Fostering creativity in his family was essential after their tragic loss. It helped Kevin Krim and his wife Marina and their surviving daughter.  It motivated them to honor the short but creative lives of Lucia (Lulu) and Leo. It turned grief into a movement and the formation of a charitable foundation that offers a creative living curriculum to schools and community organizations throughout the United [...]

MIAMI — They may have traditionally been considered different channels - but Dan Riess thinks social and streaming are colliding. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Riess, EVP, Chief Growth Officer, TelevisaUnivision, says his company, the Hispanic broadcaster, is seeking audiences with a "social-first" approach. He was speaking with Beet.TV at POSSIBLE 2024. Social-First Approach Riess highlights the rising prominence of social-first strategies within [...]

Are brands missing out on valuable eyeballs by not advertising in mobile games? That is the question Digital Turbine posed in new research revealed at the IAB's NewFronts conference. "Mobile games occupy a significant portion of time from consumers, but don't really command a lot of budget," Greg Wester, Digital Turbine's Chief Marketing Officer for On-Device Business Unit, says in this [...]

MIAMI — A year after Magnite launched ClearLine, a platform designed to give media buyers access to “premium video inventory” without the need for a demand-side platform, how is it shaking-out? Beet.TV caught-up with Michael Barrett, President and CEO, Magnite, at POSSIBLE 2024. "It's not a DSP replacement, but it's significant in converting insertion orders to programmatic delivery," says Barrett. Unlocking Programmatic Potential in [...]

Teads is taking its attention optimization capabilities in digital advertising and expanding them to the world of connected TV. The company is also making attention measurement more actionable for planning, optimizing and managing campaigns. "We made a commitment at the end of that presentation to two things," says Neala Brown, SVP of Strategy & Insights at Teads, in this video interview with [...]

MIAMI – Many retailers have set up media networks to sell digital advertising space to brands that want to reach consumers as they shop online. As retailers become suppliers of advertising inventory to the brands that supply products to their stores, the relationships between the two are changing. Brands “have a merchandising relationship, a supply-chain relationship. They bring us a lot [...]

Following Walmart’s agreement to buy the group, VIZIO brought a line-up of new smart TV advertising opportunities to the recent NewFronts event. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Adam Bergman, Group VP of Advertising & Data Sales at VIZIO, reflects on the showcase, where the company professed its history of smart TV innovation and its relationships with the media community. "Since the [...]

MIAMI — Creation wasn’t supposed to be about fragmentation. But that’s what many media companies and advertisers think they have ended up with, as a plethora of platforms and technology standards competes for attention. Faced with the impact, brands and their agencies are seeking ways to manage reach and frequency in Connected TV (CTV) as they have historically done with traditional TV. Rose McGovern wants [...]

SAN JUAN, PR – The television advertising market is gradually become more automated as more buyers and sellers adopt software tools that have been used for years with digital display and online video. Amid the expansion of programmatic technology come more opportunities for real-time bidding on connected television ad placements. “Biddable connected TV is really just another opportunity for advertisers to [...]

As the media landscape continues to evolve, advertisers are increasingly focusing their spending on streaming and Connected TV (CTV). However, the shift is not without its challenges, and a comprehensive video strategy must incorporate linear TV, streaming, and online video, says Steve Bagdasarian, Chief Commercial Officer at Comscore, in this video interview with Beet.TV editorial director Lisa Granatstein. "The opportunities with streaming [...]

The television landscape has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years, with the pandemic accelerating the adoption of streaming services. On that platform, Tony Marlow believes that 2024 will be the year of shoppable TV and political spending. In this video interview with Beet.TV editorial Lisa Granatstein, he opens up on the dynamics in the year ahead. Swing The Election Marlow, CMO, LG Ad [...]

MIAMI – Many households have shifted their television viewing to streaming video, leading advertisers to set aside a bigger portion of their media budgets to connected television. Determining whether their ads are being seen is a key need for marketers of consumer packaged goods. “Content is definitely king again,” Vinny Rinaldi, head of media and analytics at Hershey Co., said in [...]

MIAMI — The digital advertising landscape is witnessing a seismic shift with retail media rapidly emerging as its most dynamic frontier. "Retail media is the third wave of digital advertising," asserts Lynne Kjolso, VP, Global Partner & Retail Media at Microsoft. In this video interview with Beet.TV, She paints a picture of an industry on the cusp of transformation, driven by technological innovation and [...]

MIAMI – Streaming services have given consumers more control over the television viewing experience, including the ability to interact and transact with advertisers. At the same time, more retailers are selling advertising to brands, giving them a way to convert awareness into shoppable moments. “You have the kind of dynamic of retail media where brands are finding ways to get closer [...]

In a media landscape fraught with uncertainty as cookies crumble, could mobile fill the gap? JP Colaco thinks so. The media and ad industry veteran joined as T-Mobile Advertising Solutions' SVP & Chief T-Ads Officer in 2023 after executive stints at WarnerMedia, Apple, Hulu, and The Walt Disney Company. At its IAB NewFronts pitch, T-Mobile Advertising Solutions offered up several new initiatives. New for [...]

NEW YORK - Kroger Precision Marketing, the grocery chain’s retail media network, is collaborating with Yahoo Advertising to offer purchase-based audiences directly in the Yahoo Demand-Side Platform (DSP), according to an announcement on Tuesday. Yahoo DSP advertisers can now activate Kroger’s audiences to reach the right consumers and to measure campaign results without tracking cookies. “We're really excited to partner with the [...]

As more retailers enter the space and as forecasts for its size grow, one retail operator has its own big target for making money from retail media. Stop & Shop owner Ahold Delhaize is a global grocery supermarket chain, with a goal of making a billion euros from non-grocery revenue like advertising and data by 2025. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Bobby Watts, [...]

SAN JUAN, PR – Consumers divide their time spent with media among a growing variety of connected devices, channels and apps, challenging advertisers to obtain a holistic view of people’s behaviors. First-party data that comes directly from consumers don’t provide this insight. “People should know as it relates to first-party data and identity is that they are inherently not the same,” [...]

These days, at their annual ad pitches, companies don’t only tout their content slate. In 2024’s IAB NewFronts, the tech targeting offering is being showcased, too. At its event in New York today, Roku announced it would let The Trade Desk customers harness its automated content recognition (ACR) data, in a sign that the leading US streaming platform is lighting-up more programmatic [...]

MIAMI – Retail media networks are comparable newcomers to the advertising market, and they’re growing more sophisticated as marketers seek to attribute the effects of their media spending on business outcomes. To enhance these metrics, retailers can harness the troves of data about the purchase histories of their customers. “Measurement is the foundation that really allows brands and agencies to invest [...]