LAS VEGAS — In the world of media and advertising, the quest for inclusiveness and representativeness in audience measurement has taken center stage. Samba TV is hoping a new partnership building on its own data set can help improve the state of play. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Ashwin Navin, CEO & Co-Founder of Samba TV, sheds light on the challenges [...]

LAS VEGAS – NBCUniversal this month launched One Platform Total Audience, a media planning and activation technology that uses artificial intelligence. It also plans to transact 50% of its business this year on strategic audiences to help brands reach viewers wherever they consume content. The idea “is the evolution and the next level of innovation that sits on top of our [...]

LAS VEGAS — As 2024 shapes up to be the year Google finally began switching off cookies, some companies are growing their advertising, instead, by leveraging their own user data. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Mark Grether, VP, General Manager, Uber Advertising, says his company allows advertisers to harness user data from Uber's range of apps. Grether explains what is coming [...]

LAS VEGAS — The deprecation of audience identifiers including cookies may be seen as a threat by many marketers. There was already a growing understanding that those with first-party data, however, were in a better position. Better than that, brands with retail relationships are in a prime position to develop exactly that kind of first-party data. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Parbinder [...]

LONDON, UK — These days, you can't read about the advertising and technology businesses without reading about AI. But Amelia Waddington was already an AI expert a decade ago. Waddington completed a PhD in Computational Neuroscience, the study of human intelligence using mathematical models. Now as Chief Product Officer, Captify, Waddington is using web search intent to create  machine learning models to [...]

LAS VEGAS — Artificial intelligence tools could help drive a new era of optimization that will adapt ad creative for cohorts of audiences. That is the view according to Cara Pratt, SVP, Kroger Precision Marketing, 84.51°. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Pratt says AI should be best use to optimize ads for audiences, not for channels. AI and Machine Learning in Audience [...]

LAS VEGAS — Subscription- and advertising-supported streaming TV services used to be regarded as diametrically-opposed models. Now the addition of ad support by SVoD operators has changed that. But Karl Meyer thinks ads also have another role to play - he thinks ads on streaming TV screens can help reignite lapsed viewers. Meyer, Head of Media & Entertainment, Samsung Ads, spoke in this [...]

LAS VEGAS — Extreme Reach's bold new identity was just the start. For Louisa Wong, CEO, Extreme Reach, the reboot is about more than just a new name. Extreme Reach, established in 2008, offers services in video ad serving, campaign management, and creative asset management. The company in January was renamed XR. Revolutionizing Creative Workflow with SourceXR "It's a legacy company that grew through [...]

LAS VEGAS – Two of the biggest areas of advertising growth are influencer marketing and retail media networks, both of which promise to help brands break through the clutter and ultimately drive sales. Omnicom Media Group, the media-buying arm of holding company Omnicom Group, announced several initiatives to support clients with these opportunities. “Influencer marketing was historically more of a PR [...]

SANTA MONICA, CA – A patchwork of privacy regulations worldwide has pushed marketers to be more careful about handling personal information about consumers. The result has been what marketers call a loss of signal, or the diminished ability to gather insights about people’s exposure to advertising and their intentions to buy a product. Signal loss is “a topic that we've known [...]

LAS VEGAS – Walt Disney Co. this year for the first time hosted its technology and data showcase at CES, where the media giant highlighted investments in adtech to give marketers more ways to reach audiences on streaming and linear platforms worldwide. Data clean rooms have become a key tool for advertisers and media companies that want to improve audience [...]

LAS VEGAS – ChatGPT popularized the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence to create text on almost any subject and in any style. The technology has applications for professionals in media and marketing. “Being able to kind of distill things into more human-readable language -- that has been transformative in our ability to actually garner insights from massive data sets in a [...]

LAS VEGAS – Many consumers divide their time spent with media among a wide array of content providers and devices. A variety of data signals provides clues for how to reach them. “If you think about just using data to find an audience, you have to think about how then that plays out in terms of relevance,” Lisa Giacosa, chief investment [...]

GroupM this week named Sharb Farjami as chief executive officer for North America. He previously was North America CEO for Wavemaker, another agency owned by holding company WPP. Beet.TV caught up with Farjami in the lead-up to the Cannes International Festival of Creativity in this video. He helped to establish Wavemaker as the leading performer in new business for GroupM in the [...]

SANTA MONICA, CA – Four companies in the United States this year received 66% of the country’s advertising revenue, data from Interpublic Group’s Magna Global show. Those Big Four – Alphabet’s Google, Meta Platforms, Amazon.com and Bytedance’s TikTok – are pushing other media companies to improve their audience targeting and other performance metrics. “There are millions of advertisers that buy from [...]

LAS VEGAS — As 2024 hots up following a long winter, many media and advertising executives will be gathering in Florida for the IAB's Annual Leadership Meeting (ALM), running January 28 to 30. David Cohen, CEO, IAB, says: "The goal of ALM is to set the agenda for the industry for the coming year." A blend of brands, agencies, ad tech, [...]

LAS VEGAS – Retailers that sell advertising are more effective for brands when they’re able to collaborate on meeting the needs of consumers. These efforts are supported with a variety of data-driven marketing strategies. “Consumers will part with their money when you solve a problem for them,” Jacquelyn Baker, chief executive of Omnicom Commerce Group, said in this interview with Beet.TV [...]

LAS VEGAS – Alphabet’s Google for years has worked to give advertisers notice that it would end support for tracking cookies in its popular Chrome browser amid increasing concerns about user privacy and data protection. Many consumer packaged goods companies have worked to prepare for a cookieless future by developing their own data resources. “We're trying to make sure that we [...]

LAS VEGAS — As artificial intelligence and generative AI emerge in the media world, how should we think about the pros and cons? Mark Zagorski, CEO, Double Verify, says the tech can be a boon for correctly classifying content. And he says the coming election cycle is likely to see a new swathe of low-grade, auto-generated content. But, Zagorski says, ad buyers [...]

LAS VEGAS — 2024 is finally the year when it seems the cookie will crumble. On January 4, 2024, Google began rolling out Tracking Protection for 1% of a randomly-selected group of Chrome users, due to ramp-up through 2024. For advertisers, the impending changes will affect everything from campaign setup to reporting and measuring. Jennifer Lee, SVP, Global Head of Services, TripleLift, says [...]