CES

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. […]

Samsung Ads’ head of sales and brand Michael Scott says that advertisers are attracted to Samsung TV+ because it has a similar format to linear cable TV but with access to new audiences who may be cord cutters. “The look and feel is a lot like linear television, or cable network TV,” says Scott. “Advertisers […]

Having the largest, most comprehensive source of TV data available in the market has tremendous advantages. In an interview with Beet.TV, April Denn, regional sales director for Samsung Ads, explains that with this data, the company is looked at to solve three main problems. The first of these problems is to leverage this data and […]

When it comes to helping customers focus on their business objectives, Samsung Ads boils it down to two key ideas: reach and response. In an interview with Beet.TV, Justin Evans, global head of analytics and insights at the company explains just what this entails. From a reach perspective, Evans says that clients are anxious about […]

The idea that brands can be content producers and publishers is no longer a new one. But, after perhaps 15 years in which marketers have done that, ow times are changing, according to an executive who is watching them change their strategy. “The conversations that I’m having with partners and different industry people is that […]

Gaming, like streaming, has become an enormous part of a burgeoning ad model. In an interview with Beet.TV, Karl Meyer, head of sales, media and entertainment at Samsung Ads, explains that his company is able to use unique metrics to help this corner of advertising grow. Gaming provides a target audience for Samsung in age […]

After years of experimentation, ad agencies are finally getting serious about buying ads through connected TV (CTV) devices and over-the-top (OTT) TV services. That is according to one man who can plug them directly in to the TV set itself. Samsung Ads, a unit inside the giant Korean electronics manufacturer, tracks what audiences are watching […]

Samsung Ads, the media conglomerate’s ads division, provides the measurement and targeting at scale for the billions of smart TVs operated by the company. “These four to five billion smart TVs, connected on a daily basis – they’re smart about that and now our data is one-to-one deterministic,” says Karl Meyer, head of sales, media […]

The history of media buying may have involved rough guesstimates of consumers’ activity. But new software that can provide exact intelligence on audiences’ behavior is giving ad agencies super-powers to be more “thoughtful” about how they reach people. That is according to Ly Tran, chief media officer of Proof Advertising, an Austin-based ad agency. In this […]

LAS VEGAS – Consumers are living in an age in which there’s almost an expectation that any product or service that they purchase will be customized. In an interview with Beet.TV, Jim Cridlin, global head of innovation and partnerships at Mindshare explains that television is now headed on this path. “You see a tremendous explosion […]

LAS VEGAS — The upfronts, the annual season in which US premium content owners tout their upcoming roster of programming in a bid to win advance ad bookings, is around the corner. But, this time, things could look a little different. So says the strategy chief of an ad-tech firm aiming to help the industry […]

LAS VEGAS– With a streaming landscape that continues evolving, client expectations have changed as well. In an interview with Beet.TV at the Consumer Electronics Show, Roseann Montenes, vice president of precision & performance ad sales at A+E Networks, explains that these changes vary depending on how each client defines “performance”. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to […]

When OpenAP, a TV industry consortium for making advanced TV targeting more straightforward, announced the addition of CBS to its repertoire last year, it was just the latest addition to a roster that now numbers: Fox ViacomCBS NBC Universal Univision But Ed Davis isn’t stopping there. In this video interview with Beet.TV at Consumer Electronics […]

A new year, a new decade may have only just begun but, for some, minds are already turning to the key point in the US TV ad sales calendar. Upfronts season peaks in May, when video and TV content owners showcase their upcoming repertoire in a bid to secure advance ad buyers from brands and […]

LAS VEGAS – Ad-tech platform LiveRamp is now helping advertisers to buy campaigns centered on real business outcomes, not marketing proxies, after its earlier acquisition of the vendor Data Plus Math. LiveRamp acquired the company back in July. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Allison Metcalfe, the GM of LiveRamp’s TV offering, explains what new […]

LAS VEGAS– As ACR data becomes more available, how will it lead us to better understand measurement across platforms? In an interview with Beet.TV at CES, Maggie Zhang, executive vice president of video research and insights for Dentsu Aegis Network explored the ways in which OTT and linear are evolving due to these new capabilities. […]

LAS VEGAS –  Media agencies have been watching the growth of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services with alarm. If more people are paying for ad-free TV, where will brands go to reach audiences? At least the overall growth of connected TV as an overall category is giving them some reassurance. After all, connected TV services provide […]

As more privacy regulations pop up, bringing on restrictions to how companies can use and handle customer information, the key for media will be first-party data, according to Havas Media’s US chief data officer Peter Sedlarcik. First, GDPR altered how European companies could store and track customer data. Now, with the roll out of the […]

LAS VEGAS — Historically, the TV ad industry has predicated on estimated the size and kind of audiences watching particular shows, now knowing for sure. But automatic content recognition (ACR) technology is now beginning to help advertisers and broadcasters know for sure. It works using a range of hardware and software that either listens to […]

LAS VEGAS– In conversations with clients, Nicholas Hartofilis, the evp of national video investment at Zenith, says there’s a new sense of urgency in reforming their advertising approaches. “There’s a greater pressure on understanding the TV ecosystem, knowing if you keep doing the same thing you’ll get diminishing returns,” Hartofilis told Beet.TV at the Consumer […]