It is a medium which promises the richness of linear TV creative with the targetability and measurement of digital. But connected TV (CTV) still has to solve pieces of the puzzle. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Janelle De Rivera, Director of Product Management, Moat Analytics, Oracle, explains why CTV ad buyers are looking for more. More measurement "One of the challenges with CTV [...]

Marketers are looking for ways to reach consumers through linear and connected television (CTV) without showing the same ads to the same viewers too many times. Advertising automation platform Simpli.fi recently introduced the ability to provide buyers of linear TV advertising with complete incremental reach on CTV. “One of the number one challenges with buying linear TV and connected TV -- [...]

Digital media outlets gave a variety of direct-to-consumer brands, including disruptive startup brands, a way to advertise to target audiences and quickly see how their campaigns were performing. As more consumers spend with connected television (CTV), marketers are gaining access to a video channel that combines audience targeting with the emotional power of television advertising. “The power of CTV, in my [...]

As marketers shift their ad spending to streaming platforms, they’re also looking for reassurances that their commercials appear within brand-safe shows. Connected TV publishers can offer more information about their programming to advertisers through Amazon’s digital advertising marketplace following a recent integration with video data platform IRIS.TV. “We're going to increase the available inventory for those buyers to ensure at the [...]

Roku helped viewers celebrate the premiere of HBO Max’s much-anticipated “House of the Dragon” with an exclusive fan experience on its streaming devices. Featured content included trailers, theme packs and special looks at the characters in the series, whose action takes place 200 years before the events in the hit fantasy show “Game of Thrones.” To help fans get up to speed [...]

The past decade saw a proliferation of digitally native brands that harnessed the power of social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram to reach target audiences. Many of these marketers are gaining the ability to launch targeted television campaigns as more people hook up their TVs to the internet. “Certain segmentation is very similar to how you've seen traditionally on digital [...]

With digital audience identifiers waning in usefulness, many ad buyers are once again looking back toward "quality" media opportunities. But that quest for "quality" doesn't just mean media - it also means middlemen. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Frans Vermeulen, VP Strategy & Market Development, TransUnion, explains why the supply chain must also clean up. Quality in the machine "You need quality on [...]

A platform helping advertisers customize and scale their video ads across digital channels is taking new investment to scale itself. VidMob, based in New York with 13 global offices in 50 countries, announced a $110 million Series D investment led by Shamrock Capital, along with ID Fund, Drive by DraftKings, eGateway and PROOF. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Alex Collmer, Founder & [...]

Although "connected TV" (CTV) has been rising fast, most viewers tend to just consider it all "TV". That places an onus on parts of the CTV ad supply chain to match the TV ad viewing experience, eliminating duplicate or poorly targeted ads. Ten executives interviewed for the just-wrapped Transforming CTV: Delivering a Better Ad Experience for Viewers, a Beet.TV Leadership Series presented [...]

On the same day Google again delayed phasing out Chrome cookies, a startup founded by two ex-Googlers raised a big funding round to provide an alternative ad targeting mechanism. Seedtag is one of several ad-tech firms whose software reads cues in content to provide "contextual targeting" attributes, considered a replacement for waning audience targeting methods. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Brian [...]

CANNES — Right now, the collection of technologies known as "Web3" seems a little murky to some. But, once upon a time, marketers thought the same thing about "Web 2.0". In the Web3 panel, The Creator Economy & The Future of Video, at The Mediaocean Retreat, two executives unpicked how brands and agencies should think of the new tech: Host: Ryan Barwick, [...]

CANNES — The new-wave TV ad measurement provider co-founded by actor Edward Norton has taken an $80 million investment designed to expand its sales and marketing operations. EDO, which aims to correlate audience outcomes to ad exposure, took its biggest investment round to date. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Kevin Krim, president, EDO, explains why. Old game is over "Measurement is pivotal to [...]

CANNES — In an advertising world shook-up by privacy regulation and practices, marketers' own data can build a "bridge" to the future. A growing number of brands are coming to that realization. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Ryan McBride, Sr. Director, Global Head of Product Strategy, Oracle Advertising, explains why it is true. Fuel tomorrow "There's new regulation popping up every day," McBride [...]

CANNES – Separating passing fads from enduring innovations can vex marketers as they decide what kinds of technologies to adopt in their advertising. Lately, there is consistent discussion about Web3 as the next stage in interactive media after the commercialization of the internet and the growth of social media. Web3 is seen as a more decentralized version of the internet that [...]

CANNES — It took a while for the infrastructure to get rolling, but now addressable TV is hitting its straps. That is the view from a growing number of executives talking about the new capability to swap out linear TV ads for targeted alternatives. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Joel Hassell, CEO, Canoe Ventures, paints a picture of addressable's evolution. Pipes are [...]

CANNES — It is now more than half a year since NBCUniversal joined the alternative media measurement movement by tapping new-wave measurement provider iSpot.tv. So what has been discovered so far? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Sean Muller, Founder & CEO, iSpot.tv, lifts the lids on the main trend lines. Test and learn NBCUniversal picked iSpot.tv as its first cross-platform Certified Measurement Partner [...]

CANNES – Women in leadership roles at work are important role models for other women who seek to advance their careers, start businesses and handle a variety of competing responsibilities. Sharing the benefits of their experiences with other women is especially helpful and is a key mission of She Runs It, the organization that started as the Advertising Women of [...]

CANNES — With GDPR, cookie deprecation and limits on mobile device identifiers, it has been a tumultuous couple of years for anyone trying to target digital advertising. But more change is on its way. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jay Prasad, Chief strategy Officer, TV & Measurement, LiveRamp, explains why advertisers need to take note - and how they can respond. Looming [...]

CANNES — In tough times when belts are being tightened, how can marketing agencies fight for corporate dollars to spend? In this fireside chat at Cannes Lions, two industry group leaders debated how internal structures shape marketing procurement: Marla Kaplowitz, President & CEO, 4A's Bill Duggan, Group EVP, ANA Look beyond cost "The questions are not productive if it's focusing on just cost," [...]

CANNES – Consumers are dividing their time among a bigger selection of media channels and connected devices, and it’s not always clear whether they’re paying attention to advertisements that appear among their preferred choices of content. This uncertainty has spurred greater interest in measuring attention. “Marketers really need to start focusing on attention as a metric, because an impression or an [...]