Socially persistent Google will buy Wildfire Interactive for approximately $25o million. The deal comes just a few months after Google reportedly sniffed around Wildfire competitor Buddy Media, before Buddy sold to Salesforce. (Read Google’s blog post) The deal hasn’t closed but sources tell AdExchanger that Google doesn’t expect the need for regulatory review and hopes to finalize things […]
Early engagement with a new Facebook app, RedPlum Social Savings, suggests a possible path forward for traditional coupon marketers eager to break into social. The three-month-old app is offered by Valassis, the coupons giant behind the RedPlum brand, famous for newspaper inserts and direct mail coupons. Valassis says RedPlum and its other channels reach 100 […]
Online measurement company comScore is taking the patent battle to three smaller analytics companies focused on ad effectiveness solutions: DoubleVerify, AdSafe Media and Moat. The new lawsuits use what appears to be at least four of the same patents comScore acquired rights to when it was sued by, and settled with, measurement giant Nielsen in 2011 […]
There’s been a lot of talk about about how a Facebook Exchange or a Facebook ad network will benefit buy-side interests looking for reach, frequency and better performance. But, what about publishers other than Facebook? – where will they stand as Facebook rolls out these new ad strategies? AdExchanger reached out to a selection of […]
Online video ad platform TubeMogul is expanding into Canada, as spending on streams continues its years-long double-digit gains. Still, the space is still held back by a lack of standard measurements. The online video ad dollars being funneled through real-time bidding platforms remains a relative drop in the overall $30 billion dollar U.S. digital ad […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Levinsohn Leaves Yahoo Former interim CEO and head of North American sales at Yahoo, Ross Levinsohn, who originally joined the company after working on his own startup, 5:1, has formally left Yahoo! according to a statement obtained by AllThingsD which quotes Levinsohn, “It has […]
Joel Ewanick, GM’s ousted chief marketing officer, was a good story while he lasted. For ad publications, chief marketing officers are the most important people in the business. The ultimate arbiters of change in media, they — collectively and individually — can make or break a media partner or a new technology platform. They have […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Joanna O’Connell is Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Is Facebook finally getting over itself? Or, rather, is Facebook actually starting to realize that its place in the advertising ecosystem is just that – […]
Free text and calling app Pinger is the biggest mobile app you’ve never heard of. In December 2011, ComScore rated it third in daily usage minutes among iOS apps, ahead of Facebook and Twitter, and fifth in device installs. It’s backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which has a knack for picking winners with […]
On its surface, a new relationship between BlueKai and Canadian ad startup Datacratic resembles many other data partnerships in the real-time bidding space. BlueKai will use Datacratic to bring a new “look-a-like” modeling capability to its platform. The DMP’s customers can augment already-live campaigns with more reach by comparing the attributes of converters to identify […]
Digital ad veteran JP Maheu recently made the jump from agency land to the startup realm, assuming the post of CEO at social TV analytics provider Bluefin Labs last week. Read the release. Maheu spent six years at the independent Razorfish, retiring in 2003 after guiding the sale of the company to SBI (before its […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AppNexus Under the Lens AppNexus is a magnet for scuttlebutt, thanks in part to its many affiliations (founded by refugees from DoubleClick/Google and Right Media/Yahoo, now aligned with Microsoft). In a no-holds-barred interview with AdAge’s Jason Del Rey, CEO Brian O’Kelley indulges the gossip […]
Australian media conglomerate Fairfax Metro Media has extended its existing relationship with Google DoubleClick’s Ad Exchange to focus on online video inventory. However, unlike most publishers, Fairfax is in the middle of trying to extend its ad platform, known as drx, to allow the company to buy — not sell — inventory tied to streaming […]
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are still riding above the fray. For all the talk about Facebook’s new Wall Street masters, about its inevitable kowtowing to advertisers, about its bummer of an IPO and its withering stock price, the overall impression made by its first earnings call (story) was of a company largely indifferent to […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Upkeep Buddy Media’s ad management software now sports Facebook’s newest bells and whistles. The BuyBuddy (formerly Brighter Option) update brings post-impression tracking, premium ads (introduced to the API last week), and mobile targeting. It also comes with a bidding approach dubbed “optimized CPM.” […]
