Sam Garfield

SANTA MONICA, CA — Streaming TV is now well past its first innings, that golden year when it seemed like subscriber growth would never end. In the new era of competition and price inflation, many customers are giving up on SVOD or moving between providers, plunging operators into an age you might call the Churn […]

Addressable advertising is becoming a reality as providers of TV programming work with cable and satellite TV companies to develop standards for audience measurement and media attribution. With improved targeting of audiences, advertisers can expect to see quantifiable results including business outcomes in the next few years. Discovery Communications, whose network brands include Discovery Channel, […]

They are two of the key developments being touted to revolutionize TV ad buying – but are “deterministic” targeting and outcome attribution really up to scratch? During “Data Activation, the New Tool for Programmers”, a panel convened at Beet Retreat In The City, executives held a refreshingly frank discussion on the true state of two […]

Now more than ever, exploring new ways of compiling metrics as a way to best to approach television as a medium has become paramount. In a conversation with Beet.TV at the Beet Retreat in New York City hosted by Horizon Media, Sam Garfield, vp of data strategy and advanced advertising planning at Discovery Communications, explains […]

LAS VEGAS — Discovery Communications already has its own data management and optimisation platform for linear TV ad trading. Now it wants to bring it back to digital, too. “Discovery Engage, which is our linear optimisation platform, we started on the linear side,” Discovery Communication data analytics VP Sam Garfield tells beet.TV in this video interview. “We’re […]