Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. As global CRO at Bloomberg Media, Keith Grossman oversees a “business within a business” that reaches 62 million users and brings in nine figures of revenue annually. In the latest episode of AdExchanger Talks, Grossman describes his sales strategy for that business-focused audience, and […]
Amazon’s ad revenue may be way higher than previously thought. Like, three and a half times higher. According to new analysis from Dan Salmon, managing director for media and Internet equity research at BMO Capital Markets, the company could generate $3.5 billion in ad revenue in 2017. And he expects that figure to grow 63% […]
Destination marketers get tripped up on attribution. A tourism board, like the Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau (PMVB), for example, spans four counties across northeastern Pennsylvania and represents a consortium of hotels, restaurants and activity providers, which makes it difficult to gather real-time metrics on visitation. “Someone might click on an ad and visit our website, […]
“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 Jonathan Cohen, principal brand analyst at Amobee. Last Friday, Netflix founder Reed Hastings celebrated Netflix getting its 100 millionth subscriber, a major milestone for a company that has spent the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Christian Baesler, president at Bauer Xcel Media. This time last year, there were reports that “original sharing” on Facebook was in decline. A year later, and Facebook has released Stories – a video-sharing feature […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Upfront Front NBCUniversal execs anticipate a strong showing at the company’s upfront in a few weeks. “We’re going into the upfront with the strongest hand we’ve ever had,” said Comcast CMO Mike Cavanagh during the company’s Q1 earnings call on Thursday. NBC is leveraging its […]
Alphabet beat its earnings forecast in the first quarter, sending the stock up 5% in after-hours trading. Revenue increased 22% year over year to $24.75 billion. The positive earnings report, however, was overshadowed by investor questions about the YouTube brand safety crisis. Since January, brands and agencies have withdrawn spend, leading Google to improve controls […]
“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 Martin Kihn, research vice president at Gartner. Inspired by results from retargeting, marketers are scrambling to stitch together customer data, unleash machine learning and deliver personalized experiences in display and […]
WPP cut its growth target for this year from 3% to 2%, citing a tepid economy and lack of new business wins, the company said on its Q1 earnings call on Thursday. Q1 organic growth came in below expectations at 0.8%. WPP is feeling the pricing pressure from CPGs as they struggle to compete with […]
Oracle Data Cloud has become a big business driver for Oracle’s CX Cloud Suite, which includes software for marketing, sales, commerce, social and customer service. In the past 18 months, Data Cloud has also become a big acquirer, with deals for Moat, Crosswise and AddThis. And it has a strong presence even in announcements about […]
Facebook is lusting after lucrative online travel ad dollars. And on Thursday, Facebook launched its next assault on the travel industry – encroaching further on Google’s turf – with the global rollout of Dynamic Ads for flights. The release will allow airlines and flight advertisers to retarget users across Facebook, Instagram and Audience Network with ads tied […]
Zeta Global, which provides cloud-based CRM, on Thursday revealed a $140 million funding round that it will use to acquire other marketing tech companies. The round was led by GPI Capital and Blackstone’s GSO Capital Partners. The funding is earmarked explicitly for an acquisition, though the company or category are yet to be determined, said […]
Hulu is moving into phase two of its advanced TV strategy almost two years after launching its private exchange. But the market has changed since then, and Hulu has evolved its own ad technology stack in lockstep. For starters, Facebook shuttered the LiveRail supply-side platform (SSP) and ad server last year, so Hulu migrated to Tremor’s video SSP. Rather than entering a drawn-out RFP […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Goog Riddance Google is enacting some major changes following its YouTube brand safety issues [AdExchanger coverage], and many of these changes go well beyond the video platform where the mess originated. Bloomberg reported that Google is rewriting its search algorithm to bury “misleading, false and offensive […]
Procter & Gamble will slash $1.5 billion from its marketing budget over the next five years, the CPG giant said during its Q1 earnings call Wednesday. At least $1 billion will come from media, specifically by lowering rates and getting rid of supply chain waste, said Chief Financial Officer Jon Moeller. P&G wants to save […]
