Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Native Ads The Wall Street Journal says (subscription) the US Federal Trade Commission will take a closer look at “native ads” with an open forum this Wednesday. See the FTC event page. Meanwhile, the question of scaling native advertising is a big one for […]
As more ad tech providers sought to prove their programmatic chops this year, their underlying mission became “workflow.” Online video marketplace operator BrightRoll is telling ad network, agency and advertiser clients that with its newest console update, it will be able to do things that used to take hours in just minutes. The changes involve […]
Enterprise software companies are racing to soak up marketers’ budgets by building out their marketing suites with acquisitions, partnerships and new products. Those players include Adobe, Salesforce.com, Oracle and IBM. As the year comes to a close, here’s a snapshot look at these companies’ marketing stacks and some of the gaps that each company has […]
Marketo posted strong Q3 earnings last quarter, recording revenue of $25.5 million – a 65% increase year-over-year. The company remains independent today, despite a spate of marketing automation acquisitions in recent years: Teradata bought Aprimo, ExactTarget bought Pardot, Oracle bought Eloqua and Adobe bought Neolane. Many analysts predicted Oracle’s rival Salesforce.com would purchase Marketo, but […]
Although the stakes for delivering ads across different devices are rising, marketers still struggle to gauge the effectiveness of cross-device ad targeting platforms, which are largely unregulated. Introducing standards on cross-device ad targeting could potentially make it easier for marketers to implement these technologies, but there are numerous issues that must be addressed before the […]
“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 O’Hara, co-founder and chief revenue officer of Bionic Advertising Systems. Lately, I have been working on a white paper about the “programmatic direct” phenomenon. Part of the research involved surveying […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo Tech Strategy On GigaOm, reporter Derrick Harris reviews Yahoo tech strategy over the years with four former Yahoo executives. CEO Marissa Mayer is characterized as bringing a renewed sense of energy to the company. “However, she still must find the company’s core business […]
