When local television station group owner TEGNA launched Premion in 2016 for one-stop OTT advertising, it didn’t know just how quickly local advertisers would take to OTT and connected-TV. “The point is that local caught on really fast,” says Premion President Jim Wilson. “We wanted to make sure that there was an opportunity to bring them a new product, knowing that [...]

In the days after the desktop web was the only channel game in town, many publishers struggled to adapt to a world without cookies. Then, new regulations and changing consumer sentiment put the brakes on advanced ad techniques which sought to solve the cookie problem. But the latest emerging tech promises to give open-web publishers a more promising outlook for selling digital [...]

Fostering creativity in his family was essential after their tragic loss.   It helped Kevin Krim and his wife Marina and their surviving daughter.  It motivated them to honor the short but creative lives of Lucia (Lulu) and Leo.  It turned grief into a movement and the formation of a charitable foundation that offers a creative living curriculum to schools and [...]

It will be a new and nimbler Fox traversing the UpFronts and Cannes this year, evangelizing live events and enabling “the right mix of methodology and optimization” for audience targeting. “We are excited about the new portfolio,” Dan Callahan says of Fox Corp. following the sale of film and television assets to Walt Disney Co. “It does tie itself to emotional, [...]

Back in November, we reported how MediaLink CEO Michael Kassan was seeking out some big-name entertainment companies to serve as foundational partners for Connect Learn Explore (CLX), a new strand at Cannes Lion International Festival of Creativity. With just a few weeks to go before the annual ad industry shindig kicks off in June, it looks like Kassan has landed his [...]

The TV ad-buying landscape remains a highly analog business - but, no sooner have digital platforms begun making in-roads to the process, already the newfangled technology of blockchain is staking its claim. After a year or two of talk and theory, now several vendors are out there, promising to enhance media-buying transparency with blockchain, a distributed technology which creates a tamper-proof [...]

For publishers which want to take advantage of header bidding but which find the main open-source technology too onerous to manage, Rubicon Project thinks it has an answer. Discovery Inc., Clearing House, AutoTrader, Southern Cross, Austereo and Domain are amongst the publishers participating in a closed beta of the new Demand Manager. a solution which aims to simplify the Prebid header [...]

Buyers of digital media and buyers of traditional television are “kind of meeting in the middle” when it comes to OTT and connected-TV” is the viewpoint of Premion’s Jim Wilson. They are attracted not just by audience reach but tying business outcomes to exposures. A division of TEGNA, Premion is an advertising platform for regional and local advertisers, providing access to [...]

The little TV startup that began when a couple of college kids hacked together a satellite dish, tinfoil and a wireless transmitter is now dreaming of a world in which viewers are put in control. Philo was formed out of Tivli, after a pair of Harvard students devised a way to give viewers a better way to watch TV. Now the startup's CEO [...]

Advertising-supported streaming television provider Tubi has a new partnership with Samba TV to measure reach and frequency gaps across linear and OTT. The move comes as Tubi is introducing first-position, guaranteed ad pod impressions along with 60- and 90-second formats, trailers and sponsorships. “The marketplace for ad-supported is a coiled spring,” Tubi Chief Revenue Officer Mark Rotblat says in this interview [...]

Around the marketing world, everyone is talking about the rise of direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands - those that don't rely on anyone else's retail channels and which exert great control over their advertising capabilities. But, whilst not every brand is a Casper, Allbirds or Soylent, many other traditional companies which are reliant on marketing partners could be doing more to look like [...]

The “proliferation of great content” on television platforms basically guarantees that advertisers will be chasing the right amount of advertising for a very long time. “You’re going to naturally see consumers shift their viewing habits based on that,” says Yale Cohen, EVP of Activation Standards at Publicis media. “If they’re not happy with the experience and the ad load, they’re going [...]

Lots of OTT television choices means a boon for consumers, but it also means programmers must balance ad loads better. “That’s certainly a place we have to keep an eye on with OTT,” says Onmicom Media Group’s Sal Candela. “A lot of viewers flocked to OTT very early on from the fact that it gave them a lot of choice,” the [...]

If finding disparate television audiences can be compared to the process of creating a cake, right now there’s no foreseeable cap on the number of layers that might accrue. This is because the current big push is to deliver incremental advertising reach and frequency using a variety of platforms and data providers. In this interview with Beet.TV, MODI Media’s Garrett Winkler [...]

It's the mother of all roll-ups. Engadget, TechCrunch, HuffPost, AOL, Yahoo, Flurry, Verizon and a host of other media properties, all part of what once was called "Oath" and is now just "Verizon Media". But how do advertisers take advantage of that mega media platform, and what exactly is Verizon Media's offering? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jeff Lucas, Verizon Media Head [...]

As the “battle of the titans” in streaming television rages on, advertising won’t be going away anytime soon, according to MediaLink’s Michael Kassan. “I think it’s going to have to find its level,” the Chairman & CEO says in this interview with Beet.TV at the 2019 Digital Content NewFronts. "I think it has to be reimagined." At the NewFronts, strategic advisory [...]

With YouTube's TV and Originals still evolving, the company is trying new ways to bring more valuable ad inventory to this year's digital content NewFronts. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Tara Walpert Levy, YouTube VP, Agency and Brand Solutions, says YouTube TV, the cable-free $49.99-a-month TV service, is now being offered to advertisers outside of Google Preferred, the special slice of inventory on [...]

As Hulu unveiled a slate of new content offerings at its NewFronts presentation today, the streaming television service said it will beta test a new advertising format called the “binge advertising experience.” The new format will make it possible for marketers to target binge viewers with creative that is situationally relevant to their viewing behavior, VP & Head of Advertising [...]

The global combination of Sky and NBC Universal's ad operations is continuing apace, with news that the European platform will adopt NBCU's CFlight unified advertising metric. Sky's Sky Media ad sales house, which sells inventory for both Sky's owned-and-operated channels and others', will adopt CFlight across all content and platforms in the UK from autumn and in its other European territories [...]

In a sign of continued investment enthusiasm for the advanced TV technology space, VideoAmp has closed on a $70 million investment round, the Wall Street Journal reported this morning. The funding comprises $50 million from the Raine Group LLC and $20 million from Ankona Capital. VideoAmp had previously raised $36 million from companies including Mediaocean and RTL Group since its launch nearly five [...]