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On October 10 and 11, the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) gathered speakers and guests at Warner Bros. Discovery’s New York HQ to discuss the future of media. Summing-up CIMM Summit, Jon Watts, Managing Director, CIMM, tells Beet.TV the event discussed three key themes: Measurement Activation Innovation A Transition in Measurement and Currency “(We […]

NEW YORK – This year’s CIMM Summit arrives as the media, marketing and adtech industries debate the best ways to set the value of cross-platform advertising for brands of all sizes. “We’re 18 months to two years into a transition to a multicurrency marketplace,” Jon Watts, managing director of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement […]

Welcome to this episode of the BeetCast podcast. We are bringing you these voices from the Beet Retreat last month in Santa Monica. Wonderful insights on what’s next for our industry. In this podcast, we are sharing these chats between David Levy, CEO OpenAP with moderator Jon Watts, and FreeWheel’s GM Dave Clark with moderator […]

LOS ANGELES — Welcome to this episode of the BeetCast Lots of activity here recently at Beet.TV. The most exciting has been  our first in-person event in over 18 months.  It was the Beet Retreat in Santa Monica last month. We brought together amazing people for long-need in person networking and conversations. At the event, […]

A system introduced two years ago to help advertisers understand the contents of audience data segments needs an upgrade, according to one of the people who helped drive the initial initiative. In this video interview with The Project X Institute executive director Jon Watts for Beet.TV, Jonathan Steuer explains why the IAB’s Data Label needs […]

With a glass half-full, the era of addressable and connected television promises advertisers precision targeting to individual households and digitals-style, data-informed ad planning. Many in the industry with the scars from trying to make it happen would tell you a different story. That is why, in the last two years, we have seen a series […]

Proper frequency management and the introduction of interactive, personalized ad experiences are are among the key elements essential for the success of advertising in converged TV, says Joanna O’Connell, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research in this #BeetCast podcast. The session is guest hosted by industry consultant and advisor Jon Watts. O’Connell  points to […]

LONDON – The digital media industry is going through a rapid transformation, accelerated by the global pandemic.  For marketers navigating a changing  landscape, taking time for learning is essential, suggests Philippa Snare, SVP for EMEA at The TradeDesk in this interview with Beet.TV’s Jon Watts. Snare recently moved from Facebook where she lead their Global […]

The ad industry is heading away from mass reach to smarter reach, says NCSolutions’ CRO Lance Brothers. In a townhall interview with Jon Watts at February’s Beet Retreat in San Juan, Brothers explained how his company is helping advertisers and ad sellers navigate the shift. It starts with helping the industry understand what attribution means […]

SAN JUAN PR — The looming deprecation of a key technology advertisers have historically used to track and target users has sent the industry in a scurry for a replacement. Google has declared it will phase out all third-party cookies – the tiny, user-side files that store information – from its Chrome browser by 2022. In this video […]

SAN JUAN, PR — At the upcoming “upfronts” TV ad sales season ad buyers will be striking deals with broadcast platforms to use attribution technology that can prove the business impact of their ad spend. That is according to an ad-tech boss whose platform is facilitating some of the deals. John Hoctor is president of […]

SAN JUAN, PR — The ability to send tailored ads to individual TV households has been talked about for a long time. Now, after many early attempts, finally addressable TV is reaching scale. But just how advanced is the infrastructure behind “advanced TV”? In a Beet Retreat panel, Addressable Tech: Next-Gen Solutions: Fixing the Plumbing, […]

SAN JUAN, PR– With all of the different sources of data informing the TV industry, fragmentation is a natural consequence. In a town hall interview with Beet.TV’s Jon Watts at the Beet Retreat in San Juan, Lisa Giacosa, global md of data and analytics for Spark Foundry, explained how some collaboration is necessary in order […]

SAN JUAN, PR– Adsmart, the advanced advertising unit at NBCU, has been a “petri dish” for testing and learning to see if cross-portfolio work was viable for the company to do as it moves toward its new One Platform solution. Covering all advanced advertising initiatives including digital programmatic, Adsmart’s approach breaks down silos, streamlines the […]

SAN JUAN, PR– After conversations at the Beet Retreat in San Juan, Evan Hovorka, the director of business development at Roundel, thinks that brand needs could be more front and center. On stage with Beet.TV’s Jon Watts, Hovorka says that 15 years at Target has made his thinking brand-centric. “As a brand, I’m trying to […]

LONDON– Over the past decade, TV had a tough time finding its footing within the changing market. While a look ahead doesn’t provide much immediate clarity, according to Jon Watts, managing partner of London-based MTM, this isn’t necessarily a cause for concern. “In session after session, I think we’ve seen a TV industry coming to […]

It’s not an exaggeration to compare the current state of TV measurement to a “Game of Thrones”-like scenario, according to Nicole Whitesel, the evp of advanced TV at Publicis Media. During a fireside chat with Jon Watts, co-founder and managing partner at MTM London at the Beet Retreat, hosted by Publicis Media, Whitesel explained why […]

In the emerging future of television advertising, many opportunities lay ahead on the high seas. But, on the horizon, do advertisers see islands, or new lands for settling? In this video interview with Beet.TV, MTM co-founder and partner Jon Watts says the new-wave US TV market is leading the way in new capabilities – but, […]

Why would an advertiser want to precision-target individual TV-viewing households when who they really want to reach is…  everybody? That is a key question being asked of the emerging technology of “addressable TV”, which supports such targeting. eMarketer has revised down its 2019 forecast for US addressable TV ad spending, from the earlier $2.54bn to […]

CANNES—Connected television and its targeted advertising benefits come at a good but very busy time for Nissan Motor Corporation. The company is in the midst of completely re-working its internal and agency infrastructure in the walkup to 70% of its vehicle lineup being “completely refreshed” over the next 18 months. “We have to go to […]