Beet Retreat Programming

An Essential Questionnaire We are excited that you are joining us for the Beet Retreat and are looking forward to your contribution. We’ll be using a range of different formats for the event, including keynotes, interactive dialogue sessions, fireside chats, town hall dialogues and panels. We have four excellent moderators supporting: Ashley Swartz, Jon Watts, […]

Cadreon’s Global CEO Erica Schmidt to Keynote the Beet Retreat In San Juan

We are pleased to announce that Erica Schmidt, the Global CEO of IPG’s Cadreon unit, will be one of the keynote speakers at the BeetRetreat, an executive retreat in San Juan, February 5-7. The other keynote speakers are Roundel’s Kristi Argyilan, DISH Media’s Kevin Arrix, NBCU’s Dominick Vangeli, 605’s Noah Levine and Tubi’s Farhad Massoudi […]

Target’s Kristi Argyilan, Cadreon’s Erica Schmidt, DISH’s Kevin Arrix, NBCU’s Dominick Vangeli, 605’s Noah Levine and Tubi’s Farhad Massoudi to Keynote #BeetRetreat 2020 in San Juan

Kristi Argyilan, the pioneering advanced advertising executive who has launched Target’s media platform called Roundel, will be one of the keynote speakers at the BeetRetreat, an executive retreat in San Juan, February 5-7. The other keynote speakers are Cadreon’s Erica Schmidt, DISH’s Kevin Arrix, NBCU’s Dominick Vangeli, 605’s Noah Levine and Tubi’s Farhad Massoudi We […]

The Beet Retreat San Juan 2020

February 5-7 The Beet Retreat, one of the industry’s most talked about gatherings of high-level media executives, will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Dates are February 5-7.  The location is the just-reopened Hilton Caribe. The event will involve three days of high-level panels, group conversations, one-on-one video interviews and extraordinary networking events and […]

Finding The Umbrella For Advanced TV: Omnicom’s Steuer & Nielsen’s Abcarian

CANNES — Smart TVs offer amazing new opportunities to target viewers at the household level – but getting your head around what is still a fragmented and evolving ecosystem is a bit like herding cats. In a sit-down discussion at Cannes Lions, Tracey Scheppach – who encountered that challenge over years spent specialising in smart […]

Industry TV Veterans Tackle Targeting And Attribution At Beet Retreat Miami Panel, With MediaLink, Matter More Media, Cadreon/IPG, Publicis Media Exchange, 605 And Team Arrow Partners

MIAMI – What’s the best way to approach television targeting and measurement? And what’s the value of “waste” in the form of TV ad impressions? These and other topics were the focus of spirited and insightful debate at the recent Beet Retreat Miami 2017. Following are some of the more cogent exchanges during a panel […]

NBC’s Rosen Wants An Upgrade For Cross-Screen Measurement

A leading NBC ad sales executive has stressed the importance of effective measurement for programming and ads across a plethora of screens, as the company convenes a summit to bash industry heads together on the topic. Nielsen’s Total Audience Report solution, for reporting cross-platform viewing of TV and digital content using a single metric, was  delayed earlier this year […]

Target Media Director Nick Jezarian On Data, Creative Versioning And Addressable TV

MIAMI – To reach its guests in the most effective ways, Target wants to create “a different kind of video ecosystem.” This requires lots of data—a growing in-house capability of the retailer—a better understanding of the context in which those guests consume media, plus being more nimble with creative versioning. Target Media Director Nick Jezarian […]

Jakob Nielsen Wants GroupM’s Finecast To Become TV Industry ‘Ecosystem’

When GroupM launched Finecast, after a year of development, this fall, it may have seemed like yet another industry attempt to crack the addressable TV advertising opportunity. But, in the smaller UK market, Finecast has quickly gained real traction – and now its boss wants to give it to the world, too. The agency’s business […]

AppNexus, Tru Optik Deal Delivers Audiences In 75 Million OTT Households: Tru Optik’s Andre Swanston

Under the partnership announced this week between AppNexus and Tru Optik, publishers will be able to pre-segment their connected-TV inventory and have private marketplace deal ID’s to control access to the inventory. “From a technological and logistical standpoint, it’s really a huge step forward for the entire industry,” says Andre Swanston, CEO and Co-Founder of […]

#BeetRetreat Miami: Targeted TV, It’s About to Scale

Program Agenda: Wednesday, November 15 Meet the Retreat | noon – 3:00pm Informal networking for all participants plus speaker prep with moderators. Pool deck.  Other meeting place is the hotel libreary on the second/mezzanine floor.   Separately, one-on-one video interviews in the production room. Registration | 3:30 – 3:50pm George Foyer, Level E Session Begins in George […]

The Beet Retreat Miami Survival Guide

Travel Plans You should plan to arrive on Wednesday 11/15 by midday or early afternoon. Have some lunch and chill by the pool or the spa. Our program begins at 4:00 pm in the main ballroom of the SLS. We finish on Friday at noon. (We are not arranging transport to and from the airport.) […]

The Beet Retreat Miami: Unifying The TV Ecosystem Along Common Goals

Creation of a shared, collaborative media ecosystem is limited only by the willingness of buyers, sellers and everyone in between to work together to solve individual and common problems. Videology Chairman and CEO Scott Ferber believes there is no better venue in which such competitive camaraderie can be nurtured than Beet Retreat Miami 2017, where […]

Matter More’s Murtos Wants More Time For Addressable

LAS VEGAS — Addressable TV advertising is reaching scale across the country. Now it just needs to get a larger slice of air-time. That’s the view according to Steve Murtos, an ad agency executive who co-founded a digital video activation practice to help advertisers take advantage. “We’re counting upwards of 60n households in the marketplace, […]

Beet Retreat Miami: Targeted TV, It’s About to Scale – November 15-17, presented by Videology with Alphonso and 605

The Keynote Speakers Matt Bayer, SVP, Advanced TV & Cross Screen, Cadreon/IPG Jonathan Bokor, Director of Precision Video, Publicis Media Exchange Kristin Dolan, CEO, 605 Scott Ferber, CEO, Videology Nick Jezarian, Media Director, Target Raghu Kodige, Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder, Alphonso Jakob Nielsen, CEO, Finecast, GroupM Jonathan Steuer, Chief Research Officer, Omnicom Media Group […]

How BoA Won With Addressable TV: SVP Deming Explains

MIAMI — It’s one of the biggest brands on the block. But, when Bank Of America needed to market a new kind of investment service, it turned to a new kind of advertising. Merrill Edge is BoA’s investment platform for customers that like to control their own investments. And Andrew Deming, BoA’s media leader, says the company […]

On Addressable TV Execs’ Wishlist: Standards And Scale

MIAMI — Recent estimates of the number of addressable US TV households count about 45m properties. The ability to target individual households with different ads at different times is now real. “Over the last three years, (I’ve done) … 250 campaigns, addressable to the household,” recalls Tracey Scheppach, the former long-time SMG advanced TV exec who recently […]

Netflix Will Beat Cable To Mass Addressable: Vertere’s Hanlon

MIAMI — Addressable TV, the idea that brands can target TV viewers at the individual household level using IP connections and data, is growing up, now that it can reportedly target around 50 million US households. But a nationwide footprint is still some way off, many industry execs believe. Tim Hanlon, founder and CEO of […]

Samsung Smart TV’s Test Dynamic Ads With Sorenson

MIAMI — There are now several technologies coming to the table that aim to help broadcast operators dynamically switch commercials in their ad break to specific viewing households. But, by and large, just like connected TV itself, they depend on boxes, dongles, consoles or widgets connected to a television set. What if you could do dynamic ad replacement in […]