Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Stick To Your Guns Perhaps the most enduring difference between Snapchat and Facebook, which has been replicating the younger company’s features at warp speed, is Snap’s disinterest in ubiquity. Higher-ups rejected an internal proposal to make a “lightweight version,” as other social and video-streaming apps have […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Standard Oil The five biggest publicly traded companies in the world are Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. Why? Data. It’s why Tesla, which turns driver data into self-driving AI, is worth as much as GM despite selling 25,000 vehicles in the past quarter to GM’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Essentials Can Jet.com, acquired by Walmart for $3.3 billion, save the retail giant’s ecommerce operation and, by extension, make it competitive with Amazon? Bloomberg News outlines Jet CEO Marc Lore’s attempt to do just that by putting together a plan to branch out and sell […]
8 p.m. Katy Perry. That’s all. 7:40 p.m. Google Preferred FTW Google Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl claimed Google Preferred (translation: Google’s top tier videos) has tripled its number of advertisers. Kyncl credited YouTube for turning publishers like BuzzFeed, Vice and AwesomenessTV into “daily destinations of can’t-miss programming.” Consumers watch over 1 billion of hours […]
AppNexus wants in on connected TV ad budgets. The ad tech company has doubled down on the infrastructure to support connected TV buying and selling by integrating the forecasting from its Yieldex acquisition with its video ad server. It also has added support for newer connected TV ad formats and long-form content. These developments should […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hulu’s Nod To Netflix Hulu snuck in a hat tip to Netflix during its NewFronts presentation at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. “We have more than than 47 million monthly users and 32 million are watching ad-supported content,” said Hulu’s SVP of ad sales, Peter Naylor. […]
Criteo welcomed Twitter’s revelation last week that it would stop investing in its retargeting platform TellApart due to direct-response headwinds. Criteo’s CEO said these changes could help its own business. “TellApart was a strong competitor for us in the US, so it was good news for us that they’re winding down that business, and [it] […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Agency Henhouse There’s growing disquiet among ad agencies about exposure to the consultants who audit their media practices, according to Ad Age. Companies like Accenture and Deloitte argue their media auditing and digital agency groups are separate and the information is firewalled. But still: “This […]
IAC-owned About.com is losing its web 1.0 moniker and rebranding as Dotdash. Dotdash is the umbrella brand behind About.com’s slew of new vertical sites, which includes properties like personal finance-focused The Balance, as well as the health and fitness site, Verywell. Neil Vogel claimed that the vertical reinvention last year is paying dividends. Verywell, for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Viewable Snaps Snapchat has tapped Moat to provide advertisers with a viewability score for Snap ads, the vertical video units that run between Stories and on the Discover news service. While Snap has not said it will submit to an MRC audit, Moat is audited, so […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Merger Recommendation Taboola and Outbrain, the two largest content recommendation companies, are closing in on a merger, according to Israeli news outlet Calcalist. The synergies make sense (the companies are direct competitors with non-duplicate customers) and the merger would create an undisputed heavyweight in the category. […]
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% […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
LinkedIn on Monday launched its version of a CRM-matching and retargeting tool called Matched Audiences. Matched Audiences encompasses site retargeting and account-based and contact targeting, which lets advertisers upload their CRM files to target specific segments or groups of IDs. Customers have two ways to bring first-party data into LinkedIn. First is through a direct […]
When Dentsu Aegis Network acquired performance agency Merkle last year, it gained deep expertise in data-driven marketing as well as a data hub for its agency brands. That hub is called M1, Merkle’s data and media planning tool launched last year. M1 can pull in an advertiser’s data and match it to personally identifiable information […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Trust Busted “We are going to have to decide fairly soon whether Google, Facebook and Amazon are the kinds of natural monopolies that need to be regulated, or whether we allow the status quo to continue, pretending that unfettered monoliths don’t inflict damage on our privacy […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Deep Pockets How much did Oracle pay for Moat? Inquiring minds want to know, and while Oracle hasn’t spilled the beans, an anonymous individual “familiar with the deal” told Recode the measurement company went for above $850 million. That’s more than 10x Moat’s revenue, for those […]
AdRoll has a new president: Toby Gabriner, former CEO of Adap.TV (now AOL/Oath) and an early CEO of [x+1], now owned by Rocket Fuel. Gabriner, who joined AdRoll as a strategic adviser in October, succeeds longtime president, CMO and founding team member Adam Berke, who will move into a strategic advisory role at AdRoll. Transitioning […]
Google rolled out a machine learning-powered display product called Smart display campaigns on Thursday. The product is now generally available to all advertisers buying native, image or text ads across the Google Display Network (GDN). Smart display campaigns are accessible via AdWords and reach more than 3 million GDN sites and apps on GDN now. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Chew On That Traditional retailers have been gobbling up ecommerce companies for months, but PetSmart’s $3.4 billion acquisition of pet food and product site Chewy.com is the biggest one yet. To be fair, it only surpasses Walmart’s $3.3 billion acquisition of Jet.com by a hair, but […]
Oracle’s acquisition of digital ad measurement firm Moat late Tuesday could put pressure on Nielsen to snap up one of the remaining independent measurement companies like Integral Ad Science or DoubleVerify. “How this will impact media currency folks like Nielsen is a bit hard to say,” said Dave Morgan, CEO of Simulmedia, a TV platform […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Oracle’s TV Plans Oracle’s Moat acquisition wasn’t its only significant move on Tuesday. At its Oracle Data Summit, the company entered a partnership with Charter allowing brands to target connected TV audiences. An advertiser matches its data with Charter’s in-app, streaming and smart-TV viewers, and then […]
Oracle will acquire digital measurement firm Moat extending its marketing and data clouds’ abilities to provide digital advertising analytics to advertising clients and publishers, the company revealed Tuesday. [Read the release]. Deal terms were not disclosed. Moat will join the Oracle Data Cloud, which houses its Datalogix and BlueKai acquisitions. “Moat has grown its attention […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. At Your Self-Service Fresh off a $20 billion IPO and with Instagram breathing down its neck, Snap needs to make it easy for advertisers to spend. That’s why the messaging app is launching self-serve buying for Snap Ads, the vertical video units that run between users’ […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Back On The Block A group of computer science academics released a browser extension last week that blocks ads on Facebook and overrides publishers that deflect ad blockers. Facebook obscures its HTML code from ad blockers, but to show users the difference between an ad and […]
