Andy Plesser

Mediaocean today announced a change in by its private equity shareholders. The the Vista Partners’ majority  stake in the company  has been acquired by two PE firms:  CVC Capital Partners  along with TA Associates. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed. We spoke with Mediaocean CEO Bill Wise about the new investors.  He […]

 Integral Ad Science, today announced that it has acquired Publica, the connected TV (CTV) advertising platform, in a cash and stock transaction valued at $220 million. With this acquisition, IAS is accelerating its CTV strategy to help publishers better monetize their video programming across CTV devices, while building new tools to provide advertisers with much-needed […]

I hope you are well and enjoying the summer. All is well here.  We are going to slow down a bit for the second part of August and ramp up fast after Labor Day. We are taking a break from the BeetCast. We are finishing up the season with this episode and will be back […]

Welcome to this episode of the BeetCast. Hope you are well and enjoying the summer. We are finishing up this season in fine form with two leading figures in our industry: This week’s guest is Laura Desmond and on August 9 we  publish our season finale my chat with Lou Paskalis. Great to catch up […]

Welcome to this episode of the #BeetCast, Hope you are well and enjoying the summer. For this week’s episode, I am happy to chat with Matt Seiler. Many of you know Matt as the longtime CEO of IPG Mediabrands and later at Dentsu where he was President of Brand Solutions. An innovator who saw the […]

BOSTON – Progress Partners, a full-service merchant bank providing M&A, capital raise and SPAC advisory services for emerging technology and media companies, has named Domenic Venuto to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Venuto joins Progress during a dynamic period in the industry, and as the bank is expanding its offering with a new venture […]

For years, we’ve covered Roku and it never ceases to be an amazing story: It  has emerged as a huge force in the TV industry’s transformation to streaming. It is a handy device and system for consumers to find what they want, a programming platform with original content, and a powerhouse advertising platform. Roku has […]

Welcome to this episode of the #BeetCast In this episode, I am very happy to welcome our good friend and industry leader Sean Cunnigham, CEO of the VAB, previously known as the Video Advertising Bureau. The VAB is the essential advertising industry organization for the television programmers, networks and the entire TV industry. An ad […]

LOS ANGELES –  It may not happen overnight, but the evolving nature of TV consumption methods is bringing a “tipping point” in the way that TV ads are bought and sold. That is according to a veteran media agency executive who has been observing the long arc of supply and demand toward a profound shift. […]

He had a successful exit when his start-up Tru Optik was sold to data giant Transunion last year.   But it was  tough sledding, building an advanced media data business five years ago.  Now a super-hot sector, Andre was ahead of his time. While he made early progress with product development and industry partnerships, funded from a few […]

This is the Global Forum on Responsible Media, which was originally streamed on June 23. You can watch the full program  here, on this page. Please find information on the event including the speakers and agenda here. Please follow and join the conversation on Twitter and LinkedIn by using #ResponsibleMedia This program is presented by […]

GroupM has taken a stand on what it calls media responsibility, outlining a framework of five key pillars.  This initiative is the basis of a half-day Global Forum on June 23, produced by Beet.TV in collaboration with GroupM and the 4A’s. We spoke with Kirk McDonald, CEO of GroupM NA about the event and his […]

While we are focused this week on our June 23 Responsible Media event around  initiatives from GroupM, other media agencies charting their own course to to a more inclusive, sustainable media landscape. In this week’s episode of the #BeetCast we explore the topic through the initiatives of the Publicis Groupe and the Spark Foundry agency. […]

This week our guest is Doug Rozen, CEO of Dentsu Media Americas.  Doug has been a media innovator for many years.  We’ve covered him extensively at OMD then 360i and now as the newly named head of media at Dentsu Americas. Doug articulates the vision of his company  as becoming more meaningful to the consumer […]

For the past 15 months,  the ANA,  has shifted completely to virtual, with all the organization’s hundreds of events, meeting and training going online. This will change this week with the ANA Media Conference in Aventura, Florida, one of the first major industry events to take place in person, albeit with a sizable portion of […]

My guest this week is Louisa Wong, Wavemaker CEO of the Americas. She is a pioneer in the programmatic space, starting her career on the sell side with stints at AOL, CNET and at Sky where she headed the satellite company’s trading desk. She joined the buy side in the early days of Dentsu’s Amnet […]

U.S. Hispanics now comprise some 20 percent of the U.S. population, and it is the fastest growing consumer demographic sector. Advertisers who don’t participate in the Spanish-language media are missing an essential opportunity and losing return on their market spend, says Dan Riess, EVP and Chief Growth Officer of Univision in this interview with Beet.TV […]

Advertising campaign success and agency compensation are increasingly tied to outcomes as measurement has become more robust, says  Marla Kaplowitz, President and CEO of the 4A’s, the trade association of the advertising industry, in this podcast conversation with me. She speaks about the 4A’s four pillars of media responsibility. And reflects on how the pandemic […]

It’s been nearly 2 years since many of us gathered in Cannes.  I wish we were going back next month, sadly  we’re not.   We’ll be there next year. But the conversation around the pace of creativity and innovation and change remains constant, if not accelerated. Marking the two years since Cannes, we are doing a […]

The news of news of the Discovery-WarnerMedia deal will likely slow down momentum around entrance of the ad-supported impact of HBO Max, offering an opening for expansion for the streaming offerings from NBCU/Comcast and ViacomCBS, suggests Brian Wieser, Global President of Business Intelligence at GroupM, in this interview with Beet.TV There are many other implications […]