Working with brands closely on digital programming requires a fine balance, says digital superstar Felicia Day, who launched four shows on a new YouTube channel earlier this month. Beet.TV connected with Day at the Digitas NewFront in New York this week to talk about her YouTube channel and what it takes to be successful with sponsors.
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Click To Play YouTube, which has offered an advertising revenue sharing opportunity to about 100 "qualified" partners, meaning "established" content creators like Ford Models, Rocketboom and Beet.TV, is now offering advertising participation to vast range of content creators. Update: 2:00 PM EST: Ad revenue will split on a CPM basis with "a majority" of the […]
In 2024, AI in advertising moved from hypothetical to real-world adoption – but how did it play out? One agency, Dentsu, says it is getting a big lift from an AI partnership with Microsoft Advertising. “Our vision is to make AI an integral part of how we solve problems, whether it’s analyzing data more effectively, […]
In the immersive world of Roblox, gamers come for entertainment and connection with friends. But the platform is also proving to be a new tool for creators and advertisers alike. A recent study found that over the past seven years, more than 18,000 creator jobs have been generated through Roblox. “Roblox offers a whole suite […]
For Digitas North America’s Megan Jones, contextual AI is unlocking a new era in which brands can engage audiences with unprecedented relevance. Context has always been a key consideration for advertisers. But, whilst context used to be somewhat up to interpretation, AI is now supercharging marketers’ ability to understand it. “It’s a pretty empowering moment […]
Generative artificial intelligence has been popularized in the past couple of years by apps such as ChatGPT, which can quickly generate responses to questions in everyday language. In the realm of advertising, gen AI is having a profound effect on marketing and creative processes. This discussion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity focuses […]
CANNES — Celtra, Annalect and PXP (Fallon) executives highlighted AI’s growing role in streamlining creative workflows, from background removal to predictive asset generation. While AI tools are accelerating ideation and client approvals, panelists emphasized the continued importance of human creativity and craftsmanship. Challenges remain around image quality, talent protection, and IP ownership. Though AI adoption […]
CANNES – Marketers have sought to continually refine their abilities to detect when their digital advertising is seen or spurs an interaction with a consumer. Validating these interactions is an important step toward measuring consumer attention to ads, as digital ad company Infillion has found. “We’re seeing a lot of companies that are saying, ‘An […]
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, […]
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 […]
CANNES – Going on a trip typically immerses consumers in multiple steps of planning, researching, budgeting, booking and finally setting off. Each stage of this consumer journey is an opportunity for brands to create a shoppable moment for a highly engaged audience. “We look at the travel journey as really fluid across all of the […]
CANNES — The emergence of generative AI could revolutionize how brands create and target ads in connected TV (CTV), according to one of the world’s largest snack companies. Mondelēz International, whose brands include Oreo, Cadbury and Trident, has been impressed at the development of CTV advertising capabilities over the last couple of years. “At Mondelēz, we […]
CANNES – Retailers that sell advertising make up a fast-growing part of the media marketplace. Drugstore chain CVS Pharmacy’s CVS Media Exchange, or CMX, recently began collaborating with demand-side platform The Trade Desk for self-service media buying. “Connected innovation for us is really at the center of everything that we do. It really bridges how […]
CANNES – The automated buying and selling of digital advertising can be frustrating for marketers who want to ensure their media spending generates results. Some of these challenges are evident in the programmatic marketplace for connected-television advertising. “The number one thing that we find that comes up from a buyer perspective is transparency,” Michael Kuntz, […]
CANNES — Just 18 months since its inception, generative AI has rapidly evolved from a topic of excitement and possibility to a tool being actively experimented with and implemented by the advertising community. “Last year at this time, generative AI was only six months old. And so people were talking about the possibilities, the potential, the […]
CANNES — Mastercard’s marketers have long favored an experiential approach to branding. Now they are adding artificial intelligence into the mix. In this video interview with Beet.TV editorial director Lisa Granatstein, Cheryl Guerin, EVP of Global Brand Strategy & Innovation at Mastercard, explains the company’s new innovations. Adding AI for Creativity Guerin emphasizes the importance […]
CANNES – Retailers that sell advertising make up one of the fastest-growing parts of the media marketplace. Drugstore chain CVS Pharmacy in 2020 set up a retail media network called CVS Media Exchange, or CMX, to provide marketers with a way to reach audiences based on their product searches and membership in its loyalty program. […]
CANNES – Households that connect their televisions to the internet enter a digital world filled with a growing number of streaming-video apps. The publishers of those apps are seeking ways to achieve the highest sales of advertising from the automated, or programmatic, marketplace of sell-side platforms (SSPs) and demand-side platforms (DSPs). “There is a lot […]