Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. What Vice’s $500M Will Buy Speaking to the Financial Times, Vice chief Shane Smith said his company is gearing up for a “deal spree” in 2015, in the wake of its $500 million monster round led by A&E Networks. “Theoretically, if we’re doing $1bn […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic TV, Actually Programmatic TV is having a moment, with TubeMogul’s recent reveal of a television buying product and ESPN’s auction model for some TV ads, but to some it’s “lots of talk.” AdAge rounds up some skeptical POVs, including GroupM’s top TV buyer, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. 2015: Smarter Machines Big data: so very 2014. Next year “machine intelligence” could be the magical phrase around which a wave of startups find their footing. With a new landscape chart, Bloomberg Beta investor Shivon Zilis lays out some of the AI and “deep […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Seller Report Card Ad analytics startup Pixalate surfaced its first monthly Global Seller Trust Index, rating marketplaces for ad quality. Google, OpenX and Rubicon Project rated highly for viewability, fraud and ad engagement. Millennial Media, Yahoo and AOL, meanwhile, have continuing issues. “This is […]
Nielsen is pushing a total audience measurement designed to quantify audience and campaigns across screens, but it’s unclear whether it’s a service, platform or just a new marketing pitch. Kelly Abcarian, SVP of product architecture, described the total audience measurement rating as an ongoing development for the company, building off of its existing data structure. […]
Content promotion startup inPowered said Wednesday it has rebuilt its platform so marketers pay for engagement, not clicks, because the company believes optimizing for clicks encourages clickbait. “For native advertising to work for all, it needs to focus on the end consumer,” CEO and co-founder Peyman Nilforoush said. “Otherwise it will go the way of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Viewability And Beyond Responding to Google’s benchmark viewability data, Dentsu Aegis UK chief executive Tracy de Groose says advertisers are focused on accountability more than viewability. “The shift is not in the viewability of ads; it’s increasingly about being able to pay for results, […]
Casale Media’s Index Exchange has hooked up with place-based content and shopper media network PlaceWise Media on a new private exchange connecting advertisers with intent-based shoppers. PlaceWise, a publisher of retail destination sites for 3,000 grocers and 600 shopping and lifestyle centers nationally, reaches close to 16 million monthly visitors across its online network. A […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdBlock Battle Two French publishers, GESTE and the French IAB, are considering suing Eyeo GmbH, creators of AdBlock Plus, on the grounds that the software poses a threat to the advertising ecosystem. The legal proceedings are still in the consulting stage, with a formal […]
A new report from Interpublic Group’s MAGNA Global media research and buying arm reinforces earlier predictions that consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands would invest as much as $7 billion in digital advertising by 2018. According to MAGNA’s 2015 Global Advertising Revenue Forecast, released Monday, verticals like CPG and pharmaceuticals, which once invested more heavily in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Deepest Darkest Social Alexis Madrigal, who coined the term “dark social” in reference to untraceable web traffic on social sites, issued an update on the phenomenon in a piece for Fusion. According to data from Chartbeat, Madrigal says most of that traffic is percolating […]
Answers.com, a knowledge resource site, has evolved from a basic wiki to a publisher and marketing tech provider. “We’ve made a lot of positive changes to the site,” said David Karandish, CEO of Answers.com, “have added support for Facebook, Google+ and Twitter for [gated] logins (Answers.com now has over 180 million registered users) and turned […]
Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, the latest patch – alongside marketing, sales and customer service – in the tech giant’s in the tech giant’s quilt of survey companies bodes poorly for the future of the other content here and such
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Agency Shops Commerce Interpublic’s MRM//McCann snatched up Optaros on Thursday for an undisclosed sum, The Wall Street Journal reports. Optaros helps clients like Macy’s, Nestle and Rue La La build and manage ecommerce offerings. “We see a pretty dynamic marketplace in terms of what’s […]
FOX Television Stations partnered with Facebook’s video platform LiveRail on Thursday. The deal enables advertisers to buy inventory alongside local news video footage across 28 stations in 17 markets, including sites like myfoxny.com and myfoxla.com. “We know there is more demand for premium video,” said Joe Oulvey, EVP of Fox Station Sales, noting that video […]