Ajit Pai is waging war against net neutrality. On Wednesday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Pai laid out his plan for dismantling net neutrality regulations with a proposal to reverse Title II. Title II is the regulatory framework the previous FCC, led by former Chairman and Democrat Tom Wheeler, used to reclassify broadband providers as common […]
While the big story from the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) 2016 digital ad revenue report is that mobile accounted for over half of digital ad spend, digital audio spend was finally significant enough to merit its own category. The biannual report, released Wednesday, shows digital audio spend hit $1.1 billion in 2016, “passing the threshold […]
Looks like TellApart was a very expensive mistake. On Wednesday, Twitter CFO and COO Anthony Noto called the desktop retargeting platform “a headwind” in which it no longer plans to invest. “We continue to face increasingly negative impacts from products we have discontinued or lowered investment in,” Noto told investors during Twitter’s first-quarter earnings call. […]
MGM Resorts International needed to revamp its go-to-market strategy. The hospitality company, which owns hotels along the Las Vegas Strip such as the Bellagio, MGM Grand, The Mirage and Mandalay Bay, as well as properties across the globe, was operating competing media plans for each hotel brand. “We’ve always gone to market as individual resorts,” […]
ComScore will offer viewability and nonhuman traffic detection for free on desktop and mobile, the company said Wednesday. ComScore’s move to eliminate fees on what it terms “baseline” metrics coincides with its launch of a self-serve interface that integrates both its fraud detection and viewability reporting. The product, which was partly built on comScore’s acquisition […]
When a retargeted ad follows you around the internet even after you bought the advertised item, who failed? For publishers, it doesn’t matter. “Who failed? Honestly, I don’t care – I can probably get a $20 CPM for that retargeting campaign,” said Nicholas Hermansader, VP of ad operations at The Meet Group, a public company that […]
“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 Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. Few technologies are riding as high on the hype curve right now as blockchain. With its distributed nature, smart contract functionality and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Laura Gaffney, vice president of global publisher and business development at Prohaska Consulting. When the fit is right, the relationship between publisher and ad tech developer can create a powerful synergy. The benefits are […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Commerce, Not Commercials Publishers are learning to love affiliate revenue (including newspapers that formerly viewed affiliate linking as an editorial stain), but none as enthusiastically as BuzzFeed. Posts like “26 Useful Gifts College Grads Will Actually Want” and “19 Subscription Boxes For People Who Don’t Want […]
Although Nielsen’s total revenue grew 3.2% to $1.5 billion in Q1, CEO Mitch Barns on Tuesday cited several challenges facing its Buy segment, which provides sales measurement and market share information to retailers and manufacturers. While revenue for Nielsen’s Watch segment (Nielsen’s media and audience measurement business) was up 11.1% YoY to $769 million, Buy […]
An advertiser looking to boost response rates for a mobile offer can employ a simple solution: Target commuters on crowded trains. And if there’s a delay or disruption, response rates rise further. The reason? The more crowded the subway car, the more consumers immerse themselves in their phones to avoid contact with the strangers next […]
Facebook’s big bet on messenger bots was an oversell from the start. What’s shaking out now is a more reserved and perhaps more useful idea of what a bot can be and how a business can use it. “Rather than having chatbots be ‘the star of the show,’ as was the implication last year, Facebook […]
“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 John Montgomery, global executive vice president, brand safety, at GroupM. On Feb. 9, The Times, one of oldest and most venerable newspapers in the world, ran a story titled “Big […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Balancing Act Industry trade groups are cautiously optimistic about Google’s development of a built-in Chrome ad blocker [AdExchanger coverage]. “What we want is something that’s industry-wide, that can demonstrably improve user experience and that’s embraced by pretty much everyone,” says IAB chief Randall Rothenberg to Bloomberg. […]
