Pivotal Research

The trend was already alight – but COVID-19 poured on gasoline. Increasingly, advertisers don’t want to commit to big upfront TV ad buyers – they want to be more responsive than that. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Michael Levine, Pivotal Research’s senior analyst for internet and media, says demand-side platforms (DSPs), software for buying […]

If you believe some of the hyperbole, as new ad tech and tools give brands greater ability to plan and buy for themselves, the role of the ad agency is now over. Disintermediation is the order of the day. A recent ANA survey showed 35% of marketers expanded their in-house media buying capabilities in 2017 […]

AdAge called him “the most quoted man in advertising” – but what does Brian Wieser call the impact of TV advertising technologies? Underwhelming, it seems. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Pivotal Research senior analyst Brian Wieser, who opines on the media business, says advanced TV targeting opportunities will do little to arrest an overall […]

What if a switch was suddenly flipped that meant advertisers and their data partners would have to gain explicit consent from audiences to be tracked, and that allowed those targets to demand a stop to processing of their data in future? That’s what happened in Europe in 2016 – but the law that was passed […]

LAS VEGAS – When Brian Wieser looks at The Walt Disney Co.’s desire to buy certain aspects of 21st Century Fox, he sees the impact of both shifting viewing habits and the intrusion of big digital players. For Disney, it’s the appeal of a big, quick deal and the options here and overseas it will […]