Intel dove deep into content marketing to connect with millennials. For two and a half years, it’s used the IQ website to reach consumers through articles connecting technology to everyday life. In addition to using homegrown pieces, Intel places articles on sites like BuzzFeed and Mashable. All receive extra pushes to drive traffic. That’s where […]
Programmatic direct will go from 8% to 42% of all programmatic spending by 2016, according to eMarketer research. BuySellAds, founded in 2008 and which has 18 employees, followed a different path from iSocket and Shiny Ads, both of which were recently acquired by Rubicon Project. It focused on connecting smaller publishers with large brands like […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Accenture Nabs Agency Accenture will buy Australian agency Reactive Media as it continues to bone up on digital marketing. “Brands are recognizing that being relevant to customers has never depended more on how they engage with customers digitally,” said Brian Whipple, senior managing director […]
Data solutions of the sort that Datalogix provides are hot right now, and the company hopes that fact will drive up its eventual sale price. As it reached out to would-be buyers this fall, Datalogix hoped to get as much as $1 billion, sources say. Factoring in estimated 2014 revenues of $125 million, that figure […]
While most of the 14 million websites using AddThis aren’t likely to invest in expensive enterprise-level tools like data-management platforms, they would probably like the personalization capabilities those tools can offer. AddThis’ self-service content engagement platform, announced Wednesday, is designed to provide this personalization cheaply and efficiently. “We want to let website owners quickly segment […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. App Install Ads, Now In Video Facebook added some features to help developers manage and promote their apps. There are three core changes: Facebook is extending autoplay video to its mobile app install ad units, supporting reach and frequency targeting for those formats in […]
Datalogix, a provider of online and offline data, is nearing a sale of the business. According to multiple AdExchanger sources, the company has entertained offers in recent weeks, including from TV ratings mainstay Nielsen and Facebook. However Facebook is no longer in the running, and Nielsen is considered the most likely buyer. Although neither company […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL’s Video Spree AOL is growing its video empire and on Monday snapped up Vidible for an estimated $50 million, Re/code reports. Vidible is a video management and exchange platform that works with 150 publishers, and the company claims to generate more than 2 […]
Although native advertising is typically used for branding, it can provide results for direct-response campaigns. That was the goal for Microsoft Store – the software giant’s answer to the Apple Store – when it launched a test in early July along with Seattle-based agency Point It and native ad-tech platform TripleLift. The native ad-tech company […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Twitter’s Nice List On the very quiet Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Twitter told users it would start collecting data on external apps installed on their phones. In its own words, “We are collecting and occasionally updating the list of apps installed on your mobile device […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. No Payne Twitter’s game of musical chairs continues with the partial exit of MoPub CEO Jim Payne, AdAge’s Mark Bergen reports. Read it. Payne will serve as an ad tech advisor to CFO Anthony Noto, but will no longer run Twitter’s programmatic exchange. That […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Data Sharing Is Data Caring A Forrester report released Monday examines how brands share data with each other, and what benefits they derive from doing so. The key advantage of so-called “second-party data,” in brief, is that it’s not as scarce as first-party data […]
When Apple announced last week it was dipping its toe into programmatic via partnerships with ad tech companies, it cited retailer L.L. Bean as an early purchaser of iAds inventory via MediaMath. It’s the first time the outdoor-focused retailer has bought through Apple’s iAds, though it’s gradually devoted more marketing spend to mobile initiatives. “We […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Native ‘Working’ Marketers will spend $4.3 billion on native advertising in 2015, up 34% from 2014, according to eMarketer. “I would expect our spending in this area to increase considerably over the next 18 months, specifically in the area of video,” HP’s director of […]
It’s been a busy week for Rubicon Project. It acquired programmatic direct players iSocket and Shiny Ads on Monday, adding guaranteed capabilities to its platform. It partnered with Apple’s iAd, ramping up its mobile supply. And last Friday, it hired Adam Chandler as SVP of revenue as the company builds out its buy side. Rubicon’s […]
