Advertising

LONDON – The selling of online video advertising using so-called “programmatic” trading technologies has come a long way in the last couple of years – but it has a way to go yet, according to online video ad platform SpotX’s UK and southern Europe MD Leon Siotis. “Although we’ve seen tremendous growth over the last five […]

LONDON — Local World has accomplished quite a lot in a rather short space of time. Formed in 2012 to acquire Northcliffe Media and Iliffe, the outfit is now one of the UK’s largest local newspaper publishers, and an interesting case study in the digital reinvention of staid old printed local titles. Nowadays, Local World […]

COLOGNE — Recently-rebranded online video advertising platform SpotX reckons it will get more access to premium broadcasters and publishers from a new partnership with its peer FreeWheel. FreeWheel has opened its Preferred Partners Initiative for supply-side platforms (SSPs). That builds on its existing partner integrations by allowing its customers to tap in to new sources of advertising supply. StickyADS.tv and […]

News Corp is continuing its interest in buying in technology platforms to help it to its journalism and ad sales, following its acquisition of Storyful by buying the video marketing platform Unruly Media. What does the deal mean? Media banker and adviser Terence Kawaja, whose company LUMA Partners advised Unruly in the transaction, gave three talking points to […]

The content recommendation engine Outbrain has become known for providing related links to more articles at the foot of news stories. Now it wants to think bigger – and, it seems, more visually – about how it helps advertisers communicate. The New York- and Tel Aviv-based company has hired Pinterest marketing partnerships head Eric Hadley to […]

Whether it’s fraud or viewability, the growing laundry list of things advertisers are now complaining about, in the digital advertising ecosystem, was neatly summed-up this week in a tweet by LUMA Partners’ Terence Kawaja: Ad Tech's SUM OF ALL FEARS pic.twitter.com/E1IQVduQi4 — Terence Kawaja (@tkawaja) September 15, 2015 But there is yet another industry practice to add […]

COLOGNE – The TV-synced social advertising technology Beet.TV has reported on for the last couple of years has had a long and winding road. Started by Teletrax, it was later wrapped up in to Philips’ Civolution, before being renamed Teletrax, which was last month sold to digital ad group 4C Insights. Now 4C has fully integrated […]

Have you looked at the marketing technology Lumascape lately? The number of platforms available to marketers these days is empowering – and daunting. “Multiple technology platforms create multiple sources of data – lots and lots of different silos,” says Acxiom European strategy director Thaer Namruti in this video interview with Beet.TV. “With that comes the challenge of, […]

In the world of internet advertising, you can pay for results, or you can pay to build your brand profile. But now, those two models are coming together. “The world between performance and brand advertising is starting to collide,” says Facebook global agency development director Patrick Harris, in this video interview with Beet.TV. “Advertisers that were […]

What does the flow of attention across social platforms and news article look like when it is actually happening? That’s what WPP’s advertising clients may get to find out, thanks to the ad holding group’s new partnership with BuzzFeed. Announced last month, the deal sees GroupM and WPP constituents gain a “creative residency” amongst BuzzFeed content producers and a […]

When Apple brings iOS 9 out of beta on September 16, many in digital advertising fear the pillars of their kingdom could begin to crumble. For, the latest version of the mobile operating system includes a content blocking architecture that could allow developers to release ad-blocking extensions for download by users. Some in advertising are jumping to act. […]

Clypd, a television ad targeting optimization platform vendor, will soon unveil a new multi-screen advertising initiative resulting from its recent investment by European broadcast group RTL. Chief relationship officer Mark Mitchell tells Beet.TV, in this video interview, the company is working with SpotX, which just rebranded from SpotXchange. RTL invested $144m in SpotXchange in 2014 and $19.4m in […]

Riding the crest of a wave is a pretty good feeling. But the bigger lessons can come from falling off and hitting the bottom. Many a business guru is fond of the ironic value of failure. That’s a notion that the boss of one of the biggest ad groups subscribes to, too. “I’ve always learned more from […]

Why did you get in to advertising? For Brian Lesser, it was because his dad showed him the ropes. Now Lesser runs WPP-owned Xaxis, one of the technology companies helping make advertising more targeted and more relevant. “When I was a kid, my father ran advertising agencies … I always liked the commercials better than the […]

Through the eyes of a US marketing exec, Europeans are, notoriously, relatively more concerned about how ad targeting might impinge on their personal data. A recent report from Belgium’s data protection agency claimed Facebook tracks computers of users without their consent, whether they are logged in to Facebook or not, and even if they are […]

The data continues to point to a disconnect – consumers have flocked to consume content and engage socially using mobile devices, over desktop alternatives. So why have advertisers still not piled in to mobile at the same rate? “It’s sometimes an afterthought,” IPG Mediabrands global mobile head Travis Johnson agrees, in this video interview with Beet.TV “We’ve got clients […]

We may not yet have reached the point at which so-called “addressable TV”, the ability to target individual connected televisions with unique advertising, is mass-market – but we have reached a close second, thanks to a combination of dumb TVs and smart devices. “Everyone would like to get in to … the dream of one-to-one advertising,” […]

As TV audiences start watching TV on more devices than just, well, TV, marketers face a challenge – how do they measure, target and price their advertising efforts? Companies tackling and talking about that problem are now commonplace. One such, Cadreon, believes the answer lays in what global president Arun Kumar calls “advanced TV” – a […]

A host of ad tech platforms is helping marketers break down the boundaries between buying TV ads, VOD ads, digital video ads and all the other flavors of moving-image ads. That’s the topic that seems set to dominate the upcoming DMEXCO digital marketing expo in Cologne. Speaking with Beet.TV in this video interview, FreeWheel marketplaces GM James Rooke channels […]

The auto-playing video ads Facebook introduced a while back could make the social network $3.8 billion by 2017, a Nomura analyst recently forecast. So just how good is the new format, and what challenges remain? Ben Winkler, chief digital officer of ad agency OMD USA, says the ads were bound to be successful, given Facebook’s scale – […]