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SAN FRANCISCO — AOL-owned Adap.tv is working closely with media agency giant Magna Global to deepen the work both are doing in programmatic video buying, says Kara Weber, Chief Marketing Officer at Adap.tv in this video interview with Beet.TV. The partnership was inked last fall and now Magna Global has begun running digital and TV ads […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Eager to capture some of a fast-growing pie, agency software provider Mediaocean has been expanding its offerings to accommodate more programmatic buying. The next two years represent a huge opportunity to make programmatic a bigger component of an overall media budget, says Fraser Woollard, VP Business Development at Mediaocean during an interview with […]

SAN FRANCISCO — One of the key growth factors in programmatic buying lies in the integration of tech partners, says Dan Ackerman, Senior VP Programmatic at Adap.TV during an interview with Beet.TV. “We want to be the agency platform that enables all these processes,” he says. Data providers like Nielsen, Rentrak and Kantar are important partners […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix is betting more on the use of programmatic buying to help grow its user base and better connect viewers with the shows it offers, says Kathy O’Dowd, Senior Manager of Programmatic Marketing at Netflix during an interview with Beet.TV. She says that as Netflix expands its own marketing with programmatic buying, it focuses on […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Despite the love-hate relationship some marketers have with GRPs, look for that standard measurement to play a part in digital and programmatic buying. Metrics like GRPs as well as ad buying strategies like automation can help bring more brands to digital that are more familiar with TV, says Paul Dolan, SVP Global Business […]

LOS ANGELES — The agency of the future will need to be structured to serve both programmatic advertising and big tentpole events too, says Phil Cowdell, President of Client Services at Group M, during an interview with Beet.TV at the 4A’s conference in Los Angeles. “What I believe will happen is this curve that shows […]

LOS ANGELES — Technology will make cable and TV networks less necessary and branded content more necessary,  says Richard Guest, President of US Operations at Tribal Worldwide, during an interview with Beet.TV at the 4A’s conference in Los Angeles. “We are seeing the indomitable march of technology where content will be distributed directly to consumers and a […]

LOS ANGELES — The old adage of “50% of my ad budget works, I just don’t know which 50%,” may no longer hold true, says Chris Weil, Chief Executive Officer for Momentum Worldwide and the chairman of the 4A’s during an interview with Beet.TV at the 4A’s conference in Los Angeles. That’s because of the proliferation of […]

LOS ANGELES — Automaker Kia is working with the NBA for a second year on an effort to drive brand awareness via a video campaign tied to the NBA All-Star game, in an example of how user-generated video content can intersect with entertainment marketing, says Dimitry Ioffe,CEO and Founder of the agency TVGla, in an […]

LOS ANGELES — The biggest benefit of the proliferation of big data in advertising lies in accountability, says Dave Morgan, CEO and founder of Simulmedia, in an interview with Beet.TV at the 4A’s conference in Los Angeles. Data can also help marketers to “unbundle” campaigns as they learn exactly which components are driving business objectives and […]

LOS ANGELES — Media agency Maxus is keen on addressable advertising and is aiming to work closely with multichannel video providers and delivery platforms by the fourth quarter on ways to make this type of media buying easier, says Louis Jones, North American CEO of Maxus USA, at the 4A’s conference in Los Angeles. “A […]

LOS ANGELES  — As marketers pore over new uses for data, media marketing firm Simulmedia wants to use the data it has access to as a way to better connect reach and frequency metrics to business outcomes,  says John Piccone, VP Sales at Simulmedia, a media marketing company, during an interview with Beet.TV at the 4A’s […]

Despite the growing range of measurement options, many brands still favor GRP as a form of measurement even in the digital world, says Brian Gleason, Managing Director of Xaxis, WPP’s targeted advertising division,  in this interview with Ashley J. Swartz at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat in Vieques, Puerto Rico. “We’ve been measuring GRPs for a long time and clients are comfortable […]

Based on consumer behavior on mobile devices, the next advertising playground will likely lie in custom mobile ads, says Stephanie Sarofian, Executive Director, Brand and Agency at mobile platform InMobi  in this interview with Erick Schonfeld, Co-Founder of TouchCast, at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat in Vieques, Puerto Rico. The former Digitas exec and founder of the New Fronts […]

Online video giant Dailymotion is aiming to expand further in the programmatic field with new data projects in 2014, says Roland Hamilton, Managing Director North America for DailyMotion, in this interview with Ashley J. Swartz at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Already, the company has been growing its audience buying offering since 2012, both in the U.S. […]

As marketing becomes more reliant on programmatic buys, agencies are needing to hire more technically-minded people, says Kristi Argyilan, President of Magna Global North America, MediaBrands, in this interview with Ashley J. Swartz at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat in Vieques, Puerto Rico. “We are starting to profile more like a financial portfolio management mindset. We are hiring more data scientists, […]

Brands will be most successful in online video if they can approach budgeting from a “share shift” point of view, says Lisa Giacosa, SVP Global Social Media Director and Video Lead at Starcom MediaVest Group, in this interview with Erick Schonfeld, co-founder of Touchcast, at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat in Vieques, Puerto Rico. “I don’t mind how I reach a […]

Personalized ads can deliver better results for brands when it comes to awareness as well as intent to purchase, says Oren Harnevo, CEO and co-founder of Eyeview, a personalized video ad platform, in this interview with Ashley J. Swartz at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat in Vieques, Puerto Rico. “The performance of brand favorability is much better,” he says, adding […]

Depending on the ad format, brands will want to use different metrics and KPIs to measure effectiveness, says Jim Daily, General Manager US for Ebuzzing, an online video technology platform based in London  that’s been expanding in the US in the last year, in this interview with Ashley J. Swartz at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat in Vieques, […]

The online video business is still suffering from a lack of premium supply, says Charles Gabriel, VP Video Sales at AOL. But that’s one of the reasons AOL Video continued to grow its platform and ad offerings this past year, he says in this interview with Ashley J. Swartz at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat. As […]