Month: April 2017

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Back In The Mix Google debuted a marketing mix modeling (MMM) partner program yesterday. It’s an easy-to-miss and important addition to Google’s measurement platform. The self-evident benefits of multitouch attribution (MTA) have failed to overcome last-click in large part because MTA fails to capture macroeconomic or […]

Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Six months ago, Dentsu officially closed on its $1.5 billion acquisition of CRM and digital media agency Merkle. The post-deal integration is “a story with two plots,” according to John Lee, Merkle’s chief product and data officer. The first plot is a straightforward portfolio […]

Colgate-Palmolive is eager to move away from last-click attribution. But similar to most traditional brands, the CFO is being cautious. Moving to more advanced attribution tactics, such as multitouch, isn’t cheap, in terms of vendor fees and internal human capital. “We would have to sell a lot of toothpaste to get return on investment in […]

Last year, American Express’ B2B division – a unit that delivers 40% of the company’s total billings – saw serious results from its programmatic advertising strategy. On Wednesday at the Programmatic I/O conference in San Francisco, American Express VP Tatyana Zlotsky revealed that the financial services company had quadrupled programmatic media spend in 2016. The move […]

“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 Phil Schraeder, president and chief operating officer at GumGum. Marketers like Marc Pritchard, P&G’s global brand-building officer, are beginning to throw down the gauntlet on viewability. Few publishers have sat […]

There’s a “simultaneous frustration” on the buy and sell sides to move beyond legacy TV currency standards like C3 ratings, said Linda Yaccarino, chairwoman of advertising sales and client partnerships at NBCU, at the 4As Transformation show in Los Angeles on Tuesday. This upfront season, NBCU is asking buyers to rethink the way they approach […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jacqueline Corbelli, co-founder and CEO at BrightLine. No one can deny that these days the reigning king is content, illustrated by Netflix’s and Amazon’s rapidly expanding services using original content to woo subscribers. We’re […]

With early-stage ad tech venture capital (VC) dwindling in recent years, some ad tech entrepreneurs stepped in to fill that funding gap, forming an angel investor ecosystem. While institutional investors are disenchanted with ad tech, insiders are more optimistic. AppNexus founder and CEO Brian O’Kelley said he hopes to invest “in a space I understand […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Welcome To The Jungle Amazon has become a legitimate threat to Google and Facebook in the media space. In a note to investors, BMO Capital Markets analyst Dan Salmon raised his price target for Amazon from $900 to $1,200 and said it will take significant market […]

Trading desk CEOs want to change the narrative around programmatic to one of quality rather than cost efficiency. For Amnet co-CEO Art Muldoon, who joined Dentsu Aegis Network when it acquired his programmatic shop, Accordant Media, in August, the ability to tap into a network of creative and data assets helps push that narrative to […]