Digital advertising is a budget behemoth, but television advertising is still a nearly $70 billion business – a fact that informs the planning process at WWP-owned media agency MediaCom. Because although digital video and streaming is starting to take a big bite out of linear’s lunch, TV is still the dominant consumption source, according to […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Melissa Parrish, Executive Director, AdExchanger Research. Reading about Reddit’s struggle to find its stride – both from a culture and advertising standpoint – left me feeling a little nostalgic and a little disappointed. Nostalgic because from […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. GroupM’s Clark On Reviews And Rebates Speaking to The Drum, GroupM North America chief Kelly Clark shares his two cents on the watershed number of media accounts in review. “A lot of the reviews that are taking place are agency/client relationships that have existed […]
“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Mayur Gupta, global head of marketing technology and innovation at Kimberly-Clark. Much of what has been written about omnichannel experiences reflects two perspectives. The first: Every consumer expects it and every brand wants to deliver it. […]
PowerInbox is bringing content recommendation engines to email via its RevenueStripe product. Think Outbrain meets LiveIntent. Beta-launched last summer and brought to the general market in January, RevenueStripe is gaining traction. It now appears in 1.5 billion emails a month. It’s attracted 60 publishers, like Ziff Davis, Prime Publishing and Hearst, which inserts RevenueStripe into […]
Since The Enthusiast Network (TEN), which owns 60 automotive and outdoor sports publications, hired Dana Caputo as its director of programmatic in December, it’s gotten its programmatic house in order. “I came on board to do yield optimization and also empower the sales team to sell programmatic,” Caputo said. Before hiring Caputo, TEN didn’t have […]
Google wants to prove it’s on retailers’ sides – big time. During a Google Shopping presentation for press at the company’s New York headquarters Wednesday, the search behemoth rolled out a slate of new mobile shopping features. They include: Shopping Ads for Best Queries, which lists results for products based on online reviews; Google Now Price Drop […]
When it comes to native, Zalora cares about context. The Singapore-based online fashion retailer, whose app has been downloaded more than 5 million times since 2014, has been working with German mobile marketing company glispa to integrate native placements into its app experience. Glispa, which started life as a user-acquisition and engagement network, has been plugging […]
Zeta Interactive closed a $125 million round of debt and equity funding on Wednesday from GSO Capital Partners, the credit division of Blackstone. Zeta Interactive, which changed its name from XL Marketing in 2014, is a marketing technology company whose clients include ADT, National Geographic, Time Inc., T-Mobile, US Airways, ConEdison and Century 21. According […]
Google’s recent push to prioritize mobile-friendly sites in organic search results is straining the advertising ecosystem, according to Adobe Digital Index’s Q2 2015 Digital Advertising and Social Intelligence report, released Wednesday. The Adobe Digital Index for Q2 2015 noted a 10% decrease in organic traffic on Google among sites that weren’t optimized for mobile. The […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Vice Is A Virtue At least it is for Verizon, which will license content from the media company for its upcoming mobile video service. Vice will channel new and existing content from its digital channels to Verizon’s service, which is expected to launch this […]
Ari Paparo is a longtime builder, explainer and sometimes lampooner of ad tech. And now he’s a CEO. The former product executive with Google, Nielsen and AppNexus has taken the wraps off his new company, Beeswax, which provides a licensed “Bidder-as-a-Service” technology geared to two primary constituents: (1) ad tech firms, such as ad networks […]
AnyClip Media, which helps studios like Universal Studios and Warner Brothers distribute video content, has raised $21 million to beef up its product road map. AnyClip will also hire about 100 people globally this year to support growth in Europe and Asia. It also intends to examine non-organic growth opportunities for companies that fit its […]
Mobile monetization platform Supersonic is looking to help developers get more flexibility around rewarded video with an ad placement-testing tool, which came out of beta on Tuesday. The feature, part of Supersonic’s video mediation SDK, allows developers to test where in their app to serve video that rewards people for watching, and what specific offers […]
Beyond the morass of fraud and viewability hides another tripwire for advertisers: government regulation. That’s why UK-based credit card issuer Barclaycard is getting proactive about compliance. As a company that’s smaller than the competition and still making inroads in the US market, Barclaycard is particularly risk averse when it comes to regulatory issues. To that […]
