chris monteferrante

FORT LAUDERDALE — By now, it is a common accepted standard. Pay-TV providers have access to two minutes per hour of ad time in local programming. But what does the future look like, now that operators are lighting up household targeting for connected TV ads? Those two minutes could either get longer, or be more efficiently used, a […]

FORT LAUDERDALE — MVPDs like AT&T are looking at ways to integrate more data into media buying and planning, says Chris Monteferrante, VP National Sales at AT&T AdWorks, AT&T’s advanced advertising arm, at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat in an interview with Ashley J. Swartz, CEO and Founder of Furious Corp. “We use data to augment buys, […]

Many in TV and marketing look forward to a future of “addressable advertising”. AT&T is executing on a version of that today – with its TV Blueprint offering, the cable company is helping advertisers reach specific subscribers from its customer base. We’re able to pull in data from over 15 million set-top boxes that are […]