NEW YORK – Marketers are always looking for consumer insights that help to shape their advertising strategies, and that includes creative content that sways people’s buying decisions. Some data signals, such as those from tracking cookies, are becoming less effective, but there are other ways to gain insights about audience behaviors. “Something that we always talk about is those signals that [...]

If any data can help truly attribute the effectiveness of media spend, it is consumer spending data. But purchase data isn't only useful for closing the loop. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jonathan Silver, Founder & CEO, Affinity Solutions, explains how his company is providing purchase data for a range of use cases. Leveraging data for advertising efficiency Affinity Solutions initially developed Cardlink, [...]

For a time, it was hard to tell just how serious Spotify was about advertising. Today, it seems increasingly clear the Swedish company wants to follow the Facebook and Google playbook. When it launched in the US, Spotify seemed fixated on using its advertising business to drive subscriptions. But overt the past few years, the audio giant has made a string of under the [...]

It may have been kickstarted by ecommerce operators capitalizing on digital shelf space - but the "retail media" boom isn't staying confined to the consumer screen. Next-up, retailers are making use of in-store ad opportunities - and that means many of them will want to link up the physical and digital journey. In this video interview with Joanna O'Connell for Beet.TV, Brian [...]

Scrolling through the SKUs on a screen may not fire the same pleasure receptors as browsing through the rails, the shelves and the malls. But the prosaic modality of ecommerce doesn't have to win out. In this video interview with industry analyst Joanna O'Connell for Beet.TV, Carrie Sweeney, Industry Lead for Retail at Pinterest, describes how the platform is looking to rekindle [...]

LAS VEGAS – Retailers have built a multibillion-dollar business selling online advertising to brands that want to reach consumers when they’re most ready to shop. There’s a bigger opportunity for retailers and marketers to collaborate on in-store advertising, according to one analyst. “Stores, I think, are the next major media channel,” Andrew Lipsman, principal analyst for retail and ecommerce at Axel [...]

LAS VEGAS – Ride-share companies have helped to reinvent how people think about transportation, and they’re now working with marketers to transform the experience. Lyft Media, the advertising sales unit of the ride-hailing company, has developed a variety of ad formats to help get brands reach consumers as they book and take a ride. “We can show people experiences, media and [...]

LAS VEGAS – Retailers are seeing strong growth in sales of online advertising, and they’re adopting data tools to help demonstrate the interplay between ecommerce and brick-and-mortar sales channels. “The retailers are trying to find better ways to connect what's happening digitally online with what's happening in stores,” J. William Margaritis, senior vice president of digital and global ecommerce at Reprise [...]

Roku is one of the top sellers of connected TV advertising. The company would like to become the main way the industry buys CTV - not just on Rokus. "We are a publisher and a platform," Miles Fisher Sr. Director, Head of Growth & Platform Sales told me during a recent episode of my Next in Media podcast, which is being distributed [...]

LAS VEGAS - One after the other, more digital retailers in the last couple of years have begun turning their virtual shelf space into ad inventory. But the retail media wave doesn't have to all be about digital ecommerce. In this video interview with industry analyst Joanna O'Connell for Beet.TV, Sherry Smith, GM, Global Enterprise, Criteo, says the practice is broadening-out. Brand-retail partnerships Smith [...]

LAS VEGAS – Social media and internet search derive much of their advertising power from what is known as last-click attribution, giving marketers an idea of which platforms helped to compel a transaction. Retailers that sell digital advertising are developing similar capabilities, and media buyers want metrics to affirm them. “Measurement is definitely one of them where there needs to be [...]

When you think of "retail media", it would be tempting to picture the big companies. Amazon, Target, Walmart, Boots and others are amongst the major retailers to have turned their virtual shelf space into ad inventory, while big brands from the major suppliers are often amongst the ones doing the deals. But, in this video interview with industry analyst Joanna O'Connell for [...]

The dream for many in CTV is that the emerging medium will finally allow for TV advertising to work just like digital advertising, where everyone is delivered a customized ad each time they log on. Radha Subramanyam president and Chief Research and Analytics Officer, CBS Corporation, has a question about that. "Is that what we want?" she said. Do we want TV [...]

NEW YORK – Data clean rooms offer a way for businesses to match up their data without sharing the information or intermingling it. As marketers seek to harness consumer data while also protecting people’s privacy, clean rooms are finding more applications. “We are slowly moving into the world of more advanced use cases and multi-party clean rooms, but it's still very [...]

In its thirtieth year after launching a TV shopping channel, one of America's largest non-bridal jewelry companies has grown into an omnichannel retailer which is also targeting consumers across digital media. Jewelry TV (jtv) has already been tracking its impact from its own channel footprint. Now, thanks to working with companies like Criteo, it is also extending that view into other [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Eleven months after they last gathered on the shores of Puerto Rico to discuss building-out the future of connected TV advertising, how did Beet Retreat San Juan speakers rate the industry's progress? After four days of debate, networking and socializing at Condado Vanderbilt Hotel, San Juan, delegates gathered for a closing plenary. Moderator Jon Watts asked executives [...]

For a long time, the ad industry was playing catch up on data and technology. Today, according to Jon Suarez-Davis, Strategic Advisor for Habu, that's no longer the case, as the technology for most sophisticated forms of collaboration and execution is in place. What's holding up adoption, if anything, is people,  as well as the sometimes slow willingness of big companies [...]

Amazon's ad sales may have grown 19% annually to $11.6 billion for Q4 alone - but "retail media" isn't just about the big retailers anymore. A growing number of retailers are converting their shelf space - whether digital or physical - into ad inventory. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Katie Kulik, Executive Managing Director, Americas, Criteo, explains how the category is [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – This year’s upfront sales season for television advertising is likely to include more discussions about ways to set the value of ad transactions, or what are known as currencies, based on viewership data from a broader variety of measurement companies. Newer currencies add another dimension to negotiations between media buyers and sellers. “I was always told [...]

Digital ad targeting isn't just going through change. It may be ceasing to exist as the we've has long known it. That, to Lou Paskalis CEO and Founder of AJL Advisory, is a a good thing, For too long, privacy and targeting have been at odds. In fact, according to Paskalis, the work targeting is 'offensive." "I think we have to strike [...]