VIEQUES, PR -- While robust, the digital video business faces hurdles for growth in the years ahead, but those can be solved with better business tools, and a common language for problem-solving, says Ashley J. Swartz, CEO of Furious Corp in her wrap-up report on the Beet.TV retreat. But the answers aren't as simple as more ad load or different video formats, [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- In an age where the media we use give off signals back to advertisers, marketers are being sold on the potential to thread each in to a holistic view of customers and of their ad effectiveness. But the reality so far is a little different, a panel of advertising tech execs discussed at a retreat convened by Beet.TV: Merkle programmatic head [...]

VIEQUES, PR -  Virool, the San Francisco-based video adtech company that provides "outstream" or "in-article" video advertising,  is powering its growth with a data management platform that has 450 million uniques, says Brian Danzis, Chief Revenue Officer, in this interview with Beet.TV He says the company, which had originally focused on building audiences for individual "influencers" has expanded to include mid-tail [...]

VIEQUES, PR - With television inventory soon to be sold out, there are billions of dollars on the table.   Unable to spend more on television, big dollars will go to publishers who can target hard-to-reach voters, says Mari Kim Novak, Chief Marketing Officer at Rubicon Project, in this interview with Beet.TV She also speaks about the development of Rubicon in [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- What are the right length and the right context for a video ad, and can you place them on any and every device? That was the topic of a panel debate, convened by Beet.TV at its retreat, involving executives from major advertising and publishing firms: YuMe chief revenue officer Scot McLernon Facebook global agency lead David Dugan Ansable global president Travis Johnson [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- So-called "programmatic" advertising - techniques for refining and automating advertising trading - grew up around real-time bidding, the instantaneous transactions that seem anathema to traditional upfront ad sales. But, as the technology has matured, it has also begun to allow for old-fashioned-style upfront buys - with all the added efficiency of programmatic. A panel convened by Beet.TV discussed the topic: Target [...]

From its first origins in 1887 as owner of the San Francisco Examiner, Hearst has certainly changed over the years. Back then, the company had just one title. Now focused on magazines, websites and video, the publisher is more interest in applying a diverse range of mechanisms to its ad sales operation. Hearst ad platforms SVP Mike Smith tells Beet.TV the company uses [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- It's arguably five years since real-time ad buying went mainstream. At the start, ad agencies tended to concentrate their programmatic specialism in distinct corporate units, run as a service for sibling departments. But, as the techniques have gained adoption, some have been tempted to make the function available across the group. Case in point: last year, Publicis’ VivaKi unit moved from a [...]

So far, the biggest complaint when it comes to digital ad fraud has come from ad buyers, who fear that nefarious operators in the publishing value chain are gaming the system to show ads in undesirable locations for no effect. But the other side is now getting conned, too, as "sub-syndication networks" duplicate and misrepresent buyer inventory, selling it on for immoral [...]

It's easy to forget now but, when credit cards first came on to the scene, they suffered a bad reputation, as poor security measures allowed nefarious clerks and larger-scale operators to clone and defraud accounts. Nowadays, however, credit card fraud is declining year on year. For ad industry types still wringing their hands at ad fraud, there is a salutary lesson, [...]

PALM SPRINGS -- The latest piece of ad-tech lingo is "header bidding" - a kind of advance bidding on ad inventory where publishers offer ad spots to multiple sources of ad demand, hopefully increasing their yield. Ad-tech vendor OpenX is amongst the pioneers in the space. And now its recently-announced Real-Time Guaranteed (RTG) system is connecting with header bidding technology to do [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- Much progress has been made in programmatic advertising, but more work needs to be done to fully deliver "unduplicated reach" in this new arena, says Tim Castree, Managing Director at Videology, in a conversation with Ashley J. Swartz, CEO & Founder at Furious Corp., for Beet.TV. The biggest hindrance for brands in programmatic buying lies in the existence of both [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- The rush to quantify whether online ads are actually being seen by users has given rise to "viewability" metrics. But these are a baseline, not even a metric that should be top of mine, says one ad-tech exec. "The key thing is, it’s not a KPI," Integral Ad Science video GM Kevin Lenane tells session moderator Matt Spiegel of MediaLink in this recorded [...]

Viant, a holding company of several adtech units including Specific Media and Vindico, and the owner of MySpace, has been acquired by Time Inc, the company announced today.  Terms have not been announced. At CES in January, we spoke with CEO Tim Vandorhook about the company and the continuing value of MySpace for targeted advertising.   We have republished that interview [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- It's one of the few brands to operate its own private programmatic ad exchange. But that doesn't mean US supermarket giant Target agrees with predictions, from some quarters, that all media will be sold on this automated basis. Target operates its own Bullseye Exchange, a marketplace in which Target pulls the strings. "I don’t think everything is (going to be) programmatic," Target digital marketing [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- A short, 200-word news article doesn't necessarily deserve a 45-second pre-roll video ad. That's a recipe for user frustration. And that's also why Genesis Media, an ad-tech firm delivering auto-playing video ads on to text pages, is refining its service to account for page characteristics. It just announced Adaptive Formats, technology that serves up a different video ad format depending [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- So-called programmatic techniques for trading online ads burst on the scene quickly, and is now forecast to make up 72% of total digital display ad spend by 2017, according to eMarketer. Group M's North America programmatic buying president Joe Kowan says that rush wasn't quite all it was cracked up to be, disagreeing with definitions that suggest programmatic is about [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- Just three years ago, only 20% of Facebook's business came from mobile platforms. Last Q4, that was 80%. That's testament to the changes Facebook is having to make to ensure it continues connecting with audiences. But the same goes for advertisers who use the network, according to Facebook global agency lead Dave Dugan. "Advertisers who can communicate with consumers on [...]

Eight years after launching as an ad-tech platform for publishers, OpenX is growing its business at a tear. "Our net revenue (was) $140m in 2015, which is up 40% year-on-year," OpenX CEO Tim Cadogan tells Beet.TV in this video interview. "(In) 2014 and 2015, we doubled the size of the company from a a revenue point of view and tripled profit." Further details of [...]

PALM SPRING -- Look out; there's a new piece of ad-tech lingo on the block. So-called "header bidding" has emerged as "one of the primary drivers of growth in programmatic for publishers over the last year", according to OpenX monetization VP Qasim Saifee. So what is it? Digiday's "WTF?" series explains: "Header bidding, also known as advance bidding or pre-bidding, is an advanced programmatic technique [...]