COLOGNE -- Ever since Apple opened up the App Store, it is clear mobile phone consumption has all been about apps. Could the rise of new mobile web technologies put the web back at the heart of consumers' digital behavior that is now all about mobile? Criteo's Alexander Gösswein thinks what will be will be - but that all the current trend lines [...]

With the race for cross-screen audience measurement becoming more of a marathon than a sprint, under new CEO Bryan Wiener comScore has both feet in the game. Those would be its digital and television penetration and the granularity of its consumer behavior data. “The genesis behind the comScore-Rentrak merger was brilliant,” Wiener says in this interview with Beet.TV. “What we haven’t [...]

COLOGNE -- Transparency and fraud issues allowed by ad-tech platforms are now clearing up, but there is still a way to go That is the assessment of the woman tasked with ensuring brand safety throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the world's largest media investment group. In this video interview with Beet.TV, GroupM EMEA senior brand safety director Bethan Crockett says: [...]

COLOGNE – The newly formed Brand Safety Institute and the Trustworthy Accountability Group are pushing the digital advertising industry to invest billions of dollars to fight criminal elements in the same way as the financial services industry has done. It’s a two-step process consisting of “a short game and a long game,” says Mike Zaneis, CEO of TAG, which along [...]

COLOGNE – Turner’s Donna Speciale knows the value of consumer data for advertising targeting and has been working with AT&T as it prepares to unveil its future at The Relevance Conference later this month. “I’m thrilled to be attending the conference in the next week or two,” she says. “I want to hear Brian’s vision from him and his team,” she [...]

COLOGNE -- It is one of the oldest mobile ad networks around, so what is InMobi doing planning a move in to television? In this video interview with Beet.TV, InMobi marketplace VP and GM Scott Silverman says the company will soon be helping advertisers bridge mobile and connected TV campaigns. "We'll work with app developers that have apps on connected TV platforms [...]

COLOGNE – At Salesforce, the acquisitions keep on coming, most recently that of AI-powered marketing intelligence and analytics platform Datorama. The company’s ongoing mantra is “integration” and it seems to have no shortage of assets to leverage in that quest. It all stems from what Chris O’Hara, VP, Product Marketing, calls the “fourth industrial revolution” led by things like data, AI [...]

COLOGNE – In the midst of “one of the biggest stories of our lives, from a news perspective,” many viewers who don’t access CNN in the traditional way are watching CNNgo via connected televisions, with dwell and session times of “more than an hour and a half,” says Chris Berend, SVP, Global Video. “The audiences are coming to us not just on the desktop [...]

COLOGNE -- Music is inherently personal. And, when Daniel Ek co-founded Spotify a decade ago, it didn't take long for the company to embed that fact in the software. Soon, playlists became the order of the day. But that is not the only way music personalization can manifest. And listeners themselves may not be the only party to benefit. "Our listeners really [...]

COLOGNE -- Whether it was The Guardian urging publishers to take back control of their ad-tech stack or eBay concerned about putting all its eggs in one basket, it is clear that publishers have become increasingly concerned about the benefits they get from using third-party ad-tech platforms. And Danish publisher JP/Politikens Hus is no different. The company was formed as a merger [...]

COLOGNE -- Brands' demand to buy TV ads on connected TV sets with new targeting capabilities is growing and bringing new kinds of advertisers in to the market - but the powers that be must come together to capitalize on the opportunity. That is the call from one of the leading advertising demand-side platforms, when it comes to measurement. In this video [...]

COLOGNE -- When Sizmek acquired Rocket Fuel in 2017, it was a deal that reset expectations for the ad-tech outlook, closed a chapter on Rocket Fuel and gave Sizmek access to power artificial intelligence power. On the first anniversary of that acquisition, Sizmek says the company can now offer a tightly integrated, native AI capability for his ad software. In this video interview with [...]

While there are tactical ways to make advertising more relevant, Terry Kawaja believes there’s a bigger concept at play: relegating interruptive advertising to the past. The Founder & CEO of LUMA Partners will be one of some 250 industry leaders attending The Relevance Conference hosted by AT&T in Santa Barbara on Sept. 24-26. On the opening day he will join Otter [...]

COLOGNE – To Michael Kassan, there could not be a better time for The Relevance Conference that AT&T will host later this month. “I think the name speaks for itself. We are at a point in time where we all are kind of drowning in information,” he says. Not only will AT&T unveil the name and road map for its advanced [...]

COLOGNE -- It makes programmatic buying solutions, real-time bidding tech and header bidding solutions that facilitate more than 12 trillion advertiser bids per quarter - so PubMatic should know a thing or two about mobile ad spend. In its Quarterly Mobile Index (QMI), the tech vendor unveils regular barometers on industry movements, as seen through its platform. In this video interview with [...]

COLOGNE -- For a service that is all about price auctions, you could be forgiven for thinking eBay had programmatic advertising licked. But, in this video interview with Beet.TV, eBay director of ad-tech and innovation, EMEA, Geoff Smith explains how, at its scale, selecting elements of its ad-tech stack can be a headache. "The problem with having a core business that's not ads [...]

COLOGNE -- It has been a slow burn for years, but now it seems to be catching fire. With 15% of of marketers now using addressable or advanced TV targeting, and another 20% to 30% more planning to do so, according to the ANA and Forrester, the opportunity finally looks like it has become real. Jon Block agrees. In this video interview [...]

COLOGNE -- Over the last couple of years, we have all become familiar with the possibility that media agencies could be "disintermediated" as ad buyers pull certain key functions in-house in a quest for transparency and control. But could the same happen on the sell side, and why? VideoAmp chief strategy officer Jay Prasad thinks it could, prompted by the looming demands [...]

COLOGNE -- VICE Media has rarely been afraid to pull its punches, always keen to make waves with news from the margins. But how can a company that wants to be ad-funded keep ad-buying brands happy amid all the controversy and harshness of real life? In this video interview with Beet.TV, VICE Media international and global chief revenue officer Dominique Delport suggests [...]

COLOGNE -- When Europe's new GDPR consumer data law came in to effect on May 24, introducing new limits on how companies could process and target using consumers' data, it caused a big drop-off in the amount of advertising being bought programmatically. Sharp eyes noticed that programmatic ad demand volume dropped by up to 40%, and that The New York Times was [...]