Sometimes, it’s time for “new.” And this summer is one of those times for AdExchanger. Make no mistake, AdExchanger will continue to celebrate the connection that you make with the site and your fellow readers – a human collaboration with purpose and creative energy that you have always generated. But, over the next week or […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Login Data And Ads According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook’s planning a new type of mobile ad targeting that will leverage its own first party data. The WSJ sees radioactivity: “The new ads could stoke privacy concerns because they let Facebook go a […]
Global distiller Diageo is known for marketing innovation on behalf of brands like Smirnoff, Tanqueray, Johnnie Walker, and Guinness. In its quest to drive consumer engagement, the company has set up a program to rapidly iterate across digital platforms, including smartphones, tablets, and Facebook. Part of its approach involves standardization of data collection among agencies […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! CEO Race Yahoo! interim CEO Ross Levinsohn and Hulu CEO Jason Kilar are in the lead to be the permanent CEO of Yahoo! says Yahoo! ‘insider’ Kara Swisher on All Things D. She writes, “At this point, said sources, it appears to still […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mo’ Money Mobile It’s a ‘funding-a-day’ in ad tech! On Tuesday, mobile app marketing platform Fiksu announced it has added $10 million ($17.8 mil total) in new funds to its coffers. Read the release – which gives a pretty good sense of how Fiksu […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Uncapture The Flag Microsoft has had enough, fiscally, of its aQuantive acquisition. As you may recall, it was the largest of a series of digital media acquisitions that year which included Google buying DoubleClick, Yahoo buying Right Media, WPP buying 24/7 and even Microsoft […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. LinkedIn Scrubbed Of Tweets LinkedIn is getting back some of its screen real estate as it said Friday that tweets will no longer be displayed on the B2B network site. A LinkedIn email to users explains, “LinkedIn and Twitter have worked together since 2009 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Forbes’ Homepage Pitch The corporate and wealth news magazine’s latest homepage revamp is focused, in part, on raising the profile of marketers in its AdVoice program, which integrates advertiser posts with user and staff content. As Lewis DVorkin, Forbes Media’s chief product officer writes […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Studying Facebook Ads A new survey on Facebook ad efficicacy leaves the reader wondering – just wondering – because there are so many opinions on whether the ads work or not Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth introduces the results of the study crafted by his […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Dotomi Sets ValueClick’s Destiny That’s the take from Piper Jaffray analyst Mark Zgutowicz on the negative impact of real-time bidding platforms on ValueClick’s ad network business. The display ad company finds itself in “the precarious position of having to bid up impressions among many,” […]
Hearst Digital Media is launching its first private exchange, becoming the latest major, traditional publisher to attempt to reconcile the sometimes dueling forces of premium, direct sales and programmatic buying. The company has been working on the private exchange with supply side platform PubMatic for nine months, as it looked to ensure self-confidence that it […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Funding Attribution Remember that famous Tom Hanks line: “There’s no crying in ad tech.” As Visual IQ proves, there’s no crying because the investment keeps flowing. The attribution and analytics solution provider raised another $12 million on top of an initial $3 million raise. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Exchange Boot? All Things D’s Peter Kafka bubbles up news that two of the early DSP/retargeter entrants to the Facebook Exchange may have been shown the door. He admits, “Who got the boot? Well, nailing that one down is a bit tricky, since no […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Brand.net Sold Direct-mail, newspaper coupon marketing, and, yes, digital ad company Valassis announced the acquisition of online ad network Brand.net yesterday to enhance its “Valassis Audience Network, the components of an expansive network of online and offline data, state-of-the-art ad serving and targeting technology, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Knights Of The DNT Ad Age’s Michael Learmonth says that ad holding companies among others have been reaching out to Microsoft to re-consider their decision to make their Do-Not-Track functionality default to “on” in the new version of IE. Learmonth adds, “High-level Publicis execs […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. LocalResponse Hopes For Half-Full Social ad network LocalResponse is boasting that it’s serving more than 7 billion impressions per month. A pretty impressive number, though CEO and co-founder Nihal Mehta concedes, in an interview with Techcrunch’s Anthony Ha, that the company isn’t able to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Barrett To Yahoo!, Y! Ad Tech Plans Former Admeld CEO Michael Barrett is movin’ on from his post-acquisition Google role. All Things D’s Kara Swisher reports that Barrett will be joining Yahoo! as EVP and CRO and “will be in charge of ad revenue […]
