CANNES – The lower costs of production are starting to change the creative approach to video for a number of marketers, says Rich Guest, President US Operations at Tribal Worldwide during an interview with Beet.TV. "For under $10,000 we can produce a great piece of content that can be cut a lot of different ways. The cost to produce video is going down [...]

CANNES – Movie, TV and music rightsholders already have a way to identify and monetize unauthorized YouTube uploads, using ZEFR's Content ID service. Now marketers, too, can learn when their brands appear in unofficial YouTube videos. Speaking to Beet.TV at the Cannes Lions advertiser conflab, where ZEFR was pushing its new Brand ID service, Chip Russo, global head of sales for [...]

Launched in collaboration with comScore and Arbitron, ESPN's Project Blueprint, measures content consumption across five-platforms: radio, television, PCs, smartphones and tablets – and is the first measurement initiative to do so. Beet.TV spoke with Glenn Enoch, VP of Integrated Market Research for ESPN, at ESPN's offices in Manhattan. ESPN announced their initial findings earlier in June. "We want to keep track of how sports fans navigate [...]

The fast-emerging landscape around the automated buying and selling video advertising will be the focus of a three-hour Beet.TV leadership summit on Wednesday, July 10 in Chicago at the global headquarters of VivaKi, a unit of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe. Headlining the event is Kurt Unkel who is president of products and services at VivaKi and leader of the agency's trading [...]

MOUGINS, France -  The choice of video consumption is not dictated by devices but around genres, like music says Nigel Walley, managing director of the London-based media research firm Decipher, in this interview with Beet.TV. Walley references a research project concluded recently for YuMe.  We spoke with him last month at YuMe event hosted by IPG Mediabrands in a private villa [...]

On June 27, CrowdFlik announced the launch of their new, free app that allows users to create and share custom edits of event-driven, crowd-sourced video. Beet.TV spoke with Chris Hamer, CEO and Founder of CrowdFlik, about the launch at our New York studio earlier in June. "We've simplified it down to its bits and bytes," says Hamer of the CrowdFlik editing [...]

CANNES - Digital advertising technology platform Turn is focused on international expansion this year, having just opened an office in Sao Paulo Brazil, and planning to open another in Milan later this summer, says Bill Demas, CEO in this interview with Beet.TV. Turn's growth comes from the heightened interested in real-time marketing. Its technology offers insights into audiences for display, mobile, [...]

TubeMogul, the video advertising technology platform that provides solutions to agencies and brands who buy media through electronic exchanges, is seeing nearly half its growth overseas with accelerated activity in Asia, says Brett Wilson, CEO of the Emeryville, California-based company, in this interview with Beet.TV We sat down with him recently to talk about growth at the company which now employs [...]

CANNES -- Targeted TV advertising company Simulmedia is giving brands, agencies and anyone who wants it a peek into how various TV campaigns perform in its new Open Access project, says Dave Morgan, CEO of Simulmedia, in this  interview with Beet.TV. The Open Access project is free on Simulmedia's site and includes details on reach, frequency, and cost performance from more than [...]

CANNES -- Getty Images' evolution from static to moving images is happening at pace in the digital age. "We have around 1.5 million video clips currently on our site," company Christian Toksvig told Beet.TV in this video interview. "We are adding something like 10 to 20,000 a month at the moment from our own and our partners' productions. Getty Images formed in [...]

CANNES -- As it expands its marketing services footprint, Adobe has been focusing on its Adobe Marketing Cloud platform for digital marketers, says Ben Rabner, Web and Content Strategist at Adobe during an interview with Beet.TV. Offering real-time feedback, the Adobe Marketing Cloud is designed to help marketers measure, monetize and understand their ROI for digital campaigns that encompass advertising, targeting, [...]

ENGLEWOOD CLIFF, NJ – CNBC has launched  its live, linear programming for the desktop.   It can be watched by subscribers to several of the largest cable and satellite operators in the United States including Cablevision, Comcast, DISH and Verizon.  This "first phase" of the service launched last month. Viewing via the desktop, notably in the workplace, will greatly expand the [...]

CANNES - The automated buying and selling of advertising inventory is quickly growing and will soon involve linear television ad sales, say Jay Sears, GM of the REVV Buyer unit of the Rubicon Project.   We spoke with him earlier this month at the Cannes Lions festival where he moderated a roof-top session with most of the top agency trading desks. Sears [...]

CANNES -  While the move to automated platforms for buying and selling advertising inventory is steadily growing, the industry needs to find a more effective way to measure how all that activity is creating value and impacting brands, says Michael Brunick, SVP for Programmatic at IPG's Magna Global, in this interview with Beet.TV. He said his agency is putting considerable resources [...]

The launch of TouchCast is part of the inevitable  evolution of the Web into a  video-centric and interactive medium,  says co-founder Edo Segal, a technology entrepreneur and former AOL exec who is a co-founder of TouchCast. Users of the free App can create videos with various interactive elements inserted into the video.  Viewers can interact  with the videos by touch using [...]

CANNES – With the explosion from a finite to an essentially infinite inventory of content, agencies and advertisers have been faced with the challenge of learning how to manage it. The answer is found in mathematics, says Dominique Delport, global managing director for Havas Media Group and chairman and CEO of Havas Media France. The use of algorithms allows for programmatic marketing. [...]

CANNES –  A fundamental change in the media industry is the lack of lag time between the creation and distribution of content, says Nick Emery, global CEO of global media network Mindshare.  Mindshare is a, unit of GroupM, the media agency operating division of WPP,  was co-founded by Emery in 1996. While Mindshare is involved in the content business Emery says [...]

CANNES – Navigating how to embrace mobile technology is the challenge for CMOs says Greg Stuart, CEO of the MMA (Mobile Marketing Association). Stuart said the MMA will soon be adding four major CMOs to their board. "It's this knowing versus doing gap," Stuart says. "They know they gotta do it, but how do they do it is really a challenge." Mondelēz International, [...]

Founded in 2012, Wochit aims to be a newsroom for the digital age, producing upwards of 450 news videos a day for publication via the company's platform on a variety of website, blogs, mobile applications and other publishing sources. Beet.TV spoke with recently appointed CEO Keith McAllister at our studio in New York. "We've found the sweet spot between technology and [...]

CANNES – Some folk would have you believe in a straight, linear migration of dollars from television advertising to online video advertising. But that's not how ad trading desk software vendor Accuen Media's CEO Josh Jacobs sees it. "We're starting to have much more interesting conversations with the television buyers saying, 'How do we engage this consumer regardless of the screen [...]