Zenith’s Rolli Wants To Up-End Attention Norms To Popularize Interactive Video

SALISBURY, Ct. — In a world where consumers’ attention spans are shorter than that of a goldfish and they are bombarded by up to 50,000 ads in a single day, captivating an audience is “harder than ever”. That is acknowledged by Dan Rolli, EVP, Head of Investment at Publicis Groupe’s Zenith. In this video interview […]

 
 

How CTV Optimizes Media: Views From Zenith, Tubi, Mars, JPMorgan Chase, Wavemaker, Univision & A+E Execs

In a challenging business environment and with traditional TV viewing waning, a growing number of brands and their ad agencies are leaning into connected TV. There, they can employ data-driven buying, targeting and measurement. But what’s the right balance of digital and linear, and how can buyers wring the best effect from the new channel? […]

 
 

Upfront Ad Buying Going Digital – And Siloed, Zenith’s Vendetti Says

The upfronts are no longer just the season of the year when TV and ad execs get together to lock in a bundle of ad-spending commitments for the year ahead. Thanks to new connected TV consumption and new ad selling techniques, things are becoming more flexible than that. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Neil […]

 
 

Zenith’s Hartofilis: The Urgency of Addressability Is Leading to New Strategies

LAS VEGAS– In conversations with clients, Nicholas Hartofilis, the evp of national video investment at Zenith, says there’s a new sense of urgency in reforming their advertising approaches. “There’s a greater pressure on understanding the TV ecosystem, knowing if you keep doing the same thing you’ll get diminishing returns,” Hartofilis told Beet.TV at the Consumer […]

 
 

Fireside Chat: The Future of Advanced TV Relies on Understanding Audiences

What has advanced TV’s journey been to this point and where is it headed? A panel of industry leaders moderated by Forrester principal analyst Jim Nail explored both of these questions. Despite industry predictions that advanced TV would have long ago hit its inflection point, it has still yet to truly peak. “There’s a lot […]

 
 

Zenith’s Bonori On How Machine Learning Helps Drive Real-Time Marketing

COLOGNE – Clients want their agencies to be as far upstream as possible in the planning process and are taking a more holistic approach to performance goals, says Vittorio Bonori, Global Brand President of Zenith, which is “obsessed” with performance. “Because for the first time commerce and communication are converging, we can really track performance […]

 
 

Advertisers Will Demand More Transparency: Zenith US CEO

Advertisers don’t just want cheaper ad rates – they will increasingly search for more insight in to how their spend is really working, predicts one ad agency exec. “Client transparency is certainly going to be a big hot topic,” according to Zenith US CEO Dave Penski. “Are they getting what they’ve been promised? “Driving down […]

 
 

Collective and Zenith Launch TV Analytics Tool

LOS ANGELES — Here at the 4A’s annual meeting, Collective, the New York-based digital advertising technology company, and media agency Zenith, have debuted a TV analytics tool that provides TV planners with data to plan linear television ad buys. The alliance was announce in July. For an overview on the product and its introduction, we […]