As the 70th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity gets underway in the south of France today, the man who runs the show says there is a renewed spirit of creativity and brand engagement. Phil Thomas is chair of Cannes Lions, having run the festival since 2006. In this interview with Beet.TV at Cannes' famous Palais des Festivals, he gives his thoughts [...]

Uber will soon introduce full-length video ads for the first time on its ride-hailing app, food delivery service Uber Eats and alcohol sales platform Drizly, the company announced. The ads will appear on the main Uber app while customers wait for drivers to arrive and during their trips, Mark Grether, vice president and general manager of Uber Technologies’ advertising division, said. [...]

Rob Medved CEO at Cannella Media, has been focused on the direct response media industry for over two decades. He's never seen a more complicated- and fraught marketplace. There is this "incredible perfect storm of media fragmentation," he told Beet.TV. And thanks to Apple cracking down on mobile tracking, and the inevitable elimination of cookies, reaching people directly and tracking the [...]

For some, TV advertising is an expensive, labor-intensive prospect that takes a heavy investment on production as well as distribution. David Kline thinks it could take minutes. In this video interview with research analyst Joanna O'Connell for Beet.TV, Kline, President, Spectrum Reach & EVP, Charter Communications, explains how his company is using AI to help advertisers create ads on-the-fly. Harnessing AI for creative [...]

Next week’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity comes after a period of massive upheaval for the media and marketing industries that sped up longer-term shifts. The pandemic led to greater consumer adoption of internet-connected television, and media companies raced to differentiate their streaming services with vast libraries of movies and TV shows. More recently, advertising is having a bigger role [...]

MadHive is valued at almost $1 billion after receiving a $300 million private equity investment from Goldman Sachs to accelerate its connected TV advertising platform. The company, which had only raised $7 million previously, is aiming to help broadcasters move off an "antiquated" software stack for ad sales and delivery. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Spencer Potts, president, MadHive, explains how [...]

 Ryan Barwick is a senior reporter at Morning Brew, where he's taken many deep dives into the world of digital advertising , regulation and privacy. So he's developed a very well-rounded, nuanced point of view on many of the issues facing this industry, from cookies going away to a slew of new state laws aimed at reigning in ad targeting. Therefore, [...]

Streaming TV advertising is set to boom this year, and Rob Klippel is taking a range of offerings to Cannes Lions in a bid to capitalize. Klippel is SVP, Advanced Advertising Products & Strategy, Spectrum Reach, the advertising sales division of Charter Communications. In this video interview with Beet.TV, he says the outfit has a number of partnerships with which it is [...]

It has been the go-to gathering for the advertising industry for 69 years. Now, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity attracts movers and shakers in media, technology and much more besides. With the 2023 festival about to kick off on Cannes' famous Croisette, June 19 to 23, what are the conversations people from the advanced TV business expect to be having? In The [...]

Funny face filters and branded lenses have been a staple of Snap for years. It's not fairly common for concert goers to add virtual images to their IRL experiences. And of course, people have been chasing around Pokemon in both the real and digital worlds for seven years. But Adam Shlachter, Head of Marketing, Strategic & Brand Partnerships at Niantic, think the AR revolution has [...]

Drew Groner as senior VP, head of agency and client partnerships at DIRECTV sees it again and again. Whenever the company analyzes a linear TV campaign, roughly a third of households end up seeing the majority of ads. It's not just you - frequency is a big problem. From DIRECTV's end, the company is trying to take an active role in attacking [...]

There have been some doubters when it comes to the potential impact of blockchain in the advertising business. Adam Herman, Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer at Zimmerman Advertising is a big believer. Herman has been employing technology from the startup Blockboard for numerous clients' campaigns. And thus far, the technology is saving them money upfront, and on the back end. "Every [...]

We have seen Joint Industry Committees (JICs) in Sweden and even now the US come together to try to crack cross-screen TV ad measurement. Now the industry in Italy is doing the same. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Andrea Conte, Director, Product Development & Data, Publitalia '80 (Mediaset), explains how the market there is shaping-up. Joint Industry Committee's role in measurement In Italy, [...]

LONDON -- The streaming TV ad business is going big and going global - and that means ad-tech vendors supporting it have to do the same. But how can the suppliers to this booming business continue to provide value to publishers and advertisers in the fast-changing sector? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Thomas Bremond, SVP & Chief Revenue Officer, International, FreeWheel, [...]

Almost a decade after he co-founded Tubi, and despite selling to Fox for $440 million, Farhad Massoudi is happy not to have a smash hit. While subscription video services has boomed, many fuelling their growth with the pursuit of tent-pole productions, Massoudi is happy with niche, long-tail content. In this video interview looking back with Beet.TV, Massoudi explains Tubi's unique approach. Convincing the [...]

With so many challenges out there facing marketers in the business environment, what is the outlook for advertisers and their agencies? Mike Law is heading to Cannes Lions with a spring in his step. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the US CEO of Carat, says disruption is driving better experiences and affection for marketing. Optimism in the advertising market "I would start with [...]

As marketers, agencies, media companies and adtech firms gather for this month’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, there will be more discussion about the role of artificial intelligence in the creative process of advertising. The explosive popularity of ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by tech startup OpenAI, has many people asking about the possibilities and limitations of generative AI. “We're experimenting, [...]

As consumer adoption of free ad-supported television (FAST) channels rises at a meteoric pace, it is crucial for industry stakeholders to ensure a uniform quality advertising experience across the diverse array of platforms. That's the opinion of one executive whose software is helping TV networks move into the future. In this video interview with research analyst Joanna O'Connell ahead of Cannes Lions [...]

This year’s Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity includes a second round of refreshed criteria for the Media Lions awards to better reflect how significant upheavals in the media marketplace affect the way media buyers operate. This year’s festival comes as advertisers and agencies are adjusting to the effects of economic uncertainty on consumer behavior. “There is uncertainty, but there's probably more certainty [...]

Matt Wasserlauf, founder and CEO of Blockboard, sees the growth of connected TV advertising as a perfect money for the ad industry to undergo a necessary ad tech reset. He knows it won't be easy. Having built and stewarded a previous startup through the early days of digital video advertising, Wasserlauf has seen what happens when a market becomes overrun with too [...]