LONDON - It is already helping advertisers understand what viewers are watching on TV channels around the world. Now it is gearing up to increase its European footprint significantly in the year ahead. TV ad-tech firm Samba TV tells Beet.TV it just inked a deal that will allow it to so so. "We recently did a partnership with a manufacturer in Europe [...]

LONDON - The US advertising industry could take a lesson from the European market and learn how to cooperate across divisions, according ot Ashley J. Swartz, CEO and founder of Furious Corp. Swartz spent time in London interviewing industry executives based in the UK and the rest of Europe for Beet.TV ad the Future of TV Ads global forum. What stuck [...]

Part of Caryn Banchek’s job as head of client solutions for Samsung Ads is educating advertisers about the advanced TV landscape. Advanced TV is Samsung Ads’ bread and butter: The subsidiary works with brands and agencies to place ads across its partner networks. The advertisers want to know what works from a planning perspective, how to get the best results, and [...]

Roku is the world's most popular add-on internet TV device. But, in a world where more new TV sets are now shipping with internet services built in, Roku is going to need to change to defend its position. After previously getting its software embedded on TVs from TCL, Sharp and Hisense in the US, Roku last month struck its first deal [...]

It is the addressable TV technology that started by storing alternative commercials on satellite subscribers' set-top boxes, then grew in to one of the world's most revered such systems. Can Sky's AdSmart now become a global standard in the deployment of household-targetable TV advertising? After the European provider's acquisition by Comcast last year, after it was merged with NBCUniversal's own such technology [...]

2019 was the year during which the proliferating range of options for buying targeted TV ads proved enticing but confusing for marketers. That precipitated a range of initiatives, collaborations and consortia aimed at making things simpler, achieving scale and reducing the number of players buyers need to work with. But, outside of the US, things are already neatly packaged in this way. That [...]

The promise of addressable TV - the technology which allows advertisers to reach individual households - may seem to be all about the targeting. But true use of the opportunity is running wider than that. This is according to one man whose addressable TV company is celebrating having achieved a depth of real use cases. In 2017, WPP’s GroupM launched Finecast, aiming to “help advertisers [...]

Most people may associate them with big checks, but Publishers Clearing House has online engagement that equips them with accurate data. In an interview with Beet.TV, Heather Macaulay, head of marketing and strategy at the media company, gave insight into how the company operates. From a marketing perspective, Macaulay says that PCH has a unique interaction with their consumers that allows [...]

LONDON– Brian Wieser, global president of business intelligence at GroupM and former securities analyst, predicts that political advertising in the US will spike to $10 billion in 2020, a 45% increase from 2018. Even that, he says, might be conservative: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a late Democratic nominee entrant, has already pumped nine figures into the total by spending $31 million [...]

Chris Moore, head of strategic partnerships for Publishing Clearing House Media, realizes that not everyone knows the company as a media, gaming and entertainment platform. But PCH, which offers brand-safe content inventory across owned digital properties, sees upwards of 2.5 billion impressions and 20 million uniques each month. According to Moore, PCH is running from a well-oiled programmatic advertising machine. “We [...]

If you are a Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare wizard, Cathy Oh may know about it. As global head of marketing and analytics at Samsung Ads, Oh boasts that her employer can see what 45 million owners of Samsung Smart TVs are doing on their sets. Of course, it is all anonymized. But, for Oh, it is all about harnessing the [...]

LONDON - With initiatives like OpenAP, Ampersand, Project OAR and more making big announcements, it is clear that 2019 was the year when collaboration became the key imperative in seizing the opportunities of advanced TV ad targeting. In Europe, the leading pay-TV provider Sky has long been forging a collaborative path with its pioneering AdSmart addressable TV product. As he prepares to [...]

LONDON -   A year after acquiring the former Videoplaza video ad technology from its latest owner, ad-tech firm INVIDI says it has launched a new software suite, aimed at uniting the disparate worlds of advanced TV advertising. In December 2018, INVIDI, which is owned by a consortium of groups, acquired Pulse, the technology of the former Videoplaza, which was acquired by [...]

The upcoming holiday season is likely to lead to a greater deployment of smart TVs that may help smoothe the path for advertisers to buy advanced, addressable targeting ad campaigns using the latest OTT technology. That is the hope of the addressable TV leader at Modi Media, the advanced TV wing of media agency Group M. In this video interview with Beet.TV, [...]

LONDON - The ability to precision-target TV ads at individual households - currently limited to a relatively small proportion of available broadcast time - will soon expand to the majority of inventory, according to one exec making it happen. Keith Kryszczun, president of global sales at Cadent, a technology company which enables the practice for broadcasters, says addressability is on the [...]

One of the industry groups aiming to bring simplicity and scale to advanced TV ad buying just got a little bigger. OpenAP says it is adding ad inventory from CBS Television Network and CBS digital video properties to its offering that already included Fox, Viacom, NBC Universal and Univision. The move is a natural consequence of the merger of Viacom and CBS, [...]

For many marketers, the chief goal is the widest possible audience. But, in 2019, more and more brands are learning that over-exposure is not a good look. Excess ad delivery can actually create negative results. It's a phenomenon that now has a name, and Anthony Koziarski, chief media officer at Omnicom's PHD agency, is prepared to speak it. "We believe in a phenomena called [...]

It is the consumer electronics industry's annual jamboree in the desert. But Cathy Oh has business and results on her mind. In 2019's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), taking place in Las Vegas, Samsung ran its own "city" with "districts" showcasing the company’s newest TVs, monitors, appliances and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAX4vY-NclE For Oh, the global head of marketing and analytics at Samsung Ads (the company's [...]

For any modern ad buyer, making decisions to reach audiences in the fast-moving TV and video ecology is fraught with difficulty. Everyone knows the market has tipped substantially toward SVOD services and that many people are beginning to shun cable TV subscriptions and live TV. But that's not the whole story, says a company with its eyes on what viewers are really [...]

With an explosion of platforms and services, over-the-top (OTT) television is bursting out in a hundred different flavors. That is great news for consumers, who are now experiencing more viewing choice than ever. But, for advertisers, things are getting a little confusing. Increasingly, they are turning to their agencies to figure out how exactly to reach the right audience member. "They're constantly asking [...]