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COLOGNE – Sky’s AdSmart addressable ad program, launched nearly two years ago,  has served ads to  satellite-connected TV’s for nearly 500 advertisers, including some 70 percent who hadn’t been on Sky or indeed on television, explains Jamie West, Deputy Managing Director, SkyMedia, in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him on the DMEXCO show floor […]

London-based Unruly, a social video advertising platform, sold for $176 million dollars, it was announced on Wednesday.  In May in New York, we spoke with co-founder and co-ceo Sarah Wood about the company’s products and growth.  We have republished that video today.

Facebook’s Instagram unit has announced a range of new advertising units including a 30-second video ad unit and a premium product called “Marquee” which allows brand to “own” a prime position in the Instagram feed, explains Patrick Harris Global Agency Development lead at Facebook,  in this video interview. He says that advertising on Instagram is launching in […]

For marketers who still have the instinct to use repurposed TV spots for their digital video ads, mobile video remains challenging. It represents a form factor many haven’t figured out. “You have to rethink how you’re telegraphing [your] message and how you’re telling a story in as little as six seconds” or keeping it interesting […]

Despite the rapid pace of media and technology innovation, Procter & Gamble’s former top marketer Jim Stengel observes that the fundamentals of brand building haven’t changed. “A lot of companies lose sight of that,” says Stengel, who left P&G in 2008, in an interview with Beet.TV. “They get consumed by the activity that is possible now, […]

Integral Ad Science, the New York-based tech company that describes itself as  “the leader in quantifying digital media quality” has raised $67 million: $27 million in venture funding from Sapphire Ventures and $40 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank. In this previously published video, company CEO Scott Knoll talks about  how the company […]

Going back a decade, when Millward Brown’s annual BrandZ study tracking the 100 most valuable global brands was first released, only one Chinese company made the list. Now there are 14, including the tech giants Tencent and Alibaba. “Most of them are big brands, but they’re not truly globalized brands yet,” says Doreen Wang, Global […]

CHICAGO — Roughly 45% of display ads in the U.S. are now bought programmatically, and that’s much too big for programmatic buying to be considered a specialization anymore. For that reason, VivaKi’s AOD trading desk has been moving programmatic specialists over to client teams at Publicis Groupe’s media agencies. “It makes sense that we would […]

Storyful, acquired by News Corp in 2013, has for several years been an authoritative tool for leading publishers to find and verifying consumer-generate and various forms of social content.  It has expanded its reach to the advertising world with an agreement with the the giant media agency Starcom MediaVest Group.  The alliance was announced last month. We […]

One of the major themes of 2015 is viewability, says Erin Kienest, SVP, innovation and activation director at SMG. “We talk about making our dollars work harder and work smarter, and viewability really is brought to the forefront,” she says. Marketers not only want their ads delivered to the right audience but also want to […]

The next revolution in media is going to have to occur in the world of creative, says Shenan Reed, president of digital at MEC. “We think there’s tremendous opportunity for more creative, more targeted creative,” she says. “We can really get granular with all of the targeting.” Digital and data, because they’ve become such powerful […]

Last week’s acquisition of SeriousEats and RoadFood by newcomer publishing house Fexy Media was just the start. Formed by husband-and-wide team Cliff and Lisa Sharples following Lisa’s steering, as CEO, of AllRecipes to a $175 million acquisition by Meredith, Seattle-based Fexy plans more acquisitions of its own. “We continue to build out the category in and around the kitchen table,” […]

Visible World, a pioneering video adtech firm that helps marketers deliver ads to specific household cable and satellite boxes, will be acquired by Comcast, according a report published by the Wall Street Journal. Last year, we spoke with founder and CEO Seth Haberman about the company and the prospects for “addressable” television.   We have […]

Mobile video advertising is pricing at half of what it should be says Greg Stuart, CEO of the Mobile Marketing Association, in this interview with Beet.TV.  He cites data from a just completed two year, $2 million research study undertaken by the MMA with several big brands.   Unlike other forms of digital video, supply outpaces […]

The recently concluded Digital Content NewFronts stood out for both an array of quality, sophisticated programming and for the new opportunity to buy audiences programmatically, says Julian Zilberbrand,EVP Activation Standards, Insights and Technology for Zenith OptiMedia, in this interview with Beet.TV

As CEO’s of leading adtech companies along with institutional and strategic investors gather for  LUMA Partners’ annual one-day conference in Manhattan next week, there will surely be talk on and off the stage about the the acquisition of AOL by Verizon.   Leading off the conference will be a keynote address by AOL CEO and Chairman Tim […]

Native advertising has become a central focus for revenue at The New York Times, according Chief Revenue Officer Meredith Levien in this profile article in Digiday. And, video has become an integral part of the solution says Sebastian Tomich, SVP for Advertising and Innovation and head of the publisher’s native advertising unit, in this interview with […]

At its NewFront presentation on Thursday, Time Inc. announced a slate of eleven new programs.   It also announced a syndication agreement with Amazon Video Shorts, along with alliances with radio, TV and local newspapers groups Cumulus, Gannett and Nextstar Broadcasting. After the presentation, we interviewed J.R. McCabe, SVP for Video at Time Inc. about the new slate of […]

From full-length, TV-style video produced by Yahoo to six-second Vines, the opportunities around digital video is diverse and promising. The medium has come of age and marketers need to embrace it, says Scott Donaton, Chief Content Officer of DigitasLBi, in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him at the Yahoo NewFront event on Monday evening […]

We spoke with Michael Kassan, CEO of the powerhouse media consultancy MediaLink, at the Monday morning kick-off event for the Digital Content NewFronts, hosted by MediaLink and sponsored by Videology. Kassan says while the NewFronts has “come of age” and has taken its place in importance with the TV upfronts, the two-week duration with nearly […]