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On this week’s BeetCast, we caught up with Nathan Brown Global Chief Strategy Officer at  UM, for a chat  about innovation and how his agency is partnering with brands to make them “Futureproof”. Futureproof is the global positing of UM. Key to success  is identifying  the future customer for a brand’s goods and services.   In […]

Interactive television ads are increasingly providing meaningful engagement for both brands and viewers. “It’s that direct access and ability to understand something in the moment that I think is really interesting,” says Jon Stimmel, Chief Investment Officer at global media and advertising agency UM. What needs more refinement is marketers’ understanding of specific households for […]

Every television advertiser is trying to identify what their specific audience means outside of broad age and sex demographic targets. While the latter represent a “fairly blunt instrument that we use as a currency,” more media owners are executing in ways that line up better with how buyers want to execute their plans. An audience […]

Do technology and creativity mix? They do if you are attending this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. “Cannes has evolved over the last couple of years to be this nexus of creativity,” Universal McCann chief investment officer David Cohen tells Beet.TV in this video interview. “Now we’re seeing an influx of technology and […]

While UM has been involved in programmatic buying for nearly five years, it’s recently begun investing in a slate of technology to bolster its work in this area, says David Cohen, Chief Investment Officer at UM. Specifically, UM has created a “single-source view” across screens. “As usage has grown from PC and TV to over-the-top to […]

Brands need to be willing to step back from branded content and let the story do the work, says Scott Donaton, Global Chief Content Officer at UM, in an interview with Beet.TV. That means marketers should use a deft touch on instilling a brand message (or not) in branded content, he explains. “You need to […]

COLOGNE – DMEXCO has reached a new standard, says Sven Weisbrich, CEO, Universal McCann Germany. This year saw much growth for DMEXCO beyond its increased scale and notable attendance figures. Now on par with conferences like CES, clients, publishers and partners can interact on a business level and discuss ideas on a deep level, Weisbrich […]

The increased automation around digital video distribution is allowing content creators, including big media agencies like Universal McCann (UM), to spend more time handcrafting web original video content, says Scott Donaton, Global Chief Content Officer at UM, in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him last night at the AOL NewFront event.    

SAN FRANCISCO — Programmatic buying lets agencies more efficiently execute against KPIS and also helps brands to evolve them, says Gregg Colvin, North American Chief Operating Officer for Universal McCann during an interview with Ashley J. Swartz, Founder and CEO of Furious-Minds, for Beet.TV. One of the biggest benefits of the programmatic model is that it allows […]