Jay Prasad

It is an expanding universe of TV, but one in which the overall volume of ads may yet be smaller than in the linear generation. As more advertisers pile into the platform, some think software is going to become increasingly key in getting the most out of the tech. In this video interview with Beet.TV, […]

CANNES — With GDPR, cookie deprecation and limits on mobile device identifiers, it has been a tumultuous couple of years for anyone trying to target digital advertising. But more change is on its way. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jay Prasad, Chief strategy Officer, TV & Measurement, LiveRamp, explains why advertisers need to take […]

LOS ANGELES  – A lot can change in a year. A year ago, as the pandemic bedded in, ad buyers were holding on to their money, pushing it down the marketing funnel and calling for a delay to the upfronts, the traditional annual season in which TV and video networks pitch for advance ad spending […]

A new report shows ad buyers have a laundry list of changes they would like to see to addressable TV ads, if audience-based buying is to become more popular. But recent changes may suggest some of their prayers may get answered. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jay Prasad, chief strategy officer, describes some of […]

Connected TV has come a long way – but it still has a little way to go to fully realize the dreams of efficient, data-driven advertising that reaches individual homes. EMarketer forecasts US connected TV ad spending will reach $18.29 billion by 2024, more than double the amount spent in 2020, driven especially by YouTube, […]

LOS ANGELES — With the TV Upfront shelved, and an increasing amount of transactions happening in the scatter market, outcome-based guarantees need to be central to the new scenario, says Jay Prasad, Chief Strategy Officer of LiveRamp TV, in this interview with Beet.TV In his recent article published in AdExchanger, he advises: “To balance portfolios, […]

SAN JUAN, PR — Advertisers should embrace the new opportunity to use their own audience data to buy targeted ads not just on digital platforms but on TV. That is according to a tech exec who says “addressable” technology is coming on stream faster than ever. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Jay Prasad, chief strategy […]

A new year, a new decade may have only just begun but, for some, minds are already turning to the key point in the US TV ad sales calendar. Upfronts season peaks in May, when video and TV content owners showcase their upcoming repertoire in a bid to secure advance ad buyers from brands and […]

SAN JUAN — For decades, the notion of return on investment from TV ads has been ironically straightforward. Brands would buy ads and, with little insight in to who really watched what, would need to unleash a slew of media mix modelling tools to understand what exposures may have led to which purchases. That imprecision […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—There’s lots of predictions about where television and premium video are headed. Then again, “There’s a lot of things that are actually already happening, probably more in some ways than a wider industry lens might understand,” says VideoAmp’s Jay Prasad. This is why Prasad reflects on this year’s Retreat in this interview […]

COLOGNE — Over the last couple of years, we have all become familiar with the possibility that media agencies could be “disintermediated” as ad buyers pull certain key functions in-house in a quest for transparency and control. But could the same happen on the sell side, and why? VideoAmp chief strategy officer Jay Prasad thinks […]

Founded four years ago, VideoAmp aims to help advertisers and media owners plan, package, execute and measure the success of de-duplicated and precisely targeted campaigns that reach linear TV, VOD, OTT and digital consumers. Now it is taking a step up by acquiring one company and partnering with another. The outfit has acquired IronGrid Data […]