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ORLANDO — Brands averaging 12 agencies with separate systems and priorities create organizational chaos that artificial intelligence accelerates rather than solves.  What’s needed, according to Publicis Groupe’s Linsey Loy, is proper integration through unified identity frameworks and shared operating models. “If you think of yourself or your company like a house, if everyone has their […]

Artificial intelligence is generating new interactive data signals from creative content that enable moment-based messaging, fundamentally changing how brands reach audiences beyond traditional television daypart structures. “I think if you can provide signals based on moments, and that’s what AI is going to do in creative and content, you can have more powerful dynamic messaging,” […]

LAS VEGAS — The retail media network explosion mirrors the programmatic advertising boom 15 years ago in a lot of ways to Digitas North America’s’ Chelsea Monaco. As the convergence of shopping, advertising, and media becomes more solidified, the wide retail media could look a lot smaller in the near-future.  “If you look at what […]

Consumers spend approximately 11 minutes deciding what to watch when they turn on their televisions, creating a premium opportunity for native advertising placements that influence content selection and brand messaging before streaming begins. “The first thing that you see when you turn on your TV is, well, what do I want to watch? The average […]

LAS VEGAS — Organizations struggling to move from siloed data to actionable cross-channel insights should start small and prioritize progress over comprehensive solutions that never launch. “It’s about simplification and everyone seems to be wanting to boil the ocean, and that’s always hard,” Cristina Marinucci, VP Global Growth & Omni Commercial Insights at Mondelēz International, […]

Television advertising for pharmaceutical brands has evolved beyond general demographic targeting to enable condition-specific audience layering that eliminates wasted impressions while maintaining the mass reach needed for awareness campaigns. “Where we used to do a broad kind of demo targeting, now we can bring in these condition-based audiences that allow us to become more precise,” […]

The appeal of traditional journalism to engaged, coveted audiences is still “news” to many major advertisers. But when established publishers try to make that case, marketers cite that brand safety concerns are top of mind. “I tell [those advertisers] it’s a miss, to be honest,” Mike Irenski, SVP, Programmatic Strategy, Newspapers & TV at Hearst, […]

CANNES — In today’s data-saturated world, marketers need more than access, they need results. That’s the focus at T-Mobile Advertising Solutions, where mobility insights and omnichannel reach are helping brands connect with consumers more meaningfully. “One of the things that we’ve observed is that brands are starting to move away from siloed approach strategies and […]

AMENIA, NY — First-party data has earned its valorization the last few years, particularly among the brands that tend to own it. But that doesn’t mean third-party data, which has had its ups and downs and ups again lately, is inherently less useful. “When people even outside of advanced TV hear about third-party data, they […]

CANNES – The fragmentation that has long plagued television advertising may finally be giving way to consolidation, creating new opportunities for precision targeting in healthcare marketing. “One of the enemies of scale is fragmentation. That’s been a huge obstacle in the TV landscape, but I think we’re starting to see some consolidation of that inventory,” […]

CANNES – At a time when identity-based targeting faces mounting challenges, Ogury is betting on a fundamentally different approach: targeting personas rather than people. “Our methodology is based on effectively finding audiences that have the right mindset, the right characteristics, without effectively encroaching on their privacy,” Thomas Bernal, SVP of Go-to-Market at Ogury, told Beet.TV […]

Rachel Cascisa, VP Platform Adoption Epsilon has been in ad tech for roughly 20 years. She knows thing were good, and are about to dramatically change. “We built an industry around third party cookies,” she said. “They were easy, and ended up being very lucrative for us.” The hope is that things continue to be […]

TV consumers are getting a very bad deal. But digital consumers are getting exploited. Those were some of the takeaway from Rishad Tobaccowala, senior advisor Publicis, when he was asked about the state of the seemingly implicit value exchange between people are getting brands. “It isn’t as fair and as even as people anticipated,” he […]

For a long time, the ad industry was playing catch up on data and technology. Today, according to Jon Suarez-Davis, Strategic Advisor for Habu, that’s no longer the case, as the technology for most sophisticated forms of collaboration and execution is in place. What’s holding up adoption, if anything, is people,  as well as the […]

Digital ad targeting isn’t just going through change. It may be ceasing to exist as the we’ve has long known it. That, to Lou Paskalis CEO and Founder of AJL Advisory, is a a good thing, For too long, privacy and targeting have been at odds. In fact, according to Paskalis, the work targeting is […]

On this week’s BeetCast, we caught up with Nathan Brown Global Chief Strategy Officer at  UM, for a chat  about innovation and how his agency is partnering with brands to make them “Futureproof”. Futureproof is the global positing of UM. Key to success  is identifying  the future customer for a brand’s goods and services.   In […]

Europe’s new consumer data privacy rules have been touted as having a massive impact on the digital advertising world. But, for companies and countries which already sing from the same hymnsheet, could the impact be muted? In this video interview with Beet.TV, one of the biggest ad-tech companies discusses the likely effects – or non-effects […]

It wasn’t supposed to be this good. When Apple introduced Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) in September, ad targeter Criteo said its revenue would be slightly impacted. With Europe’s new GDPR privacy rules also looming, some observers were saying Criteo was toast. But it hasn’t quite turned out that way. On Wednesday, publicly-listed Criteo reported annual revenue […]

Europe’s new consumer data privacy rules could make it harder for smaller ad-tech companies to operate, driving a new wave of platform consolidation. That is according to the privacy chief from the world’s largest media investment group. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came in to effect back in 2016, whilst the final deadline for […]

Looming legislation that will change the rules of the game for ad tracking may be regarded by some with fear – but could Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) actually be beneficial for everyone? For the uninitiated, the GDPR came in to effect back in 2016, whilst the final deadline for compliance comes this […]