The evolution of effective audience measurement is the top priority for most in the digital video industry, according to a commissioned report by Forrester Research sponsored by Videology. The industry needs to move past measurement via GRP’s says Ashley J. Swartz, CEO of the the Furious Minds, report in this commentary for Beet.TV.
“We really are at a cross-roads for the industry,” Nielsen agency solutions EVP Dave Hohman tells Beet.TV. “Ad agencies are looking to be able to provide integrated, multi-screen campaigns – they tend to be much more impactful from an ROI (return on investment) standpoint than mono-media planning.” The problem? Ad planning hierarchies are “siloed”, Hohman reckons: “The […]
The third annual Beet.TV Executive Retreat is January 24-25 at the W Retreat & Spa on the Caribbean island of Vieques. Over the course of next two days of panels and presentations, this group of industry leaders will explore the emerging medium of digital video. Topics will include ad effectiveness and measurement; the emerging platforms and […]
The growing sophistication of both TV and online data is making cross-platform media mix modeling more reliable, says Mark McKee, Senior VP Global Marketing and Strategy at Videology in an interview with Beet.TV. “The first party and third party purchase behavior is effective in reaching and delivering both brand and sales metrics,” he says in a conversation […]
Programmatic buying isn’t big enough to have a huge impact yet on the TV upfront, says Gibbs Haljun, Managing Director of Media Investment at GroupM, during an interview with Beet.TV. “It’s not happening yet because there isn’t huge scale. Look at Duck Dynasty. That has a very small viewership online….there is less of an incentive to […]
Automated advertising is about to be executed at some serious scale, after WPP this month announced it would merge its 24/7 Media unit’s collection of publisher-side technologies in to data stablemate Xaxis. “It puts us in some rare air – we are the largest programmatic and media platform,” Xaxis north America MD Brian Gleason tells Beet.TV. WPP merged […]
Typically, publishers want to gain “premium” prices for their advertising spaces, selling unsold spots as “remnant” space. But Project Rubicon business operations SVP Anthony Katsur says they often don’t know which should be which. “Publishers need to better understand the inventory that should be allocated to premium and higher CPMs versus what should they monetize through secondary […]
The automation of media buying, which has become pervasive in the digital world, is inexorably coming to television planning and buying. While not auction based, the tools of programmatic ad operations are becoming part of the linear television media world. This development has major implications for brands, their agencies, broadcasters and a range of technology […]
The automation of media buying, which has become pervasive in the digital world, is inexorably coming to television planning and buying. While not necessarily auction based, the tools of programmatic ad operations are becoming part of the linear television media world. This development has major implications for brands, their agencies, broadcasters and a range of […]
It is time for the DVR to go, says Jim Nail, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research in this interview with Ashley J. Swartz for Beet.TV. “Killing off the DVR is the best thing the industry could do right now…because of the ridiculous discussions of C3, C7. Why not just deliver it online and insert the ad to the audience watching […]
Mobile and TV cross-screen buying can be most effective when timed properly to a call-to-action, says Michael Masters, Co-founder and CEO of the mobile and TV advertising platform AdTonik in this interview with Ashley J. Swartz for Beet.TV. For instance, if Pizza Hut advertises on TV, the best time to run a mobile ad might be the next day […]
The next big push in online video content may lie in discovery, says Amanda Richman, President, Investment and Activation, Starcom USA, in this interview with Ashley J. Swartz for Beet.TV. In the last year, Starcom studied the perception of online video and TV ads and learned that consumers don’t distinguish. “We kept coming up against this perception that […]
The mobile and TV advertising platform AdTonik is slated to work with Time Warner Cable Media in the coming months on its TV and mobile initiatives in major markets including New York and Los Angeles, says Michael Masters, Co-founder and CEO of AdTonik in this interview with Ashley J. Swartz for Beet.TV. “We will be delivering unique creative based […]
As part of its evolution to become a cross-screen media agency, Starcom MediaVest Group launched a new unit this week called Zero Dot, devoted to consult and create brand experiences and content across platforms, says Amanda Richman, President, Investment and Activation, Starcom USA, in this interview with Ashley J. Swartz for Beet.TV. “Starcom has been […]
NEW YORK — Nielsen is releasing a software developers kit (SDK) to help video publishers validate their cross-platform ad views with the measurement firm’s campaign ratings metrics that are increasingly important to advertisers. The outfit is making the kit available in beta. “The way we measure for TV today is, there are watermarks that get […]
NAPA, Ca — For video, adoption of automated, targeted inventory buying labelled “programmatic” lags the wave seen in display advertising. But, soon, that could all be about to change, says one agency exec. “Right now, we’re still somewhere at the forefront,” Starcom’s video investment director Zach Isaacs tells Beet.TV in this video interview. “(Programmatic’s share […]
We all know that web publishers are dead-set on scooping up dollars in the video advertising race. But many are struggling to create enough new video content to put the ads on. So US-bound French ad-tech outfit Teads is helping them run video ads, outside of videos. Sure, Teads helps publishers serve in-stream ads in […]
NAPA, CA – With an increasing numbers of brands eyeing tools to manage programmatic media buying in-house, industry analyst Joanna O’Connell cautions them about the perils. While she sees data management going to in-house, the actual execution of the buying will likely remain done by ad agencies and other tech vendors, she says in this […]
COLOGNE – Data alone isn’t the answer to better ads. Creativity, insight and relevance still reign, says Amir Kassaei, IBC Chief Creative Officer, DDB Worldwide, in an interview with Ashley J. Swartz, CEO of Furious Minds, at DMEXCO last month. The problem with data is that it’s not always used to foster value, he says. Data […]
COLOGNE — Fast-moving consumer packaged goods companies are among the brands that are making the most of using real-time data to inform creative messaging, says Thaer Namruti, SVP Data and Analytics in Europe at Starcom MediaVest Group in an interview with Ashley J. Swartz for Beet.TV at DMEXCO. “The role of technology is to act as an […]