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How Retail Media Networks Win-Win-Win: McKinsey’s Huang
Not so long ago, retailers were merely the advertisers. Now, in the world of ecommerce, they have become the ad network, too. That is why more and more ecommerce operators are transforming into ad destinations. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jess Huang, Partner, McKinsey & Co., explains the trend could soon turn into a […]
Marketers Are Demanding More Actionable Metrics for TV: Samba TV’s Cole Strain
The major shift in people’s television viewing habits between traditional linear television and streaming video has challenged advertisers and media companies to measure that activity more accurately. Marketers are demanding metrics that help them to avoid oversaturating some media channels while neglecting others. “It’s clear that advertisers are having a problem seeing this in their […]
Mediaocean’s Goldman Sets Sail For 2022 Ad Growth
For Mediaocean, 2022 may have started with the cancellation of its planned big events at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But, after quickly pivoting to digital delivery, the company is forecasting ad buyers, too, will be leaning into new channels. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Mediaocean chief marketing officer Aaron Goldman explains what […]
LoopMe Mulls M&A, IPO & New Products After $120 Million Funding Round
LONDON — LoopMe, an outcomes-based advertising platform, plans several new outcomes for itself, after taking a big $120 million funding round. The new money comes from Mayfair Equity Partners and values LoopMe at $200 million. Previous rounds had totalled $32.2 million, according to Crunchbase. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Stephen Upstone, CEO and Founder, […]
NBCUniversal Joins Alt-Currency Movement, Taps iSpot.tv For Next Upfront
January 2022 is shaping up to herald a Cambrian explosion of new video currencies. NBCUniversal says it has picked iSpot.tv as its first cross-platform Certified Measurement Partner for cross-screen video, starting with a “test-and-learn” approach for the “alternative currency” with Publicis Media this Q1. That will lead to “massive pilots” for the 2022 Olympic Winter […]
NBCUniversal, RTL AdConnect Team To Jointly Sell Global Ad Inventory
Global TV and digital ad buyers that want to buy across international borders are getting a leg-up from a partnership between the US’ NBCUniversal and Europe’s RTL AdConnect. Announced today, the partnership will help NBCUniversal offer its advertising customers the ability to extend their ad footprint internationally, by representing what RTL AdConnect calls its Total […]
‘True Interoperability’: Dentsu’s Stockton Taps VideoAmp To Measure ViacomCBS
Pilots have begun in which the ad agency Dentsu will test using VideoAmp metrics, not Nielsen or Comscore, to measure ViacomCBS viewership. It is one more way in which media and agency businesses are looking for an alternative to traditional measurement. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Brad Stockton, SVP, US National Video Innovation, Dentsu, […]
NBC’s ‘Big Leap Forward’: ‘NBCUnified’ Data On 200M+ Consumers
The company had already streamlined its considerable ad sales offering as ertising/oneplatform/. Now NBCUniversal is consolidating the under-the-hood data that powers it all. In this video interview with Beet.TV, John Lee, Chief Data Officer, NBCUniversal, details the company’s newly-launched data platform, dubbed “NBCUnified”. Data difference The new NBCUnified platform comprises NBCU ID, Data Marketplace and […]
IAS CEO Utzschneider Welcomes 2022 With New “Context”
Having raised $270 million from an IPO in 2021, ad verification company Integral Ad Science (IAS) is continuing an acquisition trail designed to accelerate key growth areas. The company has acquired Context, a Paris-based digital content classification company. Here is is the press release. In this video interview with Beet.TV, IAS CEO Lisa Utzschneider explains […]
‘The Empowerment Moment’: Samsung Ads Lets Brands Plug Own Data Into Smart TV
More brands are coming to recognize the potential of connected TV ads – targeted planning, buying and even measurement of consequential outcomes, on an engaging screen. But, in the era of first-party data, how can they bring their own customer and prospect data to the party? Samsung Ads is launching Samsung Onboarding Partner Program, to […]
Criteo’s IPONWEB Acquisition Fuels First-Party, Open-Internet Future: CEO Clarken
PARIS – If Criteo wanted to build itself a bridge to the post-cookie future, it could do worse than acquiring the company that built much of contemporary ad-tech. That’s what the French company is aiming to do with its proposed $380 million of IPONWEB. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Criteo CEO Megan Clarken explains […]
Univision’s Lin Can Tie TV Ad Outcomes To Search Behavior
Brian Lin can see the future – but the broadcast executive is helping advertisers act on it today. The SVP of product management and advanced advertising at Hispanic broadcaster Univision just unveiled a new way for advertisers to understand the likely success of particular inventory moments, before they buy the ads. In this video interview […]
EDO’s Krim Helps Univision Advertisers Predict The Future
These days, the business environment is becoming too critical to leave the results of marketing spend to chance. That is why so many ad buyers are leaning into publishers that can guarantee them outcomes. In the latest example, Spanish-language broadcaster Univision will get to tell its advertisers the likely success of particular inventory moments, after […]
First-Party Data Drive Better Audience Targeting: Disney’s Lisa Valentino
Personal information that consumers consent to provide to businesses have become much more valuable as privacy restrictions limit the sharing of data. Disney Advertising Sales has a trove of first-party data to help marketers improve their targeting among its different media platforms. “The opportunity is to become a lot more sophisticated and specific about the […]
It’s Going to Bigger Than Social: Dentsu’s Doug Ray on the Massive Opportunity in Gaming for Marketers
Very happy to welcome back to the show Doug Ray, who holds the title Chief Product Officer, dentsu Americas & Global Media We’ve covered Doug for a number of years and he’s always innovating, seeing what’s next and leading the industry. In his role he is deeply involved with the changing the media landscape. One […]
Hybrid Work Drives Need for Stronger Ties: Covalent’s David Lobo – New Platform to Connect Beet.TV’s Global Community
Millions of people this year have quit their jobs, a trend that has been described as “the Great Resignation,” as the economy adapts to a “new normal”. The transition to remote work has loosened the ties that people feel toward their workplace, challenging organizations to develop stronger relationships among employees. “The ‘new normal’ is a […]
Interoperable Identity Graphs Are Future of Consumer Data: Infutor’s Kevin Dean
Marketers and media owners are looking for ways to get the most out of consumer data amid changes to privacy laws and growing restraints on online audience tracking. They can unlock the value of their data by breaking down siloes within their organizations, making the information more interoperable. Consumer identity management company Infutor seeks to […]
Addressable TV Delivers Results for Linear and CTV Advertisers: WarnerMedia’s Jason Brown
Television advertising is on the cusp of becoming more targeted on national cable and broadcast networks, giving marketers more control over the reach and frequency of their biggest campaigns. This addressability will support linear TV advertisers that want to engage focused audience groups and connected TV (CTV) advertisers that are looking for greater scale across […]
Snowflake’s Stratton Puts Ad Data Processes In The Cloud
The modern digital advertising industry has a difficult decision point, with many executives wanting to heed the new privacy imperative whilst nevertheless sharing that audience data with third-party data companies. That dualism would seem to be intractable – but Bill Stratton doesn’t think so. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the global head of media, […]
VideoAmp’s Inscape Extension Is The Collaboration We Need: Chakalos
Piece by piece, ad-tech companies and others are solving what has become a spaghetti soup of TV systems, by integrating their infrastructure. In the latest example, VideoAmp has extended a deal through which it uses data from 18 million VIZIO smart TVs for planning, measurement and TV ad sales. In this video interview with Beet.TV, […]