“Convergent TV” Will Take Front Stage at Cannes Lions, Banker Kawaja

The transformation of television and the emergence  “convergent TV,” will take front stage at the Cannes Lions Festival next month, predicts Terence Kawaja, co-founder and CEO of LUMA Partners, a prominent investment bank in the media and adtech sectors. The discussion of addressable TV, and the emerging opportunities for advertisers to deliver targeted advertising to individual cable and satellite […]

Big Beet Plans in New York, London, Las Vegas, and Vieques

What a September! We just finished up an incredibly busy, fun,  productive September starting with our networking party in San Francisco,  coverage of the IBC show in Amsterdam, our programmatic video leadership summit in NY at Hearst, followed by DMEXCO in Cologne — then Advertising Week in New York and finally finishing up with the […]

The Complexity of Video Ad Delivery Poses Big Financial Risk to Media Biz, IAB’s Chief

LAS VEGAS — While the widespread adoption of Internet-delivered television is coming into focus, the complexity of delivering different ad formats across multiple devices presents serious financial risks to marketers, agencies and media companies, says Randall Rothenberg, President of the IAB, the digital media’s industry trade organization, in this interview with Beet.TV

Rentrak’s Livek Relishes Advanced TV Targeting With comScore

FORT LAUDERDALE — Shareholders of comScore and Rentrak are due to vote on a merger of the two companies, via the former’s proposed acquisition of the latter, on Thursday, in a move that will be a big deal for the advertising and content measurement industry. The pair plan to combine to pool comScore’s online analytics nous with […]