Robert Andrews

These days, just acting in your own interests isn’t enough. Companies are compelled to take a positive stance on a range of outward issues – but often find that benefits nevertheless flow back in. As part of the Global Forum on Responsible Media produced by Beet.TV, advertising agency executives discussed what they are doing on […]

The waning of digital ad identifiers like cookies and Apple’s IDFA is prompting a new focus on advertisers and publishers gathering first-party audience data. Whilst it may seem easier to manage that direct, there is a school of thought that it is actually going to make things rather complicated. In this video interview with Beet.TV, […]

Does it ever feel like your new digital super powers actually make your life more complicated? A growing number of marketers are coming to that conclusion. In Beet.tv’s Responsible Media Global Forum with GroupM and the 4As, plus with IBM Watson Advertising, MediaMath, Nielsen and Pubmatic, a series of guest speakers wrestled with balancing the […]

If the launch of streaming services by TV distributors has created two different kinds of ad inventory and business model, Aaron Martin wants to solve that. Xandr, where Martin is director of product management, forecasting and inventory management, just launched a tool he says will bridge the gap. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Martin […]

In the emerging age of “responsible media”, you could be forgiven for thinking that marketers would want to exert more human control over production and placement. But, increasingly, artificial intelligence algorithms are proving they can restore the primacy of ad creative. That is what a host of industry executives discussed when they gathered on June […]

It has been an incendiary few years, with an increasingly partisan society, campaigns to stop hate and an advertising industry that has struggled to reconcile its own aversion to controversy with behaving responsibly. Beyond aligning with a variety of social causes, the second half of COVID-19’s first year seemed to create a realization that media […]

LONDON – Give ad spend direct to broadcasters and responsible companies, not the new generation of CTV fraudsters. That is the message from the connected TV division of the world’s biggest media buying agency. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Finecast CEO Jakob Nielsen says it is safer and more responsible to swerve open CTV […]

There’s a growing theory that diminishing views to ad-funded content may be offset by increased effectiveness from targeting and personalizing those ads. But that is only going to come about if ad production and delivery channels are themselves wired up to support this addressability. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Anush Prabhu, US Chief Strategy […]

As digital ad identifiers like cookies decline in value, advertisers are being forced to look back to what many consider the old-school art of contextual ad placement. But, infused by software, context is a tactic that, whilst it appeals to audience’s emotions, can also be super-charged by programmatic. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Sean […]

When the industry talks about advanced ad targeting, it is often the big national networks and publishers that get first-look. But spreading the benefits of targeting and measurement in streaming and connected TV is important for local TV operators, too. In this video interview with Beet.TV, John Vilade, head of sales at TV proprietor TEGNA’s […]

So many in the industry have become accustomed to utilizing data-driven software for optimizing outcomes in performance-driven marketing. But, for one man, that overlooks the latent promise of data to improve the initial awareness at the point brands first meet audiences. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Robert Redmond, IBM Design Principal, Head of AI […]

Vevo is assembling an ad-tech supergroup as it partners-up to strike the right note in its journey to a connected TV (CTV) future. The music video service was once weighted heavily toward online and on-demand viewing. But, in this video interview with Beet.TV, Vevo advanced TV VP Rob Christensen says CTV is exploding. CTV booming […]

These days, many of the headlines about TV networks’ advanced advertising technology solutions concern big national players. But, under the hood of the TV industry, local players still have tremendous value. So says a man whose technology is helping local TV providers bring more value, in turn, to their advertisers. Value in local “If we […]

In this year’s US upfront ad sales season, ad buyers are pushing content owners to be able to give them automation and to limit the frequency with which viewers are exposed to their ads across different screen types. With that challenge, it may seem like the ongoing limits being placed on digital user identifiers would […]

With a footprint as broad as The Walt Disney Company, Lisa Valentino can count on at least one kind of diversity. As EVP, Client & Brand Solutions, for Disney Advertising Sales, Valentino is figuring out how best to monetize the ad-supported channels across Disney’s massive portfolio. In 2021, that means automation, leveraging Disney’s own customer […]

LONDON – Although the common view is that, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, all kinds of TV platform saw increased viewing, Vicky Fox has a different story. On top of a general reduction in linear TV viewing, the chief planning officer at OMD UK says casual TV viewers are drifting away, too. […]

SEATTLE – The COVID-19 pandemic threw everything up in the air. Now Nicole Whitesel is trying to put the pieces back together. The EVP of advanced TV at Publicis Media has seen an explosion in video viewing and, as a result, ad opportunities. But, in this video interview with Beet.TV, she says that can cause […]

LOS ANGELES  – TV is evolving from a world that is roughly targeted by demographics and roughly measured by panels. It is becoming one that is precision-targeted to household and accurately measured by on-box data. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jerrold Son of ad-supported VOD service XUMO explains how the mechanics of connected TV […]

When the world’s biggest ad buyers start advising clients to lean into connected TV, you know the channel has finally made it. For years, CTV has been a side note to many media plans. But, in this video interview with Beet.TV, Digitas VP Beth Weeks says brands in the current season of upfront ad sales deals […]

It may already have one of the largest list of divisions in the industry, but ad agency holding group WPP has just launched another new agency. But Choreograph is a little different. Launched at a time when brands around the world are trying to activate their own first-party data as a response to challenges facing […]