Michael Shields

In many ways, who ever ends up controlling the operating system for connected TV would seem to have a shot at all the TV ad spoils, or at least serve as a gatekeeper for TV ad budgets. But Tony Marlow, CMO of LG Ads, sees things a bit differently. Owning the OS may be closer […]

By now you might think that all the millions invested in preventing digital ad fraud, the industry would have the problem licked. Not so, according to Scott Marsden, President, Media & Analytics at Quigley Simpson. “It’s a huge problem,” he told Beet.TV. “It stems across every screen and every platform.” Including of course, connected TV, […]

Rob Medved CEO at Cannella Media, has been focused on the direct response media industry for over two decades. He’s never seen a more complicated- and fraught marketplace. There is this “incredible perfect storm of media fragmentation,” he told Beet.TV. And thanks to Apple cracking down on mobile tracking, and the inevitable elimination of cookies, […]

 Ryan Barwick is a senior reporter at Morning Brew, where he’s taken many deep dives into the world of digital advertising , regulation and privacy. So he’s developed a very well-rounded, nuanced point of view on many of the issues facing this industry, from cookies going away to a slew of new state laws […]

Funny face filters and branded lenses have been a staple of Snap for years. It’s not fairly common for concert goers to add virtual images to their IRL experiences. And of course, people have been chasing around Pokemon in both the real and digital worlds for seven years. But Adam Shlachter, Head of Marketing, Strategic & Brand Partnerships […]

Drew Groner as senior VP, head of agency and client partnerships at DIRECTV sees it again and again. Whenever the company analyzes a linear TV campaign, roughly a third of households end up seeing the majority of ads. It’s not just you – frequency is a big problem. From DIRECTV’s end, the company is trying […]

There have been some doubters when it comes to the potential impact of blockchain in the advertising business. Adam Herman, Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer at Zimmerman Advertising is a big believer. Herman has been employing technology from the startup Blockboard for numerous clients’ campaigns. And thus far, the technology is saving them money […]

Matt Wasserlauf, founder and CEO of Blockboard, sees the growth of connected TV advertising as a perfect money for the ad industry to undergo a necessary ad tech reset. He knows it won’t be easy. Having built and stewarded a previous startup through the early days of digital video advertising, Wasserlauf has seen what happens […]

Advertisers are not ready for a post-cookie world. They are confused about coming state privacy laws. And while there’s little change of a national privacy law this year, there are lots of reasons for ad tech companies to be worried this summer. These are just some of the big takeaways from the latest episode of […]

Rachel Cascisa, VP Platform Adoption Epsilon has been in ad tech for roughly 20 years. She knows thing were good, and are about to dramatically change. “We built an industry around third party cookies,” she said. “They were easy, and ended up being very lucrative for us.” The hope is that things continue to be […]

Teads is leaning into measuring attention – for one simple reason – it drives results brands care about. While there has been a great deal of interest in tracking attention in the ad world,  much of it has been focused on finding better ways to evaluate creative or media outlets. But through its research, Teads […]

The TV upfront buying mechanism has already endured a pandemic and a recession in the past few years. Now, throw in inflation, economic figures that run the gamut, and a writers strike, and you’re left with a market that nobody has ever seen before, let alone predict. “The key word is uncertainty,” said Dave Campanelli, […]

The connected TV opportunity for brands keeps surging, in large part because consumption keeps growing exponentially. Those two trends should continue – assuming people can find the content they want to watch. Right now, that’s easier said than done-and may be getting tougher. “Inventory is always going to be a challenge,” Serge Matta, President at […]

Cleaning up the digital advertising maze has been a five year journey for Omnicom According to Megan Pagliuca, Chief Activation Officer at Omnicom Media Group, the journey started with publishing lists of ad tech partners the agency didn’t want to work with. But that only got the company so far. Today, OMG only works with […]

Too often, media buyers see potential customers as ‘users’ or targets.’ They forget that advertisers are in the business of telling stories to real people. That’s the assessment of Michael Piner EVP, Advanced Advertising Mediahub. “The idea here is, that we’re trying to get to humans. Not screens, not platforms. Humans,” he told Beet.TV. “Their […]

Rooster Teeth was supposed to own the YouTube ecosystem for gaming. Then the company was poised to build out an independent, viable subscription video service. Then the company was supposed to help AT&T learn gaming and Gen Z. Today, Rooster Teeth has evolved – or pivoted – to become a fan community for fans of […]

Just in time for the 2023 NewFronts, the IAB released new research on the growth of video ad spend universe. Perhaps not surprisingly, connected TV spending is booming. So much so that it’s quickly becoming on par with traditional TV, Eric John, Vice President, Media Center, IAB told Beet.TV. “CTV is an incredibly high focused […]

Mark Marshall shares one thing with his predecessor. On the subject of measurement and currency, he’s impatient. I wold love to say we’ll make huge progress,” Marshall, told Beet.TV about the. industry’s efforts toward embracing alternatives to Nielsen. “We continue to spin our wheels a bit. Marshall, who was just named NBCU’s interim chairman of […]

While some in the ad industry are still skeptical, Raphael Rivilla, chief media officer Marcus Thomas Agency, is a big believer in blockchain technology. The agency has run campaigns using various DSPs., Consistently, when working with Blockboard’s blockchain-infused platform, Marcus’ Thomas’s clients avoid fraud, optimize faster, and generate stronger return on ad spend, he said. […]

Sorin Patilinet thinks the digital ad industry has a big problem. The Senior Director Consumer Insights at Mars said that consumers are going out of their way to block, skip and avoid brands’ online ads, to the degree that he considers it a “crisis.” “Ads are annoying,”  Patilinet told me during the most recent episode […]