LAS VEGAS  -  Far from being dead, MySpace has enormous monthly user traffic, mostly from users accessing archived photos, and that data is one of the major sources driving an "exploding" digital advertising buying platform for ad tech conglomerate Viant, says Tim Vanderhook, CEO, in this interview with Beet.TV at CES earlier this month. Vanderhook told Advertising Age last week that [...]

LAS VEGAS --  With data provided by Tivo Research and selling software from SpotX, Clypd is powering "reach extension" for national advertisers on cable  networks in what is becoming a more robust "scattered" marketplace, explains Mark Mitchell Chief Relationship Officer of Clypd in this interview with Beet.TV. This video is part of Beet.TV's coverage of International CES 2016 presented by Adobe.

LAS VEGAS -  Todd Gordon, the longtime media agency exec specializing in advanced TV recently joined the video advertising software company TubeMogul.   In this interview with Beet.TV earlier this month at CES, he says that while real time bidding around television inventory is still some time off, the concept of audience buying by the major media operators is becoming [...]

LAS VEGAS -- With $25m raised in 2015, personalized video ad creation and delivery firm Innovid has now taken a total $56.m in venture funding over its eight years of operation. So what does the New York-based company plan to do with the latest money? "That new capital will help us fuel the growth," co-founder Tal Chalozin tells Beet.TV in this video interview. "More [...]

LAS VEGAS -- These days, consumers recognize silent auto-play is becoming a standard for videos delivered in feeds. But advertisers are still trying to find the true value in a format that nobody clicked and nobody heard. Ad holding group WPP's chief Sir Martin Sorrell recently said Facebook, the biggest exponent of the format, "has a lot of work to do" to demonstrate effectiveness, saying it [...]

LAS VEGAS - Virtual Reality "VR" was one of the most talked-about tech and media stories at International CES.  For Tracey Scheppach EVP of Precision Video of the Starcom MediaVest Group, the "immersive" experience is very exciting --  and will emerge once the industry reaches scale via device viewing distribution. We spoke with Schappach at CES last week.  This video is part [...]

LAS VEGAS -- It was billed as a first, and a successful one at that. In October, Yahoo broadcast its first ever live stream of an NFL football game, the one  between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Buffalo Bills from London. After the final whistle, Yahoo claimed to have broken ground by attracting 15m viewers. That would have made the game almost as popular as [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Publishers' marketing automation tech vendor PubMatic has announced it will power mobile advertising for German publisher Gruner + Jahr's G+J eIMS ad sales division - but PubMatic has been going through some other changes of late. The G+J deal means PubMatic will help enable programmatic mobile ads for brands including Spiegel and Vodafone live, after its mobile business grew [...]

LAS VEGAS - IP delivery of live TV  programming via OTT devices is surging:  So called "TV Everywhere" consumption has moved from primarily via mobile devices to the living room.  In the last twelve months OTT device viewing has gone from under 10% to some 25% of live streamed content, says Jeremy Helfand, Vice President, Adobe Primetime. With consumption rising, Adobe Primetime [...]

LAS VEGAS -- In the last few years, advertisers have become accustomed to finely targeting web and email marketing for distinct consumers. Now they want to do the same with online video, which itself is reinventing traditional TV. That's the assessment of one exec in the thick of the ad-tech explosion, who says customers have more choice than ever. "They want to apply the [...]

LAS VEGAS -- These days, the Consumer Electronics Show is about more than just electronics. Marketers and ad agencies also flocked to Vegas to find out about new opportunities to reach consumers. But what was a newspaper publisher doing amongst the tech crowd? USA Today publisher Gannett was in town to unveil its latest branded content offering, three months after Kelly Andresen was hired [...]

LAS VEGAS -- VideoAmp is a relatively new player to the burgeoning landscape of cross-screen video ad technology vendors. At least, it may look like that from the outside. The Santa Monica-based outfit spent plenty of time perfecting its platform before taking on a $15m first venture round in November, the latest in German broadcaster RTL Group's ad-tech roll-up. Now VideoAmp CEO [...]

LAS VEGAS -- He's only been in the role a couple of months, but programmatic ad tech company Rocket Fuel's new CEO Randy Wootton expects a big trend. "Every marketer, especially every B2C marketer, is going to make decision in the next five years about their first-party data," he tells Beet.TV in this video interview. How brands choose to use consumer data - both [...]

LAS VEGAS -- AOL wants to make more video this year to catch up with unmet demand for watching online content, says AOL content and consumer brands EVP Jimmy Maymann. The publisher  has a host of productions on the go, but Maymann says appetite is voracious. "When people log on to the internet, a third of what they do is watching online video," he tells Beet.TV in this [...]

LAS VEGAS -- At CES this week, Adobe and Deloitte previewed an OTT solution for media companies who want build direct-to- consumer platforms.     Deloitte, which has been doing OTT integrations for several cable networks, is expanding its offering with the integration of Adobe Primetime and Adobe Marketing Cloud. For an overview of the OTT solution and role of Adobe, [...]

LAS VEGAS - For SpotX, a leading supply side platform for premium video publishers, the new year will bring deeper targeting via closer collaborations with data providers such Krux and Lotame, says Jeremy Straight,  SVP for Partnerships, in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with Straight at the CES show about partnerships for SpotX and prospects for the growth of the automated [...]

LAS VEGAS - Mac Delaney, formerly a senior exec at Vivaki and  SMG, joined Merkle in October, the independent performance marketing shop, as its head of programmatic operations. His group is growing quickly, he says in this Beet.TV interview -- and adds that two big client wins will be announced later this month. We spoke with him about the agency, its roots in [...]

LAS VEGAS - At Cannes Lions, many in the media agency world were consumed by an unprecedented number of accounts in review.  The torrent was named "Pitchapalooza." With most of the reviews are over and there have been notable winners and losers, but the net share of business hasn't  changed much, says Michael Kassan, Chairman & CEO of powerhouse media consultancy MediaLink. MediaLink has [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Can a magazine make a movie? That's what is happening at Conde Nast, the periodical publisher more used to turning pages than rolling film. But, in the multi-media digital era, all bets are off, and all screens are on. "We have 22 films in different stages of development, and four television shows in production as we speak," Conde Nast CEO Robert [...]

LAS VEGAS -- It's no Oculus Rift, and it costs about 40 times less - but Google's cardboard virtual reality headset has given The New York Times a runway to a VR future. Now the publisher plans to put branded content, as well as high-impact editorial, inside this new world. For its new NYT VR app, the Gray Lady last year began commissioning [...]