Omnicom Media Group

CANNES – With the advertising industry still on a mission to simplify its notoriously convoluted digital supply chains, supply-path optimization (SPO), a buy-side-led effort to consolidate spending through fewer, more efficient intermediaries, has been a key avenue. But, in the booming connected TV space, some major publishers are starting to flip the script. Instead of […]

CANNES — After TV viewing pivoted to on-demand, “live” content may be coming back — with a twist. Younger audiences are increasingly associating live experiences with social platforms and streaming rather than traditional broadcast events, said Megan Pagliuca, chief product officer at Omnicom Media Group, in this video interview with Beet.TV. She said this evolution […]

One of the time-honored traditions of the 50-year-old TV upfronts has been to declare them dead. And yet, every year, the same star-studded spectacles return, along with networks and media buyers eager to lock in deals before Cannes.  While it’s tempting to knock the annual advertising marketplace as the “same-old, same-old,”  Travis Scoles, EVP of […]

LAS VEGAS — Retail media is expanding beyond Amazon to more retailers, while the umbrella “commerce media” is growing opportunities for media to connect to consumer transactions. At CES 2025, Omnicom Media Group hosted discussions on the future of advertising and its “Momentum Multiplied” on the OMG Platform. In this panel, guests discussed how “premium” […]

LAS VEGAS — Search is changing — but so are the ad agencies that have long relied on the channel to reach audiences. At CES, Omnicom announced several new search-related partnerships with tech companies including the “granddaddy” of search, an indication that both sides are keen to evolve the opportunity. What’s more, OMG, and partner […]

CANNES — Panelists at the Global Leadership Summit: Streaming TV & Digital Video discussed how aligning ad emotions with content sentiment can significantly improve CTV advertising effectiveness. Research suggests matching ad emotions to programming context can yield 2-3x performance lifts. While some industry resistance exists, data-driven results are convincing brands to consider emotions-based targeting. Panelists stressed the […]

CANNES — The phenomenon of “connected commerce” is not just about retailers or consumer goods companies. In a recent white paper, Omnicom explored the various ways in which consumers are interacting with shoppable moments – and found that consumers themselves have considerable influence over the emerging category. In this video interview with Beet.TV editorial director Lisa […]

CANNES — Omnicom used Cannes Lions to announce a slew of digital ad partnerships and its own new retail media initiatives. The agency group launched Omni Commerce, an “orchestration solution” for retail media. In this video interview with Beet.TV at Cannes, Megan Pagliuca, Chief Activation Officer, Omnicom Media Group, talks about the announcements. Connecting Commerce […]

LONDON, UK — In an ad industry that is now invested in developing metrics to quantify audience attention, paying attention to the audience could yield the ultimate in user behavior signalling. Several tech vendors are now offering technology employing facial recognition to help quantify attention paid to programming and ads. In this video interview at […]

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 […]

This week’s guest on the #BeetCast podcast is John Osborn, CEO of OMD, the Omnicom media agency responsible for many major brands including Apple, McDonald’s, State Farm and others. John joined OMD in 2017 from the global creative agency BBDO where he was CEO. In this conversation, he speaks about managing brand’s media investments during […]

In recent years, the prevalence of audience data has revolutionized the ability to target digital advertising. But now the set of capabilities and consequences produced by that data is changing shape. What will the future look like? That is what “Data: Powering CTV for Marketers,” our recent Beet.TV leadership series presented by Sabio, set out […]

CHICAGO – Previously the domain of boutique agencies and specialty divisions. multicultural marketing is now “front and center,” says Mike Solomon, Chief Operating Officer of Omnicom’s PHD US unit in this Beet.TV video hosted by Rita Ferro, President of Disney Advertising Sales for The Walt Disney Company. This was among the the topics in this […]

It originally launched with more modest ambitions, to harmonize the data segments TV networks use to describe their audiences. But now OpenAP has launched the latest new initiative in its ongoing maturation – a supply-side platform (SSP) to help the buying of linear TV ad inventory. The new platform, announced on Monday, has connective tissue […]

Digital publishers and platforms have become adept at controlling fraud, but not so good about more subtle problems around content adjacency. There remains a lack of transparency around where a marketer’s content will run and the impact of associating with sensational advertising. Says Scott Hagedorn, CEO of Omnicom Media Group in this BeetCast podcast moderated […]

Matthew Kramer wants to sell brands on the power of connected TV – but the paucity of effective measurement is making it difficult, So the managing director or advanced advertising at Omnicom Media Group is making CTV measurement a focus for the year ahead. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Kramer describes the problem – […]

Until recently, the common understanding of connected TV services was that they were mostly popular with younger cord-cutters and the typical view of addressable TV ad targeting was that it worked mostly at the local level. But ad agencies are now enjoying recent developments which are widening both of those apertures – audience breadth and […]

The current crisis  is causing the media industry to “rethink what we do.”  It is making the TV Upfront less essential versus the time when clients want to negotiate, says Catherine Sullivan, Chief Investment Officer of the Omnicom Media Group, NA, in this interview with Beet.TV TV marketplace is moving inexorably to an “audience-based” world.  […]

Streaming is top of mind for Catherine Sullivan, chief investment officer for Omnicom Media Group North America. Major deals are happening as legacy media companies scoop up streaming platforms – Disney’s acquisition of Hulu, Fox’s acquisition of Tubi, ViacomCBS’s acquisition of Pluto – and new streaming services are launching. In May, HBO Max will debut; […]

SAN JUAN, PR– In a landscape that values data, measurement, ROI, and other affirming selling points, why is it so hard to navigate? In a town hall with Ashley J. Swartz, CEO and founder of Furious Corp. at the Beet Retreat in San Juan, Jonathan Steuer, chief research officer at Omnicom Media Group, explored how […]