Robert Andrews

Advanced TV ad targeting tactics present the promise of up-ending the traditional way in which TV ads are bought – upfront and for a mass audience – in favor of something more real-time and personalized. But buyers need to be walked through the transition, and an ultimate conversion to 100% addressable may not be the […]

The existing partnership through which TV ad-tech vendor Amobee powers VOD ad distribution for UK broadcaster ITV is being turned in to named “platform” of sorts. The UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, ITV announced “Planet V” at ITV Palooza, a celebrity-filled, advertiser-facing event in the mould of the US TV upfronts showcases, in London on Tuesday. […]

The technology isn’t the hard bit, the hard bit is getting everyone to use common standards. That is the growing refrain from advocates of advanced television advertising techniques like addressable targetability and frequency capping. They are witnessing a burgeoning set of technical capabilities, and a growing footprint of audiences with the devices to take advantage […]

Some of the best dishes take a long time to cook. And that has certainly been the case with advanced TV ad targeting, the new practice of laser-guiding ad creative for just the right viewer of a connected TV device. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the woman who runs product at a leading TV […]

Traditionally, TV has suffered from inadequate knowledge about those viewers. The industry has come to call this “probabilistic” targeting. But its flip side, “deterministic” targeting, promises to give advertisers more accuracy, by using real viewer data to find the known audiences. Still, at this stage in the game, too few executives understand enough about the […]

What is the future of TV advertising, now that buyers can deliver targeted campaigns to connected television devices, as well as to traditional linear audiences? That is what a panel of industry executives gathered to discuss at Beet Retreat In The City: Amobee – Philip Smolin, chief strategy officer FreeWheel – Joy Baer, president, FreeWheel […]

FreeWheel and its premium-video advocacy group are putting their weight behind an initiative for the industry to adopt Ad-ID, in a bid to solve problems caused by media fragmentation. In this video interview with Beet.TV, James Rothwell, VP of global agency, brand and industry relations at Comcast Advertising, says the industry needs a universal ad ID to […]

2019 appears to have marked the year when TV providers and their technology vendors have come to a critical realization – that individual innovation on advertiser offerings is great but, without commonality across the industry, the opportunity will necessarily be limited. That is why we have begun to see a range of collaborations, consortia and […]

Years after it launched as Comcast Cable’s TV ad sales unit, Comcast Spotlight is rebranding in a move that disassociates it from the Comcast name but provides a new focus on ad outcomes. The new name, Effectv (“ef-fec-tiv”), is aimed at accentuating the unit’s ability deliver measurable ad results for brands across screens. In this […]

It all started when Gap wanted to show baby clothes ads to shoppers who had already purchased similar items in stores. Now the business of marrying different consumer data sets is a big deal, and identity solutions are the glue that helps advertisers smartly target consumers across different media channels. But one of the technology […]

After the battle is over, who will be declared victor? So far in the rush to launch new paid streaming TV services, pundit opinion has focused on how providers’ library strengths and finite household capital will end up crowning a winning provider. But Jim Nail doesn’t see things so black-and-white. Rather than betting on Disney […]

The new opportunity to find the optimum TV audiences across data-driven OTT and even linear services all depend on using audience data. But how that data comes in to execution varies. In this video interview with Beet.TV, one vendor helping brands bring it to life for advanced TV ad buying explains the different levels of […]

Data + Math wasn’t looking to get acquired for $150 million – but it happened anyway. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the CEO and co-founder of the TV advertising attribution vendor says, before its sale to LiveRamp earlier this year, the company was actually attempting a fundraising. So, whilst LiveRamp is a friend with […]

TV companies in 2019 have been getting better at working with ad agencies to help sell ads in ways that take advantage of advanced TV’s new tricks. That is the view according to one executive who sits at the nexus of TV, ad-tech and agency professionals. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Philip Smolin, chief […]

In the emerging future of television advertising, many opportunities lay ahead on the high seas. But, on the horizon, do advertisers see islands, or new lands for settling? In this video interview with Beet.TV, MTM co-founder and partner Jon Watts says the new-wave US TV market is leading the way in new capabilities – but, […]

In a confusing sea of a hundred “point solutions”, you could forgive a client for ending up asking “what’s the point?” Case in point – the emerging world of connected TV offers huge potential for precision targeting, even marrying up that process with traditional linear TV buying. One of the leading technology suppliers helping deliver […]

Janus Strategy & Insights president Howard Shimmel complains that many parts of the industry have not come together in order to make available data that could be used for planning advanced TV media buys at scale. “It’s a hope,” he says. “I’ve always been surprised that the advertisers have not forced Facebook to be more […]

This week was amongst the biggest of the year for ad-tech deals, as over-the-top (OTT) TV platform provider Roku announced its plan to acquire dataxu, a demand-side ad-buying platform, for $150 million. Roku is the leading provider of add-on OTT devices, according to Strategy Analytics, and is also present natively inside many TV sets. In […]

TV advertising used to be so straightforward. Now the emergence of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) has changed the game, whilst the new wave of advertising-funded VOD (AVOD) is shaking it up again. But, as much as conventional wisdom suggests a large-scale viewer migration to over-the-top offerings, what is really happening behind the glass? That is what […]

The future of TV looks a little different than it did five years ago. And, at this pace of change, it even looks different than it did five months ago. Today, subscription video has boomed, but the following wave of advertiser-supported VOD services is also emerging in its wake. Preparing for an internet TV world […]