VIEQUES, PR - It is now more than two years since Ooyala, a video advertising services provider, acquired peer Videoplaza, with its strong client base in the European broadcasting segment. The combined entity, now also part of Australia telco Telstra's family, has spent the time since merging its respective strengths, and is now ready to go at a new product area. In this [...]

It made $28.6bn from advertising last year alone - clearly that business works for Facebook. But what advertising works for Facebook's customers? That is a question Facebook advertising research director Daniel Slotwiner has been asking himself lately. Speaking at a Beet.TV leadership summit, he pondered: "How do you measure the value of video?" "We’re thinking a lot about what’s different about the video [...]

VIEQUES, PR – Although consumers may perceive video content as being no different than traditional linear television programming, programmers and providers should try to look at things across a comprehensive ecosystem. The key word is “try.” This not to say that a common sales and measurement currency is in sight and, in fact, it seems that more pieces are constantly being [...]

VIEQUES, PR – It would be an understatement to say that NBCUniversal is going all in on audience targeting and guarantees. Not only has the media giant committed to making up to $1 billion of its inventory available for guarantees in this year’s Upfront season, it’s switched all of its optimization offerings to “always on,” says Denise Colella, SVP of [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- The company started by the founder of Tacoda and Real Media to help advertisers data-target their TV ad buys now plans to give its customers more hands-on control. Simulmedia, founded by Dave Morgan, is the latest video ad-tech company to try moving more of its technology to a self-service model. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the company's sales VP Marc [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- FreeWheel's video advertising server software is used by both broadcast and non-broadcast media companies alike, to better tap in to demand for their valuable ad space. But those two segments have very different rationales for wanting ad-tech, so FreeWheel approaches each differently. That is according to FreeWheel publisher partnerships VP Julie Van Ullen, who sat down with Beet.TV for this [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- Traditional linear TV may not be internet-connected, but that doesn't mean so-called "programmatic technology" cannot be used to better target TV ad buys all the same. Over the last year, Videology, a company providing software for addressable advertising across TV and video, saw a 840% increase in the number of linear TV impressions available to be bought and sold programmatically. The figures are [...]

The world of digital advertising has spent the last couple of years enthralled by the new targeting, automation and trading super-powers bestowed on it by software. Now - almost apologetically, it seems - many ad-tech execs take pains to remember to talk about the messages that, after all, make advertising tick. Indeed, creativity is back on the agenda now that the latest technology [...]

Creative agencies are threatened by the emergence of new technology that necessitates a re-think in the means of producing video ads, and a new kind of software will need to arrive to help them through it. That's the view according to veteran ad man David J. Moore, the chairman of WPP's Xaxis programmatic outfit. Speaking at a Beet.TV leadership summit, Moore discussed the [...]

Best-selling author Andrew Davis has great disdain for MFOMO (Marketer Fear of Missing Out), CMO Pizza and the “marketing funnel.” He believes that if brands concentrated more on outcomes and not market share, they could avoid all three of these pitfalls. It was Davis, of Monumental Shift, who kicked off the recent Beet.TV Leadership Summit titled Outcomes, presented by video marketing [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- Hulu plans to offer its new live TV service in the next couple of months, promising marketers the ability to reach consumers across on-demand and live viewing in one, seamless buying experience. The company has been trailing the live launch for a few months. Features include the ability to "save anything to watch later, pause Live TV and pick [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- Consumers are flocking to watch TV over new, over-the-top connected devices - but some advertisers are struggling to keep up, according to one exec watching the space. US connected TV viewers grew 20.6% in 2016 to reach 181.8mn, and will hit 60.4% of the population by 2020, according to eMarketer. The great migration brings new challenges and opportunities to marketers, [...]

VIEQUES, PR – As Managing Director at MediaLink, Matt Spiegel attends more than his share of conferences and hears more than his share of jargon. So he’s heartened that much of the discussion at this year’s Beet.TV Executive Retreat was about business outcomes. “We’re having the business impact conversation, which I think is great,” says Spiegel, who prefers to talk about [...]

Proving ROI on television advertising is “still in a fairly primitive state,” amid massive network audience declines and rising CPM’s. It’s a paradigm that Tom Rogers believes cannot continue much longer. Buying TV broadly on demographics without being able to match exposures to purchases leaves little opportunity for measuring spending efficiency, says Rogers, who is Executive Chairman of WinView Games and Chairman [...]

VIEQUES, PR – As the world’s largest international television and broadband company rolls out new set-top boxes to facilitate addressable advertising, Liberty Global is focusing on “attention economics.” This departure from simply looking at content consumption is the outgrowth of the company’s ever-evolving data science capabilities. “The industry has been talking about this around the fringes but hasn’t used the data [...]

VIEQUES, PR - With several years of addressable television, digital ad serving and analytics experience under its belt, Sky TV has committed to rolling out its Sky AdSmart addressable platform throughout its five-country footprint between now and the end of 2018. One key competitive advantage is that it only charges advertisers for impressions that garner a 75% view-through rate, its Group [...]

VIEQUES, PR – Underlying the just announced consortium formed by Fox, Turner and Viacom called OpenAP is the reality that audience-based television selling is “complicated and complex,” according to David Porter, Turner’s VP of Ad Innovation & Programmatic Solutions. To speed advertiser adoption, the three media companies are hoping to make it much easier for brands to define their specific audiences [...]

VIEQUES, PR – Take several dozen “intelligent, ambitious, excited and passionate” advertising, media and technology executives to a sunny island and you get some amazing conversations during panel discussions, over cocktails and dinners. You also get to experience a sense of shared success—whether the topic is television audience guarantees, addressable advertising, or new offerings from the likes of Hulu, Innovid and [...]

BARCELONA -- All the world is a mobile screen - but that doesn't mean mobile advertising can use a one-size-fits-all approach. That is according to one exec running mobile strategy within a media agency. "There’s so much mobile consumption, the inventory is potentially infinite in supply," MEC Interaction mobile head Jide Sobo tells Beet.TV in this video interview. "We need to be [...]

Before the advent of digital media, the unbundling of creative and media at general advertising agencies made lots of sense. Now it takes more effort to bring those functions together so that creative is best suited to particular platforms. This is one reason why it’s important to bring the right partners into creative agencies, according to Bob Estrada, EVP & Director [...]