ORLANDO – For Pearle Vision vp and CMO Doug Zarkin, a successful marketing strategy has to involve sacrifice. “Marketing can’t be everything to everybody,” Zarkin told Beet.TV in an interview at the CMO Growth Council. “It forces brands to be rigorous and disciplined in terms of what we stand for. We could talk about a lot of things, but what should [...]

ORLANDO  – In an interview with Beet.TV at the 2019 Global CMO Growth Summit, Global Consumer CMO of Citi, Jennifer Breithaupt, lent insight on the company’s approach to employee engagement and advertising investment. In discussing causes that are meaningful to the brand, Breithaupt says that the commitment must be felt top-down from the whole organization. “It can’t be a hobby [...]

ORLANDO - In an interview with Beet.TV at the 2019 Global CMO Growth Summit, American Express CMO Elizabeth Rutledge provided insight into the ways that marketing has, and has not, evolved in recent years. While new breakthroughs in data and technology have brought new capabilities to marketing, including personalized messaging, Rutledge says “the customer has, and will always be, the North [...]

How does an insurer valued at $1 billion insure itself against brand failure? By using TV to build its brand and data-driven marketing channels to drive customer sign-ups. Launched in 2015, Hippo Insurance this summer raised a $100 million investment round, ratcheting up its valuation. The company has a fresh approach to providing insurance - analyzing data from municipal building records, satellite [...]

ORLANDO -- Ad-tech is nice, but it is also a distraction and now it's time for marketers to refocus on business fundamentals. That was the message from the leader of an umbrella group representing tens of thousands of US brands, as his own conference got under way this week. Bob Liodice, CEO of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), spoke with Beet.TV [...]

Over-the-top TV advertising technology holds the potential to drive more specific outcomes for car salespeople.. In fact, the ability to track which car ads were seen by which viewers and which viewers went along to a showroom as a result could be a game-changer, says one broadcast company owner offering that functionality. "Automotive is a classic example," says Tim Fagan, chief revenue [...]

ORLANDO -- MasterCard's "Priceless" marketing campaign has been running in various guises since 1997 now. This year, the company has tried to infuse it with "multi-sensory marketing". But being MasterCard's chief marketer isn't all about experience, however. The financial services company is also swimming in consumer financial data to better customize its own offerings and its marketing. In this video interview with [...]

ORLANDO  - Ahead of his panel during the 2019 Global CMO Growth Summit, P&G chief brand officer and co-chair of the ANA Marc Pritchard spoke to Beet.TV to give an overview of his outlook on the industry. It starts with disruption. “Everyone’s being disrupted,” says Pritchard. The only way to deal with disruption is to lead it, he adds. Here’s what [...]

Compared with some of the more troubled parts of the digital advertising ecosystem, TV has always been considered cleaner. Whilst online ad buyers, over the last few years, have wrung their hands over viewability, fraud and supply-chain transparency issues, television - if only because it has been, by definition, disconnected - has sailed on by the controversy. Could the new connection of [...]

ORLANDO – Disney’s deal with Roundel, from Disney’s perspective, is a play to help brands optimize and measure the effectiveness of their own campaigns. According to Disney Advertising Sales svp of cross portfolio solutions Laura Nelson, in conversation with Beet.TV at the annual ANA Masters of Marketing Conference, Disney caught on to just how powerful Target’s in-store and online data was. [...]

Local TV is perfectly capable of overhauling the the historic system it uses to sell advertising - because that system has been hiding in plain sight. So says the president of Hearst's television operation in this video interview with Beet.TV. The industry is embarking on a shift, from the historic method of measuring and selling TV eyeballs using rough "gross rating points" [...]

ORLANDO -- It is three years now since the ANA’s K2 Transparency Report kick-started a procession of outcries in media land, accusing agencies of operating a system of rebates and kickbacks that worked against brand clients by hiding substandard effectiveness, leading to ad-tech vendors also being accused of obfuscating “ad-tech tax” fees siphoned away from real advertising spend. But, whilst all manner of initiatives [...]

They are two of the most talked-about terms in the new digital advertising landscape. But what is the state of "identity graphs" and "people-based marketing", really? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Chad Engelgau, Global Chief Data Strategist and Head of Client Management at IPG Mediabrands, explains. Identity graphs: "Identity graphs really help you anchor all of your insights into a normalised set [...]

It may date back to 1973 and have been overt-taken in the digital communication fashion stakes by Slack and social - but could email be due a comeback in marketing and communications? Of course, email marketing has remained popular throughout but, as brands got hooked on the targeting powers of digital advertising, many switched strategy. Now that the pendulum is swinging away [...]

GSTV, formerly Gas Station TV, has a valuable piece of customer insight to share with brands. When people fill up their tanks, they tend to spend more money overall that same day, making them a prime audience for advertisements and content. GSTV is a national video platform, running in more than 200 markets with 93 million monthly unique viewers, per president [...]

Web publishers are losing advertising sales to closed platforms like Facebook, and may need to start operating like those big guns if they are to claw it back. So says one of the main web ad exchanges that is now moving in to the new world of audience identity solutions. In this video interview with Beet.TV, OpenX chief product officer Todd Parsons [...]

Local TV broadcasters are eyeing replacing the method through which they have made money for decades - but they have so much to gain, says an executive urging them to do just that. Many broadcasters are contemplating a shift, from the historic method of measuring and selling TV eyeballs using rough "gross rating points" (GRPs) to selling on real viewership, by [...]

Walmart’s video streaming arm, Vudu, is flexing its shopper marketing data to better match advertisers with its video audience. According to Vudu vp Scott Blanksteen, it’s what brings “power to the platform.” Shopper marketing data from Walmart – which includes customer purchasing and behavior data around habits like who buys Coke and who shops for a certain brand of razor – [...]

ORLANDO – P&G's Marc Pritchard has goals for himself, for the Association of National Advertisers and for the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, a committee comprised of 27 participating brands, five agencies and major platforms that launched out of Cannes Lions in June. In three years, the group aims to eliminate toxic content completely from advertising. That’s not all. By Cannes [...]

Verizon Media’s data strategy is built on customer trust. The company, which owns media titles including Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, Huffpost, TechCrunch and Engadget, has content at scale second only to Google and ahead of Facebook, according to Jeff Lucas, Verizon Media’s head of North American sales and global client solutions. That positions it between two content hubs that rely on [...]