Jeremy Hlavacek

MARCO ISLAND, FL — Companies involved in advertising have spent the last couple of years adjusting to a world in which digital identifiers like cookies and device IDs are drying up. They have traditionally been used to match and target audiences. Replacements include a range of identity technologies, in what is a significant upheaval. But […]

The waning of digital ad identifiers like cookies and Apple’s IDFA is prompting a new focus on advertisers and publishers gathering first-party audience data. Whilst it may seem easier to manage that direct, there is a school of thought that it is actually going to make things rather complicated. In this video interview with Beet.TV, […]

Does it ever feel like your new digital super powers actually make your life more complicated? A growing number of marketers are coming to that conclusion. In Beet.tv’s Responsible Media Global Forum with GroupM and the 4As, plus with IBM Watson Advertising, MediaMath, Nielsen and Pubmatic, a series of guest speakers wrestled with balancing the […]

Advertising stands to be rebooted by advances in artificial intelligence – but the industry must re-learn practices to embrace the power of machine learning. That’s the view of Jeremy Hlavacek, chief revenue officer of IBM Watson Advertising. The division of IBM leverages the company’s Watson intelligence engine on advertising use cases. In this video interview with […]

PALM SPRINGS, Calif – Imagine an advertising agency that creates its own data and technology, produces video content and sells ad inventory in that content and you’ve got IBM Watson Advertising. So it’s in a unique position to actually help clean up the digital ecosystem. Like many in the industry, Watson Advertising believes there are […]

HOLLYWOOD — Publishers have eagerly embraced a technology which allows them to call on multiple ad buyer demand sources simultaneously to achieve higher bids – now they must carefully scrutinize the next iteration of the tech. That is according to a man who is surely the only executive out there with the title “VP of global automated monetization”. “Almost […]