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 [...]

SANTA MONICA, CA – Connected television’s roots are in ad-free subscription services such as Netflix, similar to the ad-free channels on cable such as HBO. The business model is evolving as consumers look for ways to cut their spending on streaming and streaming platforms add commercial breaks among their premium content. There are differences, though. “The biggest difference that I personally [...]

LAS VEGAS — One of the key emerging retail media players is enlisting one of ad agencies' main emerging rivals to carry out its media planning - with a twist. Albertsons Media Collective announced it will use Capgemini's robotic process automation (RPA) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) to generate insights for media planning and creative optimization. That isn't just a win for [...]

LAS VEGAS – Social media have sped up the proliferation of cultural moments, transforming digital images into viral memes and turning everyday people into celebrities overnight. Marketers can participate in these moments, making themselves relevant to consumers who spend their time with digital media. “We integrate cultural data sets that really give us an understanding of trending topics, and how those [...]

LAS VEGAS — In an era where streaming is surging, the need to revolutionize ad formats for the digital living room is more critical than ever. So GroupM recently formed an Ad Innovation Accelerator program. BrightLine, Disney, KERV, NBCUniversal, Roku, Telly, and YouTube will join the working group, which GroupM said will "strategize and create scalable ad formats that are designed to [...]

LAS VEGAS — As a confectioner, Mars doesn't necessarily want to quit on cookies - at least, not the kind you can eat. But digital cookies, the traditional identifiers used to profile audiences, are being deprecated nonetheless. For advertisers like Ron Amram, Sr. Director, Global Media at Mars, that poses a challenge. But, in this video interview with Beet.TV, Amram suggests that AI [...]

SANTA MONICA, CA – Connected television is rooted in an ad-free experience, but that’s changing as popular services such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video offer ad-supported tiers. Because CTV is digitized, it can more readily adopt automated buying and selling of advertising. “CTV has a big opportunity to learn from the programmatic landscape as it was developed. That landscape [...]

LAS VEGAS — At CES 2024, artificial intelligence was, of course, on the lips of most attendees. For Sir Martin Sorrell, the leading advertising industry figure who is Executive Chairman, S4 Capital, AI has much potential in advertising. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Sorrell says he sees a technology that will be a double-edged sword, bringing both efficiency and job destruction. Five [...]