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WASHINGTON, DC — If you just have to be at the next Donald Trump rally, The Washington Post back have your back. The newspaper now publishes not just regular 2D video but is also shooting video in 360-degree format from certain key events, like Democratic and Republican election rallies. In this 2D video interview, WaPo strategic […]

Video ad tech vendor Teads has already made waves for introducing auto-playing video ads in between text paragraphs – in its words, “inventing” the so-called “outstream” format. Now it is set to offer interactive video ad units, too, by acquiring Brainient of the UK. The acquisition is announced on Monday. Terms are not. But Brainient’s […]

Just because we sell intangible goods or ‘time’ and space, media is not that different from other industries. More importantly, many of the challenges we are facing in today’s media enterprises, and the resulting competencies we must develop, take a page out of other industry handbooks. Inventory management is one. Inventory management or yield management […]

In the battle between apps and the web, the web is fighting back. Having already introduced Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) to speed up loading experience, Google has also launched Progressive Web Apps (PWA), a collection of technologies to make entire sites behave more like native apps. And that development may bring a big boost to […]

Although the term programmatic is often thought of as merely automation via digital plumbing, “We believe there’s a lot of strategy in programmatic,” particularly for political advertising campaigns, says Erik Requidan of Intermarkets and The Drudge Report. Requidan and other specialists will share their insights on the advertising campaign trail at Election 2016: The Future of […]

So-called “programmatic” technologies are revolutionizing the trading and targeting of online ads. But what about the content of those ads? Many ad-tech vendors, who have spent the last few years touting programmatic’s numerical capabilities, are now battling over its next wave – the chance to use programmatic in the actual construction of ads themselves. “When you think about programmatic advertising […]

Advertisers and agencies were the first to embrace data to plan and measure the results of television and video advertising campaigns. But with MVPD’s and content publishers experiencing “consumption fragmentation” across devices other than television screens, media companies are now getting on board. “That’s where the business is heading,” says Scott Ferber, Chairman and CEO […]

There is much talk in the industry about whether so-called “programmatic” technologies, which are revolutionizing internet display and video advertising, will come to ye olde TV any time soon. Despite many hurdles in the way, one ad-tech vendor says the prospect is already “very real”. “The market today is $700m and is going to grow to […]

Analyst and insight firm eMarketer expects to ramp up European and Asian expansion whilst seeking synergies with its new owner’s media properties, following its recent acquisition by Axel Springer, says co-founder Geoff Ramsey. “(Springer) has the resources and wherewithal to help us from a content coverage standpoint and, probably more importantly, from a sales perspective,” Ramsey tells […]

One of the bigger anomalies in the digital world is the time that people spend on mobile devices versus the less than 15% of digital ad dollars that are being devoted to mobile. The CEO of WPP Group-owned Medialets attributes this largely to people trying to use desktop computer tools for mobile campaigns. “It’s a […]

In a world where TV ad-buying is also moving online, the future of trading is evolving toward digital measurements. On that basis, one video ad-tech vendor says it is helping bring the traditional and oft-derided criteria of audience demographics in to the digital age. Videology says it recently improved its ability to help advertisers target audiences using demographic, by harnessing data […]

Once upon a time, using social for online publishing was all about signposting stories in the hope readers would come to read them on your own website or app. Now we live in a world in which publishers are happy distributing their content itself through social platforms – at least, before Facebook’s recent algorithm change. A […]

“Winter” hasn’t come for ad-tech yet. The investment in video technology vendors keeps coming, even if the role of venture investors appears to be changing. Enterprise and education video technology platform Kaltura is taking a $50m investment from Goldman Sachs – the largest of seven rounds now totalling $166m, according to Crunchbase. The outfit announces it wants […]

When Teads and French vendor Ebuzzing merged in 2014, the combined pair said they planned to acquire other firms. Three rounds of financing later, and the outfit looks set to do just that. The company, which helps publishers deliver auto-playing video ads between text paragraphs, just secured €43m ($47m) in debt financing from a syndicate of five banks. […]

While brands are expending considerable resources to reach the right consumer at the right time with advertising messages, once they reach those people “they’re still saying the same thing,” according to Victor Wong, the CEO of Thunder, a creative management platform. A software-as-a-service provider, Thunder did a survey with a major digital advertising exchange showing […]

Teads, one of the principal video “outstream” ad platforms, is introducing 360 video to its product suite, says Jim Daily, president, U.S. operations, in this interview with Beet.TV He says it is the first time that 360 videos will be served as ad units across premium publisher sites such as Conde Nast, Time Inc. and the Washington Post. […]

With the acquisition of ConvertMedia, an outstream video supply side platform, Taboola is moving to become a giant video platform, soon competing with the likes of SnapChat, Facebook and YouTube, says Adam Singolda, CEO of Taboola, in this interview taped in his Manhattan headquarters on Tuesday afternoon. With the acquisition of ConvertMedia, the company is […]

Not quite a decade ago, Experian was an integral player in the first test of addressable television advertising. Now, brand marketers are asking the information services provider to take them “beyond addressable TV” to coordinated, cross-channel targeting and advertising campaign measurement. How to achieve success along the way will be one of many topics of […]

First, it was a letterbox. Then, it was vertical. But is the future of video actually… square? Zohar Dayan thinks so. He’s the CEO of Wibbitz, a company helping publishers make videos out of text articles. And, when it comes to distributing those videos through social media, one format wins “Eighty-five percent of the most shared videos on […]

LAS VEGAS –The term “paid plus co-op sort of mentality” could well describe a mountain commune, but it’s an understated way of explaining the huge data nexus that Experian Marketing Services and Neustar hope to become under their new partnership. Among other things, advertisers will be able to pool their data for mutual benefit. In […]