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MIAMI — They may have traditionally been considered different channels – but Dan Riess thinks social and streaming are colliding. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Riess, EVP, Chief Growth Officer, TelevisaUnivision, says his company, the Hispanic broadcaster, is seeking audiences with a “social-first” approach. He was speaking with Beet.TV at POSSIBLE 2024. Social-First Approach […]

NEW YORK – Kroger Precision Marketing, the grocery chain’s retail media network, is collaborating with Yahoo Advertising to offer purchase-based audiences directly in the Yahoo Demand-Side Platform (DSP), according to an announcement on Tuesday. Yahoo DSP advertisers can now activate Kroger’s audiences to reach the right consumers and to measure campaign results without tracking cookies. […]

As more retailers enter the space and as forecasts for its size grow, one retail operator has its own big target for making money from retail media. Stop & Shop owner Ahold Delhaize is a global grocery supermarket chain, with a goal of making a billion euros from non-grocery revenue like advertising and data by 2025. […]

These days, at their annual ad pitches, companies don’t only tout their content slate. In 2024’s IAB NewFronts, the tech targeting offering is being showcased, too. At its event in New York today, Roku announced it would let The Trade Desk customers harness its automated content recognition (ACR) data, in a sign that the leading US […]

Innovid on Tuesday launched its Harmony initiative to help optimize the advertising ecosystem for connected television. As part of the effort, the adtech company released Harmony Direct to help ensure that more advertiser dollars go to video publishers. “We’re about to see a significant jump in the growth of CTV,” Zvika Netter, co-founder and chief […]

In a sign of a once-more buoyant ad-tech M&A market, Cadent says it reached an agreement to purchases ad machine learning company AdTheorent for $343 million. Combined, the pair will have almost 1,000 advertisers across all main holding groups. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Cadent CEO Nick Troiano, explains the rationale for the acquisition. […]

As the sun comes out this spring, many marketers will be heading to Miami for the POSSIBLE conference, April 15 to 17, “The timing of it is great,” says Anna Bager, President & CEO of OAAA. “We’re in a very interesting year, full of challenge and change, and it’s an election year. There’s a lot […]

The future of television is evolving before our very eyes, with the emergence of new technologies that aim to seamlessly integrate interactivity into the viewer’s experience. One such company is raising eyebrows for the way it is delivering on the connected TV ad opportunity. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Rich Greenfield, General Partner, LightShed […]

The digital ecosystem is bracing for a potential bonanza in 2025, according to Terence Kawaja, founder and CEO of LUMA Partners. It may have been a bumpy couple of years – but the industry’s leading deal-maker says the economy is back. In this video interview with Beet.TV in advance of POSSIBLE 2024 in Miami April […]

Executives from  leading media and advertising companies have joined together in a major campaign to curb gun violence. Created in the wake of 2012 mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, the Sandy Hook Promise,  and its Media Council,  have raised funds and garnered some $125 million in public service airtime. The organization is focused […]

NBCUniversal told us it would leverage AI in its video advertising offering this year – and that is exactly what it’s doing. At its One24 event in New York, the company announced a set of technological advancements and strategic partnerships aimed at enhancing television advertising capabilities. We are republishing Beet.TV’s interview with John Lee, chief data […]

TV may have long been king of the hill in the advertising world – but TikTok is coming out hard with new ad products, boasting to be more effective than a raft of traditional and digital ad options. Amongst the platform’s announcements this week: Shop Ads, extending to TikTok Shop. Video Shopping Ads available with […]

In a landscape where connected TV (CTV) is ascending and linear television decelerates, industry players are rethinking their approaches to media buying and selling. “I felt like we were in the gangly teenage years of our transformation,” says Ramsey McGrory, Chief Development Officer, Mediaocean. “We still have a lot of work to do.” In this […]

How can the ad industry benefit from shoppable TV ads in a world where TV platforms weren’t build with shoppability in mind? For respected media industry analyst Rich Greenfield, the answer could be consumer-contextualized ad targeting. We spoke with Greenfield, General Partner, LightShed Ventures after his fireside chat on the stage of the CTV Connect conference  […]

CVS’ retail media platform, CVS Media Exchange, (CMX) will adopt the LiveRamp data clean room solution rolled out by Pinterest, so that its consumer packaged goods (CPG) advertisers can track product sales coming from Pinterest ads. It is another move showing the growing adoption of the clean room technology, which allows for anonymized consumer data […]

In a landscape where ad tech integrations can be as complex as they are necessary, Index Exchange is launching a new platform designed to simplify interconnectivity. Launching in beta, Marketplaces is an effort to support integrations without duplication across the ecosystem. Simplifying Ad-Tech with Marketplaces Casale outlines a vision where manual integrations, a persistent source […]

LAS VEGAS –TransUnion has made its identity graph more accurate by integrating it with data from Neustar, which the consumer-data company acquired in 2021. The combination gives marketers greater accuracy in reaching target audiences based on identifiers such as an internet address. “A big part of the acquisition of Neustar was the technology platform under […]

GroupM this week named Sharb Farjami as chief executive officer for North America. He previously was North America CEO for Wavemaker, another agency owned by holding company WPP. Beet.TV caught up with Farjami in the lead-up to the Cannes International Festival of Creativity in this video. He helped to establish Wavemaker as the leading performer […]

LAS VEGAS — As 2024 hots up following a long winter, many media and advertising executives will be gathering in Florida for the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting (ALM), running January 28 to 30. David Cohen, CEO, IAB, says: “The goal of ALM is to set the agenda for the industry for the coming year.” A […]

LAS VEGAS – Omnicom Media Group named Joanna O’Connell to the newly created role of chief intelligence officer, North America, where she will oversee the media agency’s team that provides actionable insights to advertisers. “With her two decades of experience in helping brands understand, manage and monetize the next new thing, Joanna is singularly qualified […]