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At the  BrightRoll video summit in Manhattan during Advertising Week, we were struck by the large number of investment bankers, hedge fund private  investors in the attendance.  Digital video, and programmatic in particular, is on Wall Street’s radar screen with recent IPO’s and large M&A transactions, says Tod Sacredoti, CEO of BrightRoll, in this interview […]

Colin Kinsella, who joined WPP as the CEO of Mindshare, NA  this July from Digitas where he was CEO for North America, has been a leader in the movement to “real-time” marketing where agencies and their brands engage with consumers around scheduled and breaking news events. In November, we interviewed him in Monaco about the […]

The Kellogg Company is one of the first big brands to embrace programmatic buying.  It is implementing its solution with BrightRoll, Google and Yahoo serving as its DSP partners, says Bob Arnold, Director of Digital and Social Media Strategy at Kellogg, in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him at the BrightRoll Video Summit […]

While many in the media world think  that creativity in advertising has taken a back seat to the emergence of technology, Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the IAB,  the industry organization for digital publishers, says that creativity is flourishing.  Several creative shops were recognized at the IAB MIXX Awards on Tuesday night. We spoke with him […]

The AOL Programmatic Upfront event on Monday night was a “physical manifestation” of the media  industry’s move to a data-driven, technology-focused means of operations, says Kristi Argyilan, CEO of Magna Global, the media agency of the Interpublic Group. We interviewed her at AOL event where she was a speaker in the program.  

As the medium is maturing, spending on digital video is hitting double digits from some her media agency clients, says Amanda Richman president of Starcom, in this interview with Beet.TV.  In this video interview, she discusses the evolution of real-time marketing, branded entertainment and the growth of the digital video marketplace. We spoke at the […]

In an unusual move by a leading publisher, AOL is making its premium, ‘reserved” inventory available via its programmatic platform, the company announced last night at its “Programmatic Upfront” event in Manhattan. To get an update on the new product announcement, we spoke with Seth Demsey,  SVP at AOL Networks. More on the AOL initiative […]

With few international news organizations on the ground in Syria, the world’s news broadcasters have had to rely on amateur video footage to report on the war.   Verifying the sources and managing the rights around much of that footage is being done by a small start-up in Dublin called Storyful. In today’s New York Times, […]

NowThis News, a New York-based video news start-up, has launched a channel on Instagram, the company announced today.    The year-0ld company, which creates and distributes short video news updates on current news, is thought to be the first news organization to use Instagram to distribute video clips. The Instagram clips are limited to 15 seconds […]

CANNES – The lower costs of production are starting to change the creative approach to video for a number of marketers, says Rich Guest, President US Operations at Tribal Worldwide during an interview with Beet.TV. “For under $10,000 we can produce a great piece of content that can be cut a lot of different ways. The cost to […]

On June 27, CrowdFlik announced the launch of their new, free app that allows users to create and share custom edits of event-driven, crowd-sourced video. Beet.TV spoke with Chris Hamer, CEO and Founder of CrowdFlik, about the launch at our New York studio earlier in June. “We’ve simplified it down to its bits and bytes,” […]

CANNES – Microsoft believes its Xbox game console can take marketers’ messages to consumers beyond gaming’s traditional hardcore audience. “The fastest-growing demographic on Xbox today is females aged 18 to 39, who happen to be the chief decision-makers on purchases in most households around the world,” Microsoft’s advertising and online corporate VP Frank Holland said. […]

LONDON –  While second screen apps for TV shows can have a big and immediate  impact, their use is fleeting, and the industry needs a more standard approach, says Simon Daglish, Group Commercial Director at Britain’s ITV  network in this segment from recent Beet.TV leadership event at GroupM’s offices. For the app for “Britain’s Got […]

At the Digitas NewFront event last week, the Huffington Post and Digitas announced an arrangement by which the agency can activate real-time, native advertising cmapaigns on HuffPost Live within two hours, says Arianna Huffington in this interview with Beet.TV. We spoke with her briefly at the Digitas NewFront event after her presentation, and just as […]

Digitas, the big digital agency that started the NewFronts six years ago, has seen a dramatic growth in the marketplace for Web original video and an expansion of its industry event to now include over a dozen big content producers including AOL, Conde Nast, Google/YouTube, Hulu, Microsoft, Vevo, Yahoo and others. With the explosion of […]

LONDON – SoundCloud, the Berlin-based sound sharing site, sees 10 hours of audio uploaded by users every minute, says Eric Wahlforss, Founder and CTO.  “It’s very much like YouTube or Instagram,” says Wahlforss. “On Instagram you share a photo, on YouTube you share video, on SoundCloud you share audio.” Beet.TV spoke with Wahlforss in this video […]

LONDON – For zeebox, the free “TV sidekick” app, being available for Android devices has been a longtime desire – and a challenge, says Anthony Rose, co-founder and CTO of zeebox. Beet.TV spoke with him in this video interview in London. Statistics show that there are more Android smartphones than iPhones in the U.S. – […]

Bravo was ranked tops in recognizing and showing appreciation for its viewers, with 91% of the network’s viewers saying it offers an outlet for them to express their thoughts on shows, according to NBCU Cable’s Viewer’s Voice research panel. We spoke with Bravo’s EVP Digital Media, Lisa Hsia, at a recent Beet.TV event when she […]

CANNES – The incredible scale of Rovio’s Angry Birds in mobile gaming is also translating in to healthy video content adoption, according to Brightcove, the vendor picked to serve the franchise’s new online cartoon series. “The service launched three of four weeks ago,” Brightcove’s EMEA VP of media, Luke Gaydon, told Beet.TV in this interview. […]

The real-time bidding segment of online video is on track to hit $686 million in ad spend this year, but the business still faces a number of challenges on its route to growth, according to a new report released today from Forrester.  At the Beet.TV retreat earlier this year, Ashley Swartz, the founder and CEO […]