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Roku’s Jeff Katz: Amazon Partnership Reaches ‘80% of U.S. CTV Footprint’
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — Roku and Amazon are integrating their connected TV operating systems to reach more than 80% of the U.S. market, promising to create even more massive scale for marketers. “By combining those two data sets, we now have the ability to reach over 80% of the US CTV footprint through Amazon […]
Gracenote’s Kanishk Prasad: AI Enables Advertisers to Upload Brand Briefs and Find Matching Content
For all the talk about artificial intelligence complicating the business of advertising and media, there’s an argument to be made about how it simplifies the challenge of content discovery. For Gracenote, the path to easing consumers’ desire to find what they want to watch on TV involves allowing advertisers to upload brand briefs into large […]
Google’s Inderpreet Sandhu: AI-Driven Creative Alignment will Transform CTV Ad Relevance
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — Among advertisers’ hopes for artificial intelligence is the ability to shape and reshape creative moments within scenes streaming on CTV to bring more emotionally resonant ad experiences at scale. “Every piece of content that we all watch elicits a different emotional reaction or an association. So why shouldn’t the creatives […]
OpenX’s Erika Loberg: Race-to-Bottom CPMs Threatens Premium Content Creation
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA – Advertisers demanding lowest-cost CPMs while publishers reduce yield creates a destructive cycle that undermines premium content production and ultimately eliminates quality advertising environments that benefit no one. “That race to the bottom isn’t a good thing for this entire ecosystem,” Erika Loberg, global head of CTV at OpenX, told Beet.TV […]
Index Exchange’s Alex Gardner: Contextual Signals Enable ‘Revolution’ In Audience Targeting
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — Contextual targeting has evolved from supplementary tactic to primary solution over the past year, enabling advertisers to move beyond inconsistent audience-based signals toward more robust and reliable connections with consumers. “A year ago at CES, we started talking about the idea of leveraging these signals in more interesting and meaningful […]
TiVo’s Craig Chinn: AI will Create Custom Audience Segments ‘On-the-Fly’
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA – For all the talk about artificial intelligence impact on creativity, the data use cases are quickly coming into view among various parts of the ad industry. For example, the ability to autonomously generate audience segments in real time rather, than relying on predefined demographic or behavioral categories, could fundamentally change […]
Publicis Media’s Joe Kowan: Retail Data in CTV Enables AI to Optimize for ‘Actual Sale Event’
The combination of connected TV ads, retail media, and artificial intelligence offer marketers many compelling propositions. One possible value is the ability to know that an ad led to a completed purchase rather than having to rely on the “guesswork” of proxy metrics like ad clicks. In a larger sense, that could fundamentally change how […]
MRI-Simmons’ Conor Burgess: FAST Channels Remain ‘Underserved’ for Measurement and Targeting
While marketers looking to achieve both branding and performance goals have been flocking to Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (aka “FAST”) channels the last several years. The problem is that FAST lacks adequate measurement and targeting infrastructure. And that’s creating gaps that walled gardens currently cannot fill for content distributors. “[FAST] is underserved right now from […]
OpenX’s Rebecca Bonell: AI Use Must Go Beyond Finding ‘Cheap CPMs’
Marketers need to demand more of artificial intelligence than just seeing it as a tool to find the lowest-cost ad prices. “AI shouldn’t be just finding cheap CPMs. No one wins at that. It’s about connecting the sellers and the buyers,” Rebecca Bonell, senior director, Business Development at OpenX, told Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan. This […]
Samsung Ads’ Courtney Howell: Native TV Placements Capture 11 Minutes of Daily Decision Time
Consumers spend approximately 11 minutes deciding what to watch when they turn on their televisions, creating a premium opportunity for native advertising placements that influence content selection and brand messaging before streaming begins. “The first thing that you see when you turn on your TV is, well, what do I want to watch? The average […]
