Cox’s Videa Unit in TV Ad Automation Pact with Videology

LAS VEGAS, Videa, a Cox-owned supply-side platform bringing automation and data-driven decision-making to broadcast television, has entered into a multi-year partnership agreement with Videology, a leading software provider for converged TV and video advertising, to enable media buyers to programmatically plan, buy and report on television advertising. The deal was announced this week at the […]

Xaxis Joins Beet.TV for Video Series of Industry Influencers

Beet.TV has begun production of a 50-part series of personal interviews with noted advertising and media luminaries. These will be short videos of individuals who have impacted the course of the industry. Titled the “Media Revolutionaries,” the series is being co-produced with WPP’s Xaxis unit. David J. Moore, President of WPP Digital and Chairman of […]

Total Transparency Can Hinder Ads: Xaxis’ Moore

COLOGNE — Ad buyers are increasingly calling for outright and advance understanding over where they place ads. But, in the data frenzy, you can know too much, suggests WPP’s Xaxis chairman David Moore. “There’s a lot of misconception about transparency,” he tells Videology CEO Scott Ferber in this video interview at DMEXCO for Beet.TV. “A lot […]

RTL-SpotXchange Deal Validates Programmatic: SpotXchange’s Merwin

COLOGNE  — Programmatic video ad tech platform SpotXchange says its sale of a stake to broadcast group RTL is a “huge validation” of the space, as it aims to take the new-wave ad-trading techniques to a much wider audience. “We’ve got better control, better insights – but we’re only touching less than a tenth of the total pie […]

A Record 30,000 Digital Media Execs Headed to Germany for DMEXCO

COLOGNE, Germany – A record 30,000 attendees will listen to over 200 speakers and see the offerings  some 800 exhibitors at next week’s DMEXCO, the tw0-day global conference of the digital media world in Cologne, Germany. At Cannes in June, we spoke with DMEXCO co-founder Christian Muche about this year’s agenda and the rising attraction […]

Cannes Lions 2104: We’re all “Marketing in a Digital World,” Simulmedia’s Dave Morgan

While digital media has been  part of the conversation at the annual Cannes Lions Festival for some five years, the digital revolution means that the industry is now operating in a  pervasive, digital world.  Not just using digital marketing, we are “marketing in a digital world,” says Dave Morgan CEO of Simulmedia, in this interview […]

Television Advertising at a Turning Point: a Beet.TV Leadership Summit at Cannes Lions Presented by Simulmedia and Videology

With data and technology driving the delivery of targeted television ads across multiple screens, the emerging opportunities for brands are far-reaching.   This topic will be explored in a high-level leadership summit during the Cannes Lions Festival.   The session will be comprised of 8 speakers including advertising agency executives, brand marketers and technology providers. […]

Videology CEO: 2014 Is The Year Of Addressable TV Ads

The year ahead is finally the one in which TV advertisers can target specific viewers, thanks to online targeting, predicts one ad tech vendor. “The promise of addressable television, which has been worked on for over a decade, actually will begin to take off in 2014 in a major way,” Videology CEO Scott Ferber tells […]

AOL’s Rechtman on Sees Vast Video Inventory in the Social Graph

The online advertising business would greatly benefit from technology that curates scoally shared  content and identifies the content that can be monetized with ads. That’s the conclusion of Rene Rechtman, CEO of Goviral and Senior VP AOL Advertising Group International during a panel session at the recent Monaco Media Forum covering inventory challenges.

Heading to Monaco: Exploring the Value of Digital Video with Alphabird, AOL, GlibHippo and Videology

Very pleased to be heading to Monaco this week where I'll be moderating a panel on the changing valuation of digital video with Alphabird CEO Chase Norlin,  Videology CEO Scott Ferber,  Josh Mortensen MD and founder of Denmark's GlibHippo and René Rechtman/CEO, of London's Goviral & SVP International AOL Advertising Group.