Innovid customers will now get to measure their YouTube video ads, thanks to a partnership with Google that was revealed Tuesday. The video advertising platform has joined more than 20 other vendors in the Google Measurement Partners program, an initiative that launched last week to allow outside parties – including comScore, DoubleVerify and Nielsen – to evaluate […]
Ad tech is a buyer’s market right now, and MediaMath just got $180 million in cash to fund acquisitions. Could one of those targets be Rubicon Project? “That’s an interesting idea,” MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki told AdExchanger Thursday. “No, we are not buying them at this time.” The idea of a top-tier DSP and SSP […]
Omnicom is shedding nonstrategic assets to invest in data, technology and analytics. That strategy was made clear by management on the company’s Q2 and H1 earnings call Tuesday, when Omnicom reported organic growth in North America was down 0.9% for Q2 and 0.5% for the first half of the year. Worldwide revenues for the quarter […]
“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 Jacob Beck, programmatic media specialist at DWA Media, a Merkle company. Already, the AI ecosystem has grown crowded, especially as it relates to managing programmatic spend. Demand-side platforms (DSPs), supply-side […]
The only common currency for advertising is attention. And that’s where Hearts & Science CEO Scott Hagedorn is betting the farm. “The common currency of reach is not legit,” he said. “Attention is a finite resource. It’s the one element that binds TV and digital.” Hagedorn, a longtime Omnicom exec, is trying to help his […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A+ Marketing Universities are taking a play out of the data-driven marketing playbook to recruit students for graduate programs. Houston Baptist University worked with higher education consulting firm EAB to create a demographic and psychographic profile of its students and target lookalikes on Facebook […]
Salesforce has signed an agreement to acquire Datorama, a marketing tech company whose platform connects and consolidates data from different sources, the companies said Monday. The deal is anticipated to close Q3. Terms were not disclosed, though the publication CTech said the offer is for $800 million. “With one unified view of data and insights, […]
Snapchat took a short-term revenue hit last year when it pivoted from its original direct branding business to a self-serve ad platform. But the low inventory prices and data and user-tracking features that have accompanied Snapchat’s programmatic transition are making the company more competitive with Facebook and Instagram. Snapchat’s improved measurability come as Facebook’s platform […]
The digital and programmatic space needs a refresh because clients are getting burned and returning to more traditional media principals, according to Colin Kinsella, Havas Media’s North American CEO. “A lot of buyers want to get back into TV, radio, out-of-home and print because they feel like digital can get lost,” he said. “The most […]
“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 Dentsu Aegis Network. Pity the poor data management platform (DMP). After almost a decade since the programmatic power-up, it has been all but left […]
