Andy Plesser
Digital and Linear TV Ad Workflow Will be Unified, INVISION’s Miller
SAN FRANCISCO – With the introduction of new data from Rentrak and other providers, technology provider INVISION will be able to provide unified ad workflow for both digital and linear television, predicts David Miller, VP for Product Management, in this interview with Beet.TV The company recently announced partnership with Rentrak. We spoke with him at […]
Omnicom’s Jacobs: Keeping Programmatic Marketplaces Open is Essential for Advertisers
CANNES, France – While there has been much discussion about the move away from an open bid scenario, to private, programmatic marketplaces which match specific advertisers and publishers, Josh Jacobs, the Global CEO of OMD’s Accuen programmatic unit, says that while private exchanges are extremely important, an open ecosystem is also essential. In this interview […]
“Programmatic” will Fade in the Media Lexicon, MediaLink’s Michael Kassan
CANNES, France – While “programmatic” has been a much-referenced buzzword of the Cannes Festival, in the future it will just be media buying, albeit machine-lead for most media except network TV, predicts Michael Kassan, CEO of the powerhouse media consultancy MediaLink, in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him during the Festival onboard the […]
Maker Studio Finds Majority of Views Now via Mobile
CANNES, France – Maker Studio, the giant multi-channel network of some 50,000 YouTube creators, is finding a majority of its views, as much as 60 percent, coming from mobile, says Erin McPherson, Chief Content Officer of Maker, in this interview with Beet.TV This amount of mobile consumption is higher that the 40 percent that YouTube […]
Canadian Video AdTech Firm Acquired by Google for DoubleClick Deployment
mDialog, a Canadian firm that has built a live video ad insertion engine, has been acquired by Google, the company announced in a blog post. More in this report from TechCrunch. Terms have not been revealed. Last year at the Brightcove customer summit, we spoke with Greg Philpott is the founder and CEO. We have republished that […]
Mondelez’s Bonin: We Are Going 100 Percent Programmatic in Video Ad Buys, TV Next
CANNES – Yesterday’s news that consumer products giant Mondelez is using video ad tech platform TubeMogul marks the company’s commitment to go one hundred percent programmatic in time. “Data is having such a profound effect on brands that television planning will go fully programmatic eventually,” says B. Bonin Bough Vice President of Global Media and […]
Consumer Goods Giant Mondelez in Big Programmatic Pact w/ TubeMogul, report
Mondelez,the giant consumer packaged good company, know for its Oreo brands and other popular products, is in an ambitious program with TubeMogul to buy video media programmatically, according to this report in Adweek. The program is being implemented in collaboration with Mondelez’ global agency MediaVest. Recently, we spoke with TubeMogul CEO Brett Wilson about […]
Cannes Lions Readies “Data” Track for 2015 Festival
CANNES — Seeing the emerging role of data in the creative process of advertising and media, Cannes Lions is planning a new track dedicated to the area, explains Philip Thomas, CEO of Cannes Lions, in this interview with Beet.TV In the Wall Street Journal today, Jack Marshall reports on the numbers of data and programmatic […]
Emerging Standards will Drive Dollars to Digital Video, Matt Prohaska
Inevitable consolidation of video ad tech vendors and the emerging standards around video viewabilty and ad operations will bring more ad dollars to video advertising, says Matt Prohaska, industry consultant and former head of programmatic advertising sales at The New York Times. Prohaska was one one of the moderators at the Beet.TV Video Ad Fraud […]
Showtime Touts Smart TV’s for Rich, Interactive Experience
SAN FRANCISCO – Showtime sees smart TV’s as powerful platform for immersive, interactive experiences, explains David Preisman, VP for Interactive Television at the premium cable network. In this interview with Beet.TV, he speaks about the company’s Sho Synch app and its growing popularity. The app is available on LG sets. We spoke with him […]
Comcast Will Double Live Programming via “TV Everywhere” this Year
SAN FRANCISCO – Launched by Comcast in 2009 as a means to provide subscribers video on demand on the desktop, tablets and mobile has greatly accelerated the consumption of programming via the “TV Everywhere” scenario. Originally it was used to stream video on demand programs, now there is a big move to delivering live, […]
‘TV Everywhere’ is Expanding Video Viewing and Advertising Opportunities
SAN FRANCISCO – The big growth of “TV Everywhere,” meaning the authenticated viewing of TV programming on digital devices by cable and satellite consumers, is creating expanded video viewing and new opportunities for advertisers, says Beet commentator Ashley J. Swartz, in this wrap-up of the TV of Tomorrow conference in San Francisco. Adobe has reported […]
Fragmentation of TV Viewing will Lead to Automated Ad buying, Xaxis Chair David Moore
While the planning and buying of TV buying is efficient and will not move to an automated marketplace in the near term, it will over time as the TV viewing universe becomes increasingly fragmented, says David Moore, Chairman of Xaxis, the programmatic media agency unit of WPP, in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with […]
Razorfish CEO: Operations in Asia Growing by Over Twenty Percent
Digital agency Razorfish is registering robust business in its operations in Asia, with “growth of well over twenty percent,” says Pete Stein, Global CEO, in this interview with Beet.TV. Also in this interview, he outlines some of the themes he expects to see at the Cannes Lions Festival next week. We spoke with him as […]
CNN Merging TV and Net Programming with ‘CNN X’
SAN FRANCISCO – CNN is expanding its new ‘CNN X’ product – a hybrid offering of live TV and personalized digital content to cable and satellite subscribers with new distribution platforms. CNN X, which is available on iPad, has just launched on the Web and will soon be available on DiretTV set-top boxes, explains […]
Comcast to Bring Web Video, Data, Social to TV w/ X1 Cable Box
SAN FRANCISCO – The X1 cable box from Comcast will be become increasingly “immersive” with a number of new features including more Apps, Web videos, data and social media over the next few months, explains Matthew Strauss, SVP and GM for Video Services, in this interview with Beet.TV More on developments with X1 in this […]
Fighting Video Ad Fraud Needs to be an Open Source Solution,TubeMogul’s Brett Wilson
In combatting the growing issue of non-human video views, the industry needs to align around open source tools, not proprietary technologies which don’t fully solve the problem, says Brett Wilson, CEO of TubeMogul and the founder of Open Video Viewability, an industry association. The state of video ad fraud and viewabilty standards will be explored […]
WPP Digital Chief Says No to Fraud: “We Only Want Human Activity”
With bot-generating activity comprising as much as 25 percent of views of some campaigns, the industry has to clean up fast. The world’s largest media agency has laid down the gauntlet by declaring it will only pay for “human” views, says David Moore President of WPP Digital and Chairman of Xaxis, in this interview with […]
Programmatic Advertising Will Drive Creativity, MediaLink’s Wenda Harris Millard
While the move to automated, or programmatic advertising, decisioning is bringing greater efficiency and pricing to the marketplace, it will enable a greater creativity by freeing up the resources of agencies, says Wenda Harris Millard, President and COO of MediaLink, the influential media industry consultancy, in this video interview with Beet.TV She also speaks about […]
Video Platform Company ‘Piksel’ Sees Upside for Publishers, Big and Small, via IPTV
Piksel, the New York-based global provider of digital video services, sees a growing opportunity for publishers of various sizes to connect with consumers directly, via various IPTV scenarios including Roku, smart TV’s, and cable set-top boxes. No longer limited by YouTube or other video portals, direct distribution to consumers is becoming viable, albeit with proper […]