With AI features becoming commonplace, the differentiator is the data. As artificial intelligence transforms media planning, Katy Varner, global chief growth strategy officer at IPG Mediabrands believes the true competitive advantage lies not in the technology itself but in how agencies and brands harness unique input. In this video interview with Beet.TV, she explains her agency's approach. The AI differentiation challenge "AI is not really [...]

Once upon a time, an advertiser once had a handful of channels across TV, radio, and print.  Modern fragmentation changed all that. For one measurement executive, the solution lies in focusing on attention as a core currency and, more importantly, carefully considering the downstream consequences of the metrics buyers choose to value. “Attention metrics are more important than ever because the way [...]

LAS VEGAS – Retail media’s rapid evolution has made data collaboration an essential tool for both advertisers and retailers, said Liz Roche, vice president of media and measurement at Albertsons Media Collective, during an interview with Beet.TV’s David Kaplan at the Groceryshop convention. “Data collaboration is absolutely the name of the game right now,” Roche said. “Our supplier partners are looking [...]

As retailers look to bridge the gap between digital and physical shopping, T-Mobile Ad Solutions is betting big on the rise of in-store retail media. Cherian Thomas, senior director of retail media and digital out-of-home at T-Mobile Ad Solutions, told Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan that while bringing digital capabilities inside brick-and-mortar environments is challenging, it’s also one of the industry’s [...]

MADRID — For years, contextual advertising has largely been a game of matching keywords on a page to the topic of an ad. But as the technology improves, so does the ambition to move beyond simple semantics - into realm of human nuance. The next frontier involves training systems to understand not just what a piece of content is about, but [...]

Television advertising for pharmaceutical brands has evolved beyond general demographic targeting to enable condition-specific audience layering that eliminates wasted impressions while maintaining the mass reach needed for awareness campaigns. “Where we used to do a broad kind of demo targeting, now we can bring in these condition-based audiences that allow us to become more precise,” Katie Van Horn, associate director for [...]

Technology has changed not just how people communicate with one another, but also how they connect with brands, said Kara Manatt, executive vice president of intelligence solutions at Interpublic Group’s Magna Global. “I work on a team at Magna that conducts custom research in-house focused on helping our clients make better buying decisions,” Manatt said in an interview with Beet.TV contributor [...]

LAS VEGAS – Retailers across the board face growing challenges around how to share and activate data responsibly, and Dollar General’s DG Media Network (DGMN) is no exception. Speaking at the Groceryshop convention, Austin Leonard, vice president and general manager of DGMN, said the company is focused on fostering trust, transparency and privacy across its data partnerships. “Technical limitations, privacy regulations [...]

Retail data has evolved from custom audience building within a handful of networks to becoming a critical component that enhances first-party data sets, creating more dimensional customer understanding when integrated through clean room environments. “When you're looking at Acxiom data plus retail data, it just makes a more three dimensional picture more so than if it was just one data set,” [...]

The long-held role of television as a top-of-funnel, awareness-driving medium is being fundamentally rewritten by digitization. Once a channel measured primarily by reach and frequency, television is  now transforming the living room screen into a performance-driven platform where advertisers can track, attribute, and optimize campaigns in real time. This evolution is proving particularly potent in specialized verticals like healthcare, where the [...]

The path a consumer takes from seeing a product to buying it has never been more convoluted. The decades-old model of “last-click attribution,” which gives all the credit for a sale to the final touchpoint, increasingly fails to capture the value of earlier brand introductions. That is the challenge TikTok aims to solve with an expansion of its measurement tools designed to [...]

As audiences juggle multiple screens and platforms, advertisers need to rethink how and where they engage, said Jessie Schwartzfarb, executive vice president and head of video investment at Dentsu, in this interview with Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan. “With the proliferation of different types of viewing, people are often using more than one at a time,” Schwartzfarb said. “That means we have [...]

Dave Young, vice president of retail media at Dick’s Sporting Goods, sees the company’s stores as a vital link between traditional advertising and real-world brand experiences. “What we’re doing that’s unique at Dick’s through Dick’s Media,” Young said in this interview with Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan, “is taking what’s already a best-in-class shopping experience and creating a media-driven layer within that [...]

Is your next customer a bot? The way consumers shop and discover products is undergoing significant changes, marked by a highly fragmented journey that spans social feeds, e-commerce platforms, retail media, and AI services. Just when retail media was exploding, AI-powered interaction services are now determining which products are presented to consumers, effectively acting as gatekeepers. According to Elena MacGurn, SVP, search, [...]

The appeal of traditional journalism to engaged, coveted audiences is still “news” to many major advertisers. But when established publishers try to make that case, marketers cite that brand safety concerns are top of mind. “I tell [those advertisers] it’s a miss, to be honest,” Mike Irenski, SVP, Programmatic Strategy, Newspapers & TV at Hearst, told Beet.TV Editorial Director Lisa Granatstein. [...]

Mastercard is formally entering the fast-growing commerce media space. But unlike newer players chasing a trend, the company says its move builds on a decade of experience linking advertisers and consumers through transaction-level data. Jill Moser, senior vice president of commerce media at Mastercard, said in this conversation with Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan, the foundation was laid years ago with the [...]

Index Exchange has rolled out a data vendor ecosystem that connects its Marketplaces customers directly with a growing roster of data partners, enabling more precise audience targeting and streamlined deal creation. “We just launched a data vendor ecosystem,” said Michael Richardson, vice president of product management at Index Exchange, in this interview with Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan during Advertising Week. “We [...]

Gaming advertising represents a still untapped opportunity for marketers facing television supply constraints as streaming migration reduces ad inventory while offering the scale, engagement, and demographics that traditional channels struggle to deliver. “Gaming provides an opportunity for conversion in a way that could deliver lessons to the rest of Madison Avenue,” Terry Kawaja, founder and CEO of investment bank LUMA Partners, [...]

LAS VEGAS — After years of ad industry striving, the convergence of identity resolution with artificial intelligence tools is finally delivering on the practical promise of brands crafting truly personalized, real-time marketing at scale.  “Missing pieces, like the identity layer and AI, are coming together in ways that enable both the scale and the speed that’s needed to do things in [...]

The digital ad industry’s machinery is optimized for impressions and clicks, but a growing contingent argues that true performance requires a more considered, people-first approach. That would mean moving beyond blunt metrics to focus on the quality of the interaction, respecting a user’s time and attention while ensuring brands show up in safe, suitable, and inclusive environments. This concept of “kindness at [...]