Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Comcast Shops For Advanced TV Comcast is in talks to buy TV ad-targeting firm Visible World, according to The Wall Street Journal’s sources. Visible World, parent company to AudienceXpress, has raised $33 million to date. “One of Visible World’s biggest strengths, marketing executives say, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. PulsePoint Eyes An Exit PulsePoint may be courting buyers, according to The Deal Pipeline’s sources, with an asking price of $400 million or more. PulsePoint was created through the merger of ContextWeb and Datran Media. Its current VC backers include SpaceX, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, […]
VaynerMedia, a social and digital marketing agency, acquired Mondelez-owned startup Betabox on Wednesday for an undisclosed sum. The platform distributes CPG product samples to ecommerce providers, who can then layer on a creative call to action through mobile landing pages. This creates a digital feedback loop for VaynerMedia to track engagement with sample-sending campaigns. “Betabox […]
Criteo is retiring its AD-X attribution product and replacing it with a new partner-based approach to mobile tracking, the French company revealed Thursday. Criteo, a retargeting company that works with Internet retailers, brands and agencies, first acquired AD-X in July 2013. AD-X remained a standalone business within Criteo, offering advertisers and app developers in-app measurement […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google’s Stronghold In an interview with Beet.TV, Jay Vanderzee, Google’s media platform sales head for the Americas, shed some light on DoubleClick’s scale, as well as Google’s future focus on TV. The number of transactions occurring on Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange now supersedes every […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Acxiom Reshuffles AOS Acxiom is ditching its Audience Operating System title and rolling the ad data tool and LiveRamp’s tech into a single offering. The new system, dubbed LiveRamp Connect, debuts on Thursday and will offer tools to onboard offline data into programmatic exchanges, […]
Metamarkets has raised $15 million in a round led by Data Collective, a VC firm in which Metamarkets CEO Mike Driscoll is a partner. Other new investors include John Battelle, LiveRamp founder Auren Hoffman and City National Bank. Existing investors Khosla, IA, True and Village Ventures also joined in. The company’s total funding to date […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Calling Out Fraud Enablers… Or Not Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), a joint anti-fraud venture created by the IAB, the 4As and the ANA, has yet to put any fraud offenders in the “penalty box,” as promised in November. According to a study by the […]
There’s an updated standard in town: OpenRTB 2.3. The latest version incorporates guidelines for native advertising creative within a real-time bidding environment, accounting for metadata like headline, content URL, description text and images. The standard should mean more native advertising will flow through more exchanges with fewer hiccups, right? Well, not exactly. AdExchanger asked industry […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. WPP’s Competitive Edge In an interview with Beet.TV, Xaxis Chairman David Moore once again defends the holding company’s media buying/selling model. Xaxis is not a trading desk, he insists, it’s a media company. “The time and materials model has become an antiquated way of […]
