It took only a few short years of "programmatic" advertising for a new sub-variant, "header bidding", to come on to the scene. But one publisher thinks that technology, which lets ad sellers entertain bids from multiple demand source simultaneously to achieve higher yield, should not be talked about as a distinct product. "Header itself, overall, was a great concept and it's revolutionized [...]

MIAMI -- A European ad-tech firm founded by Adstream executives is examining a US launch for some time in 2018. Honeycomb TV, operational in the UK, France and Spain, was founded in London to help deliver TV ads to broadcasters for play-out. And the experience negotiating European regulatory terrain may stand it in good stead. It is widely considered to have amongst the [...]

MIAMI – If you “see” consumers an average of 1,200 times each month, thanks to their mobile devices, you get a pretty good idea of their retail habits. Those learnings can empower new ways of understanding how website traffic impacts store visits. When location-data marketing platform NinthDecimal studied the connection between digital assets and offline sales, it found that mobile generated [...]

MIAMI -- At the end of a year in which the "transparency" debate and the arcane structure of agency and tech platform fees have come under pressure, some vendors have begun to accede to demands for a new way of working. Case in point: Videology, one of the leading providers of technology to enable advanced TV ad buying, just launched a [...]

MIAMI – Sometimes you need to learn from new media channels in order to better understand and use the ones that are much older. Social media and television is a case in point. Media technology provider 4C Insights cut its teeth on digital platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and others. As it shifts into the linear television space to enable more [...]

MIAMI – Personalized video provider Clinch has gained a bird’s-eye view inside the walled gardens of Facebook and Instagram. It’s one of just three companies out of several hundred applicants chosen to participate in Facebook’s global Marketing API Accelerator program, which concentrates on areas that are key to the social media giant. “We’re the video company,” says Boaz Cohen, CPO & [...]

Tom Kershaw is deadly serious about header bidding. Last year, his company felt the pain of the new technology, which allows publishers to entertain multiple simultaneous ad bids for higher yield. Rubicon conceded it had been slow to roll out - an admission that sent its stock tumbling, forcing it to make wide-ranging lay-offs and prompting it to spend $38.5mn to buy nToggle [...]

Header bidding, the ad-tech practice through which publishers are now able to entertain multiple ad bids simultaneously rather than in a waterfall sequence, has apparently worked wonders for display ad sales. But, for video, the situation looks altogether more challenging. For one, the VAST and VPAID tags on which client-side video depend impose time-out limits that can add extra latency to the [...]

MIAMI – What used to be transactional relationships based on dayparts and demographics in the television business is quickly evolving into “more of a data relationship,” according to NBCUniversal’s EVP of Portfolio Sales, Mike Rosen. “This is happening so quickly. What we now realize is it’s leading to a very different kind of relationship we have with the end user marketer [...]

In the last couple of years, header bidding, the ad-tech practice through which publishers are now able to entertain multiple ad bids simultaneously rather than in a waterfall sequence, has tantalised buyers and seller alike. But, whilst the technology is now getting more widely deployed on display ads, arrival in video ads will take some time. That is according to an exec [...]

MIAMI -- Slowly but surely, TV advertising has arrived on the internet. But now it needs to start functioning more like TV advertising again. In this video interview with Beet.TV, one of the leading platforms helping brands deliver ads to over-the-top TV platforms says the potential is huge - but OTT ads are a different beast. Innovid CTO Tal Chalozin broke out three main [...]

MIAMI – If the folks at Eyeview are correct, there’s a predictable progression happening in the advertising world as it moves from buying audiences on broad demographics to more targeted transactions. “Everyone’s going to eventually move to outcomes,” says Brian Katz, the company’s VP of Advanced TV Insights & Strategy. “The CMO’s on the marketing side are being held more accountable [...]

MIAMI – A lack of television advertising inventory yield optimization by media companies can lead to “extreme volatility in pricing” to the tune of nearly 10% of topline revenue. “That is ultimately what is driving the opportunity cost of not maximizing yield,” says Furious Corp. CEO Ashley J. Swartz. Furious Corp. began operations in 2014, with Nielsen as its largest investor. [...]

Publishers around the world are racing to provide their advertisers with more scale, more data and targeting capabilities more like they are used to from pure-play digital platforms. News Corp just took another step in that direction by launching News IQ, a platform uniting first-party data, brand data, media properties and data science tools to help buy ads across News Corp [...]

MIAMI – The fragmented TV viewing environment is reality. But it doesn’t pay to wait for “the perfect system” for cross-screen measurement and ad campaign attribution. “I think the time is now,” says Videology’s Tony Yi. “Facebook video impressions are growing exponentially. Amazon is out there in full force.” In this interview with Beet.TV at the Beet Retreat Miami 2017, Yi explains [...]

MIAMI – It’s hard to think of a company that has ramped up more data prowess than Oracle Data Cloud. But even with companies like BluKai, Datalogix, AddThis, Crosswise and Moat under its wing, achieving unified cross-screen audience measurement isn’t going to be a cake walk. “That is certainly one of the objectives for us as well as for a number [...]

MIAMI -- One of its main brands may be History but, when it comes to the future, A+E Networks knows it doesn't have all the skills in-house to make its ad inventory more targetable. That is why A+E recently partnered with 605, the newly-formed company helping MVPDs optimize their ad spaces using data and technology. In this panel discussion at Beet Retreat 605 CEO Kristin [...]

MIAMI – As connected-TV/OTT viewing proliferates and adds to viewer fragmentation, it’s not necessarily a bad thing if you can buy audiences as opposed to demos. And while two minutes of local able advertising inventory remains the norm for addressable campaigns, that’s slowly changing. In the connected-TV and OTT space, “There are quite a few ad-supported services and those are growing,” [...]

MIAMI – When you’re swimming in data about your guests, context is everything to determine appropriate messaging. It’s no wonder, then, that content needs will grow. “What we find is that as we’re creating more targeted segments of guests that we can deliver messages to, each of those groups have different needs and things that they want to hear about or [...]

MIAMI – Spectrum Reach has been running test campaigns in Los Angeles and New York for its first addressable advertising offering on linear television with the goal of having both markets activated this year. “We’ll have five million households by the end of 2018 and then expand to the rest of our footprint and beyond,” says Rob Klippel, SVP, Advanced [...]