Netflix Will Beat Cable To Mass Addressable: Vertere’s Hanlon

MIAMI — Addressable TV, the idea that brands can target TV viewers at the individual household level using IP connections and data, is growing up, now that it can reportedly target around 50 million US households. But a nationwide footprint is still some way off, many industry execs believe. Tim Hanlon, founder and CEO of […]

Netflix Could Make $8bn From Ads: Analyst Broughton

LONDON — What if Netflix started running ads? It is a topic that has previously been debated here on Beet.TV, with one exec betting: “They’re going to have to start to deploy some type of advertising model to recoup some of the revenue that they’re spending on this programming.” A new thorough analysis has shed some hard […]

Will Content Costs Will Force Netflix To Run Ads?

They are the big beasts of the digital-video world. Netflix and Amazon are fast gathering subscribers to their paid, ad-free online video offerings. But, with their platforms gaining traction in the living room, aren’t they ignoring a pretty big TV advertising opportunity? “They’re all spending millions and millions of dollars to produce this content – so […]

The New York Times Finds Success with Native Video Advertising

LAS VEGAS — The New York Times has intrigued many with sponsored articles it has run under the “Paid Posts” scheme it launched in 2014. Now it is finding that branded articles carrying video are consumed most. “A lot of our best-performing stories have had video as part of them; many of them are multi-media,” Times […]

Hearst is Building a “Netflix Model” Around Magazine Video Content

Hearst has just launched “CosmoBody,” a daily fitness show which is advertiser-free and is  being offered on a subscription basis.  This is the first of what will be a number of Hearst titles and Hearst partners who will be part of a new “Netflix model,” explains Chris Grosso, SVP and GM of Hearst Digital Studios, […]

Netflix is Building In-House Programmatic Ad Buying Operation, Kathy O’Dowd Explains

SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix is building an in-house programmatic operation with the primary goal  to build brand awareness, explains Kathy O’Dowd, Senior Director, Programmatic Buying for Netflix in this video segment.   Both O’Dowd and Mike Zeman recently joined Netflix from VivaKi, the big media agency. In this segment from the Beet.TV summit on programmatic […]

TV Now: The Inevitable Automation of TV Advertising is Getting Underway

A Beet.TV Leadership Summit in San Francisco, March 25 Presented by: Keynote Speaker Kristi Argyilan, President, Magna Global, USA Confirmed Speakers Dan Ackerman, SVP Programmatic TV, Adap.tv David Algranati, SVP, Product Innovation and Custom Research, Rentrak Michael Brunick, SVP Programmatic, Magna Global Gregg Colvin, COO, Universal McCann ,NA Paul Dolan, SVP, Global Business Development, Xaxis Toby […]

Discovery’s Hollinger: Keen on On-Demand & TV Everywhere; Cautious of Netflix & Streaming Services

AMSTERDAM — Discovery Networks is keen on on-demand offerings like TV Everywhere, over-the-top and broadband video, but is much more cautious about services like Netflix that could cannibalize the existing business, says Mark Hollinger, President and CEO of Discovery Networks International, during an interview with Beet.TV at the IBC conference.

Media Industry Raises $125 Million for Sandy Hook Promise’s Gun Violence Prevention Campaign: Peter Naylor Urges More Industry Help

Executives from  leading media and advertising companies have joined together in a major campaign to curb gun violence. Created in the wake of 2012 mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, the Sandy Hook Promise,  and its Media Council,  have raised funds and garnered some $125 million in public service airtime. The organization is focused […]

Streaming Ad Inventories Are Catching Up with Audience Growth: Horizon’s Alex Stone

MARCO ISLAND, FL – Amazon, Netflix and Disney are among the media owners that have started to sell advertising on their streaming services, giving brands more ways to reach U.S. consumers. Those audiences include people whose viewing habits shifted away from traditional linear television during the pandemic, which temporarily halted live sports and the production […]

Data Signals Help to Refine Cross-Platform Ad Targeting: Spark Foundry’s Lisa Giacosa

LAS VEGAS – Many consumers divide their time spent with media among a wide array of content providers and devices. A variety of data signals provides clues for how to reach them. “If you think about just using data to find an audience, you have to think about how then that plays out in terms […]

Video Publishers Must Optimize for Advertiser Demand: Fireside Chat with OpenX’s Amanda Forrester

SANTA MONICA, CA – Connected television’s roots are in ad-free subscription services such as Netflix, similar to the ad-free channels on cable such as HBO. The business model is evolving as consumers look for ways to cut their spending on streaming and streaming platforms add commercial breaks among their premium content. There are differences, though. […]

CTV Must Find Right Balance in Data-Sharing with Marketers: Kinesso’s Jean Fitzpatrick

SANTA MONICA, CA – Connected television is rooted in an ad-free experience, but that’s changing as popular services such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video offer ad-supported tiers. Because CTV is digitized, it can more readily adopt automated buying and selling of advertising. “CTV has a big opportunity to learn from the programmatic landscape […]

At The Foothills Of Creative Destruction: Sorrell’s Five AI Trends

LAS VEGAS — At CES 2024, artificial intelligence was, of course, on the lips of most attendees. For Sir Martin Sorrell, the leading advertising industry figure who is Executive Chairman, S4 Capital, AI has much potential in advertising. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Sorrell says he sees a technology that will be a double-edged […]

Solving Measurement & Satisfying Performance In A World Of Over-Supply: Moloco’s Richardson

SANTA MONICA, CA — Once upon a time, when we talked about video advertising, we talked about a dearth of quality ad inventory supply. Over time, that has emerged to be anything but. Now a glut of supply is a problem facing many. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jake Richardson, Head of Connected TV, […]

Every Streaming Platform Reveals Consumer Insights: Disney’s Danielle Brown

CANNES – Walt Disney in the past decade has expanded video distribution with the launch of streaming services that can reach a broader range of connected devices such as smart TVs and mobile phones. Each of Disney Streaming’s major brands – Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu – has uncovered consumer insights that are meaningful to advertisers. […]

Debating In The Berkshires: O’Connell Wraps-Up Beet Retreat Discussions

“Brilliant at the basics.” That’s how Netflix described its approach to consumer experience and advertising during Beet.TV’s Beet Retreat in the Berkshires 2023. The phrase aptly captures the sentiment of many industry leaders, who are striving to balance the rapid evolution of technology and platforms with the need for consistent, high-quality consumer interactions. Joanna O’Connell, […]

Creating a Great Multiplatform Experience Helps Everyone: FreeWheel’s Mark McKee

Next week’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity comes after a period of massive upheaval for the media and marketing industries that sped up longer-term shifts. The pandemic led to greater consumer adoption of internet-connected television, and media companies raced to differentiate their streaming services with vast libraries of movies and TV shows. More recently, […]

Report Card: Beet Retreat Speakers Rate Ad Industry’s Progress On Advanced TV Journey

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Eleven months after they last gathered on the shores of Puerto Rico to discuss building-out the future of connected TV advertising, how did Beet Retreat San Juan speakers rate the industry’s progress? After four days of debate, networking and socializing at Condado Vanderbilt Hotel, San Juan, delegates gathered for a […]

Clean Rooms Need Connection: LiveRamp’s Clinger

SAN JUAN, PR — Little by little, more new TV ad inventory is becoming addressable, as new connected pathways light up IP-enabled streaming. But, even as this happens, is the industry really making the best use of the latest software? In this video interview with Beet.TV, one ad-tech exec warns one of the hottest tools […]