4A’s Transformation 2015 presented by Videology

The opportunity for advertisers to deliver TV ads to specific homes , via cable and satellite boxes and connected TV’s is “totally transformational” and it is happening now, says Irwin Gotlieb, Chairman of  GroupM,  WPP’s media buying umbrella group.  He says the media industry of the future  will see 2015 as the the year that addressable […]

The business model for media agencies needs to change, says David Hohman, Nielsen’s agency solutions EVP in an interview with Beet.TV. Many agencies still operate according to an old-school billable hours model, but as tech companies and platform vendors bring new services to the marketing and advertising world, media agencies are going to need to evolve faster, […]

If you think it is too soon for so-called “programmatic” advertising buying techniques to jump from the web to mainstream television, consider this – the future president of the United States may already be buying TV ads this way. That is according to video ad tech firm YuMe. Its chief revenue officer Scot McLernon concedes that “there is a little bit of hype […]

Call it alchemy, call it a meeting of minds, but marrying up seemingly-disparate disciplines it the key to unlocking business growth. So says one of the leaders of cross-disciplinary media consultancy MediaLink. “Partnership is what makes this world go around,” according to CEO Michael Kassan. “You need people who are growing toward the same goals. One shop does not fit all […]

Brand TV advertising these days is something of a scattergun approach – you pay to reach large audiences, but you can’t guarantee the distribution will really achieve the desired result. Increasingly emboldened by the guarantees that are offered by online advertising, some TV ad buyers are calling for an improvement. And that is what former Tacoda head honcho Dave Morgan‘s current […]

As more and more brands, using empowering new ad tech and marketing software, begin to perform some of the functions of their media agencies, what will be the impact on those agencies? “I frankly don’t know,” ad company GroupM’s chairman Irwin Gotlieb tells Beet.TV in this video interview. “Most agencies were truly agents on behalf of a client. […]

As a “challenger brand,” insurance firm Esurance has relied on a combo of brand awareness and performance marketing to grow, says Alan Gellman, Chief Marketing Officer at Esurance, in an interview with Beet.TV. “We leverage traditional media with digital. We have a combined strategy of building awareness and focusing on where is the future and how do you […]

Creative content for advertising has a much shorter shelf life in this fast-moving digital world, says Chris Weil, Chief Executive Officer for Momentum Worldwide, in an interview with Beet.TV. “The distribution channels have changed so dramatically and we need to look at content in a different way,” he says. In the past marketers could build […]

AUSTIN – Facebook wants to make a big splash in the world of video advertising. But failings in its offering mean it still has a way to go, according to a leading ad agency boss. “The advertiser is competing with the regular newsfeed and the rest of the user-generated newsfeed. It remains a challenging environment,” GroupM chief digital officer Rob Norman […]

AUSTIN – As part of its deeper push into programmatic buying, Nielsen is increasingly relying on data from eXelate across a variety of video offerings, says David Hohman, EVP and Managing Director of Agency Solutions at Nielsen, in an interview with Beet.TV. Nielsen pairs its real-time audience insights with eXelate’s consumer segment data to create detailed […]

AUSTIN – As consumers increasingly watch TV in new ways, ad platforms that deliver ads in digital “out of home” fashion are growing in value, says Barry Frey, president and CEO of the Digital Place Based Advertising Association (DPAA), in this interview with Beet.TV. This sector of the business is just shy of $1 billion in ad spend […]

AUSTIN — Last October, ad agency Leo Burnett and online publisher Huffington Post announced they would be partnering to help create content for brands. One of many initiatives in which publishers are working to do so for brands, this partnership is different from most, in that Huffington Post staff are embedded with the ad agency for at least part […]

AUSTIN — Mobile banner ad sales are booming. But they are not necessarily the ad format that is going to inspire and engage consumers most on the small screen. Ad tech supplier Kargo is betting on giving advertisers and publishers something different, eschewing performance-driven banner sales for high-touch brand campaign placements. Founder and CEO Harry Kargman tells […]

AUSTIN — Videology sees its recently-inked integration deal Comcast-owned ad tech platform FreeWheel as “bridging the gap” until true programmatic TV advertising might finally be enabled. Last month, the pair announced video ad tech vendor Videology would plug in to FreeWheel to help advertisers buy video inventory programmatically on publisher sites through its FourFronts program, an extension of its private marketplace. […]

AUSTIN — If you think you haven’t seen much evidence of location beacons’ use in a marketing context, following initial hype, you soon will. That’s according to one agency mobile marketing leader. “Apple just rolled out the Beacon API last year,” MEC Global’s north America lead for mobile and emerging technologies, Rachel Pasqua, tells Beet.TV in this […]

AUSTIN — As much as 40% of digital video campaigns can be originating from non-human or fake traffic, says Anne Hunter, Senior VP Marketing at comScore, in this interview with Beet.TV. The problem has intensified with the growth of digital video advertising. “Because marketers are moving their budgets to digital, there is an incentive for bad players […]

AUSTIN — One of the biggest changes in the advertising business in recent years has been the drive towards more partnership between a range of players, says Nancy Hill, President and CEO of the 4A’s in this interview with Beet.TV. “We are seeing partnerships across agencies, across ad tech, tech vendors, with clients, with media platforms,” she […]

AUSTIN — Interruption is the enemy of millennials, making content marketing even more vital to reach this younger group, says Kevin McGurn, head of sales for Fullscreen, the YouTube multichannel network, in this interview with Beet.TV. McGurn joined the company earlier this year. Fullscreen works with various brands and connects them with YouTube influencers to […]

AUSTIN — Media agency Horizon Media doesn’t think true programmatic ad buying is coming to television any time soon – but that isn’t stopping it from trying out some of programmatic’s techniques to understand ad targeting better nevertheless. Horizon Media national TV SVP David Campanelli tells Beet.TV the company is using ad tech vendor Rovi’s Ad […]

AUSTIN — Over the years, when most people have talked about The Economist’s online strategy, discussion has centered around its access model. Right now, that is three free articles a week – but this is not the only horse the publisher has in the race. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is also busy producing premium research and […]