After being banned from buying Yahoo! owned & operated inventory in early November, it appears that retargeters are being allowed to return to Right Media Exchange (RMX) and taste Yahoo!’s (by all accounts) high-performing display media. Let’s go to the AdExchanger diagram so you can see how the retargeting magic is happening. This will assume […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Acxiom Database The New York Times’ Natasha Singer profiles the data treasure trove that Acxiom manages and continues to grow in a feature titled, “You for Sale: Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome.” She writes, “Digital marketers already customize pitches to users, based […]
A story reported here yesterday was missing some key nuances in how the Facebook Exchange will work. The below is our clarification and correction based on new information shared by Facebook and its DSP partners. Sources told AdExchanger yesterday, and Facebook confirmed at the time, that frequency capping would not be possible through the new […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publisher Dancing Former Knight Ridder exec and author Ken Doctor looks at Google’s relationship with pubishers and says, “Next Wednesday, Google hosts an all-day assemblage of news publishers in New York City. It won’t be the first meeting, but it’s an intriguing time to […]
Update: The below story has some missing information and an inaccuracy. Rather than edit it, we’ve created a new post with a short technical explanation of how frequency capping and impression tracking *do* work on the Facebook Exchange. In our opinion the error doesn’t detract much from the below analysis, so we hope you’ll read […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Retargeting The URL Shortener Social ad platform RadiumOne continues to update its product line of data gathering apps as MediaPost’s Laurie Sullivan reports on ‘re.Po.st‘. The URL shortener aims to not only improve the sharing of links, a la Bit.ly, but it also “serves […]
Facebook’s decision to enable real-time bidding on its site, as well as layering in retargeting capabilities, will certainly help solve the perceived revenue shortfalls that caused such a negative reaction to its much-hyped IPO, but as eMarketer analyst Debra Aho Williamson tells AdExchanger, any lift the social network sees in ad dollars will be strictly […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Komli Adds Millions Ad tech and ad network company Komli Media has gone to the bank as the company announced yesterday $39 million have been added to its venture capital-infused coffers. Crunchbase says Komli has raised $60 million all-time. This latest “inside round” was […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Digital Billions The IAB and the number crunchers at PriceWaterhouse Coopers revealed yesterday that overall digital ad revenue in Q1 hit a new all-time record at $8.4 billion. The release continues, “It is the highest first-quarter revenue ever measured by the IAB and PwC […]
It’s hard to find any love for the Gross Ratings Point as relevant metric for online advertising, and any affection for that measurement was plainly absent at a late afternoon panel on the subject at the ARF Audience Measurement 7.0 conference in Times Square. The lone defender of the metric was the panel’s moderator, Gian […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Apple’s New UDID The Wall Street Journal’s Jessica Vascellaro says that Apple may be coming to the rescue of mobile ad developers (my words), and presumably mobile ad networks, who are looking for a targeting alternative to the UDID – or device ID used […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Commodity Convo Reuters Jennifer Saba analyzes new revenue data for newspaper publishers and sees ad exchanges as the culprit. She explains to the neophyte, “Advertising exchanges are electronic platforms that allow buyers to bid on and purchase advertising space at drastically reduced prices. Many […]
As ad tech companies make inroads in doing that, Rovi Corp., the company that both serves as the TV Guide of smart TVs and the operator of an ad network on connected sets, is unveiling a data product that’s designed for cross platform deals, starting from the set-top box and continuing to the web. In […]
