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SAN JUAN, PR — The time when YouTube was best known for skateboarding dogs now feels like eons ago. Two decades on, the video platform is now host to major broadcasters, as well as short-form content. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Matt McDonald, Global Head of Connected TV & Streaming, Google, explains how the company […]

 Ryan Barwick is a senior reporter at Morning Brew, where he’s taken many deep dives into the world of digital advertising , regulation and privacy. So he’s developed a very well-rounded, nuanced point of view on many of the issues facing this industry, from cookies going away to a slew of new state laws […]

It may not operate directly in the retail space – but that doesn’t mean Google doesn’t have a role to play in retail media. In fact, the company has already unleashed its extensive ad-tech offering in support of retail media operators. In this video interview with industry analyst Joanna O’Connell for Beet.TV, Shawn McGahee, Head […]

SAN JUAN, PR — The ability to send tailored ads to individual TV households has been talked about for a long time. Now, after many early attempts, finally addressable TV is reaching scale. But just how advanced is the infrastructure behind “advanced TV”? In a Beet Retreat panel, Addressable Tech: Next-Gen Solutions: Fixing the Plumbing, […]

A central question posed by one of Google’s leading AI programs is: “What if solving one problem could unlock solutions to thousands more?” That is what Google is trying to solve with DeepMind. And DeepMind has been busy answering that question, including by writing AlphaGo, an advanced AI program that has become skilled at playing […]

If anyone understands what it’s like to work inside one of the walled gardens, it’s David George, who left Facebook as Head of Mobile Publisher Solutions just over a year ago. Now as the CEO of Pixability, he’s helping to expand the company’s data and machine learning platform from social media giants like Facebook and […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—As it continues to build out its programmatic solution, WideOrbit is finding that not enough advertisers are willing to pay extra for addressable and targeted television inventory. “We need to see more and more advertisers willing to pay premium for those CPM’s. We’re still not seeing that,” says VP of Business Development […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—There was no playbook for the advertising and media community in Puerto Rico to help itself—much less consumers—deal with Hurricane Maria in 2017. But until such a template exists, the lessons related by AT&T, Hearts & Science, Procter & Gamble and Telemundo at Beet Retreat 2018 provide more than an ample starting […]

SAN JUAN — It was billed as the revolution for television ad sales – the emerging prospect of using internet-connected platforms and audience viewing data to plan, execute and measure TV ad campaigns in real-time. After all, “programmatic” advertising unleashed “real-time bidding” (RTB) on to the world several years ago now. Today, real-time auctions for […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Fully IP-based television may be inevitable, but fully programmatic buying and selling of advertising inventory isn’t, according to buy- and sell-side executives who converged for a panel discussion at the recent Beet Retreat 2018. Moderated by consultant Matt Prohaska, the discussion touched on the eternal reality of supply versus demand in making […]

LAS VEGAS—Even with all the advances being made in targeting television audiences and automating parts of the selling process, the annual ritual known as the Upfront isn’t going away anytime soon. “I think the Upfront’s still going to be very important for at least a few more years if not even beyond, for a very […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—As an after-school organization that provides supplemental education services to 15,000 mostly impoverished youths, Boys and Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico found itself in the crosshairs of Hurricane Maria. “Before the storm, we already had a storm in the education sector, so with the storm it gets more complicated,” said President Olga […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—To understand how to make addressable television advertising easier to execute, one needs to first agree on the definition of what exactly “addressable” is, according to DISH Media’s Kevin Arrix. His explanation led to a broader discussion of addressable and third-party measurement during a fireside chat with consultant Howard Shimmel during Beet […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Analyst Joanna O’Connell spends much of her time at Forrester these days researching how consumers think about advertising. And while “it’s not an awesome story,” she sees marketers taking the steps to better understand things like identifying overlaps in their user base and considering needed organizational changes. “To think that somehow everyone […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Some of the most frank discussions at the annual Beet Retreat often happen in one-on-one sessions. Such was the case this year in various fireside chats titled Setting the Aperture for a Consumer-Centric TV, including a frank discussion about advanced television between Adam Gerber and Dave Clark. The short summary of their […]

The core problem of executing advanced or converged television targeting is deciphering consumer device identity, and that’s exactly why direct-to-consumer brands are flocking to it. And, dataxu’s Mike Baker predicts in the walkup to CES 2019, more of the biggest agencies will join in this year, as have many small and mid-size agencies. “What’s different […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Not that long ago, data for advanced targeting for cross-channel advertising was hard to come by. But now, “There’s a lot more data out in the ecosystem now than there ever was,” and advertisers need help putting it all together, says Experian’s Brad Danaher. Experian helps advertisers determine the data segments that […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—If where people go is the best indicator of who they are, location is everything. Being able to tie signals from mobile devices to television commercials and other media unearths behavioral insights and can help to inform effectiveness of ad formats, according to NinthDecimal’s Brian Kilmer. NinthDecimal specializes in “physical world data” […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Attributing business outcomes to television advertising campaigns should not be just a “report card” after those campaigns are completed, according to Data Plus Math’s John Hoctor. This concept is what’s driven the company toward partnerships like its recent one with Millward Brown to provide full sales funnel attribution for TV and premium […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Add to the lexicon of industry terminology the concept of “purchase-driven planning,” fueled by shopper loyalty data and cross-channel advertising campaign measurement. “We’re very lucky to have access to both the Catalina loyalty card data and the Nielsen media and panel data that we can use for attribution,” says Matt O’Grady, CEO […]