Robert Andrews

New TV capabilities promise ad buyers new abilities like household targeting, frequency-capping and advanced reporting all the way to purchase outcomes. But, to get there, the industry is currently in a phase of stitching together a still-proliferating range of viewing services and buying options. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Kevin Lemberg, Head of Partnerships […]

Now that the clouds over the media industry are parting as COVID-19 lockdown constraints ease, industry watchers are trying to forecast the chances of an uptick. For The Weather Group, the near future is about a steady bounce-back fueled by recovery, SVoD and a culture change. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Barbara Bekkedahl, president […]

Alcohol brands have been facing a triple whammy lately: Traditionally heavy investors in TV ads, the channel is losing viewer share. Many younger consumers are turning away from alcohol itself. The pandemic closed bars, distancing consumers further from the tipples. Constellation Brands, an agency representing beer, wine and spirit brands, is fighting back by tilting […]

The company conceived as an ambitious cable industry effort to insert ads in interactive TV says it is forging ahead with enabling addressable ad targeting for linear networks. In the last few months, it has added linear addressability to 22 million homes in its footprint of 38 million. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Canoe’s […]

Converged addressable TV advertising is now a reality that advertisers can take advantage of today. But, to make the opportunity truly soar, the new-look TV industry needs to work on harmonizing the way such ads are bought. That is the view of Kristine Bayles, Vice President of Advanced Advertising Sales at ‎AMC Networks. Reforming the […]

If connected TV technology seems to make it easy to target TV ads at individual households, well, tell that to the people charged with making the spaghetti soup of a system work together. As powerful as CTV can be, a common complaint is that it remains too complex. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Al […]

Up until now in the maturation of advanced TV ad targeting, many agencies and their clients had merely been dipping their toe in the water. That is now changing, with more of them apparently seeing reason to flip their ad strategy on its head. In this video interview with Beet.TV senior adviser Jon Watts, GroupM’s […]

In a hectic world of media convergence, publishers and TV networks face a challenge – as they seek out the opportunities in new platforms, they also create administrative overhead and complexity. That is why the ecosystem of software designed to help them is so rich. One vendor of such software has been operating since 1992 […]

With on-demand viewing options still exploding, it may seem like linear viewing is on its way out. But that’s only half the story. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the chief executive of one TV ad-tech company says linear has a future. Viewing habits converging VOD and linear viewership could be on course to equal […]

The increasing ability to digitally-target linear TV ads plus the new capability to dynamically assemble those ads for individual households, when taken together, sound like super-powers. But, if they are not careful, some TV ad sellers and buyers also end up feeling the extra complexity that goes hand-in-hand feels like Kryptonite. A new thought leadership […]

These days, TV networks are trying to sell advertisers with a broad-based offer that comprises both linear and on-demand programming. That’s the theory. The truth is, behind the scenes, a veritable spaghetti soup of systems is required to make the dream a reality. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Stacy Daft, GM, Enterprise Commercial Business Development […]

At this point in the evolution of online video and connected TV advertising, many people have heard of dynamic creative optimization (DCO), or dynamic versioning – the practice of creating different permutations of ads from a a library of raw creative elements. But, whilst many of the methods for achieving DCO rely on simple rules […]

YouTube is now the most-watched living-room digital video platform in the US after Netflix, according to Nielsen. So why aren’t advertisers taking it more seriously when it comes to developing a connected TV advertising plan? In this video interview with Beet.TV, media agency Essence’s Mike Fisher explains the value of YouTube. Shifting viewing “Within the […]

Apple may have alarmed the ad industry about declining ability to target users by turning its IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) opt-in and app-specific. But what if other clues about smartphone usage could continue giving advertisers valuable signals about users’ identity? In this video interview with Beet.TV, Aziz Rahim, CEO of ad-tech software provider Sabio and […]

Connected TV systems offer advertisers a way to reach individual households and go beyond traditional linear delivery. That’s the theory. The reality is that connected TV (CTV) ad buying has far from overcome traditional TV ad buying yet. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jay Askinasi, Chief Growth Officer, Publicis Groupe United States, describes how […]

CHICAGO – The increasingly complex world of advanced, targeted TV advertising may settle down into an accepted norm of multiple standards, buying channels and viewer identity profiles – as long as there are sufficient connectors to translate between each of them. In the latest move, OpenID, the US TV network consortium, is launching its own […]

LOS ANGELES  – A lot can change in a year. A year ago, as the pandemic bedded in, ad buyers were holding on to their money, pushing it down the marketing funnel and calling for a delay to the upfronts, the traditional annual season in which TV and video networks pitch for advance ad spending […]

QR must have had one of the longest gestation periods of any technology. Started in Japan in the mid-nineties, they were initially popular with the countries NTT DoCoMo mobile carrier, but then never quite took off until they were baked into the cameras of iOS and Android. Recently, however, practices like contactless ordering from restaurant […]

The emerging world of connected TV (CTV) advertising often seems to create as many challenges as it does opportunities. Case in point – the ability to target ads in CTV also creates new management tasks around the traditional TV ad “pod”. That is according to one seasoned video ad-tech exec. In this video interview with […]

Traditional TV viewing may be waning – but TV’s new tricks mean the medium remains an important part of a leading agency’s media planning. That is the view of an experienced advertising exec who has skated on both sides of the ice. In this video interview by Beet.TV guest host Tim Spengler of Amobee, Vinny […]