Robert Andrews

LOS ANGELES — Contextual targeting is nothing new. In fact, you could say the new limitations on audience identification are driving the industry back to the old practice of content adjacency. However, what has become standard practice for web articles is a different ballgame for streaming TV. In this video interview with Beet.TV, IRIS.TV co-founder […]

Brian Lin can see the future – but the broadcast executive is helping advertisers act on it today. The SVP of product management and advanced advertising at Hispanic broadcaster Univision just unveiled a new way for advertisers to understand the likely success of particular inventory moments, before they buy the ads. In this video interview […]

These days, the business environment is becoming too critical to leave the results of marketing spend to chance. That is why so many ad buyers are leaning into publishers that can guarantee them outcomes. In the latest example, Spanish-language broadcaster Univision will get to tell its advertisers the likely success of particular inventory moments, after […]

A cool ticker symbol for a very exciting company: Innovid begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange as CTV.   More public offering and pricing is in this release. In June, when Innovid announced the SPAC< which enabled it to go public, I interviewed Zvika Netter, CEO.   We have republished the video with today’s news. […]

LONDON –  the future pans out as Roku expects it, the TV industry is going to need some new capabilities to deliver on new promises. In a recent research exercise dubbed The Streaming Decade, the connected TV hardware and platform company outlined its belief that all TV – and, therefore, all TV ads – will […]

If trying to align digital and traditional media metrics has typically been like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, then the future of media measurement depends on the people who can make that happen. At Comcast Cable’s ad sales division Effectv, the watchword is all about “convergence” – aligning the old […]

It is the little content studio that made it big through social media and connected TV. Now Jukin Media wants to keep control of its new-wave ad sales opportunity, as it scales under new ownership. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jukin Media global CTV revenue operations VP Mike Richter explains how he views the […]

LOS ANGELES – It may be more commonly thoughts of as a consumer credit information provider. But, after a couple of years involving acquisitions and integrations, TransUnion has arrived on the map as an advertising data enabler. In this video interview at Beet.TV’s Beet Retreat in Santa Monica, Frans Vermeulen, VP of market development for […]

LOS ANGELES – When one of the world’s largest media buyers plugs contextual targeting into its connected TV offering, you know the new practice is about to get a leg-up. That’s what GroupM’s Finecast did in November, when it announced it would make IRIS.TV’s contextual targeting and brand safety tools available to its US local […]

LONDON – While the world was in lockdown, Rhys McLachlan was innovating. Now the UK’s leading commercial broadcaster can see a brighter future. Over the last year, the advanced advertising director at ITV was pushing forward the legacy company’s new-wave ad targeting offering. Now, as economies pick back up, ITV is expecting to post its […]

Connected TV promises to revolutionize the way that TV ads are bought, sold and consumed. Getting there is proving a little more difficult. Emarketer forecasts US CTV ad spend growing 50% in 2021 to $13.41 billion. But a leading media agency says more could be unlocked if the industry came together to iron out kinks. […]

LOS ANGELES — If anyone wanted to understand the clamor to reinvent the TV ad measurement space, they need only look at the Lumascape-like graphic Kelly Abcarian presented at the recent Beet Retreat in Santa Monica. Transformation is a journey—and if we’re ever going to get there, we’re going to need a map. So proud […]

The technology publishers relied upon to provide advertiser targeting in the last two decades wasn’t exactly intentional. In fact, some of it was a hack of methods used for entirely different purposes. In this video interview with Beet.TV, a leading digital advertising industry advisor says the industry should avoid sleepwalking into another 20 years of […]

If advertiser spend is bouncing back, Serge Matta wants to catch it. The former Comscore CEO joined LG Ads, the electronics manufacturer’s advanced TV advertising division, this summer, with optimism growing about coronavirus easing. Now Matta says the power of connected TV advertising is beckoning pharmaceutical, political and other advertisers to look hard at the […]

For the pharmaceutical industry, the ability to target ads to households using connected TV is both a huge opportunity and a minefield. Ad-tech company DeepIntent will help them navigate that landscape, after LG Ads Solutions, the OEM’s ad sales division, picked it to be its DSP of choice for the healthcare industry in the U.S. […]

As societies and industries advance through the years and the eras, it would be tempting to assume that things generally get better, easier. In digital advertising today, the ecosystem is wrestling with a host of changes that seem to make business more challenging. But, in this video interview with Beet.TV, Eric Picard, chief product officer […]

For many people, the last couple of years has been a torrid time. For the TV, video and advertising industry, it has been a period when new consumer behaviors were solidified. Now that the darkness is easing, players are emerging into the light with a renewed impetus – if they want to capitalize on the […]

With so much in flux underneath the traditional foundation of digital advertising, many ad buyers are confused about how they will find their best audience anymore. Apple has reduced the use of app identifiers, whilst cookies are being deprecated. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Lisa Bradner, GM analytics at ad data software company Yieldmo, […]

CHICAGO – After a disrupted couple of years for the industry, Beet Retreat is fully back in business. Beet.TV’s industry get-together arrives at Loews, Santa Monica Beach Hotel, on November 17. Executives are gathering at a time when the redefinition that was bubbling in the industry was crystallised by pandemic effects. Now the mood in […]

By now, we all now that connected TV channels offer the power to reach distinct groups or households. But who exactly is on the end of those messages? Magnite’s just-published CTV For Everyone research study aimed to find out. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the company’s chief revenue officer for CTV, Sean Buckley, discusses […]