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So-called “programmatic” software platforms, which let advertising buyers and sellers agree terms for ad inventory in real-time and using customer data, will process $21 billion global ad sales in 2014, according to new forecasts from IPG’s Magna Global intelligence unit. That is 52% more money going through programmatic than a year earlier, the report says. Indeed, […]

COLOGNE — The challenge with data is not the sheer volume of information available today. The hurdle with “big data” is knowing what to do with it, says Russell Marsh, Global Chief Data Officer at IPG Mediabrands in an interview with Beet.TV. “It’s all about how to connect the data points,” he says. “How do you identify the […]

After GroupM announced, earlier this year, it would no longer buy online ads from open exchange marketplaces, more criticism is being voiced by ad buyers about how such exchanges operate. IPG Mediabrands’ global CEO Matt Seiler tells Beet.TV in this video that more openness is needed from the “open” end of the industry. “Pretty big advocates […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Magna Global, the media agency of IPG Mediabrands, is creating new platforms to buy television inventory programmatically, with the creations of private marketplaces, explains Michael Brunick, SVP for Programmatic, in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him at the Beet.TV summit on programmatic television advertising yesterday.

SAN FRANCISCO – Just when many in the industry are excitedly committing to buying targeted ad slots using automated, real-time bidding systems, some publishers want to slow down the real-time clock – and one agency group is backing them. “Today, (real-time bidding) is known as being motivated by trying to drive prices down as low […]

SAN FRANCISCO –  Hold on to your hats. The decades-old way advertising has been bought and sold could start to collapse in 24 months. “A lot of media companies have been good money with the old model,” IPG Mediabrands’ Magna Global north America president Kristi Argyilan tells Beet.TV in this video interview. “Our hypothesis is […]

MOUGINS, France – The biggest opportunity in mobile video advertising lies in interactive ad formats that lead to product purchases, says Angela Steele, CEO at IPG-owned mobile agency Ansible Mobile, during an interview with Beet.TV. “Mobile video can be used not just for awareness but to drive purchase intent and purchases. Video in general is a great […]

MOUGINS, France – Tablets have the best brand recall among ad mediums including online, smartphones, and TV, says Ed Haslam, Senior VP of Marketing at video ad network YuMe in an interview with Beet.TV. That insight comes from the newest study that YuMe has conducted with IPG Mediabrands. Within the tablet environment, in-app ads have higher brand […]

MOUGINS, France  – About half of IPG Mediabrands clients now pay the media agency on a pay-for-performance rather than commission basis, says Matt Seiler, Global CEO, IPG Mediabrands in an interview with Beet.TV. He contends that commission-based fees that incentivize agencies to spend as much of the client’s money as possible are out of step with the […]