COLOGNE  -- Programmatic video ad tech platform SpotXchange says its sale of a stake to broadcast group RTL is a "huge validation" of the space, as it aims to take the new-wave ad-trading techniques to a much wider audience. "We’ve got better control, better insights - but we’re only touching less than a tenth of the total pie - how are we going get [...]

COLOGNE, Germany – Google's DoubleClick Ad Exchange buyer development head thinks he has the recipe to create "a very nice virtuous cycle where every (ad) impression is smarter than the last". Chip Hall calls it "the programmatic playbook, and he tells Beet.TV about the five steps in this video interview... "Understanding your customer - that means marrying online and offline insights in [...]

COLOGNE -  BuzzFeed, has pioneered "native advertising" as it has long eschewed conventional display banners.  While "native" is widely cited as an emerging monetization strategy for publishers, it's not easy to do, there is a "high bar" to reach success, says Jonah Peretti, CEO and founder of BuzzFeed, in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him at the closing of [...]

AMSTERDAM -  Brightcove, the digital videos services company, has introduced a "hybrid" solution for its media company customers to have the ability to choose a client-side, server-side, or hybrid ad insertion solution.   The system provides integration with ad servers such as DoubleClick or Freewheel. At the IBC Show, we spoke with Albert Lai, CTO, Media at Brightcove who explains the new offering. This video [...]

AMSTERDAM – Brightcove, the big global  provider of video management and delivery services, has launched its first stand-alone video player, which is the "fastest" to load, says David Mendels, CEO in this interview with Beet.TV He states that the Brightcove player is the second most widely used video player, after Google's YouTube. While the video player is pervasive as part of its customers' integrated [...]

COLOGNE, Germany -- Xaxis, the programmatic advertising unit of WPP, is the world's largest programmatic platform, and it will transition to become a "media company," says David Moore, who is both Chairman of Xaxis and President of WPP Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV We interviewed him at DMEXCO earlier this week about the success of the company which is registering [...]

COLOGNE, Germany - For marketers, there is a big upside for delivering TV ads to particular households via an "addressable" scenario.  Providing ads directly  generates a 20 percent boost to the effectiveness of campaigns, explains Iain Jacob, the President of Dynamic Markets at the Starcom MediaVest Group, in this interview with Beet.TV Whilst addressable delivery provides value to marketers and broadcasters, [...]

COLOGNE -- One of the next steps in the expansion of programmatic marketing will be with creative, says Bob Lord, Global CEO of AOL Platforms, in an interview with Beet.TV. "The next evolution is figuring out how to test the best creative, plus placement," he says. "Instead of four treatment or versions, [I want the creative agency] to give me 400 and [...]

COLOGNE, Germany -- Switching on "programmatic" control of ad trading in video won't be as straightforward as it has been in static display advertising, says one European video ad tech exec. "It has a complexity to it that display didn’t," says BrightRoll European MD Andy Mitchell, in this interview conducted at the DMEXCO conference. "Display, press and magazine advertising, over what was essentially [...]

COLOGNE, Germany -- Online video advertising won't boom until better quality video content exists to encourage TV advertisers in to the medium, according to a video ad tech platform exec. "There are various factors holding us back," Videology global media director Jana Eisenstein said during a Beet.TV session produced at DMEXCO, moderated by Ashley J. Swartz.. "Privacy is still one. Understanding how to [...]

COLOGNE, Germany – Now that DMEXCO 2014 has come to a close, thought leader and Furious Corp CEO Ashley J. Swartz gives her take on where the health of the digital marketing ecosystem stands – and what needs to be done. "We are this continual migration from a business that is marketing and communications driven to media driven. It is absolutely now a [...]

COLOGNE, Germany -- In an advertising world that is increasingly enamored with mathematically-advanced methods of targeting messages, it may be easy to overlook the industry's underlying creative necessity. But the two are not mutually exclusive, says a chief from WPP's data targeting division. "I’m definitely starting to see the creative agencies within WPP engage more with Xaxis... the people we can [...]

COLOGNE, Germany – While the original concept for DMEXCO – part trade show, part conference – hasn't changed since its inception, the digital marketing exposition and conference (from which it gleans its name) has continued to grow organically – and dramatically, says Christian Muche, c0-founder and director of business development and strategy for DMEXCO. While 2011 saw a record-breaking 440 exhibitors, 19,300 visitors and over 330 [...]

COLOGNE, Germany -- The injection of "programmatic" ad-trading automation and control in to linear TV will likely increase, not diminish, the value of traditional TV ads, says one of the world's top marketers. "All of a sudden, certain media slots on linear (will) become way more valuable," snack food brand Mondelez International's global media and consumer engagement VP B. Bonin Bough said during [...]

COLOGNE, Germany -  BuzzFeed is quickly growing its video audience to some 400 million monthly views says Jonah Peretti, founder and CEO  in this interview with Beet.TV.  It has build a substantial Hollywood production center with over 100 employees and will be expanding the scope of its video offering.  This will be accelerated by a new round of $50 million [...]

COLOGNE, Germany, Scott Ferber, founder of Advertising.com and Videolgy, sees the future of adtech as an interoperable scenario, not a siloed one amongst various tech vendors.   He sees Videology's role as "stitching together" the various pieces of the ecosystem.   We spoke with him about the evolving programmatic landscape in this interview at DMEXO. This video is part of series [...]

COLOGNE -- The challenge with data is not the sheer volume of information available today. The hurdle with "big data" is knowing what to do with it, says Russell Marsh, Global Chief Data Officer at IPG Mediabrands in an interview with Beet.TV. "It's all about how to connect the data points," he says. "How do you identify the critical components in the data that [...]

COLOGNE, Germany -  Mobile better, IPTV best. That's the equation for music video brand Vevo. Whilst mobile viewing has boomed for the service, which is the modern inheritor of MTV's crown, the lounge is a more engaging space. "We’re pretty well 50/50 (viewed) mobile and other devices," Vevo international SVP Nic Jones tells Beet.TV in this video interview. "But the fastest growing area [...]

COLOGNE, Germany -- As "maths men" take over from "mad men" on advertising's Fifth Avenue, the new cult of data is proving to be too all-consuming, says one advertising veteran. "We may be losing the plot - too much math, too little meaning," says DigitasLBi and Razorfish chair Rishad Tobaccowala. "We’ve forgotten that the data is there to support the art of [...]

COLOGNE, Germany -- If "data is the new oil" when it comes to advertising, Google is sitting on a geyser - but it's happy to let customers tap rivals' supply lines, too. Ben Barokas, GM for Marketplace Development,  sees the emerging digital ad landscape this way, he tells Beet.TV in this video interview: "Every advertiser has its own unique data set - [...]