Television

Television has evolved beyond its traditional broad reach positioning to deliver the precision targeting capabilities once exclusive to digital channels, fundamentally changing how healthcare brands approach video advertising strategies. “Television is delivering the kind of precision targeting that we once thought only possible in digital,” Ashley Luongo, CRO of TV ad platform OpenAP, told Beet.TV […]

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,” […]

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 […]

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,” […]

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 – DirecTV is betting that Pause Ads — those advertisements that appear when viewers pause their content — will soon become as common as traditional commercial breaks. “Pause Ads… are going to be mainstream very soon,” Matt Van Houten, SVP of Ad Sales at DirecTV, told Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan at the Cannes Lions […]

FreeWheel, a pioneering adtech company  that enables many of the world’s leading digital video publishers manage dynamic ad insertion, has unveiled a solution that allows insertion into linear television. The company is making available its Hybrid Linear Digital Ad-Scheduler (HyLDA), a program that enables premium video publishers to plan, optimize and manage live content using a […]

COLOGNE — Some digital media transitions aren’t that pronounced and TV isn’t such a problematic medium after all, says one of the leading ad agencies’ top digital thinkers. “It’s very easy … to take a view that the fast-streaming, uninterruptable, buffer-free, over-the-top experience is the actual experience of humans at large – it turns out not […]

CANNES, France — Many in the industry are getting excited about the prospect that advertisers could buy spots in linear TV in real-time, just as they are now doing online. But legacy industry resistance may scupper that prospect, says one exec. “The old school TV guys say, ‘That’s never happening, over my dead body’,” according to […]

clypd may have recently taken on $7.2 million in VC funding to build out its ambition to bring data-driven advertising to television – but an exec says things are moving faster than anticipated. “We have a total $10.5 million (in investment) – this is being used to build out the team, build out the platform,” […]

CANNES –  “Da Vinci’s Demons,” a new television series co-produced by Starz and BBC Worldwide, was screened at the MIPTV conference this week.   On the red carpet, Beet.TV spoke with the leading actress Lara Pulver about her role in the the and her upcoming role in the Ian Fleming biopic which just wrapped.    

CANNES — “Digital platforms provide us a real opportunity to engage with our users,” says Christopher Barry, Managing Director of Strategy & Digital at A&E.  At the MIPTV Conference in Cannes, we had the opportunity to speak with Barry about A&E’s social and digital strategy, and the correlation between social buzz and tune-in. A&E has […]