a company [...]

LAS VEGAS - Ad-tech platform LiveRamp is now helping advertisers to buy campaigns centered on real business outcomes, not marketing proxies, after its earlier acquisition of the vendor Data Plus Math. LiveRamp acquired the company back in July. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Allison Metcalfe, the GM of LiveRamp's TV offering, explains what new capabilities she has acquired. "We've been working [...]

LAS VEGAS– As ACR data becomes more available, how will it lead us to better understand measurement across platforms? In an interview with Beet.TV at CES, Maggie Zhang, executive vice president of video research and insights for Dentsu Aegis Network explored the ways in which OTT and linear are evolving due to these new capabilities. According to Zhang, Dentsu has conducted [...]

LAS VEGAS -  Media agencies have been watching the growth of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services with alarm. If more people are paying for ad-free TV, where will brands go to reach audiences? At least the overall growth of connected TV as an overall category is giving them some reassurance. After all, connected TV services provide more precise audience targeting characteristics than [...]

LAS VEGAS -- He created and, for years, ran the world's largest ad agency holding group, WPP. After he left in 2018 and formed his own, much smaller vehicle, S4 Capital, how does Sir Martin Sorrell read the prospects for the Big Six groups? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Sorrell says: The big groups are like "cadavers." They cannot transform [...]

As more privacy regulations pop up, bringing on restrictions to how companies can use and handle customer information, the key for media will be first-party data, according to Havas Media’s US chief data officer Peter Sedlarcik. First, GDPR altered how European companies could store and track customer data. Now, with the roll out of the California Consumer Privacy Act, the motion [...]