asiCast

In this asiCast BJ&A’s Founder and CEO, Brian Jacobs, interviews Jon Wilkins, Chairman of the creative agency Karmarama. The interview was conducted before the recent WFA Global Marketer Week event in Tokyo at which Jon was speaking and which saw the launch of the advertiser trade association’s eight ‘Principles for… Read more

Mike Sainsbury, asi’s Chief Executive, interviews Richard Marks about his hopes and expectations for this year’s APAC asi conference. Richard is asi’s Research Director and will be chairing the Friday session on video measurement. Mike and Richard discuss how cross-platform measurement has three significant challenges. The ‘science’ of designing systems… Read more

With the fourth annual asi APAC Television & Video Conference just around the corner, asi’s Research Director Richard Marks chats with David Webb. David is Turner Broadcasting’s Senior Director of Data & Insights APAC and chairs the Thursday afternoon session focused on video advertising. David previews his session and his… Read more

When you’re in the business of evaluating sports rights you need to measure all forms of video however it is distributed. In this asiCast, asi’s Research Director, Richard Marks, talks with Klaus Michler, Managing Partner of Global MMK, about the main sources of data the company accesses for its world-wide… Read more

A short while ago, the Radiocentre in the UK produced a piece of research that was unusual in that it was welcomed by virtually the whole industry. In this asiCast Brian Jacobs, Founder and CEO of BJ&A, speaks with the Radiocentre’s Director of Planning, Mark Barber, about the study, which… Read more

In this asiCast Brian Jacobs, Founder and CEO of BJ&A, discusses the development of programmatic with Sanchit Sanga, Chief Digital Officer at Mindshare for the APAC and MENA regions. After setting out what he means by the term, Sanchit describes how he believes such problems as exist currently will be… Read more

Over the last couple of years, consumer perception of both Netflix and Amazon as providers of high quality content has been steadily rising. In this asiCast our Research Director Richard Marks discusses with Guy Bisson, Research Director at Ampere Analysis, the different strategies being pursued by the two SVOD giants… Read more

For many years Rob Norman was Chief Digital Officer at Group M where he still remains involved in an advisory capacity. In this interview, Brian Jacobs, Founder and CEO of BJ&A, is interested in exploring with Rob, an early adopter of the opportunities afforded by digital, the most significant changes… Read more

A short while ago GfK conducted a roundtable discussion into the views of industry players as to the likely future development of media currencies. Richard Marks, asi’s Research Director, starts off this interview by asking GfK’s Vice President of Media Measurement, Stefan Heremans, what it was that surprised him most… Read more

A number of recent research studies have highlighted the public’s concerns with the media. It is clear that trust has declined seriously in the last few years and trust in advertising is part of this trend. The tracking technology increasingly used by the advertising industry is also understood by the… Read more

Later this year the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be introduced in the European Union. Across all Member States there will have been numerous meetings held by companies where executives have been trying to work out how these regulations will apply to businesses in their sector. In this asiCast… Read more

Towards the end of last year Thinkbox, the marketing body set up to promote television in the UK, published an innovative study into marketing and advertising effectiveness. The study was called Profit Ability and it outlined the business case for advertising. In this asiCast you can listen below to an… Read more

In this asiCast Jane Clarke, CEO and Managing Director of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) in the US, discusses with our Research Director Richard Marks some of the hot topics that are front of mind with CIMM members. This includes reference to the recent Nielsen reporting of Netflix… Read more

The first part of this extended interview with Steve Wilcox, the Managing Director of RSMB, had concentrated on the range of skill sets needed to be drawn upon to make any sense of the volume of data now available to us. In this second part our Research Director, Richard Marks,… Read more

In this asiCast we put two highly-respected members of our audience research community together in the same room to discuss the challenges the industry faces. Our Research Director Richard Marks speaks with Steve Wilcox, managing Director of RSMB, about the growing popularity of the term ‘data science’ and asks whether… Read more

This asiCast discusses how television is likely to develop in the near future. Graham Lovelace, asi’s Media Technologies Director, discusses the prospects with Nigel Walley, CEO of Antenna Group. The progression from a simple ‘receive only’ TV set to what Nigel refers to as the television in the ‘connected and… Read more

Matt Green, Global Lead for Digital and Media at the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), describes the organisation as one that provides insights to its membership across a range of global marketing topics. In this asiCast interview with Brian Jacobs, Matt discusses some of the most pressing issues currently. From… Read more

Can levels of attentiveness to advertising serve as a reliable proxy for its effectiveness? This would seem to be a possibility worth exploring further, following the study recently completed by Karen Nelson-Field in Australia. Karen is the founder of The Centre for Amplified Intelligence and Professor of Media Innovation at… Read more

This asiCast is about on-demand media – specifically streaming audio. Although most of Triton Digital’s business activity is in the US, the company is doing business in 40 different countries and its business is streaming audio. It offers a range of services – mostly to online audio publishers – from… Read more

Until now, content recognition for video has mostly been based upon audio matching, audio encoding and return path data (RPD) for broadcast TV. For online content, the reliance has been on tagging. What are the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches and what are the challenges they face in the… Read more

In this asiCast, we’ve been talking to Radio Futurologist James Cridland about the industry’s direction of travel. In an interview with Richard Marks, James explains how radio is perceived around the world – the U.S. being seen as very much the outlier, with an industry contracting and in decline, whilst… Read more

Improvements in voice-based technology promise to have a major influence on the way we interact with our radios and TVs – and most other household objects it would seem. Smart speakers such as Amazon’s Echo or Google’s Home are blazing a trail and for some this is welcomed as a… Read more

Recently published in the US and due for publication elsewhere very soon, Badmen: How advertising went from a minor annoyance to a major menace is Bob Hoffman’s latest critique of online advertising. You can listen to Brian Jacobs’ interview with Bob about the issues raised in the book in this… Read more

When Fiona Blades established MESH Experience some ten years ago, most tracking studies focused on TV advertising. She recognised that there weren’t any that measured all encounters people had with brands – whether paid, owned or earned. Without measuring these it would clearly be difficult to make sound marketing decisions.… Read more

Just a couple of weeks ahead of the 2017 APAC Television & Video Conference in Singapore, asi’s Research Director Richard Marks highlights in this asiCast the most significant issues currently confronting the industry. As he remarks, many of these are common to all media. One of the most pressing problems… Read more