Consumer Ad Attention Key To Digital/TV Convergence: Consultant Joan Fitzgerald

MIAMI – Yes, digital media and traditional TV are converging, but there’s much yet to be learned about improving the advertising viewing experience across screens. Moving from impression-based metrics to understanding consumer attention will help move things along. Some thinking holds that video is video, regardless of the platform, as sellers are more frequently combining […]

 
 

Rovi And TiVo Union Closes The Loop On Audience Targeting, Inventory Management

Playing both ends against the middle is an age-old tactic with which most children and parents are familiar. For TiVo, in its new iteration after being acquired by Rovi, the idiom sums up the combined forces being brought to bear on the business of audience targeting. Working the front end and back end of television […]

 
 

ESPN’s Glenn Enoch on The First Five-Platform Measurement Initiative

Launched in collaboration with comScore and Arbitron, ESPN’s Project Blueprint, measures content consumption across five-platforms: radio, television, PCs, smartphones and tablets – and is the first measurement initiative to do so. Beet.TV spoke with Glenn Enoch, VP of Integrated Market Research for ESPN, at ESPN’s offices in Manhattan. ESPN announced their initial findings earlier in June. “We want to […]