Trying to find needles in haystacks is an apt metaphor for marketers of rare-disease pharmaceuticals when the only choice is low-value, mass-market television. But advanced TV targeting has brought such companies to “an inflection point,” says Butler/Till’s Scott Ensign. The VP of Digital Media at the Rochester NY agency explains how things have changed and what needs to change further in [...]

While video content fragmentation is great for viewers, it can be “a little overwhelming” for advertisers. One of the ways that NBCUniversal hopes to make it easier—on a global scale—is its new AdSmart offering with Sky, which was recently acquired by NBCU parent Comcast. “One of the newer and exciting announcements for us is Sky with AdSmart,” says Mike Reidy, SVP, [...]

SpotX and clypd are integrating their platforms to enable media owners to manage audience-targeting campaigns across linear television, digital video and OTT using common audience targets. “The workflow capabilities are not to be understated. This is often a huge pain point for media owners,” says SpotX CRO Sean Buckley. “And also as we get into more interesting things like measuring unduplicated [...]

Amobee was the first advertising technology video platform to integrate with Tru Optik about two years ago. Addressable targeting across connected TV and a single opt-out across all devices were two motivating factors, according to Amobee’s Aleck Schleider. “We saw early on the continued growth of connected TV and OTT supply and obviously it continues to increase dramatically,” the SVP of [...]

He already showed he can start a marketing technology company that goes large. Can he do it again? David J. Moore, who sold his 24/7 RealMedia to WPP in 2007 and remained in the agency group in several roles, now has a new gig - and he says it combines the best interests of consumers and advertisers alike. It's called BritePool, an [...]

With the global rights to some 30 years of its programming, Discovery is pretty confident about its ability to withstand competition from advertising-free, direct-to-consumer streaming services. But that’s not to say the company has ruled out its own such offerings. “We do think that we have a couple of really interesting categories that would play really well above and beyond just [...]

It may not have imagined numbers this big when it started out in Stamford, CT, six years ago, but Tru Optik - the tech vendor which helps ad buyers target and measure ads through connected TV platforms, now has technology tentacles in 80 million US homes. That scale has just brought another investment round, totalling $10 million, from a group led [...]

In 2019, more audiences and more regulators than ever before are concerned about how consumer data is being pieced together from various sources to track and target potential customers. That comes after Facebook, suffering its own Cambridge Analytica scandal, last year shut Partner Categories, the program which it allowed advertisers to target ads using customer profiles bought from Experian, Acxiom, Epsilon, [...]

Amid a raft of mergers and acquisitions in advertising, media and related technology, being independent and objective while delivering scale have their advantages. A case in point is MediaMath, the 11-year-old company whose demand-side platform is used by advertisers and agencies. Last July, MediaMath raised $225 million from Searchlight Capital Partners, bringing its total funding at that point to more than [...]

Contrary to some thinking, local advertisers quite often know who their existing and potential customers are. They just don’t always know how best to reach them, but local audience segments that weren’t available three years ago are helping to solve that. “The local marketers are some of the most sophisticated marketers that you’ll find out there,” says Comcast Spotlight Chief Revenue [...]

Just shy of its sixth anniversary, Tru Optik has reached “an inflection point for us” with a $10 million venture round whose participants include TransUnion, with which Tru Optik will partner on data and privacy, says CEO Andre Swanston. The funding round for the provider of over-the-top targeting, measurement and privacy management was led by Mithera Capital and also included Connecticut [...]

Univision Communications has chosen Amobee to be its linear television optimization platform of record. The partnership also lays the groundwork for Amobee to support the leading media company serving Hispanic audiences across its linear, digital and social channels, according to Amobee’s Stacy Daft. “We also have the capability to extend the offering into the digital universe as well,” says Daft, who [...]

When history books are written about advertising, “there will be an indictment against our business for allowing our siloes to squabble with each other while the duopoly or triopoly ate everybody’s lunch,” according to WPP Senior Advisor Irwin Gotlieb. The squabbling is prominent in the addressable television advertising space, Gotlieb noted in his keynote speech at this week’s Advanced Advertising Forum [...]

As Hulu’s audience has continued to grow, the company has been building up its sales efforts and offerings for programmatic advertising transactions. “So now that we have that kind of scale we want to make sure that we’re maximizing it from an advertising perspective,” says Anthony Laurenzo. Hulu has had programmatic capabilities since 2014 but “only recently we built a sales [...]

Buying television inventory programmatically continues to grow along with TV content choices. Comscore is responding by augmenting its audience-targeting offerings, including various personas, according to EVP Anthony Psacharopoulos. “I definitely think we’re coming of age, if you will. We’re hitting that critical mass where yes there used to be scarce inventory. But especially with consumer trends we’re seeing more and more [...]

In the age of connected television, Connect All Fronts is MediaMath’s way to draw a focus on “a vision of the future” and its perceived role of uniting brands and consumers. Connect All Fronts is the name of the conference MediaMath, founded in 2007 as an early programmatic pioneer, recently hosted to connect the various partners that are key to that [...]

With nothing but more streaming competitors on the horizon, DISH Media’s Sling TV is nonetheless buoyed by consumer behavior. “The Sling TV audience basically consists of cord nevers and cord cutters. And that is only going to grow going forward. I think the consumer behavior stats that we see are most compelling for us,” says DISH Media SVP Kevin Arrix. One [...]

The union of AT&T and WarnerMedia comes at a time when digital and television advertising formats are constantly changing. “It’s kind of unlimited at this point. Linear TV formats are changing quite rapidly,” says Turner Ignite EVP Dan Riess. As it happens, speed also is one of the key attributes that WarnerMedia is touting to advertisers, along with a one-stop intersection [...]

SAN JUAN, PR - They have been forgotten, the majority of Puerto Rico's children who live under the poverty level, says Eduardo Carrera, CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico in this interview with Beet.TV recorded at the Vimenti Project, the island's first charter school, which is operated by the Club. Carrera, who leads the 50-year-old chapter of [...]

The collection of modern, automated ad trading practices known as "programmatic" may seem to sit with natively digital media. But, little by little, other platforms are getting lit up with these new tricks, too. That's why the man who heads MediaMath's video operations expects programmatic to hit TV in a much bigger way. "I think that, during the back half of 2019, you're [...]