LUMA Partners’ Terry Kawaja: Gaming Offers CTV Alternative to Strained Supply Constraints
Gaming advertising represents a still untapped opportunity for marketers facing television supply constraints as streaming migration reduces ad inventory while offering the scale, engagement, and demographics that traditional channels struggle to deliver. “Gaming provides an opportunity for conversion in a way that could deliver lessons to the rest of Madison Avenue,” Terry Kawaja, founder and […]
Magnite’s Cassidy Diamond: Pause Ads and Interactive Overlays Unlock CTV Commerce Potential
AMENIA, NY — Connected TV and commerce are becoming more tightly joined. And that’s creating new ad formats that capture consumers at moments of peak engagement and peak purchase intent. “CTV and commerce are great together. It’s a way to engage the audience at the highest points of relevance,” Cassidy Diamond, Vice President of Brand […]
Pontiac Intelligence’s Keith Gooberman: Legacy DSPs Are Like Battleships — CTV Growth Requires a Speedboat
AMENIA, NY — Does the world need another demand-side platform in 2025? Keith Gooberman, CEO and co-founder of DSP Pontiac Intelligence is ready to make that case. “The old DSPs are like a battleship. There are entire departments of people running around the decks,” Gooberman told Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan at the Beet Retreat Berkshires […]
Magnite’s Gregory Sherrill: Supply Side Partners Are Taking Strategic Control of Media Buying
AMENIA, NY – The long-standing boundaries between buying and selling in programmatic advertising are dissolving as supply-side platforms assert greater influence over media investment decisions. “The supply side is taking on an increasingly more significant role in media buying today,” Gregory Sherrill, VP of Demand at Magnite, told Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan in an interview […]
The Trade Desk’s Jill Smith: Retail Media’s Next Wave Requires Breaking Down Internal Silos
CANNES – The Trade Desk is betting that retail media’s future depends on traditionally separate divisions within retailers learning to work together toward common goals. “We are so excited about the ‘One Retail’ vision that we have at The Trade Desk,” Jill Smith, the ad tech platform’s VP Business Development, Retail, told Beet.TV contributor David […]
Index Exchange’s Cory Greenberg: Creative Standardization Will Unlock Streaming’s Real Value
The rise of streaming is ushering in a format revolution that echoes the early days of digital advertising. But getting the most out of CTV for advertisers, media companies, and consumers is going to depend on a number of choices by the industry at large, said Cory Greenberg, head of Streaming, North America, at Index […]
The Trade Desk’s Jeff Daniel: Our CTV Campaign With Kinective Media Delivered 250,000 New Households for Luxury Brand
A CTV campaign leveraging United Airlines’ commerce media network, Kinective Media, reached over 250,000 net new households and drove 20% of sales for a luxury brand client, The Trade Desk revealed in a recent Beet.TV interview. The campaign demonstrates how The Trade Desk is combining its traditional demand-side platform capabilities with new audience segments from […]
ReachTV’s Lynnwood Bibbens: Live Sports Now Accounts for Majority of Airport Networks’ Programming
NEW YORK — Sports programming exacts a gravitational pull on TV, whether linear or streaming, like no other viewing form. With ReachTV, sports programming is transcending the home and the bar to plant itself in airports across North America. Looking strictly online, sports video evolved dramatically from its short-form programming roots to become a significant […]
IAB’s Chris Bruderle: Digital Video Will Capture Nearly 60% of TV and Video Ad Spend in 2025
NEW YORK – Digital video advertising is continuing its growth trajectory, just in time for the overlapping NewFront and Upfront periods, with connected TV rebounding strongly after a slowdown and set to dominate advertising budgets in the coming year, according to new research from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). “Digital video, which encompasses connected television, […]
Xperi’s TiVo Expands Beyond DVR Roots Based on Troves of Viewer Data: Fariba Zamaniyan
SAN JUAN, PR — TiVo, the company once synonymous with DVRs and the earliest forms of time-shifted TV watching, is continuing its transformation into a significant player in the connected TV operating system space. As Fariba Zamaniyan, the global vp of data monetization at Xperi-owned TiVo, told Beet.TV’s David Kaplan at the Beet Retreat San […]