Despite the doom and gloom around declining linear TV viewerships, networks like Discovery Channel still score on popular annual programming events like Shark Week. The network claimed 2014’s Shark Week was its biggest ever, drawing 42 million viewers in the course of the week, which spurred its decision to expand the weeklong summer event, which […]
“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 Rooke, senior vice president of strategy and operations at Nativo. There is no broad consensus among marketers for defining success in native advertising. That’s not surprising since native is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Slipping Screen Is upfront ad selling on the way out? Hard to say, but it’s not as lucrative as it used to be, and there is a general sense of doom and gloom among TV broadcasters as ratings decline and audiences find other […]
When Ellen Pao stepped down from her post as CEO of Reddit on Friday – ceding the spot to Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman – it left Reddit’s monetization situation murkier than ever. In a question and answer session on Reddit’s popular AMA (Ask Me Anything) section, Huffman wrote, “Reddit has a lot of cash. Monetization […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Catherine Oddenino, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. I’m currently finalizing a report focused on the state of programmatic media from the publisher perspective. As part of the research I’ve been asking publishers what they see […]
AOL is giving its multitouch attribution system, Convertro, a little extra juice by adding contextual data that measures the impact of ZIP code-level weather data within marketing mix models. Other forthcoming additions to Convertro will include conditions around the local and national economy and gas prices. Convertro claimed, even before it was acquired, that it […]
Recipe publishers have realized they can tap into shopper marketing budgets by making their recipes shoppable. Matching brands and stores to relevant recipes requires technology, and the arms race is on. Meredith Digital on Monday acquired Grocery Server, which provides technology to make recipes shoppable. Separately, Reader’s Digest-owned Taste of Home, once a customer of […]
Many industry analysts expect B2B media marketing budgets to finally reach pre-recession levels by the end of 2015, following a drop-off in 2009 that removed almost one out of every $5 spent on B2B outlets. And those revenue streams are migrating to programmatic technology and new native strategies to develop brand awareness. One of 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 Joe Apprendi, CEO at Collective. One look at the infamous LUMA slide tells an epic story of a fragmented ad tech industry. There are hundreds of logos crammed onto a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Driver’s Seat Carmakers are firmly behind the wheel when it comes to controlling driver data, Reuters reports. The systems that link smartphones to “infotainment” systems in vehicles will pool user data, but Apple and Google could be boxed out. “We need to control […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bob Ray, president, Americas, at DWA Media. Business-to-business (B2B) marketers have keenly observed the programmatic performance of business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers. Now is the moment to take advantage of more than a decade of progress, […]
The data and mar-tech deals march on. Midmarket private equity firm HGGC, which groomed hybris into a $1 billion-plus acquisition target for SAP, is the latest. The firm revealed Friday it has invested an undisclosed amount in European marketing-automation and data-management solution Selligent. Investment bank The Jordan Edmiston Group advised Selligent on the transaction. As […]
The health care system is evolving due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which is why MDC Partners introduced a dedicated agency catering to the vertical: Antidote 360. “Health care is moving from a medicinal mindset to a lifestyle mindset,” said Antidote 360 co-founder Jennifer Deutsch, who is also the EVP and general manager of MDC agency […]
Chango recorded 2014 revenues of $43 million prior to its acquisition by Rubicon Project, according to a new US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. But the company was not profitable, despite being an early player in the lucrative retargeting niche. It reported a loss of just under $1 million for the year. Read the 8-K. […]
YouTube multichannel networks (MCN) – and their influencers and fan bases – keep whetting investors’ appetites. Media research firm Ampere Analysis values the entire MCN business at approximately $20 billion in a study of three years’ worth of MCN investments released this week. German media giant ProSiebenSat.1 is the latest to jump in, acquiring on […]
