If you are tired of trying to distinguish one "end-to-end, full-service video targeting and decisioning" vendor from another, imagine how people from outside the digital video industry must feel. LUMA partners CEO Terence Kawaja says 2015 will see ongoing video tech momentum after the "inflection year" of 2014: "We’ve just seen 28 transactions across the video Lumascape, involving 13 over $100m, just since [...]

As consumer interest in watching authenticated TV rises, the ad business will look for better ways to measure video across screens, says Jeremy Helfand, VP Adobe Primetime at Adobe, in this interview with Beet.TV. About 10% of all authenticated TV content is viewed through an OTT device, underscoring the need for measurement and functionality. "Being able to provide dynamic ad insertion [...]

Modi, the recently launched advanced TV unit of WPP's GroupM, is working with video adtech company Videology to deliver television advertising to specific cable and satellite users in real-time, using programmatic ad decisioning technology, explains Jamie Power, Senior Partner at Modi, in this interview with Beet.TV This new scenario will allow the agency to sell television inventory in private exchanges. The movement [...]

CHICAGO -- DigitasLbi's "Perceptions Of Care" video campaign for Whirlpool has won rave reviews from ad watchers, after the agency worked with popular web publisher Upworthy to craft the campaign as a pair of videos. The campaign has generated some hefty social media views. So what was the secret? "It has a real brand product benefit from an emotional perspective, so, tonally, [...]

CHICAGO -- Digital ads can begin to reach individual consumers with specific messages based on unique characteristics - but only if computers know enough to target them, says one ad agency exec. "When I think about the future of video, I think about more personalized experiences," SMG publishing platform and partnerships VP Lindsay Lichtenberg tells Beet.TV in this video interview. "We need to [...]

CHICAGO -- It's only natural that online video advertising takes after television advertising - after all, both media are about moving pictures. But, whilst the forms may be similar, advertiser results can vary across each, according to a tech exec. "It’s a similar experience to what we see on TV," North America MD Jim Daily of Teads tells Beet.TV in this [...]

The sale of TV advertising is about to go a lot more "programmatic" early in 2015, when advertisers via Magna Global start buying slots in Cox Media programming via a new platform. Powered by planning, buying and reporting optimization platform AudienceXpess, the new system will help Magna Global agency clients advertise on Cox Media cable inventory by first running audience segment [...]

So far in the history of advertising, marketers have had to satisfy themselves with measuring the effectiveness of their spending against relatively soft outcome metrics, like clicks, views or consumers' propensity to buy. But now some marketers are beginning to demand publishers and networks charge them only when ads have generated an actual sale. "The kind of accountability that the advertisers are [...]

One of the industry's celebrated digital marketing chiefs says using his company's own data about consumer behavior will become key to future campaign management. "Data will become more and more important to every single piece of media that we buy," Mondelēz International global media and consumer engagement VP B. Bonin Bough tells Beet.TV in this video interview. But many marketers are using data nowadays [...]

Brands will be most successful in creating video content if they understand which platforms their consumers like these days, says Lindsay Lichtenberg, VP and Director of Publishing Platform and Partnerships at Starcom MediaVest, in an interview with Elaine Boxer, Director of Industry Initiatives at the IAB. "It all comes down to the content strategy. How do my consumers behave? A quarter of [...]

Branded video has evolved from a "post and hope" approach to a data-driven strategy, says Mark Book, VP and Director of Social Content at Digitas LBi, in an interview with Elaine Boxer, Director of Industry Initiatives at the IAB. "It's about using data to be strategic about how you reach people in a contextual way," he says. Next up for branded video [...]

Branded content goals vary widely by client, but can be used to deliver on a range of marketing goals, says Jill Langan, Senior Partner and Strategic Planning Director at Maxus, in an interview with Elaine Boxer, Director of Industry Initiatives at the IAB. Some Maxus clients lean on branded video to change brand perception. "We have a client filming local activation and [...]

CHICAGO -- Serial, the episodic non-fiction crime story in podcast form, has re-energized a medium many had thought flickered out before it ever really caught fire - and now web publishers are set to respond by forming a modern podcast network to capture th enew consumer enthusiasm. "We’re seeing a resurgence - a renaissance, if you will - in podcasting,"  Slate publisher [...]

CHICAGO -- Fresh from its deal to run Martha Stewart Living and Martha Stewart Weddings magazines, Family Circle publisher Meredith is busy melding utilitarian content and opportunistic commerce for its legions of followers. "We have seen about a 100% increase on mobile - everything we produce, we’re thinking mobile-first," according to the company's video production and product VP Laura Rowley. "The thing that’s [...]

CHICAGO -- The next tactic for brands in video in 2013 will be to deepen ways to connect with consumer in the moment, says Sosti Ropaitis, Global Director of Digital Engagement at McDonald's, in a panel discussion for Beet.TV "If we start with the consumer mindset of investing time to watch a video it has to be very meaningful for the consumer [...]

MediaVest is loving the new local ad-targeting powers bestowed upon it by new "addressable" TV initiatives offered by Directv, Dish TV, Cablevision and Comcast. In fact, the ad agency has bought over 70 campaigns for more than 30 clients this way. But now the firm wants a bigger footprint. "It is the two minutes of local inventory that those operators control [...]

So-called "programmatic" methods of automating and controlling how advertising is bought are making waves in digital display ad circles. But do TV networks have any reason to change decades of ad-selling processes to make way? "A lot of the inventory is remnant, otherwise goes unsold. It’s not the top top tier of national broadcasters," Xaxis product development VP Christina Beaumier concedes. "It [...]

TubeMogul's new programmatic TV ad buying platform brings benefits for both national advertisers and local US broadcasters, says an exec from one of the partners involved. PTV, launched last week, works by aggregating relationships with several providers that already offer this functionality, including AudienceXpress, clypd, placemedia and WideOrbit's WO Programmatic-TV marketplace, from which many local TV stations take their advertising on an automated [...]

Online video ad technology vendors are scrambling to get a slice of the much larger, main TV screen ad market by extending their digital buying capabilities to good 'ol fashioned telly - and the latest to do so is TubeMogul. The Emeryville, California-based outfit has unveiled PTV, allowing data-driven buying of TV advertising. Ad buyers can already use this "programmatic" technique [...]

CHICAGO -- Marketers are beginning to explore opportunities to integrate brands globally into digital videos, says Marta Martinez, AOL's Head of Global Video Sales, in a panel discussion for Beet.TV. While the Internet has made true global marketing possible in a way that is more difficult with TV's localized ecosystem, brands are only beginning to tap into the potential. She said AOL [...]