Posts for 'GroupM'

  • [VIDEO] Why Premium Streaming Video is Increasingly Ad-Supported

    The following video was recorded at VideoNuze’s Connected TV Advertising PREVIEW: 2024 virtual on February 28, 2024.

    Why Premium Streaming Video is Increasingly Ad-Supported
    All across the streaming landscape, premium video is increasingly supported by advertising, in both free and hybrid subscription services. This session will explore the range of different reasons behind this evolution and what it means for the industry and viewers going forward.

    Dave Bernath – VP, Sales & Partnerships, North America, Wurl
    Bill Condon – VP, Enterprise Sales & Partnerships, Xumo
    Erick Opeka – President and Chief Strategy Officer, Cineverse
    Tejas Shah – SVP, Commercial Strategy and Analytics, FilmRise
    Jen Soch – Executive Director, Channel Solutions, GroupM
    Colin Dixon – Chief Analyst and Founder, nScreenMedia (moderator)

     

     
  • [VIDEO] Unraveling the Measurement and Attribution Imperative

    The following video was recorded at VideoNuze’s fourth annual Connected TV Advertising Summit virtual on June 8, 2023.

    Unraveling the Measurement and Attribution Imperative
    There is likely no single topic that generates more coverage and industry hand-wringing than measurement and attribution. For many in the industry, establishing a single, or possibly multiple credible currencies, is priority #1. Yet tens of billions of dollars of spending are transacted in digital without such currencies, and rather are based on actual outcomes. With a full-funnel/lower-funnel future ahead for CTV, how should CTV’s transaction backbone be informed by a traditional TV currency paradigm? Join us for a robust discussion of how critical measurement and attribution issues are being addressed, with an eye to unlocking CTV’s ultimate success.

    Bharad Ramesh - Executive Director Research & Investment Analytics, GroupM US
    David Sederbaum - EVP, Head of Video Investment, Dentsu Media US
    Andrea Zapata - EVP, Head of Ad Sales Research, Measurement and Insights, Warner Bros. Discovery
    Maggie Zhang - SVP, Measurement Strategy and Operations, NBCUniversal
    Lynda Clarizio – General Partner/Co-Founder, The 98 and former President, US Media, Nielsen (moderator)

     

     
  • [VIDEO] Is CTV’s Future at the Bottom of the Funnel?

    The following video was recorded at VideoNuze’s third annual Connected TV Advertising PREVIEW: 2023 virtual on February 28, 2023.

    Is CTV’s Future at the Bottom of the Funnel?
    With linear TV’s decline, CTV ad spending has surged as advertisers “follow the eyeballs” in order to achieve their reach and frequency objectives. But rather than CTV being viewed solely as a “top of funnel” branding channel, its biggest opportunity may be as a “full funnel” or even “lower funnel” opportunity. This would unlock performance-oriented advertising budgets that are based on high impact targeting and measurement, much the same as the successful playbook Google has run in search and Facebook has run in social. Learn how and when CTV may evolve into full funnel and what this means for all market participants.

    Sean Doherty, Jr. – Co-Founder and COO, Wurl
    Eric Smith – US Head of Verticals, Auto, Tech, Gaming & Entertainment, Roku
    Jen Soch – Executive Director, Channel Solutions, GroupM
    Olga Weinraub – Senior Director, Enterprise Marketing Partnerships, Cox Automotive
    Colin Dixon – Chief Analyst and Founder, nScreenMedia (moderator)

     
  • [VIDEO] GroupM’s Global and CTV Advertising Outlook

    The following session was recorded at VideoNuze's Connected TV Advertising PREVIEW: 2022 virtual conference on January 26, 2022.

    GroupM’s Global and CTV Advertising Outlook
    Dig into GroupM’s global advertising outlook and why CTV will hit $33 billion by 2026.

    - Brian Wieser – Global President, Business Intelligence, GroupM (presenter)
    - Will Richmond – Editor and Publisher, VideoNuze (interviewer)

     

     
  • [VIDEO] Understanding Brand Suitability’s Relationship with CTV Advertising

    The following video was recorded at VideoNuze's Connected TV Advertising Brand Suitability Summit virtual on November 16, 2021.

    Understanding Brand Suitability’s Relationship with CTV Advertising
    What exactly is brand suitability and what does it has to do with CTV advertising? Why is it so critical for the CTV ecosystem? Who’s responsible? Why is brand suitability something that  all industry participants need to understand? How is the industry moving beyond conventional notions of brand safety?

