Robert Andrews
Computing Power Can Convert Reluctant Advertisers: 605’S Horner
SAN JUAN, PR — Not everyone in the advertising industry wants to share their data or to collaborate. Caroline Horner says she is used to hearing openness from people in the internet industry, who will say ” “I’m going to put the data out there because it’s going to be interesting and it’s going to […]
Brands Can Be Useful Through Virus Crisis: GroupM’s Wieser
VIA BEETCAM — The coronavirus, COVID-19, has come as a shock to the global economy – and the media industry is likely to feel the force, too. Until the virus spreads more widely in the west and until more media organizations start reporting results, the full impact is hard to forecast – but brands have […]
Many Roads To Buy: Viacom’s Zilberbrand On Marketplaces & More
SAN JUAN, PR — How much methods should a broadcaster use through which to take advertising dollars, and how much control should it exert? Those were some of the questions being asked at the recent Beet Retreat San Juan 2020, when Julian Zilberbrand stepped up. Zilberbrand, EVP of audience science at Viacom, was asked by […]
How 2020 Election TV Ads Will Be Data-Driven: LiveRamp’s Bhalla
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Political campaigns have long been amongst the keenest to use digital marketing tactics to reach voters. At the 2020 US presidential election, that is set to go in to overdrive. And it’s not just web, app and online video publishers who are set to benefit. In this video interview with Beet.TV, […]
Xandr’s Paley Mulls Life After Cookies
SAN JUAN PR — The looming deprecation of a key technology advertisers have historically used to track and target users has sent the industry in a scurry for a replacement. Google has declared it will phase out all third-party cookies – the tiny, user-side files that store information – from its Chrome browser by 2022. In this video […]
Addressable TV Is Going National: Beet Retreat Panel
SAN JUAN, PR — Until now, the shimmering promise of targeted TV ads was stuck in a marginal concept – that it could only be executed in live, linear TV, and only within a sliver of ad inventory. But that is all set to change. US addressable TV is going national. In a session dubbed […]
Ad Buyers Need Help On OTT Ads: Beet Retreat Panel
SAN JUAN, PR — The new TV landscape offers advertisers the opportunity to better plan, target and measure their campaigns, in a manner more reminiscent of digital marketing. But how are advertisers adapting to the palette of options presented by OTT (over-the-top) and connected TV delivery? In a panel called “Buy-Side Perspectives – The Big […]
Ad Attribution Figures In TV Upfronts: LiveRamp’s Hoctor
SAN JUAN, PR — At the upcoming “upfronts” TV ad sales season ad buyers will be striking deals with broadcast platforms to use attribution technology that can prove the business impact of their ad spend. That is according to an ad-tech boss whose platform is facilitating some of the deals. John Hoctor is president of […]
Addressable Pipes Are In Place But Slow & Complex: Beet Retreat Panel
SAN JUAN, PR — The ability to send tailored ads to individual TV households has been talked about for a long time. Now, after many early attempts, finally addressable TV is reaching scale. But just how advanced is the infrastructure behind “advanced TV”? In a Beet Retreat panel, Addressable Tech: Next-Gen Solutions: Fixing the Plumbing, […]
After The Binge, AVOD Can Shine: Tubi’s Rotblat
SAN JUAN, PR — After a couple of years of subscription video-on-demand boom (SVOD), a new model is emerging to capitalize on rumored “subscription fatigue”. Advertiser-supported VOD (AVOD) is bringing ad support back on the agenda, even as the rise of pay-for video services brought many to conclude that the era of ad-funding was over. […]
Go Beyond Legacy Panels With First-Party Data: Samba TV’s Navin
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — TV advertisers are going to need to leverage their own customer data sets in the coming era of advanced TV ad targeting – because the recent age of indiscriminate targeting is being nixed amid a flight to privacy. That is according to one executive who thinks advertisers need to use more […]
Embedding Data-Driven Ad Sales Takes Culture Change: Spectrum Reach’s Norris
SAN JUAN, PR — In 2020, the tools on offer in the TV industry allow advertisers to use data to plan and target the optimum ad campaign. But driving widespread adoption is going to take a culture shift. So says Kim Norris, VP at Charter’s Spectrum Reach ad sales division. “First, you have to change culture. […]
TV & Digital Ad Teams Must Come Together: Hulu’s Davidov
SAN JUAN, PR — Despite the apparent coming-together of television and digital video advertising, ad buyers are still too often divided in two two teams, according to one publisher hoping for change. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Hulu director of ad sales research Asaf Davidov complains that differences persist. “When we’re talking to TV […]
End Of Cookies Is Good News: LiveRamp’s Howe
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The sun may be setting on the main way advertisers have historically used to target audiences. But there may be a better option on the horizon. Google has declared it will phase out all third-party cookies – the tiny, user-side files that store information – from its Chrome browser by 2022. Ad-tech companies were […]
Samsung Ads Explores Mobile-TV Ad Connection: Scott
SAN JUAN, PR — Samsung is preparing to tie together its mobile and connected TV ecosystems in an advertising services upgrade due later this year. In this townhall discussion for Beet.TV, Michael Scott, Samsung Ads’ head of brand sales in North America, was asked what role mobile plays in his connected TV offering. “We’re in […]
Context Is Back: Comscore’s Gantz Reboots An Old Ad-Tech
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The digital ad industry has spent the last five to 10 years deriding the old method of targeting advertisements, which involved placing ads against recognisable content deemed to deliver a suitable audience. Instead, it got preoccupied with technologies which promise hyper-detailed targeting of individual users, regardless of the content they are […]
Data-Driven Means Data-Cleaning: Comscore’s Hinnant
SAN JUAN, PR — The new world of digital marketing promises advertisers the ability to link consumer outcomes like sales back to advertising exposure, and so to price ads accordingly. But the emerging focus on “attribution” and “outcomes” doesn’t come as easy as it sounds. “Data is not sexy,” Hinnant says, in this Beet Retreat […]
Just Do It: TVSquared’s Kinsella Urges Action On TV Attribution
SAN JUAN, PR — In the new world of advanced TV advertising, brands can measure consumer outcomes like website visits and product purchases, and link them back to actual TV ad exposure. But too few brands are doing so, because vested interests and a lack of action stand in the way. That is according to […]
In Crumbling Cookies, An Opportunity: LiveRamp’s Harkins
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The way the online advertising business has targeted audiences for years is being ripped up – but marketing technology vendors are trying to see the glass half-full. Google has declared it will phase out all third-party cookies – the tiny, user-side files that store information – from its Chrome browser by […]
Many Agencies Still Have Media Silos: Amobee’s Smolin
SAN JUAN, PR — At this point, many executives in the advertising industry might have hoped that the mechanisms for buying traditional TV ads and new digital video ads would have aligned. But, whilst technology has brought buyers to that point, institutional factors mean many ad buyers still plan their clients’ spending in separate lanes. […]