Twitter returned to this week's IAB NewFronts digital ad showcase touting new and extended premium-publisher tie-ups to potential advertisers. The social network first used the event in 2017. This time, it is also announcing a deal with iSpot.tv and NBCU. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Sarah Rosen, Head of US Content Partnerships, explains the highlights of Twitter's pitch. Tech tools Twitter is becoming [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - National television networks are gradually adding addressable advertising capabilities to show different ads to different households during the same shows. When fully implemented, addressable TV will offer audience targeting that’s comparable to digital video platforms. “We're at this really interesting inflection point in the world of video where addressable television and these types of opportunities are [...]

Retailers that sell advertising space on their websites and mobile apps have the power to collect enormous amounts of data about the buying habits of their customers. That information can help marketers of consumer packaged goods (CPG) to hone their digital media-buying strategies. “The rise of retailer data is complementing and filling that gap from a targeting and a measurement perspective,” [...]

As far back as the 1990s and earlier, futuristic forecasts of "interactive TV" - with remote-control shopping experiences - were everywhere. Those predictions came true, but mostly on other screens - laptops, tablets and smartphones. But now shoppable TV is having a moment - and this time the hype is real. QR codes, another technology which once looked to have been over-estimated, [...]

NBCUniversal doesn't only want TV to be used as a brand-building medium. It is also going after the other end of the funnel. In a new move, the company is making a strategic investment in TV ad-tech software vendor tvScientific to launch Peacock Ad Manager, a new self-service ad-buying platform with attribution. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Joe Cady, EVP, Advanced [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Changes in people’s television viewing habits and the growth of data captured from connected devices like smart TVs are influencing the way audiences are measured. A variety of startups have emerged to offer alternate metrics to help set the value of advertising transactions, challenging marketers to evaluate which ones work best. “Landrushes happen when there’s a moment [...]

LONDON - It started with an aim to stitch together the advanced TV ad targeting opportunity in its native UK. Now GroupM's Finecast is embarking on a global roll-out, intent on driving up the commercial potential of the channel. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Finecast's CEO Nicola Lewis explains the expansion. Helping advertisers "What we do is enable advertisers to deliver messaging to [...]

Gathering data directly from consumers has become a bigger priority for marketers as they not only comply with stricter privacy laws, but also find ways to harness first-party information. Google’s plan to stop supporting tracking cookies in its popular Chrome browser and Apple’s steps to curb the sharing of device identifiers are pushing marketers to cultivate other data signals from [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - In 2022, media owners are testing out a host of new measurement and currency options. All of that is aimed at weaning the industry off its historic reliance on panels. But what exactly will currency success look like? In this video interview with Beet.TV's Rob Williams at Beet Retreat San Juan, Chris Wilson, Chief Commercial Officer, Comscore, [...]

After a couple of pandemic-impacted years, the IAB's annual showcase for publishers to pitch their upcoming digital content slates to advertisers is getting underway. Dubbed "Stream On", IAB's NewFronts, aimed ad brand marketers and agency professionals, runs May 2 to 5 as what IAB CEO David Cohen calls a "hybrid" event. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Cohen also reveals how connected [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - In an era when ads can target individuals' attributes, what is it going to take for more of them to appeal to minority characteristics? In this video interview with Beet.TV at Beet Retreat San Juan, one executive bemoaned insufficient diversity in the advanced TV workplace - and said things need to change. Tr.ly VP creative solutions Gabriela [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Piece by piece, national TV inventory is getting lit up for addressable ad targeting. Canoe Ventures is one of the companies now helping make it happen. In this video interview with Rob Williams at Beet.TV's Beet Retreat San Juan, David Porter, SVP & GM, Addressable Advertising, Canoe Ventures, explains what to expect from his company. New national deals Canoe [...]

A big new partnership deal promises to swell the practice through which advertisers use so-called "clean rooms" to activate their first-party customer data alongside other datasets. InfoSum, a data collaboration platform, says it will integrate with The Trade Desk, which offers a demand-side platform (DSP),  data management platform (DMP) and its Unified ID 2.0 (UID). The tie-up means advertisers and agencies can [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Newer technologies often come with a dizzying array of buzzwords, technical jargon and flashy bells and whistles. As advertisers seek help in evaluating martech and adtech platforms, they need to be mindful that the technology delivers on its promises. “A lot of times when you hire the consulting firms, they talk about technology, and they build you [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Connected television can help advertisers to reach a wider audience by complementing their presence on local TV stations, though there are hurdles that need to be overcome. Advertisers may have caps on ad frequency that prevent them from buying commercial time on local stations and CTV channels that reach the same ZIP codes, among other challenges. “Measurement’s [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – National television networks are gradually expanding their support for addressable advertising, which lets marketers send different ads to different households during the same shows. The transition will open up 14 minutes an hour of linear TV ad inventory for improved household-level targeting. “With the success of the addressable campaigns that we've been running within the Comcast environment, [...]

ISpot.tv, a company whose software helps advertisers to measure the reach of TV and streaming-video campaigns, today said it had received a $325 million investment from Goldman Sachs Asset Management. ISpot's platform recognizes content in real time and organizes metadata to tell which commercials play during ad breaks.  It also gives marketers a way to know how consumers respond to advertising, [...]

Although behavioral targeting may appear on the rocks, the established digital ad tactic may not be completely shipwrecked. Instead, a likely outcome is that the tactical correction now underway, thanks to the deprecation of digital identifiers, will lead to a balance of approaches. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jenn Chen, president and chief revenue officer of ad-tech company Connatix, explains how [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Television networks are in a period of major disruption as consumers seek greater control over the viewing experience, whether they’re watching traditional linear programming or streaming content to connected devices such as smart TVs and mobile phones. Networks also are seeing greater demand from advertisers to automate their sales operations in programmatic auctions. Discovery, whose network brands [...]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - It is often disregarded as of lesser importance and sophistication, but the local US TV market is big business. In this video interview with Beet.TV at Beet Retreat San Juan, one local TV expert says the sector has been a voracious adopter of new advanced TV ad sales techniques. VAB president Sean Cunningham tells interviewer Jon Watts [...]