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Who’s to blame for the rising problem of online ad fraud? Ad tech vendors aren’t the frauds themselves – but they should accept responsibility for keeping customers happy, says one platform boss. “We take the burden,” says says Brett Wilson, CEO of video ad tech vendor TubeMogul. “Anything you buy that isn’t what you think […]

Dave Morgan says  Simulmedia, is taking an important step by participating in upcoming US TV ad-buying upfronts for the first time. “It’s been something we’ve watched from the sidelines as a spectator,” Morgan tells Beet.TV. “For the first time, we have positions on both the sell side and the buy side.” Simulmedia brings an avalanche of […]

Over the last couple of years, media measurement’s big titans have both rolled out new ways to quantify online video consumption for advertisers – Nielsen’s Online Campaign Ratings (OCR) and comScore’s Validated Campaign Essentials (VCE). Who will win? That’s the wrong question to ask, says an exec from the comScore side. “The market has come to believe […]

As a gamut of third-party vendors rises up to qualify the true consumption of ad inventory for buyers and publishers, if you thought one would emerge as a victorious standard – think again. “I can’t just rely on a publisher or a verification vendor – it has to be a blended approach in order to […]

“Don’t panic!” That is Internet Advertising Bureau US‘ research, analytics and measurement SVP Sherrill Mane‘s advice to an advertising industry growing alarmed by the rise of apparent fraudulent viewing of their ad buys. “The distinction between (‘fraud’ and ‘viewability’ is not being made correctly,” Mane tells Beet.TV. “The danger to the reputation of the industry […]

Recent revelations that many online ad impressions – perhaps 40% – are prompted by internet bots defrauding ad buyers has spooked the industry. Now Google  wants to go to war with the bots. “The surge of non-human traffic … is really taking the entire industry by storm,” Americas media platform sales head Jay VanDerzee tells Beet.TV. “This, […]

Advertisers won’t get to correlate ad spending with actual business outcomes until they give intermediaries real-time sales data, says one major-agency ad exec. Asked if advertising measurements like CPMs should be replaced by client-oriented metrics like actual sales, DigitasLBi media activation head Adam Shlachter agreed: “What we should be focusing on is the outcomes we want […]

Unscrupulous publishers are causing advertisers sleepless nights by automatically playing video ads despite being out of human view, “below the fold” of web browser windows. So could mobile provide safe sanctuary? “The nice thing about the walled garden of iOS, and sometimes android as well, is that you cannot really run things ‘below the fold’,” […]

Nefarious publishers that defraud advertisers by using code to artificially play video ads are responding to recent attempts to shut them down using fraud-busting software, according to one ad tech vendor. “People who create bots realize that now advertisers are focused on finding ads that are in-view,” says Integral Ad Science CEO Scott Knoll. “So […]

Automated, so-called “programmatic” online ad-trading techniques may considered a mechanism for buying low-grade ad space. But Google is amongst those convincing “premium” publishers, as well as low-end sites, to use the methods. Last week, Google unveiled Google Partner Select, an initiative that opens up the practices to the high-end. “Many of the top publishers are […]

“Programmatic” advertising has grown up defined as marketplaces of online ad space open for buying and selling. But video ad tech vendor TubeMogul CEO Brett Wilson explains the emergence of the “programmatic direct” variant… “There’s another set of inventory that’s more premium – advertisers and publishers both want to leverage the power of software to […]

The consortium of video ad tech companies which set out to harmonize measurement standards using open-source code is celebrating its first anniversary having grown its membership six-fold, says one of the founding members. OpenVV launched a year ago under the auspice of TubeMogul, Brightroll, Innovid, LiveRail and SpotXchange to open-source software for measuring true video viewability, […]

Recently-formed media agency Assembly says it will use YuMe’s new Reach Calculator tool, developed with Nielsen, to show advertisers the effect of moving ad spend from TV to online. “Being able to play with it with the client sitting at our desk is something I’m excited about trying,” says Assembly’s group planning director David Klein.” […]

Online video ad platform YuMe already partnered with Nielsen to release its ad reach calculator tool this week. Next up, it wants to understand how consumers interpret digital ads. YuMe research director Paul Neto tells Beet.TV the company’s next research effort will examine consumers’ receptivity and attentiveness toward ads. “Consumers, more than ever, are distracted,” Neto […]

If an advertiser moved 6% of its TV ad spending in to online video, how many more viewers would it reach? That’s the question online ad tech outfit YuMe is trying to answer by launching its Multi-Screen Reach Calculator, a web app that lets ad planners play with various spending scenarios across different devices. “We […]

LONDON — Guardian News & Media is getting set to report that digital publishing revenue is helping make up for print revenue that is shrinking, according to the group’s commercial director. “This year, when we report our results in July, we’ll say that, for the second year in succession, the growth in digital has exceeded the […]

LONDON — In advertising, video may have grown up as a display medium for brand advertisers – but it could be a direct response mechanism, says the EMEA CEO for digital agency POSSIBLE, a WPP unit. “Some of the great stuff being done today either talks about the human condition … and the other thing […]

LONDON — Mindshare Worldwide’s chief digital officer Norm Johnston sees video’s jump from the desktop to the living room screen as one of the biggest advertising and content opportunities in the years ahead. “What’s interesting is the possibilities within IPTV,” he tells Beet.TV. “Forty percent of televisions in the US are now connected to the […]

It’s nothing like the Google product of the same name, but online journalism site Quartz’s new Glass site is certainly another lens through which to look at the future. The 20-month-old Atlantic Media spin-off is adding the future of TV and video to its list of “obsessions” covered by beat writers. “The best way to […]

Programmatic video advertising platform SpotXchange says it will nearly double its headcount to service new premium publishers over the next year, after finding strong business growth in the last 12 months. “The company saw 145% revenue growth this year in Q1, we saw 350% growth in terms of programmatic spend in Q1,” says the company’s […]