CES

The deployments are different in every market around the world but, slowly but surely, addressable TV – technology which helps advertisers target individual viewers – is rolling out globally. But don’t bet on this granular-targeting super-power usurping the traditional construct of TV ad-buying – wherein the goal is to reach a mass audience, measured roughly […]

LAS VEGAS – At events like CES 2018, noisy headlines about bright, shiny new technology can get ahead of reality. Take advanced television and shifting viewing habits, as seen through the eyes of WPP Group CEO Sir Martin Sorrell. “If you define television as screen and screen hours, there’s a bigger opportunity than there’s ever […]

LAS VEGAS – Three years ago next month, when DISH launched streaming service Sling TV, the company had bigger ambitions than just serving addressable ads on Sling. It was the recent measurement deal with comScore that delivered the missing piece: uniformly measured addressable TV for both streaming and linear programming. Now buyers can reach specific […]

LAS VEGAS – Longtime partners comScore and DISH have crossed the platform threshold, so to speak, with their partnership to provide uniform addressable advertising measurement across the Sling TV over-the-top service and DISH linear television. The deal gives advertisers a view of their campaign’s performance across Sling’s connected TV, mobile and desktop impressions, as well […]

LAS VEGAS – When Terry Kawaja takes in the proceedings at CES, he’s not focused on the “flashy consumer-facing stuff that we see on the show floor.” To the Founder and CEO of investment banking firm Luma Partners, it’s all about sub-trends. This means that things like self-driving cars, drones, artificial intelligence and virtual reality […]

LAS VEGAS – If multichannel video programming distributors won’t share their set-top box data, how do media buyers and sellers expand the practice of audience buying? Not quickly. This is the main takeaway from a Beet.TV panel discussion at CES 2017 focusing on advanced television targeting. Held at held the OMD Oasis at The Venetian, […]

LAS VEGAS – Everyone agrees that data can help to inform better video advertising targeting. The question is how best to do it. The narrow range of options was the focus of a Beet.TV panel discussion at CES 2017 conducted at the OMD Oasis at The Venetian. It brought together representatives of 605, NBCUniversal, Omnicom […]

LAS VEGAS – In the early 1990’s, advertising agencies began to unbundle their media departments into separate operating units. Now television networks are unbundling their audiences to meet advertisers’ increasing desire for better ad targeting. “Cable programmers have always gone narrow in the sense that their individual networks tended to be much more niche content […]

LAS VEGAS — Toyota dealerships in five US states now know exactly how many people were driven to their showrooms by TV ads, after an addressable TV campaign worked on by vendors in marketing data and mobile location. In June, Gulf States Toyota, which comprises 150 dealerships, targeted 652,200 AT&T/DirecTV viewers believed to be in-market for a new […]

LAS VEGAS — Time was, data was the oil that powered backward-looking reports examining the effectiveness of already-executed campaigns. But that’s all changing now, as new technology allows ad-tech platforms to show live data and let clients respond by tweaking campaigns mid-flight. That’s according to one ad-tech exec whose company helps advertisers use data segmenting to target linear […]

LAS VEGAS — The Consumer Electronics Show gets bigger and bigger each year – and it changes, too. Once a mecca simply for new gadget fans, now the show attracts marketers and advertisers eager to understand the new technologies that will represent the consumer engagement platforms of tomorrow. But that places a responsibility on advertisers to take […]

LAS VEGAS — Maybe the full-page, print-style ad format isn’t the optimum format, even for an app that launched to replicate the modality of a printed magazine. In October, Flipboard, the flippable content aggregation app that borrows its interaction method from the page-turning paradigm, launched Storyboard, a new ad format for buyers. Speaking with Beet.TV at the […]

LAS VEGAS – True one-to-one advertising targeting on digital and linear television is being held back by too many competing standards, says the President of VM1, the dedicated Verizon agency within Zenith. “The interoperability of all these different systems and platforms and devices just don’t play nicely together today. But over time it’s definitely where […]

LAS VEGAS — USA Today is currently in production on a second “season” of its own virtual reality series, as it gears up to offer brands new ways to sell into the medium. A year ago at the Consumer Electronics Show, chief revenue officer Kevin Gentzel announced to Beet.TV the company would be making daily VR content. Now […]

LAS VEGAS – Even if there’s no disruption at CES there’s always good reasons for media agencies and their clients to meet “on nice, neutral ground,” says OMD Worldwide CEO Mainardo de Nardis. This year is no exception. “It’s all about innovation, even in years like this when there hasn’t been something terribly disruptive to […]

LAS VEGAS – To genuinely personalize today’s customer experience, marketers and agencies need to take a step back from the oceans of data at their fingertips. They should revisit the past and reacquaint themselves with some marketing basics, according to Adobe Video Solution’s Campbell Foster. “Too often, marketers forget about marketing 101,” the company’s Director […]

LAS VEGAS – Fewer but more impactful and relevant ads per commercial break aren’t going to happen overnight. But it’s the beginning of a road the industry must start to travel so as not to lose both current and future viewers of linear television. This was the consensus of media sellers and audience targeting specialists […]

LAS VEGAS — The tectonic plates of the ad-tech ecosystem have shifted in to alignment, allowing now advertisers to do many of the newfangled techniques that have been talked about for years. That’s according to one media-tech exec whose company just passed some milestones of its own. 4C Insights ingests social media platform data and TV ad data […]

LAS VEGAS — Discovery Communications already has its own data management and optimisation platform for linear TV ad trading. Now it wants to bring it back to digital, too. “Discovery Engage, which is our linear optimisation platform, we started on the linear side,” Discovery Communication data analytics VP Sam Garfield tells beet.TV in this video interview. “We’re […]

LAS VEGAS – Although the Dolan family sold Cablevision Systems last summer, they have continued to stay close to the industry and are building on their experience in the new venture they’ve named 605. Television programmers and cable operators will be among the first to benefit from 605 CEO Kristin Dolan’s longtime involvement with addressable linear […]