Startups built on programmatic technologies are among the fastest-growing companies in the United States, as reported Monday in Inc. Magazine’s annual 500/5000 revenue survey. Among the notable entries in this year’s list: Demand-side platform MediaMath’s revenue in 2013 reached $310.8 million, representing 490% growth over three years. Its competitor DataXu also made significant revenue strides for the second […]
As the ad tech industry consolidates, some veterans of the space are looking to apply their skills to new fields. One result is Orchard Platform, founded in November and led by CEO Matt Burton, formerly sales engineer for AdMeld. The platform facilitates direct lending, bringing together institutional investors, loan originators and consumers. Most of Orchard’s […]
While music streaming giant Spotify has the capabilities and the insights to offer marketers granular audience segmenting and hyperlocal targeting, its focus on user experience supersedes the development of advertising products, said Gary Liu, head of Spotify Labs. The user experience is “definitely a primary focus if not the primary focus for our ad platform […]
Metamarkets founder and CEO Mike Driscoll is wary of describing his company’s technology as a “Bloomberg Terminal” for online advertising. Though it’s a shorthand used by Khosla Ventures, a Metamarkets investor, Driscoll steps cautiously around it. “It’s not our place to analogize our products and services,” he said. “It’s a seductive metaphor, but it was […]
“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 by Megan Pagliuca, VP and GM for digital media at Merkle Inc. It was penned in response to Rob Griffin’s recent piece, “The Death of the Third-Party Ad Server.” Rob Griffin’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Extending Amazon’s Data As part of a test, Amazon has been placing display ads on some affiliate sites and paying on an impression (not conversion) basis. Blogger David Zatz takes the feature for a test drive and is pleasantly surprised despite minor bugs. “Amazon […]
San Francisco-based agency Nice Advertising services small-to-midsize CPG brands like Jelly Belly, Sunsweet and Crystal Geyser. The independent agency is creating a programmatic buying outfit in-house, partnering with TubeMogul as its dedicated video demand-side platform. The growth in programmatic spend is most striking. Since the agency’s Director of media and analytics Eliot Kent-Uritam joined Nice […]
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with vendors combating the problem of ad fraud. Other companies participating in this series include White Ops, DoubleVerify, Moat,Telemetry, Asia RTB and Integral Ad Science. Read previous interviews with Forensiq, Integral Ad Science and Videology. To combat ad fraud, many in the industry have been looking to technology that detects […]
Merkle’s been busy. Since 2011, the privately held CRM and database marketing agency has been on an acquisition roll: Brilig (data exchange); 5th Finger (responsive design); Social Amp (social commerce); IMPAQT (search engine marketing); New Control (digital and direct marketing agency services); and, most recently in July, RKG (search). It’s all part of what Merkle […]
“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 Barry Lowenthal, president at The Media Kitchen. A couple of years ago we started exploring using private marketplaces. But we weren’t successful at getting wide adoption, within the agency or […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Receive The Sell Sider in your inbox twice a week by signing up for the email here, and selecting The Publisher Newsletter. Today’s column is written by Michael Persaud, director of programmatic advertising at Wenner Media. The publisher-facing ad technology […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Instabrand It’s finally happened: Instagram has made generally available a set of tools for brands. Read the blog. What’s in the offering? An account insights dashboard that shows impressions, reach and engagement; an ads insights dashboard that shows how paid media campaigns are performing, […]
It’s a bit of a three-way Catch-22: SnapChat needs to monetize, advertisers need to see solid engagement metrics and ROI and SnapChat users need to feel like they’re not being blasted by irrelevant advertising. Therein lies the rub for several of the agencies AdExchanger spoke with following The Wall Street Journal’s report on a new […]
No one would disagree that smartphone users are spending a ton of time in apps, and here are some more numbers to prove it. A report released Thursday by comScore found that apps now account for more than 50% of all digital media time spent, though it’s interesting to note that mobile growth isn’t vampirically […]
The National Football League’s (NFL) GM of mobile, Manish Jha, has leapt to Tremor Video to spearhead sell-side relationships in his new role as president of publisher platforms. “Tremor has been working with the NFL for some time now and we were really able to manage our direct sales business and network relationship in a […]
“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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. A few months back, Marc Andreesen made the bold prediction that the news industry, which includes a large group of local publishers, will grow […]
“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 Scott Swanson, president of global ad sales at Opera Mediaworks. A few weeks ago, I saw on Facebook that a friend of mine said she was being targeted there for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Recommendation Backlash Outbrain and Taboola, content recommendation companies and direct competitors, are both battling some negative perceptions from the public, Fortune reported Wednesday. Publishers stand to earn a lot through Taboola and Outbrain’s services, as do advertisers – on the order of hundreds of […]
The Local Media Consortium, a 55-member-strong organization of local media startups, newspapers and local television news websites, signed a three-year contract with Yahoo on Tuesday enabling reach extension through the Yahoo platform. Members will also be able to take advantage of Yahoo’s targeting capabilities on behalf of their advertising clients. “If you take a local dry cleaning […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Matthew Keylock, senior vice president and global head of data at dunnhumby. Maybe a consumer in the pet category isn’t a person, but for most products, it is […]
ConAgra Foods, owner of brands like Healthy Choice and Orville Redenbacher, is blending offline shopper data with household addressability to deepen brand awareness. While consumer brand strategies have always leveraged purchase histories and loyalty-card intel, marketers have gotten increasingly sophisticated with cross-device targeting and re-targeting at the household level, said Bob Hall, VP of platform […]
“A Bloomberg Terminal for online media.” We’ve heard that description from companies like Metamarkets and AdFin, but what exactly does that entail? At the highest level, it’s a dashboard presenting a single view of inventory prices across numerous sources – a tool to enable media buyers to make better buying decisions, analogous to the famous contraption used […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publisher’s Promise The Telegraph released a letter to its advertisers in an effort to soothe any concerns regarding a lack of transparency in programmatic trading. The letter reads like a list of guarantees, and The Telegraph is calling it its “Customer Charter.” Sales and […]
Ever since his company, Automated Insights, announced a partnership with the Associated Press (AP), CEO and founder Robbie Allen says it’s been a bit of a whirlwind. The idea that his Durham, N.C., firm’s technology could automate what reporters do with the appropriate data inputs clearly has larger implications. As The Washington Post and Poynter, among […]
Fitness app RunKeeper is trying to monetize for the first time via a partnership with mobile rewards ad network Kiip to embark on a subtle version of advertising – but don’t call it advertising. Kiip founder and CEO Brian Wong doesn’t really like the word, mainly because for many people mobile advertising is synonymous with […]
Yieldbot, whose technology looks at a user’s clickstream and search data in order to determine likeliness to buy, is extending its business to give publishers a new way to monetize their first-party data. To help with this push, it hired Scott Portugal as GM of publisher platforms to assist publishers as they add Yieldbot to […]
One of the purposes of Deal ID is to allow buyers and sellers to negotiate deals that combine the personal touch of the direct sale with programmatic efficiency. But the Deal ID also has challenges around sell-side scalability and limitations in audience discovery for advertisers. Nevertheless, some industry experts say the Deal ID might help […]
“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 Dave Currie, chief marketing officer at The List. Within three years, the average chief marketing officer will spend more on technology than a chief information officer. Approximately22% of global ad […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Boutique Arbitrage On Monday, Ad Age profiled a small digital agency whose atypical business strategy might signal a growing trend. IMM is a Boulder, Colo.-based shop with a head count of 100, and the company is practicing arbitrage (typically undertaken by much larger companies). […]
