Adobe today announced an agreement with Turner Broadcasting to provide its technology services to stream the digital, linear feed of of Turner's cable networks. The services from the Adobe Primetime unit is powering delivery of the networks linear programming  cable and satellite subscribers who can watch on IP-connected devices.   For an overview on the arrangement with Turner and the growth of [...]

Many TV viewers are making time for second-screen activities even if they view TV shows on a binge basis or after a live airing. That's one of the findings of a survey conducted by the recently rebranded online video services company Piksel. "People are making time to interact via second screen, whether before or after," says Alan Wolk, Global Lead Analyst [...]

COLOGNE -  Two of the biggest trends for marketers lie in consumer behavior and technology, says Iain Jacob, President of Dynamic Markets for Starcom MediaVest Group, in an interview with Ashley J. Swartz for Beet.TV from DMEXCO. "We talk to millenials and their expectation of what a brand does has fundamentally changed. They expect brands to service their needs," he explains. "The second [...]

COLOGNE -- It may be a global industry, but advertisers in the US and Europe exhibit different approaches to the programmatic, automated ad targeting prospect that is now revolutionizing video ad buying, says one company in the know. "In the US, it's all about performance," Mark Grether, COO of Group M's in-house data targeting agency Xaxis, tells Beet.TV in this video [...]

COLOGNE -- The rise in programmatic buying tactics is helping the UK-based property portal Zoopla to land new lifestyle-centric brands, says Steph Miller, the programmatic trading manager at Zoopla in an interview with Ashley J. Swartz for Beet.TV from DMEXCO. Programmatic advertising has helped lure auto and travel marketers, in addition to insurance and mortgage companies, because of the ability to buy [...]

AMSTERDAM -- Is corporate split personality syndromestopping online video advertising from reaching its potential commercial heights? That's what one sector exec thinks. "Digital video is managed by the digital teams on the buy side, whereas, at broadcast linear TV, buying is managed by a completely different team," says Tal Chalozin, CTO and co-founder of interactive video ad tech vendor Innovid. "At the [...]

Xaxis, the fast-growing programmatic media buying unit of WPP's GroupM media holding company, has launched Xaxis TV, a new product for TV planners  that provides "broadcast like quality" to online planning as Brian Gleason, Managing Director of Xaxis North America, explains in this video interview. We spoke with Gleason last week at the Beet.TV leadership summit about premium programmatic buying for [...]

NDN, the Atlanta-based syndicator of video news clips for both  big news organizations and local broadcasters in the United States, has  been ranked by comScore as the fourth biggest video site in the U.S. behind Facebook, AOL and YouTube. The company, which sells and shares ad revenue with content creators and the sites where the clips are published, has an arrangement [...]

AMSTERDAM -- Video services like Netflix thrive on learning about viewers and giving them targeted recommendations about next viewing opportunities. Now those recommendations are becoming more advanced. In this video interview with Beet.TV at the IBC show, Rovi product sales and marketing SVP Bob Shallow christens "search and recommendation 2.0 - effectively going to prediction as opposed to related-content". "The way search and [...]

COLOGNE -- After buying specialist tag management service Satellite just this summer, Adobe has already integrated the outfit's product line-up in to its own Marketing Cloud service suite. Satellite claims to speed up clients' website load times by consolidating external analytics and other server calls in to a single call. "We focus on helping customers reduce the overhead from a content management [...]

COLOGNE -- In Germany, top-tier publishers still exert more collective power over online rivals - but that doesn't make them immune from their own empowered customers. In this video interview, video ad management company Videoplaza CEO Sorosh Tavakoli tells Beet.TV ad blocking is a big problem in the country: "We're seeing up to 50% of some specific publishers being blocked., especially [...]

COLOGNE  -- Marketing decision are becomingly increasingly technology driven and that creates challenges for companies who have long relied on the role of marketing executives, says Michael Kassan, CEO of the U.S. media advisory firm  Medialink, in this interview with Ashley J. Swartz for Beet.TV We spoke with him last week at the AOL booth at the DMEXCO conference.

Adapt.tv, the online video advertising platform, served one billion minutes of video ads in August,  more than three times as many as Google, comsCore reported late Friday in its summary of U.S. video sites and video ad platforms for August. In the rankings, Adapt.tv pulled past BrightRoll  to serve the second highest number of  video ads - to nearly 2.5 billion, [...]

COLOGNE -- Microsoft wants to make its entire product line-up a billboard opportunity. The company wants brands to ride its many platforms and products to reach users, whether that's via Windows 8, smartphones, gaming or Skype. "It doesn't matter if you're in a homeworking scenario, a stay-at-home mom scenario, an auto researcher scenario," says corporate VP for advertising and online Frank Holland [...]

COLOGNE -- Simply running ads to monetize online video is not enough, according to one figure in the space. "One of the things we're addressing is the fragmented device space," Adobe's senior technology evangelist Jens Loeffler says in this video interview with Beet.TV. "This is not the desktop browser anymore. You're dealing with a very fragmented device world. "It's not just enough to [...]

COLOGNE -- The UK's TV networks have spent the last few years building up their distinct cross-platform catch-up services against which to sell pre-roll ads. Now they are showing interest in letting some of those ads be bought by programmatic, real-time bidding algorithms. Speaking to Beet.TV, Danny Hopwood, the EMEA platform head for ad group Publicis' VivaKi digital group, says: "Talking [...]

COLOGNE - The takeaway from  this year's DMEXCO conference was about automation -- and technology advancement around advertising, reports Beet.TV's Ashley Swartz in the second-day round up of the show. She says that while technology is making progress, their was very little discussion about the creative. She wonders when the schism between technology and creativity -- maybe at next year's show, [...]

COLOGNE - DMEXCO,  the two-day ad tech and media conference, had  a record 26,000 attendees, says Christian Muche, co-founder of the conference in this interview with Ashley Swartz for Beet.TV In the video, Muche details the development of DMEXCO and an update on this year's event which attracted advertising agencies, adtech companies, publishers and an increasing numbers of brands.

COLOGNE -- Video is a global business and global phenomenon, but from a brand point of view, the industry could benefit from more scale and collaboration, says Laura Desmond, CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group in an interview with Ashley J. Swartz for Beet.TV from DMEXCO. "The first challenge is scale," she says. "What can be done in Germany and the UK is far different than [...]

COLOGNE -- "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed," wrote sci-fi novelist William Gibson. And that's exactly the landscape for so-called programmatic and real-time automated ad bidding techniques. "The way publishers have engaged with the programmatic space in Europe has been much more careful - they've thought about it much more," says Caspar Schlickum, EMEA MD for [...]