Robert Williams

LONDON – Every major brand of smart television has its own operating system to run apps for connected television, but this predicament isn’t ideal for consumers who want a user-friendly experience. Xperi, the parent company of TiVo, developed a neutral operating system intended to avoid creating another walled garden. “There’s the need in the industry […]

Women in the past 50 years have steadily risen into top managerial roles in the advertising and media industries, but there’s still more work to be done in terms of equal pay and greater diversity in the C-suite. Amid these efforts, women can help each other, a key theme of the “Lift As You Climb” […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – While Publishers Clearing House is well known as a sweepstakes company, it has evolved in the past decade into a digital marketing and commerce company that has vast troves of opt-in data about consumers. This information is considered valuable as more households connect their televisions to the internet, opening up another […]

CES 2025 is expected to showcase the ways that technology companies and makers of consumer electronics are adopting artificial intelligence to improve their products and services. For AI to be effective for advertisers and marketers, it needs high-quality data. “One of the things that hasn’t been talked about enough, perhaps, is the data that goes […]

Addressable advertising is making great strides in fulfilling its promise to show different commercials to different households during the same television programming. These capabilities rely on various sources of first-party data, which advertising data and insights platform Blockgraph brings together. “Having really accurate first party data is critical for advertisers who want to reach their […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – The software tools to automate the buying and selling of digital and mobile advertising are transforming the connected television ad market. The adoption of these programmatic tools are helping startup CTV apps to sell ads and making the television advertising more accessible to marketers with smaller media budgets. Programmatic is “lowering […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Generative artificial intelligence, the technology that powers popular apps such as ChatGPT, is changing the way brands and agencies develop campaigns, and the reshaping has only just begun. “Generative AI is going to be the most transformational technology in our lifetime,” Sam Garfield, head of digital strategy for communications, media and […]

CES showcases the latest electronic hardware such as high-definition televisions, gaming computers, wearable devices and WiFi gear, but they all need software including videogames for the fullest “wow” effect. “We love going to CES. It sets the tone in a lot of ways for the rest of the year,” Gabrielle Heyman, vice president of global […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Connected television is in its infancy compared with decades-old linear television, and its ultimate success as an advertising medium will depend on a dynamic mix of influences. Two key components will be data usage and the viewer experience. “How CTV platforms use data, what integrations they’re looking at, who are they […]

CES offers a window into the technologies that will make people’s lives easier to manage, and that’s especially true as artificial intelligence makes products and services smarter or more responsive to consumers. “AI and machine learning are a hot topic in our industry. I imagine there’s going to be a lot of conversation around AI, […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – It’s estimated that about 400 billion gigabytes of data are created every day, challenging decision makers to find the best ways to mine this information for insights. Because data is often spread among a variety of organizations including advertisers, agencies, media companies and ad-tech companies, collaboration is needed to unlock deeper […]

Addressable advertising is an important tool in helping marketers reach television audiences based on key criteria, providing enough precision to ensure campaigns are relevant to viewers. Accurate information about consumers underpins these vital media functions. Addressability is “about having that data layer and understanding that data becomes humans and humans are data, and being able […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Ride-share giant Uber Technologies seeks to give brands a way to reach consumers as they take trips, whether it’s to the airport or the community shopping center. This reach not only includes its mobile app, but its growing JourneyTV network of tablet screens being installed into millions of ride-share vehicles. “We […]

LG Electronics is one of the biggest consumer electronics companies in the world, making CES a vital event for showcasing its latest wares. As a maker of internet-connected televisions, LG’s advertising sales unit, LG Ad Solutions, gives brands a way to engage target audiences on the largest screen in their homes. “LG Ad Solutions differentiates […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Women are responsible for a significant majority of purchase decisions worldwide, making insights into their wants and needs extremely valuable to marketers of consumers brands. Women who work at these brands have pushed for recognition of their special role in making products for women and in devising advertising that engages their […]

CES, or what used to be known as the Consumer Electronics Show, each year helps to set the tone for the innovative products and services that people can expect to see coming to market. Artificial intelligence has become a key part of innovation as marketers adopt the technology to provide better experiences for their customers. […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Creators are remaking the media landscape, giving brands new ways to reach audiences of highly engaged fans, enthusiasts and followers. Amid this transformation, create platform Spotter is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to license Creator content that’s monetized through partnerships with brands. “These Creators are really building expectations with audiences […]

“I was fascinated by the camaraderie and the community that Andy and the team have built,” says Terence Kawaja, founder, CEO of LUMA Partners. “There’s a tangibility to the discussions that I’ve noticed. Beet Retreat, people go to do. These people, they’re doers, not talkers.” Kawaja is one of many industry leaders who share how […]

Customer data have become more valuable as marketers adopt newer technologies to unlock insights such as the best ways to reach their clientele across a variety of media platforms. These methods are helping advertisers to wean themselves from tracking cookies that have underpinned online marketing for the past 30 years. “In the olden days we […]

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – The popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT app helped to demonstrate to millions of people the power of artificial intelligence — and specifically, generative AI that’s capable of creating content based on instructions in everyday language. While AI applications in the advertising business have been around for years, the technology will continue to […]