Facebook disclosed Q2 ad revenues of $992 million in its first quarterly earnings report, with cash from ads making up 84% of its total haul. Revenue growth was 28% year over year, a deceleration from Q1 when revenue grew 45%. Facebook is darn close to the billion user mark, with Monthly Active Users at 955 […]
Pete Sheinbaum is no stranger to the power of “the link.” When he led the popular newsletter Daily Candy (acquired by Comcast in 2008) and was looking to scale users and revenue beyond the email inbox, the rich media possibilities of Daily Candy’s website beckoned with demanding advertisers in pursuit. He says that his latest […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim Spanfeller, CEO, Spanfeller Media Group, a new age media company. It is inevitable that we will move into a post ad-tech era. Not to say that ad buying technologies will go away, but that they […]
Last week, newspaper-publisher-backed ad optimizer quadrantONE unveiled three new audience targeting tools in partnership with data management marketing specialist Acxiom. We spoke with Mario Diez, the CEO of quadrantONE, which is a joint venture among The New York Times Co., Tribune Company, Hearst and Gannett, about the new tools and why it pulled in Acxiom […]
CPX Interactive was founded and long run as a traditional ad network business, but it wants to be known for multi-channel advertising — a la ValueClick. So it’s breaking out its channel offerings into branded divisions, starting with mobile and affiliate ads. Its new mobile network, Moversa, is three months old but already contributes 5% […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Zynga’s Display Ads Online casual game publisher Zynga enjoyed the thrill of being a public company yesterday as it reported its Q2 revenue and then suffered a Wall Street-style beatdown for revising future revenue expecations downward significantly. Nevertheless, as Ad Age’s Cotton Delo reports, […]
In Q2, as it has for the past year, AOL’s third party network revenue rose by double digits, while U.S. display dollars remained flat. Read the earnings release. During the earnings call with investors, who once again saw their low expectations exceeded by AOL’s performance, CEO Tim Armstrong batted back questions about the advertising challenge […]
As Facebook hosts its first quarterly earnings call tomorrow after market close, investors will be looking at a range of health indicators. Among them are user engagement (daily, monthly), monetization of mobile, and ad pricing. The bar is lower than might have been expected pre-IPO, with some analysts forecasting decelerated growth in Q2 — owing partly […]
After a few months of preparation, digital marketing tech provider Kenshoo unveiled a number of new tools this week as part of its Kenshoo Enterprise 4.7 software upgrade, including integrated organic and paid search reporting. The Israeli company, which has U.S. operations in San Francisco, New York and Chicago, as well as in China and […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Sacha Xavier, Partner, Media & Innovation Director for Neo@Ogilvy. The mobile media space is as exciting as it is daunting. As a digital media director, it seems there are more […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. YuMe Flips Video ad network YuMe has been working the “users don’t differentiate between screens, why should advertisers” concept of cross-platform ad sales for a while. To try to make that idea a bit more graspable, YuMe has unveiled a mobile video ad unit […]
Boring? Maybe, but email remains a powerful channel for online retailers. As a means to reactivate latent customers and shopping cart abandoners, it’s hard to argue display, affiliate, or even search is more effective. But the bar is getting higher in the space, thanks in part to Amazon’s email retargeting platform. Enter Listrak, whose Lifecycle […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Mark Hughes, CEO of C3 Metrics. It was a Michael Lewis book before it was a Sandra Bullock movie. Published in 2006, “The Blind Side” stated very elegantly what most football […]
One particular area of hope for Yahoo has been its acquisition of data management platform interclick, for which it paid $270 million November 2011. But the financial boost it provided was deemed “disappointing” by CFO Tim Morse during the company’s Q2 earnings call last week. AdExchanger spoke with Peter Foster, Genome’s GM, on the integration of Yahoo’s data […]
