LONDON -  The Rubicon Project, the Los Angeles-based adtech firm, has been rapidly expanding globally as publishers demand greater efficiency in managing their ad sales, says Jay Stevens,  GM for International, in this interview with Beet.TV    Rubicon helps a number of big global publishers including News Corp, power their programmatic sales operations. The company is growing in a number of [...]

LONDON -- Data is rooted in numbers, but the use of it is most effective when brands view data as a "consumer fingerprint," says Steve Simpson, Exec VP and Global Managing Director of Digital Strategy, Data and Analytics at SMG, in an interview with Beet.TV. "Think about it as a reflection of people and what they are doing in their everyday life, and [...]

In just the past six month, Vice has become "one of the biggest newscasts in the country and possibly the world," says Vice SVP for sales Brian Dietz in this segment on Beet.TV.  Dietz tells our Ashley Swartz that Vice news has some 650K subscribers on YouTube and has had 70 million videos viewed since its March launch. Also in [...]

Video-on-demand inventory is the next logical entry point for programmatic style advertising into linear TV, says Ashley J. Swartz, CEO and Founder of Furious Minds, in an interview with Beet.TV. "VOD is the first inventory that will come online for dynamic ad insertion," she says. "The inventory is a bit more controlled, it's not beholden to a live, linear broadcast. You aren't encumbered [...]

Moving TV dollars to online remains a challenge says Vik Kathuria, Global Chief Media Officer at Razorfish in an interview with Beet.TV. "It's very hard to find an apples to apples comparison in terms of TV money and where to move it. If you are a TV buyer, you want to scale. To effectively move some of the money from one [...]

LONDON -- Programmatic advertising not only has the potential to influence digital advertising, but also TV, says Steve Parker, co-CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group in London, in an interview with Beet.TV. "What we're learning around programmatic video allows us to transform our relationship with TV. TV in the UK has never been in better health. There is better content, more people are [...]

As programmatic buying expands, look for agencies to build more private marketplaces in the next 12 to 18 months, says Julian Zilberbrand, EVP Activation Standards, Insights, & Technology at ZenithOptimedia Group in an interview with Beet.TV. That's because private exchanges provide an ecosystem that can be "safer" and possess less potential for fraud and non-human bot traffic, he says. Marketers may also be more [...]

Programmatic advertising has flourished digitally, but in time it will spread further to TV, says Brendan Condon, CEO of Media Property Holdings, which operates like an ad network but for TV buying by aggregating TV spend across multichannel video providers, syndicators and local broadcasters. But there are ways to automate it through addressable technology and this will increase in the coming [...]

Larger advertisers are beginning to realize that, with a range of new online technology, they can take more control of their own campaign spending, says an ad tech exec. "We’re seeing an increase in operators wanting to run their own marketing programs directly using our software and operating system," says Sam Cox, global partner management VP of MediaMath. "We’re also seeing publishers [...]

SAN FRANCISCO - The next stage in the adoption of  automated ad-trading tools, private marketplaces are helping so-called "programmatic" practices flourish, says an exec in the space. "If 2013 was the year of real-time bidding and programmatic coming in to reality, 2014 is the year of private marketplaces," video ad tech vendor BrightRoll's marketing SVP Tim Avila tells Beet.TV in this video. Whilst programmatic [...]

Nowadays, advertisers are starting to buy ads in social media streams that are synchronized with TV ads. Soon, they may also get to buy display ads on premium publisher sites in the same way. "2014 was all about getting the pipes in place," says Stefan Maris, global product manager of Civolution, a video technology vendor whose TV-synced ads service now lets [...]

SAN FRANCISCO - The holy grail of mass-market TV through which advertisers can target individual viewers is coming nearer as better and better ad tech improves prospects, says one company playing in this emerging area. "We obviously don’t have that utopic state in linear TV right now," says TubeMogul CMO Keith Eadie in this video. "We don’t have it perfectly in [...]

The key focus of programmatic buying should be on delivering business outcomes for a marketer, says Vik Kathuria, Global Chief Media Officer at Razorfish in an interview with Beet.TV. If an agency can do that, then it makes sense to keep programmatic buying in house, he says. In the coming year, he predicts the big agencies will focus on building out their [...]

Twitch, the live video platform that allows gamers to interact over  the Internet, will be acquired by Amazon for over $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports.   the site was formerly known as Justin.tv, a pioneering platform for personal live streaming. Last year, we spoke with chief revenue officer Jonathan Simpson-Bint about the company’s fast growth with gamers.  We have republished [...]

WPP ad group GroupM made waves earlier this year when it announced it would no longer buy online ads from open exchange marketplaces, as first reported by Beet.TV. But rival Publicis' VivaKi digital unit doesn't think that's necessarily the right strategy. "If you limit yourself by saying you’re doing one thing or to the other, I don’t think you’re really delivering best [...]

After GroupM announced, earlier this year, it would no longer buy online ads from open exchange marketplaces, more criticism is being voiced by ad buyers about how such exchanges operate. IPG Mediabrands’ global CEO Matt Seiler tells Beet.TV in this video that more openness is needed from the "open" end of the industry. "Pretty big advocates as we are about open, clients have [...]

"Programmatic" methods of buying and selling digital advertising space have come a long way since they were used only to shift un-loved banner slots. "What started as a fringe trend in the digital advertising space is now taking over the entire industry," AppNexus president Michael Rubenstein tells Beet.TV in this video. "Programmatic is eating the media world. "Five to 10 years from now, we’ll [...]

AOL bought Adap.tv, Facebook bought LiveRail and, last month, RTL Group bought a majority of SpotXchange - a wave of consolidation is under way, as large media groups buy up programmatic video ad tech vendors. "Consolidation is a great thing for the industry," says the emerging media VP of another such vendor, Turn, Chris Smith," and shows we’re making a lot of great strides [...]

Advertisers and their buyers often say they aspire to advertise only with "premium" publishers. But what does that really mean, and is the notion changing as ad tech evolves around it? Three execs from different parts of the industry debated for Beet.TV... Mindshare's New York digital lead Joe Migliozzi: "Hopefully, over time, we can get over that misperception that, just because you [...]

Media agencies know that TV viewing is diminishing - but at least growing consumption of video on alternative screens gives them a shot at dreaming up a new kind of moving-pictures advertising stronghold in mobile media. "People are not sitting in front of the television like they used to," Mediacom managing partner and group digital director Michael Lampert tells Beet.TV in this [...]