NEW YORK – Advertising agencies are broadening their mandates to limit the negative effect of marketing activities on the Earth’s natural resources. Amid those efforts, suppliers of services throughout the marketing supply chain are looking to help reduce its carbon footprint. “We've been taking a really big approach to sustainability at Sharethrough since…the end of 2021 when we started learning just [...]

Once upon a time, "addressable TV" signified linear TV platforms that had engineered a way to enable targetability. The emergence of fully internet-enabled connected TV systems has meant a massive upgrade over that vision of addressability. Yet "addressable" is still an expanding area, Anastasia Dukes-Asuen, Sr. Director, Advanced TV Data & Insights, Ampersand, tells Beet.TV in this video interview at Advertising Week [...]

Retail media, for a long time, has been perceived as emerging from non-traditional media budgets. This perspective is now changing, with funds coming out of more traditional media budgets. That is according to Amy Lanzi,who, as CEO, Digitas North America, is taking a keen interest in the trend. The Changing Landscape of Retail Media Budgets Retail or ecommerce media - in which ecommerce operators [...]

In the last couple of years, the TV ad industry has been noting, kicking the tyres of and, ultimately, adopting non-traditional measurement and trading systems. By and large, they purport to do a better job of quantifying and facilitating transactions for ads across multiple screens. iSpot.tv is a major vendor in the space, with a growing number of major-publisher agreements. In this video [...]

In an era where the digital advertising industry is fraught with concerns over measurement, Ashwin Navin, CEO & Co-founder of Samba TV, is seeking to address the unmeasured. Now Samba is partnering with a purchase data company to plug the gap. In this video interview with Beet.TV at Advertising Week New York, Navin explains how his company aims to fill in the [...]

What lies at the intersection of Madison Avenue and Wall Street? As someone once described as "Madison Avenue's de facto chief economist", Brian Wieser has brought incisive analysis to the evolving advertising business. As senior research analyst for Pivotal Research Group, Wieser carved a niche with sharp commentary on major media stocks, before going in-house as GroupM's global president, business intelligence. In January [...]

The rapid evolution of the digital landscape, with new channels like Connected TV (CTV) and retail media, demands a multi-faceted planning, buying and measurement approach that, for many, adds up to fragmentation and labor. That is why many in the industry go on advocating for standardization. For Megan Pagliuca, Chief Activation Officer, Omnicom, the solution starts close to home. Specifically, CASA (the Council [...]

Paramount Global this month picked iSpot.tv as a currency option for linear and streaming TV in the United States. Trading on the media-measurement company’s data are expected to begin in the first quarter, the companies announced. The addition of iSpot.tv gives marketers and media buyers more ways to help set the value of advertising transactions. Other media-measurement services include Nielsen, Comscore [...]

Publishers now have another way to quantify their digital carbon footprint, after ad network Sharethrough agreed to pay for a year's worth of carbon measurement service by 51toCarbonZero on their behalf. Sharethrough is calling it the Net Zero Publisher Program. As well as footing publishers' 51toCarbonZero bill, Sharethrough is also able to create a Sharethrough's Path to Net-Zero Marketplace. In it, [...]

After a year in which a report warned YouTube ad buyers may fall foul of brand safety concerns, a member body representing video, TV and ad-tech companies says the industry needs to consolidate its different transparency standards. This summer's Adalytics study came before a recent ANA research piece found widespread programmatic supply chain transparency concerns. In this video interview with Beet.TV filmed [...]

In the shifting sands of the advertising ecosystem, first-party data stands as a beacon of stability. However, this data is not without its challenges, as Joshua Lowcock, President of Quad Media, asserts. In this video interview with Beet.TV at the 12th Annual CIMM Summit, Lowcock says: "The whole landscape's moved to addressability - and if you want to do addressability, you need [...]

The advertising industry is falling short in the effective measurement and allocation of ad impressions towards multicultural audiences. That is the view of one company which just made a partnership to tackle the problem. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jon Stimmel, Chief Growth Officer at Sabio, highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of different cultural segments. A Focus on Diverse [...]

If the idea of letting a multitude of identity technologies bloom is going to yield favor rather than fragmentation, the industry will hope that those standards can rapidly integrate. That is just what LiveRamp has been doing, signing its latest deal to create interoperability for its own solutions and those of Yahoo ConnectID. In this video interview with Beet.TV at Advertising Week [...]

The ability to deeply interrogate video content is giving advertisers the ability to precisely target content segments, and ad agencies are warming-up to the idea. In September, dentsu announced a new solution, Contextual Intelligence (CI) for Connected Television (CTV), a cookie-less solution using video-level keyword targeting to help advertisers understand where there CTV ads would be placed. It is powered by IRIS.TV's [...]

Alternative media currencies aren't just a "maybe" anymore - big media agencies are now leaning into buying media using the new numbers. Dentsu announced today more than seven big-brand parent companies have bought ads through dentsu's Data Enabled Linear TV Activation (DELTA) platform using VideoAmp. In this video interview with Jon Watts for Beet.TV, Brad Stockton, SVP, US National Video Innovation, explains [...]

On October 10 and 11, the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) gathered speakers and guests at Warner Bros. Discovery's New York HQ to discuss the future of media. Summing-up CIMM Summit, Jon Watts, Managing Director, CIMM, tells Beet.TV the event discussed three key themes: Measurement Activation Innovation A Transition in Measurement and Currency "(We are) clearly in the midst of a transition," [...]

Elon Musk is sabotaging Linda Yaccarino after hiring the former head of advertising at NBCUniversal Media to run social-media platform X. Despite her efforts, Musk is "undermining her in virtually everything she does." That's the message from Lou Paskalis, a longtime marketing executive who is chief strategy officer for Ad Fontes Media, in this interview with Beet.TV. Particularly irksome to Paskalis is [...]

Envision a world where data sets seamlessly integrate, where advertisers can effortlessly understand their engaged audience. That is the future Kevin Krim of EDO - a data, measurement and analytics company - wants to see. Back in the summer, the company partnered with Nielsen to plug their data into their respective platforms. In this video interview with Beet.TV at the 12th Annual [...]

Connected TV advertising is supposed to provide brands the ability to optimize their campaigns in real time – just like they do in digital. So why are so many brands feel like they are blowing this opportunity? Dave Helmreich, Chief Commercial Officer at Innovid, says it’s a combination of fragmented data, and a slow-moving industry. According to new research conducted by the [...]

This July, we introduced our newest Beet Retreat. It was held in  the picturesque southern Berkshires town of Salisbury, Connecticut.  I am proud to say, it was very well received by 80 industry leaders. In addition to the essential conversations and great times, we raised over $18,000 at a charity auction benefiting BreastCancer.org. The Retreat continues to have an impact on our [...]