Collaboration Key to Advancing TV Measurement in Europe and U.S.: CIMM’s Watts

The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) is bringing its collaborative approach to advancing TV and video measurement to Europe with its first major event in the UK market. CIMM London on December 9 will gather around 200 executives from across the U.S., UK, and European buy-side and sell-side ecosystems to discuss key issues facing […]

 
 

Audience Identifiers for CTV Ads Rely on Privacy-Safe Cloud

CANNES – Connected television is a cookieless media environment, making other kinds of audience identifiers an important part of advertising activation and measurement for marketers. Innovations in privacy, security and decentralized technologies are transforming the addressable marketing world for CTV, as our expert panel discusses in this video. Gareth Davies, senior vice president at TransUnion […]

 
 

Measuring Outcomes – The New Frontier in Media Attribution

CANNES — At a morning panel during Beet.TV’s Global Leadership Summit: Data, Identity & Measurement, executives discussed the evolution of media measurement. They highlighted a shift from simplistic demographic targeting and click-counting to more sophisticated, outcome-based approaches. Panelists emphasized the importance of leveraging advanced data and technology to focus on actual business outcomes, such as purchases, […]

 
 

Identity Resolution Forms Cornerstone of Privacy-Safe Addressability, Measurement

CANNES – Alphabet’s Google in July said it was ending its plan to get rid of tracking cookies in its popular Chrome web browser, but identity resolution is still a major goal for marketers and media companies. Audience identifiers form a cornerstone for privacy-safe addressability and measurement. Leading marketers and Intent IQ discuss how these […]

 
 

TikTok, PMG Experts Say Ad-Measurement Is Key for Social-Video Success

It’s essential in today’s omnichannel world to understand and align user behaviors to your holistic marketing strategy to make confident, comprehensive investment decisions. Social video app TikTok can help brands engage consumers through the entire purchase funnel from awareness and consideration to conversion and final sale. TikTok’s experts on how measurement, data and privacy work […]

 
 

Data, Data Everywhere: CIMM’s Watts Sees An Industry Transitioning Through Innovation

On October 10 and 11, the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) gathered speakers and guests at Warner Bros. Discovery’s New York HQ to discuss the future of media. Summing-up CIMM Summit, Jon Watts, Managing Director, CIMM, tells Beet.TV the event discussed three key themes: Measurement Activation Innovation A Transition in Measurement and Currency “(We […]

 
 

CIMM Summit Will Showcase Key Issues for TV Advertising Market: CIMM’s Jon Watts

NEW YORK – This year’s CIMM Summit arrives as the media, marketing and adtech industries debate the best ways to set the value of cross-platform advertising for brands of all sizes. “We’re 18 months to two years into a transition to a multicurrency marketplace,” Jon Watts, managing director of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement […]

 
 

Voices from the #BeetRetreat: David Levy, Dave Clark, Kelly Metz, Denise Colella, Zach Rodgers and Jon Watts

Welcome to this episode of the BeetCast podcast. We are bringing you these voices from the Beet Retreat last month in Santa Monica. Wonderful insights on what’s next for our industry. In this podcast, we are sharing these chats between David Levy, CEO OpenAP with moderator Jon Watts, and FreeWheel’s GM Dave Clark with moderator […]

 
 

Voices From the #BeetRetreat: Charting the The Way Forward for the TV Biz, Chats with Denise Colella, Pooja Midha, Zach Rodgers, Sean Buckley, Matt Spiegel, Jon Watts on the #BeetCast

LOS ANGELES — Welcome to this episode of the BeetCast Lots of activity here recently at Beet.TV. The most exciting has been  our first in-person event in over 18 months.  It was the Beet Retreat in Santa Monica last month. We brought together amazing people for long-need in person networking and conversations. At the event, […]

 
 

Buyer Beware: Veracity Of Audience Data Segments Needs Fixing, Steuer Says

A system introduced two years ago to help advertisers understand the contents of audience data segments needs an upgrade, according to one of the people who helped drive the initial initiative. In this video interview with The Project X Institute executive director Jon Watts for Beet.TV, Jonathan Steuer explains why the IAB’s Data Label needs […]

 
 

TV Data Initiative Aims To Solve Data Ad Targeting ‘Mess’

With a glass half-full, the era of addressable and connected television promises advertisers precision targeting to individual households and digitals-style, data-informed ad planning. Many in the industry with the scars from trying to make it happen would tell you a different story. That is why, in the last two years, we have seen a series […]

 
 

Consumer Experience: Key is to Converged Video’s Future, Forrester’s O’Connell

Proper frequency management and the introduction of interactive, personalized ad experiences are are among the key elements essential for the success of advertising in converged TV, says Joanna O’Connell, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research in this #BeetCast podcast. The session is guest hosted by industry consultant and advisor Jon Watts. O’Connell  points to […]

 
 

The TradeDesk’s Philippa Snare: Take Time to Learn

LONDON – The digital media industry is going through a rapid transformation, accelerated by the global pandemic.  For marketers navigating a changing  landscape, taking time for learning is essential, suggests Philippa Snare, SVP for EMEA at The TradeDesk in this interview with Beet.TV’s Jon Watts. Snare recently moved from Facebook where she lead their Global […]

 
 

NCSolutions’ Brothers: ‘The Right Buyer Is Worth the Added CPM’

The ad industry is heading away from mass reach to smarter reach, says NCSolutions’ CRO Lance Brothers. In a townhall interview with Jon Watts at February’s Beet Retreat in San Juan, Brothers explained how his company is helping advertisers and ad sellers navigate the shift. It starts with helping the industry understand what attribution means […]

 
 

Xandr’s Paley Mulls Life After Cookies

SAN JUAN PR — The looming deprecation of a key technology advertisers have historically used to track and target users has sent the industry in a scurry for a replacement. Google has declared it will phase out all third-party cookies – the tiny, user-side files that store information – from its Chrome browser by 2022. In this video […]

 
 

Ad Attribution Figures In TV Upfronts: LiveRamp’s Hoctor

SAN JUAN, PR — At the upcoming “upfronts” TV ad sales season ad buyers will be striking deals with broadcast platforms to use attribution technology that can prove the business impact of their ad spend. That is according to an ad-tech boss whose platform is facilitating some of the deals. John Hoctor is president of […]

 
 

Addressable Pipes Are In Place But Slow & Complex: Beet Retreat Panel

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, […]

 
 

Spark Foundry’s Giacosa: TV Attribution Needs to Catch Up

SAN JUAN, PR– With all of the different sources of data informing the TV industry, fragmentation is a natural consequence. In a town hall interview with Beet.TV’s Jon Watts at the Beet Retreat in San Juan, Lisa Giacosa, global md of data and analytics for Spark Foundry, explained how some collaboration is necessary in order […]

 
 

NBCU’s Luongo: ‘Powerful Content Creates the Best Environment for Advertising’

SAN JUAN, PR– Adsmart, the advanced advertising unit at NBCU, has been a “petri dish” for testing and learning to see if cross-portfolio work was viable for the company to do as it moves toward its new One Platform solution. Covering all advanced advertising initiatives including digital programmatic, Adsmart’s approach breaks down silos, streamlines the […]

 
 

Roundel’s Hovorka: Tech Companies Need Humility When Working with Brands

SAN JUAN, PR– After conversations at the Beet Retreat in San Juan, Evan Hovorka, the director of business development at Roundel, thinks that brand needs could be more front and center. On stage with Beet.TV’s Jon Watts, Hovorka says that 15 years at Target has made his thinking brand-centric. “As a brand, I’m trying to […]

 
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