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SAN FRANCISCO – Samba.tv, the company whose software reports TV viewing behavior from millions of American devices, says it has to change tack to cope with changing privacy expectations. Launched in 2008 and backed by investors including Mark Cuban, the outfit works by having software embedded on the chipsets of millions of viewing devices which […]

SAN JUAN, PR — Not everyone in the advertising industry wants to share their data or to collaborate. Caroline Horner says she is used to hearing openness from people in the internet industry, who will say ” “I’m going to put the data out there because it’s going to be interesting and it’s going to […]

SAN JUAN, PR — The new opportunity to observe a consumer action and correlate it back to a TV ad view is a big deal. But it will count for nothing if it is not underpinned by a solid data foundation. So says Noah Levine, chief revenue officer at 605, a company helping advertisers buy […]

SAN JUAN, PR — These days, most broadcasters are busy offering their advertising customers new ways to use their platform data to better target audiences. But what about advertisers who want to do the same across the whole TV and video landscape? That need has become priority #1 in the new TV industry, as a raft of […]

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), everything on display – whether it is a synthetic burger or a TV ad – is presented as technology. But that is the kind of optimism that is applied to every business sector that finds itself at the mind-expanding show. Whilst at the show in January, Noah Levine, chief revenue […]

They are two of the key developments being touted to revolutionize TV ad buying – but are “deterministic” targeting and outcome attribution really up to scratch? During “Data Activation, the New Tool for Programmers”, a panel convened at Beet Retreat In The City, executives held a refreshingly frank discussion on the true state of two […]

Data has reshaped the buy and sell sides of the advertising industry, as traditional channels begin to adopt digital tools. This shift in dynamic has meant the industry has had to evolve as well, and Spectrum Reach and Horizon Media are two such companies rethinking their strategies in a period of ongoing change. At the […]

Connected TV devices are getting lit up with the new ability for advertisers to draw a straight line between ads shown to viewers and actions those viewers take as a result. It is the new practice of attribution, and technology vendors like TVSquared are busy helping broadcasters prove to advertisers how an ad exposure can […]

Some of the best dishes take a long time to cook. And that has certainly been the case with advanced TV ad targeting, the new practice of laser-guiding ad creative for just the right viewer of a connected TV device. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the woman who runs product at a leading TV […]

For all the hype, machine learning is little more than a way a computer takes a set of existing data and looks for the patterns, in order to make a call as to the likely future outcomes based on new input. That means the technology of the future will depend heavily on the outcomes of […]

If you are in the ad targeting game, it helps to know who your viewers or readers are. Traditionally, TV has suffered from inadequate knowledge about those viewers. The industry has come to call this “probabilistic” targeting. But its flip side, “deterministic” targeting, promises to give advertisers more accuracy by using real viewer data to […]

The TV ad measurement company formed by two ex Cablevision executives is being enlisted by Discovery Inc. to provide advertisers with outcome attribution for TV ads seen by 40 million households. Discovery, whose portfolio includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network and TLC, will work with 605, which provides aggregate set-top box and automatic content recognition […]

As Noah Levine joins 605 from Fox, he sees in the television data analytics firm the capabilities of helping clients navigate a “multi-currency future.” He joined 605 two weeks ago as Chief Revenue Officer “because I believe the TV industry is entering a new period of change,” Levine says in this interview with Beet.TV. “The […]

Television measurement and analytics provider 605 is doubling its national footprint in a licensing deal with Inscape that augments and compliments MVPD data with smart-TV viewing insights. “The bigger the better in terms of data,” says 605 President & Co-Founder Ben Tatta. With the addition of Inscape data, 605 can measure more than 20 million […]

Put Rob Norman, Doug Ray and Lyle Schwartz on the same stage and you’re going to get some entertaining and sobering dialogue about the future of television in all of its varied permutations. So it was at the recent Beet Retreat in the City as the veteran trio talked about the promise of addressable TV […]

For most people, it’s easy to forget that before Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico last fall, the territory’s economy was already a disaster. But not Olga Ramos, who took over as President of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico just two months prior. With a successful 13-year career at Walmart and having spent […]

There’s so much enthusiasm expressed for the convergence of digital media and traditional television, it’s easy to wonder why targeting and measurement aren’t light years ahead. But given individual business demands, “everybody’s trying to get an edge,” says TiVo’s Walt Horstman. Meanwhile, because linear television hasn’t given up the Upfront negotiating mainstay, it’s still going […]

Widespread change requires “a lot of experimentation for people to change dramatically,” and that process has just begun in the quest for more advanced television targeting, according to LiveRamp’s Allison Metcalfe. Then there is complexity, which can inhibit change when not all entities are committed to changing at the same pace, notes Mike Rosen of […]

When some brands advertise, they place their money on a particular channel, believing it to be useful for a particular kind of goal – brand-building, or sales-generating. But Kristin Dolan would like advertisers to get out of that siloed mindset. The former Cablevision exec, who jointly set up 605 to bring better ad insight to […]

The 2018 television Upfront “is a marketplace with more moving parts than ever,” says media agency veteran Chris Geraci. Still, the age-old dynamics between supply and demand for linear TV advertising inventory endure. Overall, this year’s Upfront is “not all that different from a marketplace that’s reflective of a relatively healthy economic backdrop,” Geraci, who […]