NEW YORK – As brands seek ways to broaden the reach of their advertising campaigns, streaming aggregator Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment has multiple touchpoints with consumers. Its distribution includes thousands of in-store DVD kiosks after last year’s $370 million acquisition of Redbox. “Redbox is a unique platform. It is really the only one that offers content at every stage [...]

While some in the ad industry are still skeptical, Raphael Rivilla, chief media officer Marcus Thomas Agency, is a big believer in blockchain technology. The agency has run campaigns using various DSPs., Consistently, when working with Blockboard's blockchain-infused platform, Marcus' Thomas's clients avoid fraud, optimize faster, and generate stronger return on ad spend, he said. That's because blockchain technology allows the agencies [...]

So many possibilities, so many perils. That is the conundrum facing advertisers pondering connected TV. With many different streaming services having popped up, buying across the ecosystem is not exactly frictionless. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Eric Fischer, Founder, HJA Strategic Marketing, talks about the pros and cons of the channel. Real-world examples of successful cross-platform TV campaigns Fischer, a former GoDaddy global [...]

In the last couple of years, the media industry has been paying more attention to attention as a new way to measure media effectiveness. But attention as a metric doesn't just have to focus on what an audience saw. Monique Pintarelli, President, North America, Teads, thinks it can also be used farther down the funnel. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Pinterelli explains the [...]

Setting new standards in measurement and reporting for the advertising industry is no longer a competitive race; instead, it's an opportunity for collaboration. Andrea Zapata, EVP, Head of Ad Sales Research, Measurement and Insights, Warner Bros. Discovery, sheds light on the importance of working together to establish a better foundation in this interview with Beet.TV. Update: She was talking before Warner Bros. [...]

Television audience measurement is incomplete if it doesn’t reflect the fast-growing Hispanic market – and unfortunately, third-party datasets about Spanish-speaking households are often incomplete. TelevisaUnivision, the Spanish-language media company, is working to change those shortcomings. “We have north of 92% coverage of all U.S. Hispanic households in our [audience] graph today and it is highly, highly accurate,” Dan Aversano, senior vice [...]

Although achieving a better gender mix in business leadership positions is a goal for most companies, sometimes the way to grow representation of women as a group is to focus on the individual. That is according to Lisa Coffey, Global Chief Revenue Officer, LoopMe, one of the female leaders interviewed for Beet.TV's series The Best of the Badass Bosses. Speaking with research analyst [...]

Sorin Patilinet thinks the digital ad industry has a big problem. The Senior Director Consumer Insights at Mars said that consumers are going out of their way to block, skip and avoid brands' online ads, to the degree that he considers it a "crisis." "Ads are annoying,"  Patilinet told me during the most recent episode of my Next In Media podcast. "Consumers [...]

With platforms like TikTok taking off, many advertisers are figuring out how to balance both social video and big-budget TV. For Danielle DeLauro, there is a big distinction. DeLauro, EVP at VAB, representing main-line TV broadcasters, says TV ads are better placed to drive outcomes. Not all content is created equal "The premium value of long-form TV is extremely important to marketers because not [...]

"There are very few things in life that you cannot get yourself out of." This advice became a professional mantra for Lauren Beckstedt, CMO of Brunswick Corporation, giving her the permission to try new things, take risks, and step out of her comfort zone. In this video interview with research analyst Joanna O'Connell for Beet.TV, Beckstedt says she believes that resilience is [...]

It is now 15 years since digital media publishers have had their own version of TV's upfronts sales season - so how is IAB's NewFronts changing? In the middle of last week's 2023 NewFronts, where more than 40 events showcased offerings from even more sellers, IAB CEO David Cohen sat down with Beet.TV to take a snapshot. Opening access Cohen said organizers had [...]

LAS VEGAS – Television programming and advertising are being distributed through the internet with the advent of streaming video to connected devices. But the United States still has a significant broadcasting infrastructure of about 1,400 commercial TV stations. Their adoption of new technologies has been notoriously slow because spectrum is treated as a limited resource that must be regulated for [...]

MIAMI – Making TV commercials more interactive has been a goal for the media and marketing industries for years. Kerv Interactive developed a technology to help identify what appears on screen to support features such as shoppability. “We're able to actually analyze video more precisely than the human eye,” Marika Roque, chief operating officer and chief innovation officer at Kerv Interactive, [...]

If advertising to Disney's authenticated audience base works, Tal Chalozin may be about to find the proof. Chalozin, CTO & Co-Founder, Innovid, has just signed a deal in which his company's InnovidXP converged TV measurement platform will power measurement of outcomes such as app conversion and web visitation across Disney Advertising's addressable footprint. The deal was announced at the IAB NewFronts. In [...]

MIAMI – Women leaders are indispensable to the media and marketing industries, providing insights on the most significant segment of consumers in the United States. However, leadership traits aren’t necessarily defined by a person’s gender, but more by their personal style and experience. “Leadership traits are like calluses of life. They come to you with experience and with sacrifice and with [...]

Matt Timothy, EVP, Sales & Marketing, Blockboard likened the situation to being a sales executive. If the same person calls on an agency with the exact same pitch five times in a row, "you'd throw me out after the second meeting," he said. But for some reason, in TV, too many brands are allowing consumers to be bombarded with the same [...]

MIAMI – Amid the disruptions of the past few years, including a worldwide pandemic, war in Ukraine and high inflation, people are looking for leaders they can trust. That single characteristic is also the basis for effective leadership in business. “You need to ensure that you can build trust across the organization,” Monique Pintarelli, president of North America at media platform [...]

LAS VEGAS – Media companies have more ways to reach audiences than ever before as broadband connectivity expands among screens of all sizes. These numerous channels – including free, ad-supported television (FAST) platforms – multiply the amount of viewership data. “With these FAST channels, there's so many different platforms that have different ways of attaining data, so reporting is a big [...]

According to eMarketer's latest forecast, US connected TV (CTV) ad spending will near $30 billion in 2024. But that amount could go higher if the industry can give the market certainty and security over the looming problem of ad fraud. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jonathan Teitloff, Sr. Director, Product, CTV, TripleLift, explains the importance of the issue. Trust is paramount Teitloff emphasized [...]

How does the woman leading a big new business line for one of the US' largest retail businesses think the industry can achieve better gender diversity? By keeping opportunities open and getting out of your bubble. In this video interview with research analyst Joanna O'Connell for Beet.TV, Kristi Argyilan, SVP, Retail Media, Albertsons Companies, opens up on how the industry can welcome [...]