The folks behind the Exchange Lab, including CEO James Aitken and COO Tim Webster, have a long history in ad tech and programmatic buying. Aitken founded Media Brokers in 2001, and both were a part of Atlas before Microsoft bought it through its acquisition of aQuantive. The Exchange Lab, with headquarters in Toronto and London, […]
“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 Joshua Koran, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Turn. The industry has settled on a hot new buzz phrase: programmatic direct. This certainly describes what the industry is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Finding The Waze? After talks with Facebook fell through, Google may have swooped in and offered $1 billion+ to acquire social map startup Waze. According to Israel-based Haaretz, the move is a done deal and would keep Facebook from directly competing with Google in […]
From math teacher at the US Military Academy in West Point more than 20 years ago to his new role as Chief Strategics Analytics Officer of agency DraftFCB, Ken Beatty has sampled a unique set of perspectives on data and its impact on people. Today, like any good agency “soldier,” he says he wants to […]
The online ecosystem is different in Russia. Yandex is the search leader over Google; VK.com (originally VKontakte) and Odnoklassniki.ru are more popular social networks than Facebook. But when it comes to programmatic buying, the country looks similar to the US RTB circa 2011, thanks in part to the participation of Russia’s major internet players. The […]
Mobile advertising and the need to further educate consumers about its services were key issues at the Digital Advertising Alliance’s first summit, held this week in Washington, DC. The DAA has planned to introduce a set of mobile advertising guidelines for several months and will do so soon, according to Managing Director Lou Mastria. “Mobile […]
“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 Gurbaksh Chahal, CEO & Founder of RadiumOne. Marketers are accustomed to investing quite a lot of capital to build their core audiences. Until now, that’s mostly meant collecting mounds […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Standardizing Native It’s clear that IAB loves a good task force, and their latest effort revolves around standards and best practices for native advertising. See who’s on “The Force.” According to the IAB’s blog, they are also launching a Content Marketing Task Force to […]
On May 22, TARGUSinfo founder George Moore passed away suddenly at the age of 62. According to The Irish Times, Moore was the son of a shoemaker in County Louth, Ireland. With college degrees in hand, he left for the United States in 1972 and sold his first company in 1990. Shortly thereafter, he launched […]
Facebook is preparing to slash the number of ad formats it sells from 27 today to less than half that by Q4. On the chopping block are online-only Offer ads, Questions ads and standalone Sponsored Stories placements. Going forward, Facebook will structure and optimize ad buys based on “six or seven” marketer objectives, distributing messages […]
Twitter has shown aggressiveness over the past few months in developing its advertising business, and this morning’s global data-sharing deal with WPP Group represents another significant advancement. Read the release. The relationship is through WPP’s Data Alliance, which includes the holding company’s media buying and planning umbrella GroupM, the analytics provider Kantar and digital creative […]
Brand Networks, a company that serves the social marketing needs of large retailers and other companies with dozens or hundreds of local outlets, has raised a whopping $68 million round from AEA Investors. As one of the remaining scaled independent platforms in social marketing, Brand Networks says it needs the capital to aggressively develop 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. One day I came to work and realized that everything had changed. My branch of the industry had upgraded from the […]
Addressable TV ads company Visible World is working with FourthWall Media to make it easier for cable operators to deploy Household Addressable TV Advertising across any of the major cable operators’ set-top boxes. FourthWall Media purchased digital TV ad management platform Navic from Microsoft in May 2012. Following that deal, Navic was folded into FourthWall’s […]
“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 Rob Leathern, CEO of Optimal, Inc.. Having had the fortune (or misfortune) of being involved in online advertising product development over the past nine years, I’ve been able to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Third-Party Valuation How much is your data worth? Merkle is launching a new product called Merkle’s Digital Data Optimization Lab, which brings data valuation and optimization to CRM for its clients. Ozgur Dogan, SVP & GM of Merkle’s Data Solutions Group, tells AdExchanger the […]
Privacy management provider Evidon has acquired MobileScope, a tool that lets users determine whether information is being collected about them through mobile apps, the company said Wednesday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Evidon learned about MobileScope – which was a beta product designed last year by privacy experts Ashkan Soltani, Aldo Cortesi and […]
Aol wants to be the “new TV.” During its lavish NewFront presentation last month, it pressed the message “We’re ready for primetime” – that is, primetime TV ad spending. Today the company released a survey of 770 ad industry executives on the migration of TV spend to digital video. Respondents indicated plans to shift spend […]
WPP Group’s trading desk Xaxis is known for its proprietary approach to technology. The GroupM unit has incubated numerous ad platforms, a legacy of WPP’s 2007 acquisition of 24/7 Media. It offers these products to clients as an alternative to licensing from vendors. By contrast, trading desk rivals VivaKi AOD (Publicis), Cadreon (IPG), and Accuen (Omnicom) are […]
Salesforce.com added another notch to its marketing belt with the news that it had purchased email marketing and marketing automation provider ExactTarget for $2.5 billion in its biggest acquisition yet. AdExchanger reached out to several analysts and asked their thoughts on the ramifications of this deal. Rebecca Wettemann, vice president, Nucleus Research Paul Greenberg, president, […]
“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 Chris Sukornyk, Founder & CEO of Chango. Programmatic marketing is still a relatively new phenomenon. Those who are familiar with the practice often assume that it’s merely a direct-response […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Fruits Of Akamai MediaMath formally launched Adroit Digital (see it) on Tuesday, using the technology and the team it acquired from Akamai’s ad business, known as Advertising Decisioning Solutions (ADS). It’s also using part of the name of Adroit, the Boston-based dynamic creative […]
Google remains on a warpath to drive industry-wide adoption of its ad tech “stack” strategy, positioning integration of past acquisitions as proof it is serving key constituencies. In March, Google called out the integration of Admeld and publisher direct sales. Today at its thinkDoubleClick client advisory board, it will highlight the inclusion of Wildfire (acquired […]
Worldwide advertising revenue for Amazon will reach more than $800 million in 2013, as the company leverages its rich customer data and deals with the challenges of mobile advertising, according to a new forecast from eMarketer. “We’ve been looking at Amazon as a business for a while now, and at this point we felt there […]
Salesforce.com has said it will acquire the digital marketing platform ExactTarget for $2.5 billion, making this the cloud software company’s largest acquisition to date. One driver of the deal was Oracle’s acquisition of marketing automation provider Eloqua last year. At the time, AdExchanger and others speculated that Salesforce.com would snap up ExactTarget or Eloqua competitor […]
“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 Jeremy Geiger, CEO of Retailigence. Mobile devices have dramatically changed the way shoppers interact with brands and retailers. The growing popularity of mobile shopping apps, combined with brand and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news roundup… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Counting The Spend Online ad revenue has hit a new high – $9.6 billion – according to an IAB and PwC report. That’s a 15.6% increase in just one year. “This first quarter milestone clearly illustrates that marketers recognize that digital has become the go-to medium […]
Chegg.com launched in 2007 as a website for college students to buy and sell used textbooks. In the past couple of years, Chegg has evolved into a community platform with a range of data on an elusive market: high school and college students. Elizabeth Harz, Chegg’s VP of business development, says, “There are a number […]
When Publicis Groupe launched it five years ago, VivaKi Audience On Demand was among the first holding company trading desks. And Google was its key partner, supporting a great majority of AOD’s ad serving and auction-based display media buying. But those days are over. As of Q1, Google’s DoubleClick Bid Manager (formerly Invite Media) is […]
