CANNES — In a world where AI will generate a huge quantity of suspect and synthetic information, the risk to advertisers of a faulty adjacency would seem to grow. But some vendors are using AI to fight AI, and nowhere more so than in brand safety. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Craig Ziegler, SVP of Product at Integral Ad Science (IAS), [...]

CANNES — Solving the identity puzzle for digital advertising comes down to unraveling human behavior at multiple levels - households, people, devices, and profiles. But untangling those threads is a complex challenge that requires sophisticated technology and algorithms In this video interview with Beet.TV, says Dror Ben Yishai, CTO of Intent IQ explains his approach. Clustering for Identity "We've developed a lot of technology [...]

CANNES – Artificial intelligence is shaping the way media and marketing professionals do their jobs, giving them tools to enhance the look and feel of advertising. “It's been incredibly transformative, especially over this last year,” Andrew Slater, vice president of enterprise sales at Celtra, said in this interview with Lisa Granatstein, editorial director of Beet.TV, at the Cannes Lions International Festival [...]

CANNES — Retail media networks are expanding their offsite capabilities by partnering with social platforms, offering advertisers extended audience reach and engagement. Panelists highlighted the importance of data foundations, privacy-safe collaboration, and diverse ad experiences in driving value for consumers. While measurement fragmentation remains a challenge, new technologies are enabling more granular insights across channels. Panel: The Importance of Offsite Retail Media [...]

AMENIA, NY — As cookies disappear and mobile identifiers fade, connected TV is becoming an exciting platform for advertisers to achieve real business outcomes. That is leading Roku, a pioneer in streaming TV, to focus on more performance-based advertising as the medium matures - and as ad dollars continue to shift from traditional TV. "Where we think the future of performance in [...]

As privacy changes limit one-to-one targeting, political campaigns are turning to behavioral and contextual data to reach voters through programmatic advertising, says Daria Grastara, CEO of Direct Persuasion, in this video interview with Beet.TV. "We used to do the traditional way of signing IOs, going publisher direct," Grastara says. "We've really turned to SSP world and relying on an audience strategy [...]

CANNES -- In a world where consumers engage with content and make purchases across a myriad of devices and channels, businesses face the daunting challenge of stitching together fragmented data signals to understand the full customer journey. "Identity resolution is a set of technologies or capabilities that can stitch these signals together into notions of people or households or even businesses [...]

CANNES — AI-powered brand safety tools are evolving to help marketers navigate the complex landscape of digital content adjacency. Panelists highlighted the need to balance performance, scale and brand protection while accommodating different risk appetites. As platforms rapidly innovate, brands must stay informed about new features and capabilities to ensure strategies remain suitable. Overall, the industry is working toward simplifying brand [...]

CANNES — Retail media networks are evolving into broader commerce media strategies, but the industry is still grappling with how to maximize value. Daniella Harkins discussed challenges around data collaboration, measurement standards, and budget allocation across networks. While clean room technology enables privacy-compliant data sharing, companies need to focus on finding the right partners and use cases. Looking ahead, she [...]

Outbrain on Thursday said it agreed to buy video advertising platform Teads from Altice International in a $1 billion deal that will create a digital media platform reaching 2 billion consumers worldwide. “It’s a real a transformational deal,” David Kostman, chief executive of Outbrain, said in this video interview with Beet.TV contributor Rob Williams. “The two companies are really best-in-class in [...]

Political campaigns are turning to addressable TV advertising to complement their traditional linear and digital ad buys, allowing them to target specific households with tailored messages. "Addressable gives them the opportunity to match that test different creatives with predictable household data or their own data to really make sure their message is landing in the way they want it to," says [...]

CANNES — Panelists at the Global Leadership Summit: Streaming TV & Digital Video discussed how aligning ad emotions with content sentiment can significantly improve CTV advertising effectiveness. Research suggests matching ad emotions to programming context can yield 2-3x performance lifts. While some industry resistance exists, data-driven results are convincing brands to consider emotions-based targeting. Panelists stressed the importance of focusing on consumer [...]

After making a splash with its retail media network, Albertsons Media Collective has set its sights on applying the principles to TV. As it does, the company is aiming to upgrade processes and bring standardization. "We've invested in quite a lot into our systems and structures to ensure that our first party data is really optimized in a way that makes it [...]

The shift of addressable data to the cloud is creating a new environment for connected TV and streaming data to come together with brands' and agencies' audience data, says Gareth Davies of TransUnion. This cloud-based approach can facilitate better overlap forecasting, audience segmentation, targeting and measurement, he explains in this video interview with Beet.TV. "What's exciting there is it's creating a new [...]

CANNES — In a world where cookies are crumbling, IP addresses are being suppressed, and mobile identifiers are being blocked, first-party data has emerged as the new currency for creating personalized experiences. It's an avenue for collaboration among partners to surprise and delight users and customers, according to Mike Petrella, MD of Strategic Partnerships at Kinective Media by United Airlines. In this [...]

CANNES — In an afternoon panel, industry leaders discuss how retail media drive results for consumer packaged goods brands. Retail media helps shoppers discover, engage with, experience and purchase brands. This landscape creates a new canvas for building brands, meeting consumers where they are with highly relevant experiences that establish brand value and deliver sales growth. Brand Fuel: Building CPG Brands [...]

CANNES – Retailers that sell advertising typically have deep troves of consumer data to help brands make better decisions about whom to target in campaigns. Their retail media networks can deliver improved results when combined with social media, such as the photo-messaging app Snapchat. “Pretty much every retail media network, every manufacturer that we deal with, they are exceptionally ROI-driven,” John [...]

CANNES — For retail media networks looking to leverage data collaboration for commerce, the world looks full of opportunity - and increasing complexity. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Frederick Stanichev, VP Sales at LiveInsights, LiveRamp, says companies are looking to move forward. "One best practice, one thing that we see now emerging more and more is about simplification," he says. "So basically [...]

Consumers are gaining more control over how their personal information are shared with brands, pushing marketers get the most out of contextual advertising – or placing ads next to content that’s most likely to engage a target audience. Advances in artificial intelligence are helping to strengthen contextual signals amid this shift. “The evolution of how we go about buying contextually has [...]

CANNES — Brands must build creative for TikTok itself in order to drive attention and outcomes on the platform, says TikTok's head of global marketing science. "Build for the platform," says Jorge Ruiz, Global Head of Marketing Science at TikTok, in this video interview with Beet.TV. "If you do a TV spot, it's going to work on a TV campaign. You do [...]