Beet Retreat ’15, presented by Videology with Adobe, AT&T and Nielsen

FORT LAUDERDALE –  Media agency software giant Mediaocean has its sights set on convergence tools in 2015, says Cordie DePascale, VP Product & Partner Solutions at Mediaocean, at the Beet.TV executive retreat this past weekend. The company recently struck a partnership with Videology to integrate TV and digital media inventory in a single dashboard for buyers, and […]

FORT LAUDERDALE — While so-called “programmatic” techniques for controlling, planning and trading online ads have gained traction in display advertising, the concept is slower to reach the same penetration in video and TV. But the prospect is set for wider adoption after a year in which many ad tech platforms “postured” about their capabilities, according […]

FORT LAUDERDALE — So-called “programmatic” ad-trading techniques may have come to market at the real-time bidding (RTB) end of the spectrum, allowing ad buyers and sellers to do business in real-time marketplaces – but that doesn’t mean they have to stay there. In this video interview, enterprise video ad software tech firm Videology‘s North America […]

FORT LAUDERDALE –  NBCUniversal is betting big on the marriage of context and content to drive return on investment in ads, says Joe Cady, VP of Advertising at NBC Universal, at the Beet.TV executive retreat this past weekend. Earlier this month, NBC Universal launched an audience targeting platform for television the harnesses both first-party and third-party […]

FOR LAUDERDALE – Time Inc has made an “unequivocal commitment to video,” says J.R. McCabe, SVP for Video, in this interview with Beet.TV To that end, the company is readying multiple studios on “thousands of feet” of soundstage in lower Manhattan.  Time will move into the new studios later this year. In the interview, he […]

FORT LAUDERDALE – The massive changes in the way that date is powering advertising is transformative, akin to a sort of “industrial revolution,” says Ashley J. Swartz, industry analyst and founder of Furious Corp, in this keynote presentation at the Beet.TV executive retreat this past weekend. Please find more videos from the event here.

FORT LAUDERDALE — The coming digitzation of TV may seem set to pave the way for measuring audiences in a digital manner used to internet media houses – but Nielsen is stating its case for a panel-based approach it seems set to launch later this year. “We’re dedicated to having a solution to smart TVs […]

FORT LAUDERDALE — Personalization of web editorial experiences has been talked about for years, with few publishers deciding to let their readers customize their own editions. BBC News last week launched its most personalizable app to date, but content recommendation service Taboola‘s CEO says publishers should go further. “We’re just getting to be overwhelmed with […]

FORT LAUDERDALE — The New York Times wants to make a bigger deal out of getting its stories out to users of social networks. Last year’s leaked NYT Innovation Report flagged challenges with building audience using social, including insufficient use of Twitter by reporters and a Facebook account being run by commercial, not editorial, staff. […]

FORT LAUDERDALE – The digital ad industry may be starting to get to grips with the problems of fraud and viewability, but next up is the creeping threat from nefarious code. “The big priority for us is switching everything over to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),” Google’s head of media platform sales, Jay VanDerZee, tells Beet.TV […]

FORT LAUDERDALE  — Two decades in to the era of the TV set-top box, ad agencies are still not finding it easy to get access to good audience targeting data from viewers’ homes, says a marketing veteran. “There’s a lack of data,” says Tracey Scheppach, EVP, who leads innovation at Starcom MediaVest Group and who leads […]

FORT LAUDERDALE — Video ad tech vendor Teads is getting ad buyers buzzing with its new take on video ad formats – letting specialist text publishers insert auto-playing video ads between their paragraphs. But how successful can this model be when readers can simply scroll past the video ads to silence and hide them? “Our […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fl – Which way is the wind blowing in the “programmatic” ad space? Away from real-time bidding and toward private marketplaces, according to one leading light. The collection of techniques referred to as “programmatic” all essentially mean “automation” but, whilst the phenomenon began with allowing the real-time automation of ad buying and selling […]