Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Over The Top Ad-supported streaming TV service Tubi surpassed 20 million monthly users and 94 million hours of content in May, the company said Monday. Tubi’s fortunes are important because advertisers and investors are relying on ad-enabled VOD startups to challenge the position of […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No More CMO For J&J Johnson & Johnson’s first CMO Alison Lewis is out after five years on the job. But the CPG giant seems like it’s getting rid of the role altogether, according to Ad Age. In a statement, J&J said: “We have […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Watch And Learn Facebook really wants those TV ad dollars – but it’s going to take more than simply showing up at the upfronts. The first thing Facebook needs to do is prove that its video service, Watch, is a hit with audiences. Facebook […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Adobe On A Cloud Adobe bragged about its customer data platform Tuesday on the company’s second quarter earnings call. The marketing clouds are going for broke this week on the CDP front – Adobe, Salesforce and Oracle all made CDP-related announcements – but Adobe […]
Salesforce officially threw its hat into the ring with the launch of a customer data platform (CDP) on Tuesday at its Connections conference in Chicago. Salesforce has been circling a CDP launch for the past year, since its $800 million acquisition of Datorama, a data integration service, and the launch of an internal identity graph […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bull’s-Eye Targeting If you want to use Target’s first-party data, you don’t need to use Target’s DSP – just the SSP where it has its data loaded. Competitors (ahem, Amazon) force advertisers onto an owned DSP to activate segments such as “electronics purchasers,” for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Read On WPP Group CEO Mark Read has largely shunned the spotlight as he focuses on simplifying the holding company’s structure. He breaks the silence in an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Suzanne Vranica. Among other tidbits, he says WPP is still interested […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The B2B CDP? Dun & Bradstreet has agreed to acquire Lattice Engines, a B2B marketing startup. D&B says it made the deal to add a customer data platform (CDP), a trendy category of tech companies that collect and manage consumer data. Lattice started as […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Publishing Tech Wednesday was a big day for hybrid ad tech/publisher businesses. TheStreet, a stock market news site, was acquired by Maven for $16.5 million. Read the release. Maven was founded by ad industry vets after doing a reverse recapitalization of a public shell […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hulu Steals The Show Hulu is taking a page from the TV sales playbook by offering lower rates to buyers who commit large budgets ahead of time, Variety reports. Hulu was one of the only ad-supported streaming video players at the upfronts, TV’s annual […]
Local TV buying is still a manual process. Ad tech company Hudson MX wants to change that with a platform launched Tuesday called BuyerAssist, which automates the local TV buying workflow. The company also launched a suite of APIs called AgencyCloud, which hooks into local broadcasters’ sales systems like WideOrbit to streamline transactions. BuyerAssist has […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Paying For Mistakes NBC has notified some brands and agencies that an error led to the wrong advertisers’ videos running on some mobile and connected TV inventory in AdSmart, the broadcaster’s private marketplace product, between March 2018 and March 2019, Digiday reports. Unfortunately it […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Caught Midstream AT&T’s WarnerMedia is considering a $16-$17 per month ad-free streaming package comprising HBO, Cinemax and the Warner Bros. movie and TV library, reports The Wall Street Journal. This new proposal, backed by WarnerMedia chief John Stankey, comes in addition to AT&T’s initial […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Simpler Sell In the United Kingdom, Dentsu Aegis is following a new holding company trend by consolidating and restructuring disparate agencies across media, data and creative. WPP recently merged J. Walter Thompson and Wunderman into one business, Wunderman Thompson, and consolidated VML and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Paid Influence Instagram is allowing brands to promote organic content created by influencers as ads in its feed. “One of the biggest requests from brands to date is the ability to incorporate branded content posts into their advertising strategies,” Instagram said in a blog […]
When Amazon acquired Sizmek’s ad server and dynamic content optimization (DCO) businesses last week, most of the attention fell on the server. And rightly so, since the server is the meat and potatoes of the deal. But don’t sleep on the DCO solution as a potentially valuable asset for the Amazon Advertising Platform (AAP). After […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Benioff Hearts MuleSoft Marc Benioff was effusive on the subject of MuleSoft Tuesday during Salesforce’s first quarter earnings call for its 2020 fiscal year. Benioff waxed lyrical about how the systems integrator – which Salesforce purchased for $6.5 billion last year – is helping […]
Neal Richter, who spent two years as Rakuten Marketing CTO, is headed to SpotX as the company’s first ever chief scientist. Richter is one of the early tech leaders in programmatic, helping to develop all three openRTB specs released by the IAB, as well as online ad authorization industry initiatives like Ads.txt and Sellers.json. As […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Power Players Google is preparing for an antitrust investigation by the US Justice Department, which could include a far-reaching probe of its advertising practices. Google’s usual regulatory hotspot is search, where it wields immense influence in the consumer journey and can prioritize keeping people […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trust Issues The Justice Department may open a case against Google over alleged antitrust violations in its search business. Back in 2013 Google was forced to make changes to its search ads business as part of a settlement with the FTC. But a new […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. It’s Personal Personalized advertising may not be working as well as promised for publishers. Media companies receive just 4% more revenue for a cookie-based targeted ad than a nontargeted ad, according to a joint study on behavioral advertising conducted by the University of Minnesota, […]
On the surface, LinkedIn’s plan to acquire cross-device data company Drawbridge may seem like a head scratcher. What does a B2B social network want with a probabilistic cross-device vendor? The deal creates potential for LinkedIn’s marketing products that go beyond Drawbridge’s existing technology assets. If LinkedIn wanted access to an identity graph, it could have […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Network Effects The Washington Post released an advertising and site management product Thursday called the Zeus Platform as part of its Arc Publishing tech suite. It will take a two-pronged approach: A package for small and midsize publishers promises improvements in ad performance and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Disengaged Facebook and Snapchat are slowly but surely losing engagement in the United States. Average daily time spent on Facebook decreased by three minutes in 2018, while time spent on Snapchat has plateaued over the past year, according to eMarketer. Time spent on Facebook […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Target Shopping List Target is considering a deal for Triad Retail Media, the shopper marketing agency bought by WPP’s Xaxis programmatic group in 2016, The Wall Street Journal reports. An acquisition is far from certain, though. Target has been increasing investments in Roundel, its […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Electing Out Political ads used to be seen as a huge opportunity for Facebook, but now they’re just a landmine. After finding itself at the center of Russian interference in the 2016 US election and facing similar issues abroad, Facebook debated internally whether to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. ITP Consolation Prize WebKit, the software underlying Apple’s Safari browser, introduced a new way to attribute ad clicks on the web in compliance with its Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP), built-in tech that strips cross-site tracking from the browser. Safari is prohibiting user-level measurement by […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ad-Free TV Hulu took an important step earlier this month when it started running a commercial featuring “the Old Spice guy” – a Procter & Gamble icon – pitching Hulu’s ad-free subscription offer. That may seem like less of a first step than a cheeky […]
