Hershey’s Leans Into Live Sports for Uniting Audiences, Driving Reach

ORLANDO, Fl – Candy gets sticky, but, when it comes to audience engagement, could live sports be stickier? “Sports brings culture together,” according to Vinny Rinaldi, VP of media and marketing technology at The Hershey Company. In this video interview with Beet.TV at the ANA’s Masters of Marketing conference, Rinaldi said the confectionary company is […]

 
 

Hershey’s Rinaldi Is Sweet On Clean Rooms For Attribution Insights

LAS VEGAS — One of the world’s largest chocolate manufacturers likes the taste of a new tech category designed to enable data collaboration while maintaining privacy compliance – but The Hershey Company is also warning of a looming after-taste. “Clean room” software is gaining adoption in media and advertising for allowing partners to work with […]

 
 

PepsiCo Uses Propensity Model around Purchase Data for Upfront TV Buying

The future of TV looks a little different than it did five years ago. And, at this pace of change, it even looks different than it did five months ago. Today, subscription video has boomed, but the following wave of advertiser-supported VOD services is also emerging in its wake. Preparing for an internet TV world […]

 
 

The ROI Of Advanced TV: “You Can Prove it Now,” Samsung’s Michael Scott

What is advanced television for, really? During Advertising Week New York, a panel heard how, through its Samsung Ads unit, Samsung is providing data on what its Smart TV owners are viewing to enrich advertising opportunities. Panelists debated how, thanks to technology that can observe eventual viewer outcomes like sales or clicks, and link them […]

 
 

Advance TV is Sweet for Hershey’s as Linear TV Spend will Drop Below 50% for the First Time Next Year

Advanced TV advertising techniques promise brands the ability to precision-target consumers by the household and to more smartly cap the number of times they do so. But how quickly are brands embracing the opportunity? In this Samsung Ads panel at Advertising Week, two major brands were asked how fast they are welcoming in addressable TV. […]