WorldNow, a New York-based online video platform provider for some 400 U.S. local television stations, has announced the formation of a consortium to sell national advertising. At the recent NAB Show in Las Vegas, we spoke with Lou Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer, about the growing IP-delivered opportunities for TV stations and how the company is providing OVP, CMS and advertising services. Beet.TV's [...]

Orlando based-Online video platform Stream Monkey is expanding by offering services to media companies, non-profits and enterprises.  One of its key value propositions is its deep analytics around viewers, says Jason Fuhlbruck, in this interview with Beet.TV.   The analytics suite is powered by Akamai, he explains. Stream Monkey was was tapped as the platform for the world's first global music [...]

Do technology and creativity mix? They do if you are attending this year's Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. "Cannes has evolved over the last couple of years to be this nexus of creativity," Universal McCann chief investment officer David Cohen tells Beet.TV in this video interview. "Now we're seeing an influx of technology and data partners, which is representative of [...]

Mobile video advertising is pricing at half of what it should be says Greg Stuart, CEO of the Mobile Marketing Association, in this interview with Beet.TV.  He cites data from a just completed two year, $2 million research study undertaken by the MMA with several big brands.   Unlike other forms of digital video, supply outpaces demand for mobile video, he [...]

Mixpo, the Seattle-based company that creates custom, interactive elements for pre-roll ads for big brands and publishers, sees much bigger opportunities for interactivity in video ads that appear as banners, says Charlie Tillinghast, former President & CEO of MSNBC.com, who became CEO of Mixpo earlier this year. While the inventory for pre-roll is limited, the availability for banner advertising is virtually [...]

Responding to a dramatic increase in video consumption on connected TV's, comScore is readying a measurement tool to tabulate views on the devices and will roll it out this year in the U.S., says Serge Matta, CEO in this video interview with Beet.TV.   He says that comScore is already measuring OTT consumption for publishers including Hulu with a system that [...]

In a  keynote address to some 500 leaders of the adtech industry gathered in New York by the investment bank boutique LUMA partners, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong shared an expansive  view on the sale of AOL to Verizon and the future of AOL.   He spoke about the future of an open, interoperarable tech stack where buyers and sellers of advertising can [...]

It's not porn, it's not file sharing, yet many media agencies equate news with these unsavory categories - and they are keeping their distance and limiting ad spend. The threat to news is not the lack of journalists, it's the way news is seen by advertisers, primarily by the agencies who evaluate the medium, declares Jon Steinberg,  CEO of the DailyMail, North America, in [...]

At the upcoming Cannes Lions Festival in France next month, a vast numbers adtech companies will be vying for attention but there will be an inevitable winnowing.   Consolidation will continues with the growth of larger, open platform technology companies.  "There will be roadkill in the Lumascape," says David Bell, Chairman Emeritus of the Interpublic Group, in this interview, referring [...]

Baidu, China's largest search engine, has entered into a strategic investment with content recommendation company Taboola, the companies announced today.   Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The deal gives Taboola a giant foothold in the Chinese market which does not widely use content recommendation services like Taboola or Outbrain.   The implementation will include desktop and mobile. In a prepared statement, [...]

Through initiatives like the Media Ratings Council defining what truly constitutes a "viewable" ad, the industry has come a long way to eradicating fraudulent practices. But the spectrum of viewable ad-measuring platforms spawned by the search for accuracy means video ad sales are still in a pickle, says one video ad tech boss. "There’s a lack of standardization in terms of what’s viewable… [...]

Last year's deal in which WPP's Xaxis programmatic unit divested its ad-serving technology to ad tech outfit AppNexus was forged in the snowy hills of the Swiss Alps. "For five years, we had a good relationship," AppNexus CEO Brian O'Kelley tells Beet.TV in this video interview. "Last January in Davos, I found 15 minutes with Martin Sorrel and said, ‘Martin, you [...]

Media measurement firm Nielsen and programmatic ad tech outfit eXelate had already worked together for five years before the former's acquisition of the latter this March. Now they are working on the same journey. "We act as their data management backbone, taking a lot of their offline data and activating it in the programmatic world," eXelate CEO Mark Zagorski tells Beet.TV in [...]

Ad group Publicis' VivaKi digital division may be moving its programmatic experts out around the group, but that doesn't mean VivaKi is dead. "VivaKi still lives on," says SMG programmatic SVP Mac Delaney in this video interview. "It operates the SkyScraper platform, the database for all of the group's campaign reporting. You still have VivaKi employees dedicated to the AOD operating system. AOD is just one component [...]

It is not just brands that can use "programmatic" tools to buy ads on exchanges. Brands' agencies, too, can use similar technology to buy advance ads on an order basis, says ad tech outfit Rubicon Project's SVP Jay Sears. "We’re seeing automation go deeper and deeper in to the operating agency," he tells Beet.TV in this video interview." Case in point is Digitas. "We worked with [...]

Brightcove, the big online video platform company, has expanded its advertising tools including dynamic ad insertion and ad insertion for live programming, explains Albert Lai, CTO, Media.  We spoke with him last month at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. Brightcove calls its suite of advertising tools Once. For more coverage of NAB 2015, please visit this page.   Beet.TV's coverage of [...]

The recent NAB Show in Las Vegas marked a tectonic shift in the scope and value of TV advertising.   Finally, the industry has embraced the value of big audiences, across multiple screens. As part of this shift, the value of traditional audience demographics have become less important as new attribution models around IP delivered distribution platform have emerged, says Tal [...]

LAS VEGAS -- As the over-the-top business grows quickly, Adobe has added additional delivery tools to improve speed and reliability, says Jeremy Helfand, VP of Video Solutions at Adobe, in an interview with Beet.TV. That includes higher speed video starts, which means videos are launching four times faster. "We want to make sure consumers can engage with content and that Primetime is delivering [...]

As the upfronts draw to a close, and TV networks take stock of the annual presentation fest, the role of "audiences" will likely have played a larger role in TV buying, says Ashley J. Swartz, CEO and Founder of Furious Corp. Despite concerns of a flat market, there is still money flowing in. "There is as much money being spent [...]

In his career, Tom Rogers has overseen countless TV channels, hundreds magazines and thousands of websites. Now he just wants to run one channel - your channel. Ask the TiVo CEO and president to see the future of media and he'll tell you clearly - personalization, something which will forever break the editorial control of Big Media and the tyranny of choice. "That control has developed over [...]