Steve Ellwanger

Univision Communications has chosen Amobee to be its linear television optimization platform of record. The partnership also lays the groundwork for Amobee to support the leading media company serving Hispanic audiences across its linear, digital and social channels, according to Amobee’s Stacy Daft. “We also have the capability to extend the offering into the digital […]

When history books are written about advertising, “there will be an indictment against our business for allowing our siloes to squabble with each other while the duopoly or triopoly ate everybody’s lunch,” according to WPP Senior Advisor Irwin Gotlieb. The squabbling is prominent in the addressable television advertising space, Gotlieb noted in his keynote speech […]

As Hulu’s audience has continued to grow, the company has been building up its sales efforts and offerings for programmatic advertising transactions. “So now that we have that kind of scale we want to make sure that we’re maximizing it from an advertising perspective,” says Anthony Laurenzo. Hulu has had programmatic capabilities since 2014 but […]

Buying television inventory programmatically continues to grow along with TV content choices. Comscore is responding by augmenting its audience-targeting offerings, including various personas, according to EVP Anthony Psacharopoulos. “I definitely think we’re coming of age, if you will. We’re hitting that critical mass where yes there used to be scarce inventory. But especially with consumer […]

In the age of connected television, Connect All Fronts is MediaMath’s way to draw a focus on “a vision of the future” and its perceived role of uniting brands and consumers. Connect All Fronts is the name of the conference MediaMath, founded in 2007 as an early programmatic pioneer, recently hosted to connect the various […]

With nothing but more streaming competitors on the horizon, DISH Media’s Sling TV is nonetheless buoyed by consumer behavior. “The Sling TV audience basically consists of cord nevers and cord cutters. And that is only going to grow going forward. I think the consumer behavior stats that we see are most compelling for us,” says […]

The union of AT&T and WarnerMedia comes at a time when digital and television advertising formats are constantly changing. “It’s kind of unlimited at this point. Linear TV formats are changing quite rapidly,” says Turner Ignite EVP Dan Riess. As it happens, speed also is one of the key attributes that WarnerMedia is touting to […]

Television measurement and analytics provider 605 is doubling its national footprint in a licensing deal with Inscape that augments and compliments MVPD data with smart-TV viewing insights. “The bigger the better in terms of data,” says 605 President & Co-Founder Ben Tatta. With the addition of Inscape data, 605 can measure more than 20 million […]

As Tru Optik enhances its OTT Household Graph with audience data from the Oracle Data Cloud, it’s expanded its management ranks with the additions of Richard Kosinski as EVP of Sales and Jonathan Bokor in the role of Chief Privacy and Business Affairs Officer. Kosinksi’s digital background spans such media companies as Forbes, Yahoo!, Westwood […]

ORLANDO—Although the practice of marketers taking certain functions in-house as opposed to paying external agencies has been gaining traction in recent years, it’s a trend that has flown under the radar. Including at the Association of National Advertisers, which just concluded its first-ever event devoted exclusively to in-house agencies. “The in-house agency phenomenon is something […]

ORLANDO—Being bold and edgy in your approach to advertising is the Trunk Club way. Those traits are a reflectiong of the male-oriented retailer’s in-house agency, which is “the driver of creative for our band. We do not work with any external agencies right now. So we’re it,” says Maureen Boyle, Senior Director, Creative Services & […]

ORLANDO—The term “hybrid” doesn’t just apply to certain types of athletic shoes sold by New Balance. It’s also the international marketer’s approach to balancing an in-house agency and its global strategic agency of record, VMLY&R. “I see the hybrid model as being a great way forward for New Balance. We’re a business with a load […]

ORLANDO—Working remotely isn’t for everyone, but it’s working out pretty well for 150-year-old PwC’s in-house agency. “My agency is a virtual agency, meaning we all don’t report into one headquarters operation and work together,” says Managing Director and Creative Leader Jack Teuber. “Rather, people are working sort of where they are,” Teuber adds. “We recruit […]

Comcast Spotlight is bringing more bottom-funnel advertising attribution to local television by showing advertisers how many incremental website visits their campaigns generate. “Attribution measured at the local level is a challenge for anybody because your sample sizes get terrible when you’re trying to do measurement at the local level,” says VP of Data Strategy Justin […]

Household-addressable television advertising spending will rise from $2.1 billion in 2019 to more than $3.3 billion by the end of 2020, according to a new guide for marketers released today by the Video Advertising Bureau. That represents a 343% spending increase from 2016, according to the VAB. “I’d say it’s mature. It’s arrived. We did […]

ORLANDO—Few companies want their services to be invisible to users, but when the mission is to ensure video ads play perfectly on every screen or device, viewers of those ads shouldn’t pause to wonder what’s happening behind the scenes. That’s the goal at Extreme Reach, whose AdBridge platform is used to manage and deploy creative […]

Amid the growing complexity of advanced television, FreeWheel’s clients have two elemental desires. One is for FreeWheel to explain to buyers in the U.S. and Europe what’s available and what’s possible, the other is accessing more demand from advertisers. “You sit across all of it and see it all and are close to the technology […]

ORLANDO—It started with “low-hanging fruit” like collateral and point-of-sale materials and package design then progressed to social media. Now more marketers are expected to bring some of their media activity in-house—one reason being to protect their first-party data, according to Bill Duggan of the Association of National Advertisers. “Currently, there’s much more creative done in […]

ORLANDO—Before digital media and all of its complexity came along, advertising agencies were basically ensured of an end-to-end relationship with their clients. Now there’s so much more work to be done, it’s not surprising that more marketers are taking certain functions in-house, according to 4A’s President & CEO Marla Kaplowitz. “It’s been around for a […]

A big conundrum in cross-screen audience targeting is the need for cooperation across a multitude of potential partners even as the number of partners continues to multiply. And technology itself isn’t the white knight it was once thought of, judging from a panel discussion at the recent Beet.TV leadership forum. The panel titled Making Identity […]