Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Fine, You Can Keep Your Cookie Mozilla is creating a Cookie Clearinghouse in collaboration with the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, according to Ad Age. The clearinghouse would make provisions for companies to issue cookies in special situations — for example, Facebook’s content-delivery […]
Mobile ad exchange Nexage has rolled out three new tools designed to inject more transparency into its Nexage Exchange for buyers and sellers, the company said today. The tools include aggregate reporting, session depth indicators and advertiser-level reporting. US advertisers are expected to spend nearly $3.4 billion this year on digital display ads (including mobile) […]
Facebook has made so many embellishments to its ad monetization machine in the past year that communicating it all to clients has become a big chore. This week in Cannes, the company participated in a “Creativity at Scale” panel and convened its 18-member Client Council to discuss its embrace of hashtags, its recent decision to […]
The moment for “convergence” between TV and online video is starting to seem more real, but video ad tech firm YuMe believes that programmatic sales methods won’t be a substantial part of the conversation around television-style branding campaigns for many years to come. “We do have a small amount of ad sales coming to us […]
Talking about data feels a bit transgressive in Cannes, where creativity is literally center stage. But with data driving so much change at agencies – including at creative shops – it seems an unavoidable topic. It came up frequently in a conversation on Tuesday with Americo Campos Silva, Shell’s Global Media Manager, and Sasha Savic, CEO […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. GE Gets Predictive “Predictivity” — the name says it all. GE, in partnership with Amazon Web Services, Accenture, and others, are getting into the “big data” and analytics game with a cloud services offering. There’s nothing said about ads in the press release, but…listen […]
Web publishers using Google’s AdSense program will get new ad formats and better tools for optimizing ads on their sites in coming months and years, Google’s ad chief promised Monday. Susan Wojcicki, Google’s senior vice president of advertising and commerce, hinted at the improvements during a live video Google Hangout on Tuesday celebrating the official […]
As the mobile landscape expands, so does the trove of consumer data mobile carriers are sitting on. Enter SAP AG, which is hammering out deals to crunch carriers’ mobile user data and sell it to marketers. AdExchanger talked to Kevin Outcalt, head of Consumer Insight at SAP and Guy Rolfe, global mobile practice leader at Kantar […]
It’s been a little more than a year since Kepler Group was spun off (see AdExchanger’s Q&A) from MediaMath, where it had previously been the direct-to-client professional services group. So how’s it going for the world’s first independent agency to be incubated within a demand-side platform? Not bad at all. Kepler is hiring up and […]
One of the reasons that digital publishers like to talk about native is obvious: it resembles the age-old practice of high-priced “advertorials” and the natural customization of the placement dictates that marketers must deal directly with the site’s sales team. At the same time, those reasons have left agencies feeling frozen out by native ads, […]
