COLOGNE -- The sea of advertising technology platforms in which the industry is which the industry is currently swimming is threatening to overwhelm. Whilst each platform promises to make life better and easier, the reality may be the opposite. "There is a proliferation of ad technology - it’s only made the business of video harder.," according to Furious Corp CEO Ashley C. [...]

Advertisers these days seem worried about a litany of technologies with which bad industry actors and consumers alike can bypass advertising. The latest is ad blocking, which Apple's iOS 9 now supports on mobile web. But that threat to mobile could benefit another media, one ad tech exec reckons. "It is incredible. Things like ad blocking, view ability and fraud - it feels like [...]

Programmatic advertising is booming, as more ad buyers and sellers switch on to technology that automates, targets and better controls the trading of online inventory. So far, the tech has revolutionized web ads, next up is video. "Programmatic has been huge in display, programmatic is a bit different in video," according to video ad tech vendor Tremor Video's CEO Bill Day. "There’s [...]

COLOGNE -- So-called "programmatic" technologies for automating, planning, targeting and executing online advertising buys have revolutionised the online display ad sector - now they are making in-roads in to video. "Programmatic is changing the media landscape," according to video ad tech platform vendor TubeMogul's managing director Nick Reid, in this video interview with Beet.TV. "IHS predicts €2 billion spend in European video [...]

COLOGNE -- Many operators out there are busy launching initiatives to super-target digital TV viewers. But, when you're a telco with paying subscribers, you'd better be sure you don't do anything that annoys your paying customers, says a Belgian quad-play provider. "As a telco, we see our users not only as an audience, we see them foremost as customers," according to [...]

COLOGNE -- Medialaan, the commercial media operator serving the Flemish-speaking Flanders region of Belgium, began making full shows available online last year. Now it is gearing up to better-monetize its full-show assets with online advertising. "It’s been better than we expected," Medialaan digital head Olivier van Zeebroeck tells Beet.TV in this video interview. "After one year, without advertising around it, we already have [...]

COLOGNE -- As an acronym, it doesn't seem to make any sense. But "IVT" (that's "invalid traffic") is now the new industry jargon for what had been called "non-human traffic", the scourge of online ads being triggered to defraud advertisers using fake views. The Media Ratings Council this summer put together guidelines for tackling the problem, which comScore advertising effectiveness VP Duncan Trigg [...]

COLOGNE -- Soccer is big in Germany - and that means soccer is watched a lot, not just on traditional TV but also on new online TV services. That's what the satellite and telco operator Sky Deutschland is discovering in its multi-platform online viewing service brand, Sky Go. "If you look at the Bundesliga, for example, we already have 15% of the total [...]

COLOGNE -- This summer, Gabe Greenberg left his post as general manager of advanced and programmatic television at The Trade Desk to launch a conference about programmatic TV advertising. Dubbed GABBCON (the Global Audience Based Buying Conference), the new LA-based enterprise is more than an event; Greenberg is also hoping to harmonize some of the many different interpretations about what, exactly, programmatic TV is. "There’s an absolute lack [...]

The news last week about the acquisition of Rentrak by comScore has been hailed by some as the emergence of a new competitor to Nielsen in the TV ratings space.  For Bill Wise, CEO of  TV media buying platform Mediacean, competition is a good thing, and while the newly combined forces will keep Nielsen "honest," it wont' replace it. We spoke with [...]

Virool, the video adtech platform that provides publishers with a means to monetize video advertising outside of the traditional video player and into the content stream, is analyzing the facial expressions of consumers to measure reactions to specific video ads, explains CEO Alex Debelov, in this interview with Beet.TV A small group of about 1000 users for different videos provide permission to use their [...]

COLOGNE -- When it comes to technology adoption, conventional wisdom goes that the UK, France and Germany - in that order - tend to take on new practices ahead of the continent's pack. But that belief has been up-ended by an IHS research report which shows another country leads the way. "The top market is the Netherlands," says IHS’ advertising research senior director Daniel [...]

Addressable TV, the sending of TV ads to specific cable or satellite boxes, is developing but its growth is limited by supply.   MSO's including AT&T DirecTV, Cablevision and others offer only two-minutes per hour. But that is going to change. It will be driven by media agencies who will buy national programming and allocate spots on the impression level, predicts [...]

COLOGNE -  Native or custom advertising units, is powering profitability for the Chicago-based satirical publisher The Onion, says CEO Mike McAvoy, in this interview with Beet.TV at DMEXCO last month. Big marketers including Ford are on board  with custom campaigns.  The business of display does not work for publishers without massive scale, he says. Helping the bottom line in recent months has been the [...]

COLOGNE -  Putting the power of data management into the hands of its clients, is the primary genesis of the Publicis' DMP offering, explains Armel Bursaux, Data and Analytics Director of Starcom MediaVest, in this interview with Beet.TV last month at DMEXCO. SMG parent Publicis announced its DMP in collaboration with Adobe at last year's DMEXCO.  Bursaux talks about its global [...]

COLOGNE - Known in the media and adtech industries as a powerful networker, with glitzy parties in Cannes and at CES, MediaLink is expanding with dedicated practices around programmatic advertising, a content creation unit and a very active role in many of the current agency reviews, explains Dee Salomon, CMO, in this interview last month at DMEXCO. At DMEXCO, the firm [...]

NBCUniversal is ramping up its programmatic video sales via private deals, but it’s not selling video inventory on open exchanges. “It’s our most prized asset, “ says Aaron Radin, SVP-Partnerships and Portfolio Products at NBCUniversal, in an interview with Beet. TV. “It’s the core asset of the company from a media standpoint, and we want to make sure that our [...]

COLOGNE -- Advertising technology platforms are giving advertisers and ad buyers unprecedented and ever-greater abilities to plan, control, buy and monitor their digital ad campaigns. But with this new power comes, also, degrees of complexity. For starters, now that advertisers rely on more and more external technology partners, they are one step away from the nuts and bolts of their campaigns. "There’s so many [...]

COLOGNE -- Programmatic ad-trading technology has been used to automate and refine the process of buying and selling online display ads. Now it is also making in-roads to online video. Next, many hope it will similarly revolutionise TV advertising. But is programmatic automation really all it's cracked up to be? "When people talk about programmatic and they reference automation, the irony is it’s actually [...]

COLOGNE -- These days, a plethora of advertising technologies gives brands analytical insight in to a whole array of campaign data points. As the tech burgeons, many advertisers, scratching their head at all the results, speculate about combining those data in to a single score. But that would not be the right way to go about assessing ad effectiveness, says one ad [...]