Major acquisitions have recently brought both podcast content and distribution under key players like EW Scripps, Spotify, iHeartMedia and Pandora. But advertisers won’t see immediate benefits around better targeting and automated buying. Under this new, consolidated landscape, EW Scripps owns the podcast network Midroll and player app Stitchr, iHeartMedia has Stuff Media, Spotify owns producer […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. DTC Playbook, Written A values-driven brand with the best X in its category launches on Facebook, quickly gains customers and uses data to improve its products and its marketing process. Ever feel like direct-to-consumer brands are all following the same unwritten set of rules? […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Listen Up Spotify updated its terms of service late last week to ban ad blockers. “Circumventing or blocking advertisements in the Spotify service, or creating or distributing tools designed to block advertisements in the Spotify service,” can lead to suspension or termination of an […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Direct Approach Tim Armstrong, former CEO of AOL and Oath, is on to the next business since leaving Verizon at the end of last year. Armstrong’s new venture, the dtx company, will invest in direct-to-consumer products. The first six investments are startups in […]
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While Facebook’s earnings last Tuesday prove that marketers still spend, some wonder if consumer backlash against the platform could one day damage brands advertising on it. “The slow stream of press has caused more angst and questions,” said James Douglas, executive director and head of media at performance agency Reprise. “Every day it seems like […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Commerce + Ads Wayfair is expanding its paid media business, also known as “Wayfair Media Solutions,” Digiday reports. Like Amazon, Wayfair reports its sponsored products revenue under an “other” revenue category, which was a relatively tiny $13 million in Q3 2018 (Amazon’s “other” business […]
Taptica will acquire RhythmOne for $176 million in an all-stock deal, the companies said Monday. The mobile ad tech firm also gets a matryoshka doll of assets along with RhythmOne, including assets from the latter’s previous acquisitions of YuMe, Burst Media and parts of RadiumOne. Taptica characterized the deal as a bid for connected televison […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The New News News industry downsizing continued last week with layoffs at Vice and buyouts at McClatchy, close on the heels of similar painful cuts at BuzzFeed, Verizon Media and Gannett. “We are changing the size of the workforce to align with the revenue,” […]
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AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This week, Conviva CEO Bill Demas steps up to the mic for a conversation about his years at the helm of Turn and the hurtling comet that is streaming TV. When Demas stepped up to run Turn after several years spent building out search and ad […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Down, But Still Substantial Verizon’s media biz dropped 5.8% YoY in Q4 2018 – bringing it to “only” $2.1 billion in the quarter. Verizon Media (née Oath) has disappointed this year. “Certainly, when you see -6.9% revenue growth in 3Q and -5.8% in 4Q, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon Vs. Williams-Sonoma A lawsuit filed by Williams-Sonoma against Amazon in December demonstrates the ecommerce platform’s ability to replicate and overwhelm rival product lines. Williams-Sonoma is relatively strong online, with ecommerce accounting for the majority of sales, and its furniture business West Elm is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Messaging Megalith Facebook will integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, uniting the world’s three largest messaging apps and 2.6 billion combined users, The New York Times reports. The services will remain standalone apps, but for the first time will share the same tech infrastructure. Though […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Down On Digital Media It was a tough week for digital media. BuzzFeed said Thursday it would cut 15% of its workforce – roughly 250 people – as it struggles to meet revenue targets in a challenging market, The Wall Street Journal reports. More. […]
After more than a year in beta, Facebook is letting advertisers use third-party vendors to manage brand safety on its platform. Facebook is putting a ring on its commitment to brand safety by adding a new badge for brand safety protection companies under its marketing partner program. DoubleVerify and OpenSlate are the first two verification […]
This article is sponsored by MoPub. As time spent in mobile apps continues to soar, in-app ad spend has followed. In fact, in-app’s share of mobile video advertising alone is projected to grow to 84% by 2023, according to a report by Forrester. Yet despite steady growth in this category over the last few years, the […]
“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 Alan Chapell, president at Chapell & Associates. When the ad tech world started thinking about GDPR enforcement in late 2017 or early 2018, most were fairly confident that EU supervisory […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Viacom Nabs Pluto Viacom will acquire free, ad-supported streaming service Pluto TV for $340 million. The standalone app, which reaches 12 million monthly users primarily on connected TVs, will give Viacom a new audience to sell and a distribution channel for its content library. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Brand Safe Enough AT&T is advertising on YouTube again after a two-year hiatus. The telco, one of the world’s largest advertisers, pulled spend from the video platform at the height of its 2017 brand safety scandal with a promise not to return until major […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snip Snip The number of cord-cutter households has jumped 50% to 16 million in the past eight years, according to a Nielsen study. That means 14% of Americans are watching TV over-the-top as more people ditch their cable subscriptions for cheaper streaming devices. Nielsen […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A New Review Procter & Gamble is running a round of internal bids in an effort to cut marketing costs and bring more services in house. Rather than launch a formal review, P&G has asked its incumbent agencies, Carat and Hearts & Science, to […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Doubled Up DoubleVerify has acquired the Finnish contextual ad tech startup Leiki for an undisclosed sum. Leiki is DoubleVerify’s first acquisition and comes a year and a half after DV was bought by the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners. Other ad tech companies […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Video Jockeys Amazon has a monster ad business, but it’s missing one piece: video inventory. The Amazon Prime video library has the audience, but like Netflix, it’s ad-free. Some recent moves show how Amazon will broaden its video supply. At CES last week, Amazon […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Measure Thyself Many TV companies have developed their own measurement solutions – some to augment the Nielsen standard and some to replace it. And Hulu is up next, Ad Age reports. Hulu expects a current beta attribution product to launch in the second half […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Road Not Taken Update: Verizon Media has confirmed with AdExchanger that Verizon currently has no plans to stop sharing data with its subsidiary. Read the AdExchanger story. Verizon closed the door on the idea of using subscriber data to augment the media and […]
