Addressable TV’s Growing Pains: Cadent, Dentsu, LiveRamp, Essence, Omnicom Discuss

SAN JUAN — It is the technology that can laser-target an ad at individual TV viewers or households, and then control how many more ads get seen across TV and other media. But what is the state of “addressable” television? A Beet Retreat panel convened by Beet.TV in Puerto Rico discussed that topic. Slow addressable […]

 
 

LiveRamp’s Goal: Unduplicated Reach Across Broad Spectrum Of Platforms

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Craig Berkley sums up LiveRamp’s role in reducing friction in television and video advertising targeting in one word: identity. “It’s clear that we all have various pain points that we can address or work on. Our mission and role in this whole ecosystem is to provide automated deterministic identity at scale,” says […]

 
 

How LiveRamp + Acxiom = A Unified TV ID Graph

SAN FRANCISCO — When Acxiom acquired LiveRamp back in 2014, the potential pairings were clear to see. But one tie-up that was not immediately obvious was video. Relative to modern consumption habits, video viewing had still not truly taken off, and video didn’t even garner a mention in the companies’ announcement. Fast-forward, however, and video […]

 
 

Balancing New Revenue Streams: NBCU, Fox, Acxiom, Oath, A+E Execs Discuss

MIAMI — These days, consumers have more choices than ever before about how to consume video and TV content. And that means a new spectrum of opportunities – and challenges – for content owners and distributors. For companies more used to selling the context of their content to advertisers, the hot new possibility – in […]

 
 

Acxiom’s Craig Berkley On The Value Of A Single Source of Identity Data

MIAMI – When the current-day Acxiom was founded in 1969 as Demographics, “people-based marketing” was basically direct mail. Having acquired LiveRamp in 2014, Acxiom is looking to be the predominate provider of identity graphs across digital and television. LiveRamp has long been active in the digital space, using both personally identifiable and anonymous information from […]