The Walt Disney Company

LAS VEGAS – Video commerce is racing toward becoming a $3 trillion market by 2030, rivaling the GDPs of Germany and India. The last few weeks alone have seen Shopify put shoppable video in the spotlight and the launch of new shoppable video ad formats, while upfronts season saw big platforms commit to offer more shoppable […]

LONDON, UK — Eleven months after it launched an ad-supported tier in the US, Disney did the same across Canada and Europe. A mere five weeks after that launch, speaking to me at The Future Of Television Advertising Global conference in London, Deborah Armstrong, SVP, Media Sales & Brand Partnerships, The Walt Disney Company, gave a […]

LAS VEGAS — When you have a footprint the size of Disney’s, data collaboration is a necessity. But the new privacy environment makes sharing audience data understandably limited. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Dana McGraw, SVP, Audience Modelling & Data Science, The Walt Disney Company, explains how new “clean room” software is moving the […]

When The Walt Disney Company launches the Disney+ direct-to-consumer streaming service in late 2019, it won’t be advertising-supported. But Disney Advertising Sales is already talking to brands that want to “experience the Disney customer far and away beyond just the traditional advertising,” says sales chief Rita Ferro. Disney+ will be the third piece of a […]