    - Joshua Lowcock - U.S. Chief Digital & Global Brand Safety Officer, UM
    - Susan Schiekofer - Chief Digital Investment Officer, GroupM North America
    - Dani Wolinsky - Global Head, YouTube Ads Buying Experiences, Google
    - David George - CEO, Pixability (moderator)

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  • [VIDEO] Multi-Platform Meets Brand Suitability: Best Practices

    The following video was recorded at VideoNuze's Connected TV Advertising Brand Suitability Summit virtual on November 16, 2021.

    Multi-Platform Meets Brand Suitability: Best Practices
    What are the best practices when optimizing for brand suitability across CTV, web, mobile multi-platform/omnichannel campaigns? What is the state of the art in managing/tracking/updating all these moving pieces and what does the technology roadmap look like?

    - Joe Barone – Managing Partner, Brand Safety Americas, GroupM
    - Rayna Elliott – SVP, Digital Strategy and Innovation, Horizon Media
    - Natalie Gabathuler-Scully – SVP, Revenue Operations, Vevo
    - Eric John – VP, Media Center, IAB (moderator)

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  • GroupM: TV Advertising Down 7% in 2020, Digital Extensions Down 3%

    GroupM, the world’s largest ad buyer, is forecasting total TV advertising in the U.S. will drop by 7% in 2020 and another 12% in 2021. National TV will drop 11% in 2020 and gain 6% next year. Local TV will bear the brunt in 2020, dropping 34%, due to slowing retail and automotive advertising. But when one-time political ads are added in for 2020, GroupM sees a 1% total increase in local TV advertising.

    However, it is forecasting a “modest” 3% decline in advertising revenue for TV “digital extensions” (which it defines as both “digital ad revenue realized by traditional media owners for their traditional properties and the pure-play digital media owners with directly competitive products”). GroupM includes Hulu, Roku and others in the digital extensions category. And for 2021, GroupM sees TV digital extensions advertising increasing by 15%. GroupM believes that TV digital extensions spending will add up to around 14% of national TV ad spending in 2020.

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  • Keynote Interviews with GroupM’s Brian Lesser and Hearst’s Troy Young [AD SUMMIT VIDEO]

    We had 2 terrific keynote interviews at our recent 7th annual Online Video Advertising Summit, with Brian Lesser (CEO, GroupM North America), which was conducted by Matt Spiegel (Managing Director, Marketing & Technology Solutions, MediaLink) and with Troy Young (Global President, Hearst Digital Media), who I interviewed.

    Taken together they provide invaluable insights from both the buy and sell sides about how to succeed in the rapidly changing video industry.

    Each interview is a little over 30 minutes. Links to all of the session videos from the Ad Summit are included at the bottom of this post. Enjoy!

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  • NewFronts, Upfronts and Changing Video Ad Landscape [AD SUMMIT VIDEO]

    One of the highlights of the June 4th Online Video Ad Summit was an in-depth session on the recent NewFronts, Upfronts and the larger changes in the video advertising landscape, featuring Michael Bologna, Director, Emerging Communications at GroupM and Adam Shlachter, SVP, Media, Digitas, with Jim Nail, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research moderating.

    It was a dynamic, wide-ranging discussion that touched on the following topics: what impact the NewFronts will have, how to de-duplicate audience viewing given the proliferation of screens, why advertisers continue to pay more despite smaller TV audiences, what role new ad creative can play in online, how new targeting techniques play vs. traditional content-as-a-proxy-for-audience mindsets and lots, lots more.

    The video is below and runs 35 minutes, 18 seconds.

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  • Here's What the World's Largest Media Buying Agency Thinks About Online Video Advertising [VIDEO]

    A couple of weeks ago at the ELEVATE: Online Video Advertising Summit, Mike Bologna, head of emerging communications at GroupM did a fireside chat with Jack Myers, Chairman, Media Advisory Group, to discuss the agency view of online video advertising. For those not familiar with GroupM, it is a unit of WPP and is the world's largest media buying agency, accounting for over 32% of global media billings. Mike is the point person on all emerging media and has a front-row seat in the unfolding drama of online video's efforts to attract traditional TV dollars.

    In the 25-minute video (after the jump), Mike provides a candid view of online video's opportunities and challenges. Among other things, he clarifies what constitutes "professionally created" content, explains that online video can be viewed as more economical than TV despite its higher CPMs, discusses how the strong recent upfront actually benefits online video, shares why he just advised a client to shift 4% of its TV spending to online video, describes why a single source of measurement is critical to the industry's growth and articulates the challenges YouTube has in attracting ad dollars.

