The last week of the year is a natural time to look back. To support your data-driven nostalgia requirements, we’ve compiled these 10 “greatest hits” from 2013, an assortment of key developments and memorable interviews from the last 12 months, as reported by AdExchanger. “Behind Amazon’s Pitch To Advertisers” Amazon is actively courting brands and […]
Since 1976, SAS has developed analytics software to extract intelligence from spectacularly large datasets. Much of its dealings occur in financial services, where decisions around fraud, compliance and risk require trillions of computations. But the comparatively recent proliferation of online channels has created a need for rich analytics among marketers. And as the marketing and […]
Years after the major ad holding companies like Publicis, IPG, WPP, Havas and others created trading desks for accessing ad exchanges, Japan’s largest advertising company, Dentsu, finally launched on Dec. 19 its own real-time bidding (RTB) platform, called Dentsu Audience Network. Read the release. Dentsu has been active in developing a programmatic business since 2010, […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a weekly column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. It is written by Joanna O’Connell, Director of Research, AdExchanger Research. I read the recent news about Yahoo!’s opening up guaranteed inventory to Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs), including MediaMath, Doubleclick Bid Manager and The Trade Desk, with enormous interest, but […]
Skills in data-driven disciplines are in high demand, and many marketers are picking up the quantitative skills they need on the job. The problem, said John Deighton, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, is that while many marketers obtain quantitative skills as they work, business students, including marketers, are at a disadvantage […]
The IPG Media Lab is a media test kitchen for parent company IPG Mediabrands. Every week, the tricked-out tech playground plays host to CMOs and brand strategy execs that walk its aisles for inspiration on emerging devices and media-types to augment in their marketing strategies. Through a series of informal relationships with media and technology […]
Last summer, analysts and industry players predicted viewability would become the standard metric for display branding performance. But for Jonah Goodhart, CEO of analytics services provider Moat, viewability is a starting point to determine the value of a display placement instead of the tool that will kill the clickthrough. “Two-thirds of all the world’s ad […]
“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 Andrew Casale, vice president of strategy at Casale Media Inc. It goes without saying that increased familiarity with programmatic buying has brought forth a lot of great executions among marketers. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic Brand The Wall Street Journal looks at the auction for Forbes Media, which is hoping that its positioning as a digital media brand pays off. The WSJ’s William Launder writes, “The path to success for digital media companies, even ones untethered to a […]
Although advances in universal logins and the growing sophistication of marketing stacks give marketers a more complete picture of their customers, several challenges still prevent advertisers from sending consistent cross-channel messages. The largest issues revolve around questions about the match rate of data points and data accuracy, said Alex Andreyev, director of omnichannel marketing at Neo@Ogilvy. […]
