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LONDON — Buoyed by the digital growth in programmatic buying, TV networks in the United Kingdom are developing a bigger appetite for data-driven media, says Liam Brennan, Digital Strategy Director of Starcom MediaVest Group, in an interview with Beet.TV. As an example, Sky TV is overlaying targeted ads into shows based on the the demographics of […]

LONDON — When brands use mobile advertising or Twitter advertising, they can amplify their media spend and ROI, says Richard Hocking EMEA director of performance marketing and mobile development at Starcom MediaVest Group, in an interview with Beet.TV. Twitter can complement TV ads, and brands have seen a 7% rise in awareness from the combo, while brands measuring sales […]

SAN FRANCISCO – The delineation between private vs. open exchanges and real-time bidding (RTB) vs. programmatic guarantees is driven by the needs of the publisher says Mark Trefgarne, CEO of the supply-side video ad tech company LiveRail, in this interview with Beet.TV Earlier this summer, LiveRail was acquired by Facebook. We spoke with him for […]

LONDON – Civolution, the Netherlands-based audio content recognition company (ACR) is finding high click-through rates with Twitter, synching TV ads with Twitter ads units.  A pilot program with Omnicom’s Resolution Media on a movie campaign found click rates of as 250%, the company announced at Cannes. We spoke with Andy Nobbs, CMO of Civolution about the […]

LONDON  —  Rocket Fuel, a leading programmatic ad buying platform, is expanding Mission Control, its  self-service solution for agencies, explains David Nelson, European Product Director, in this interview with Beet.TV Nelson also talks about the implications of the California company’s recent announcement to acquire [x+1]. He speaks about emerging trends to be discussed at the […]

LONDON –Interactive video formats and programmatic buying can be layered together to help brands better reach consumers across screens, says Tom Fryett, Video Associate Director, at Starcom MediaVest Group, in an interview with Beet.TV. Interactive formats can drive engagement, while data can help to optimize the use of those formats. Starcom MediaVest has worked with tech providers like […]

LONDON  — AOL has been expanding its video offering via its web originals and its distribution play across screens.   This initiative is expanding internationally as  AOL readies a slate  of Web original premium video for the U.K. market, says James Harris, Agency Lead, International, in this interview with Beet.TV  The new shows will be […]

LONDON – It’s a bit like finding the “lost GRP,” says  Caspar Schlickum, CEO of Xaxis EMEA, explaining the value of the agency’s new ad-synch product, in this interview with Beet.TV He says that the platform serves synched ads to  multiscreen viewers, many who reach for their handheld during TV commercials breaks.  He says that […]

LONDON –  The Rubicon Project, the Los Angeles-based adtech firm, has been rapidly expanding globally as publishers demand greater efficiency in managing their ad sales, says Jay Stevens,  GM for International, in this interview with Beet.TV    Rubicon helps a number of big global publishers including News Corp, power their programmatic sales operations. The company […]

LONDON — Data is rooted in numbers, but the use of it is most effective when brands view data as a “consumer fingerprint,” says Steve Simpson, Exec VP and Global Managing Director of Digital Strategy, Data and Analytics at SMG, in an interview with Beet.TV. “Think about it as a reflection of people and what they are doing […]

Video-on-demand inventory is the next logical entry point for programmatic style advertising into linear TV, says Ashley J. Swartz, CEO and Founder of Furious Minds, in an interview with Beet.TV. “VOD is the first inventory that will come online for dynamic ad insertion,” she says. “The inventory is a bit more controlled, it’s not beholden to a […]

Moving TV dollars to online remains a challenge says Vik Kathuria, Global Chief Media Officer at Razorfish in an interview with Beet.TV. “It’s very hard to find an apples to apples comparison in terms of TV money and where to move it. If you are a TV buyer, you want to scale. To effectively move some […]

LONDON — Programmatic advertising not only has the potential to influence digital advertising, but also TV, says Steve Parker, co-CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group in London, in an interview with Beet.TV. “What we’re learning around programmatic video allows us to transform our relationship with TV. TV in the UK has never been in better health. There […]

As programmatic buying expands, look for agencies to build more private marketplaces in the next 12 to 18 months, says Julian Zilberbrand, EVP Activation Standards, Insights, & Technology at ZenithOptimedia Group in an interview with Beet.TV. That’s because private exchanges provide an ecosystem that can be “safer” and possess less potential for fraud and non-human bot traffic, he […]

Programmatic advertising has flourished digitally, but in time it will spread further to TV, says Brendan Condon, CEO of Media Property Holdings, which operates like an ad network but for TV buying by aggregating TV spend across multichannel video providers, syndicators and local broadcasters. But there are ways to automate it through addressable technology and […]

Larger advertisers are beginning to realize that, with a range of new online technology, they can take more control of their own campaign spending, says an ad tech exec. “We’re seeing an increase in operators wanting to run their own marketing programs directly using our software and operating system,” says Sam Cox, global partner management […]

SAN FRANCISCO – The next stage in the adoption of  automated ad-trading tools, private marketplaces are helping so-called “programmatic” practices flourish, says an exec in the space. “If 2013 was the year of real-time bidding and programmatic coming in to reality, 2014 is the year of private marketplaces,” video ad tech vendor BrightRoll‘s marketing SVP Tim Avila […]

Nowadays, advertisers are starting to buy ads in social media streams that are synchronized with TV ads. Soon, they may also get to buy display ads on premium publisher sites in the same way. “2014 was all about getting the pipes in place,” says Stefan Maris, global product manager of Civolution, a video technology vendor […]

SAN FRANCISCO – The holy grail of mass-market TV through which advertisers can target individual viewers is coming nearer as better and better ad tech improves prospects, says one company playing in this emerging area. “We obviously don’t have that utopic state in linear TV right now,” says TubeMogul CMO Keith Eadie in this video. […]

The key focus of programmatic buying should be on delivering business outcomes for a marketer, says Vik Kathuria, Global Chief Media Officer at Razorfish in an interview with Beet.TV. If an agency can do that, then it makes sense to keep programmatic buying in house, he says. In the coming year, he predicts the big agencies […]