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  • 4 Items Worth Noting for the Oct 19th Week (FCC/Net neutrality, Cisco research, Netflix earnings, Yahoo-GroupM)

    Following are 4 items worth noting from the Oct 19th week:

    1. FCC kicks off net neutrality rulemaking process among flurry of input - As expected, the FCC kicked off its net neutrality rulemaking process yesterday, with all commissioners voting to explore how to set rules regulating the Internet for the first time, though Republican appointees dissented on whether new rules were in fact needed.

    Leading up to the vote there was a flurry of input by stakeholders and Congress. Everyone agrees on the "motherhood and apple pie" goal that the Internet must remain open and free. The disagreement is over whether new rules are required to accomplish this, and if there are to be new rules what specifically should they be. As I argued here, the FCC is treading into very tricky waters, and law of unintended consequences looms. Already telco executives are talking about curtailing investments in network infrastructure, the opposite of what the FCC is trying to foster. The FCC will be seeking input from stakeholders as part of the process. Even though chairman Genachowski's bias to regulate is very clear, let's hope that as the data and facts are presented, the FCC is able to come to right decision, which is to leave the well-functioning Internet alone.

    2. New Cisco research substantiates video, social networking usage - Speaking of the well-functioning Internet, Cisco released its Visual Networking Index study this week based on research gathered from 20 leading service providers. Cisco found that the average broadband connection consumes 4.3 gigabytes of "visual networking applications" (video, social networking and collaboration) per month, or the equivalent of 20 short videos. (Note that comScore's Aug data said of the 161 million viewers in the U.S. alone, the average number of videos viewed per month was 157.) I'm not sure what the difference is other than Cisco is measuring global traffic and comScore data is at U.S. only. Regardless, the Cisco research continues to demonstrate that users are shifting to more bandwidth-intensive applications, and the Internet is scaling up to meet their demands.

    3. Netflix reports strong Q3 '09 earnings, streaming usage surges - Netflix continues to stand out as unaffected by the economy's woes, reporting its Q3 results late yesterday that included adding 510,000 net new subscribers, almost double the 261,000 from Q3 '08. The company finished the quarter with 11.1 million subs and projects to end the year with 12 to 12.3 million subs. If Netflix were a cable operator it would be the 3rd largest, just behind Time Warner Cable, which has approximately 13 million video subscribers.

    Netflix CEO Reed Hastings also disclosed that 42% of Netflix's subscribers watched a TV episode or movie using the "Watch Instantly" streaming feature during the quarter, up from 22% in Q3 '08. Hastings also said in 2010 the company will begin streaming internationally, even though it has no plans to ship DVDs outside the U.S. He added that in Q4 Netflix will announce yet another CE device on which Watch Instantly will be available (just this week it also announced a partnership with Best Buy to integrate Watch Instantly with Insignia Blu-ray players). Net, net, Watch Instantly looks like it's getting great traction for Netflix and will continue to be a bigger part of the company's mix. Yet as I've mentioned in the past, a key challenge for Netflix is making more content available for streaming.

    4. Yahoo's pact with GroupM for original branded entertainment raises more questions - Shifting gears, Yahoo and GroupM, the media buying powerhouse announced a deal this week to begin co-producing original branded entertainment for advertisers. The idea is to then distribute the video throughout Yahoo's News, Sports, Finance and Entertainment sections. GroupM has had some success in the past, as its "In the Motherhood" series, created for Sprint and Unilever, was picked up by ABC, though it was quickly canceled. As I pointed out in my recent post about Break Media, branded entertainment initiatives continue to grow.

    Less clear to me is Yahoo's approach to video. CEO Carol Bartz said last month that "video is so crucial to our users and our advertisers..." that "there's a big emphasis inside Yahoo on our video platforms" and that "a big cornerstone of our strategy is video." OK, but these comments came just months after Yahoo closed down its Maven Networks platform, which it had only acquired in Feb '08. Having spent time at Maven, I can attest that its technology would have been well-suited to supporting the engagement and interactivity requirements of these new Yahoo-GroupM branded entertainment projects. Yahoo's video strategy, such as it is, remains very confusing to me.

    Note there will be no VideoNuze email on Monday as I'll be in Denver moderating the Broadband Video Leadership Breakfast at the CTAM Summit...enjoy your weekend!

     
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