After the battle is over, who will be declared victor? So far in the rush to launch new paid streaming TV services, pundit opinion has focused on how providers' library strengths and finite household capital will end up crowning a winning provider. But Jim Nail doesn't see things so black-and-white. Rather than betting on Disney to kill off Netflix, as many sections of [...]

For Neil Vendetti, president of investment at Zenith Media, solving for fragmentation in TV and video advertising will be the focus of the industry in the years ahead. Talking to Jon Watts, the co-founder and managing partner of MTM London at the Beet Retreat, a half-day Beet.TV event in New York hosted by Publicis Media, Vendetti says that while the TV [...]

The new opportunity to find the optimum TV audiences across data-driven OTT and even linear services all depend on using audience data. But how that data comes in to execution varies. In this video interview with Beet.TV, one vendor helping brands bring it to life for advanced TV ad buying explains the different levels of sophistication with which buyers are bringing audience [...]

As part of the merger of CBS and Viacom, Joann Ross will head sales for the combined ViacomCBSSean Moran, sales head of Viacom, will be leaving the company according to a report in Variety. We interviewed Ross earlier this year and are republishing with this news.

Data + Math wasn't looking to get acquired for $150 million - but it happened anyway. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the CEO and co-founder of the TV advertising attribution vendor says, before its sale to LiveRamp earlier this year, the company was actually attempting a fundraising. So, whilst LiveRamp is a friend with benefits for Data + Math, Hoctor views [...]

TV companies in 2019 have been getting better at working with ad agencies to help sell ads in ways that take advantage of advanced TV's new tricks. That is the view according to one executive who sits at the nexus of TV, ad-tech and agency professionals. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Philip Smolin, chief strategy officer of Amobee, paints an optimistic [...]

Advanced TV has become a buzzword, being used as a bucket term to capture everything changing about the television and streaming industries. Nicholas Hartofilis, evp of national video activation at Zenith Media, has a productive outlook on what he wants to see from the industry in the next decade. “Have [advanced TV] be a complete choice in what targets we can [...]

In the emerging future of television advertising, many opportunities lay ahead on the high seas. But, on the horizon, do advertisers see islands, or new lands for settling? In this video interview with Beet.TV, MTM co-founder and partner Jon Watts says the new-wave US TV market is leading the way in new capabilities - but, often, companies are racing ahead on [...]

In a confusing sea of a hundred "point solutions", you could forgive a client for ending up asking "what's the point?" Case in point - the emerging world of connected TV offers huge potential for precision targeting, even marrying up that process with traditional linear TV buying. One of the leading technology suppliers helping deliver that future acknowledges that there are too [...]

LONDON – The content agenda for the Cannes Lions festival in 2020 is now open for applications, and the year’s agenda themes have been set. The festival will host discussions around the most important topics influencing and shaping the creative and advertising industries. But most importantly, Charlotte Williams, Cannes Lions’ vp of content, wants to ensure that attendees walk away [...]

Janus Strategy & Insights president Howard Shimmel complains that many parts of the industry have not come together in order to make available data that could be used for planning advanced TV media buys at scale. "It's a hope," he says. "I've always been surprised that the advertisers have not forced Facebook to be more collaborative. It's really different to play [...]

LONDON – Strong businesses lead to strong creative and marketing strategies, and vice-versa. Simon Cook, the managing director of Cannes Lions, believes that companies who win awards at the festival are directly impacting the health of the brands they work for. In a conversation with Beet.TV at the Cannes Lions headquarters in London, Cook says that recipients of creative marketer of [...]

This week was amongst the biggest of the year for ad-tech deals, as over-the-top (OTT) TV platform provider Roku announced its plan to acquire dataxu, a demand-side ad-buying platform, for $150 million. Roku is the leading provider of add-on OTT devices, according to Strategy Analytics, and is also present natively inside many TV sets. In recent years, it has building on [...]

As advanced TV, addressable TV and connected TV all evolve, confusion around best practices is bound to arise, particularly as advertisers navigate new methods of audience identification, targeting and measurement. During the Beet Retreat, a half-day Beet.TV event in New York hosted by Publicis Media, Joanna O’Connell, principal analyst at Forrester Research, asked LiveRamp Video gm Allison Metcalfe to clear [...]

As advanced television takes a greater hold on the industry as a whole, Nicole Whitesel, EVP of Advanced TV at Publicis Media, believes that exploring unfamiliar territory is an essential step in connecting with advertisers and other networks. Whitesel was interviewed at the Beet Retreat at Publicis by Joanna O’Connell, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. “Seven, nine years ago [...]

TV advertising used to be so straightforward. Now the emergence of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) has changed the game, whilst the new wave of advertising-funded VOD (AVOD) is shaking it up again. But, as much as conventional wisdom suggests a large-scale viewer migration to over-the-top offerings, what is really happening behind the glass? That is what Samsung Ads asked recently, when it carried [...]

The future of TV looks a little different than it did five years ago. And, at this pace of change, it even looks different than it did five months ago. Today, subscription video has boomed, but the following wave of advertiser-supported VOD services is also emerging in its wake. Preparing for an internet TV world that won't only be about subscription, brands [...]

What is advanced television for, really? During Advertising Week New York, a panel heard how, through its Samsung Ads unit, Samsung is providing data on what its Smart TV owners are viewing to enrich advertising opportunities. Panelists debated how, thanks to technology that can observe eventual viewer outcomes like sales or clicks, and link them back to initial ad exposure, advanced [...]

Advanced TV advertising techniques promise brands the ability to precision-target consumers by the household and to more smartly cap the number of times they do so. But how quickly are brands embracing the opportunity? In this Samsung Ads panel at Advertising Week, two major brands were asked how fast they are welcoming in addressable TV. Moderating, eMarketer analyst Nicole Perrin referenced eMarketer's projection [...]

The former NCC Media group launched by cable TV operators to help advertisers buy across their platforms is aiming to better prove how new-wave TV advertising can lead to real business outcomes. Ampersand, the former NCC Media, has announced a partnership with TVSquared, a technology vendor whose attribution offering links ad exposure data with actual outcome data. According to that announcement: "Advertisers [...]