“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 Omar Abdala, chief data scientist at Lotame. In a fight, would you rather be big or smart? Many would choose bigger, but when it comes to big data, more isn’t […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Swimming Upstream Pandora announced plans Monday to acquire the assets of Rdio, a streaming music service that will be going through bankruptcy. BTIG Research media and tech analyst Richard Greenfield posted a blog post Tuesday morning that takes a distinctly pessimistic tone on Pandora’s […]
In 2012, President Obama’s campaign spent about $112 million on digital media, which was divided among many media companies and some ad platforms. According to Nate Lubin, who was the campaign’s digital director and earlier this year left his position as director of digital strategy at the White House, “We got pitched by I don’t […]
Concoct an unclear or purposefully bewildering privacy policy with a wonky opt-out mechanism and you might have the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) breathing down your neck. “Many companies are providing opt-outs and they need to be careful about what they’re saying and what it means to opt out,” said Maneesha Mithal, associate director for the […]
There are two ingredients in Refinery29’s recipe for success with Facebook video: subtitles and trailers. The digital fashion and lifestyle publisher made the discovery with native ad platform Adaptly while studying how to make long-form and autoplay video content resonate with audiences on Facebook. Refinery29 focused on Facebook video since the social platform is a solid source […]
In the movie “Cube,” a group of strangers find themselves in a labyrinth made of shifting rooms. Sometimes the rooms are safe to enter; other times, they’re rigged with lethal traps. That’s what it feels like for advertisers or publishers trying to navigate the world of ad tech. The promise is great but 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 Jay Friedman, COO at Goodway Group. All too often in today’s digital advertising industry, new agency hires are quickly handed the keys to technologies that can unleash millions of dollars in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Power Index Last Friday, Facebook started allowing Google to crawl and index across its mobile app. The partnership, though narrow, is notable because of how rarely the two alpha competitors from the web and app world find common cause. The Wall Street Journal […]
If policymakers, academics, privacy researchers and technologists have trouble making sense of the cross-device landscape, what chance does the average consumer have? Even the tech-savvy crowd that gathered in Washington, DC, for the cross-device workshop hosted by the Federal Trade Commission on Monday admitted they don’t always have their finger on the pulse, try as […]
YouTube’s TrueView has trained viewers to count backward from five – and then click “skip.” It’s a now-ingrained behavior that traditional and even nontraditional publishers like Norway’s VGTV are trying to grapple with. That’s because pre-roll engagement rates are the pits – and they often have an unfortunate effect on the engagement rate for whatever content […]
