SANTA BARBARA, CA – With the rebranding of AT&T’s Xandr on the heels of the acquisition of AppNexus, brand engagement can become more of a reality in the eyes of programmatic veteran Art Muldoon. “Having worked with AppNexus since 2010, we’ve really seen the evolution of programmatic turn into a people-based marketing endeavor,” says Muldoon, who co-founded Accordant Media and [...]

SANTA BARBARA, CA – Having spent more than 25 years on the sales side of the television business, Catherine Sullivan thinks AT&T’s new Xandr unit can leapfrog the industry. When it comes to helping marketers understand their target audiences and making TV smarter with more attribution and relevant advertising, “It can’t happen fast enough,” says the President of US Investment [...]

SANTA BARBARA -- For years, marketers have tried combatting growing consumer resistance to advertising with a hopeful refrain - if only they could make their ads more "relevant", perhaps marketing would cross a rubicon and become useful. The theory is all well and good - but how do you actually make it happen? Perhaps inconveniently, a key ingredient of "relevance" seems to [...]

As the result of addressability, attribution, data and technology, “I think we are at a time when advanced TV is at scale and there’s only upside from here,” says Comcast Cable’s Marcien Jenckes. “That doesn’t mean that all media will be bought programmatically,” Jenckes adds in this interview with Beet.TV at Advertising Week 2018 in which he talks about the collaborative [...]

SANTA BARBARA -- In a sea of loosening "social" graphs, it is an oasis of strong communities. Now Reddit wants to be an advertising powerhouse, too. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Reddit COO Jen Wong discusses the company's strategy to marry content, distribution and customer data produce relevance and addressable TV. On March 19, Reddit, one of the biggest community publishing [...]

TORONTO -- It's nearly half a year since the upfronts, the annual season where television companies tout their upcoming content slate in order to lock up advanced ad sales. But Stuart Garvie is still having nightmares about the process. The CEO of the world's largest media buying agency, GroupM, in Canada says the process, which happens in his patch as well as [...]

TORONTO -- It's a smaller media market with a highly concentrated ownership - so how does a media agency make the best from Canada these days? In this video interview with Beet.TV, GroupM Canada chief investment officer Sebastian Rennie opens up on a two-pronged approach. "I think it's about finding the combination of two things, really," says Rennie: "Maximizing the rate of [...]

SANTA BARBARA, CA – NBCU has brought audience optimization technology in-house, developing its own algorithms and making it more responsive to market demands, says Denise Colella. NBCU had been using market-available software for its optimization activity, the company’s SVP, Advanced Advertising Products & Strategy, says in this interview with Beet.TV at the recent Xandr Relevance Conference. “We have now developed our [...]

With its recent acquisition of ZAPP360, Altice’s a4 Local Solutions fills the geo-marketing space in its single-platform solution for local advertisers. Active on both the national and local side, a4 regularly confronts the complexities of trying to help local advertisers, who “don’t have a lot of time and don’t have a lot of bandwidth to deal with multiple parties,” says President [...]

TORONTO – When you’re the biggest wireless company in Canada, plus one of the biggest Internet service providers and cable companies, you know a lot about Canadians as content consumers. “For the last four years, we’ve done an enormous amount of work creating a massive data lake, compiling all of that data in one massive cube that enables us to [...]

TORONTO – Advertisers can target specific audiences on 24 of Corus Entertainment’s adult specialty stations via a self-serve advertising platform designed to ease buyer “pain points.” But while the technology would facilitate household addressability, Canadian regulations and other hurdles stand in the way, according to the company’s head of Advanced Advertising Sales, Barry Marcus. Powered by consumer segmentation data, set-top box [...]

TORONTO – Turns out that Canadian television viewers aren’t much different from those in other countries. Research shows that in-home viewing promotes “household bonding” while providing a much-desired cultural connection to the outside world. Not that the advertising industry knew this instinctively. In fact, it’s been looking in the wrong direction for awhile, according to Christian Kurz, SVP, Global Consumer Insights, [...]

TORONTO -- If you are an auto maker, aiming the TV ads for your hard-wearing SUV at winter drivers in snowy North America may seem like ample targeting. But, when it marketed its new Atlas, Volkswagen Canada wanted to go a step farther. Recently, the company worked with Canadian telco and TV company Rogers to show its Atlas ad only to linear [...]

TORONTO -- It's now six months since Canadian TV and telco operator Rogers unveiled its shot toward the programmatic TV world, in the form of a data-enabled TV-buying product. Tn this video interview with Beet.TV, Rogers programmatic trading and data ad solutions head Rose Hutchison explains how Rogers Enabled Data (RED), launched in April, works - and what it will become. "When we [...]

SANTA BARBARA, CA – One of the big challenges for brands is being relevant in an environment of “continuous partial attention” on the part of consumers. That wasn’t an issue for AT&T at its recent Xandr Relevance Conference, according to Criteo’s Mollie Spilman. “They’re trying to pull off something really unique, but I can tell you that the 200 or so [...]

SANTA BARBARA, CA – Planning and executing addressable television campaigns still means pulling together a variety of resources, but if Xandr can help to simplify that it will further facilitate bringing TV into the lower part of the sales funnel, according to Mike Law. “We’ve really been optimistic about the space,” says Law, who is EVP, Managing Director, US Media Investment, [...]

TORONTO – Even though it has different television regulations, Canada is officially part of North America along with the United States. So as direct-to-consumer television offerings proliferate, companies like Rogers Media are trying to piece together the ever-shifting puzzle that is program acquisition and commissioning. “So what we need to look at here in Canada is are these platforms going to [...]

TORONTO – As she takes in the proceedings at the Future of TV Advertising Forum, Ashley J. Swartz sees a spirit of collaboration toward making television easier to buy along with a “petri dish of opportunity” for marketers. This “interesting construct of a market” with huge geography and “not a lot of people” still has more than 75% of households using [...]

SANTA BARBARA -- It takes a pretty seismic change for a company to sell its core, to focus only on a part that it later acquired. But that's what ad-tech Acxiom - a data warehouse firm that sells consumer profiles to the world’s largest companies, available to advertisers and ad-tech platforms for advanced customer targeting - is doing when it is due [...]

TORONTO -- It may be the most trackable medium out there, but how effective is digital ad advertising really? If you peek under the hood, maybe not as effective as many advertisers believe, says one executive who runs effectiveness for a global marketing consultancy. "In this video interview with Beet.TV, Ebiquity head of international effectiveness Mike Campbell  says: "We have seen some ROIs [...]