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SlideShare Gets a Makeover
After snapping up the content sharing platform SlideShare for $119 million last year, LinkedIn today unveiled its new SlideShare Content Ads. “Similar to display ads, Content Ads reach a targeted audience of professionals on LinkedIn. However, they differ in that they enable our members to engage with your content without ever leaving the LinkedIn experience,” writes LinkedIn monetization product manager Aviad Pinkovezky in a blog post. Read the rest.
If you want to uncover someone’s political affiliations, intelligence level, sexual orientation, emotional stability, and other personal traits, just analyze that person’s Facebook likes, reports CNN’s Heather Kelly. In a “believe it or not” piece, Kelly looks at a new University of Cambridge study that claims it is possible to uncover a slew of private traits by running a person’s Facebook likes through a predictive model. “Facebook likes have a meaning that we can use to understand the psychology behind what people do,” David Stillwell, a co-author of the study, tells Kelly. Read the Cambridge Research study here.
Mozilla Impact
On MediaPost, stealth startup dude Aaron Doades paints a bleak picture regarding the impact of Firefox changes to its third-party cookie tracking. He writes, “Advertisers will stop showing ads to Firefox users simply because those users don’t perform as well as others. Media targeted to Firefox users will underperform drastically, since audience targeting and attribution modeling will no longer work, and publishers will find themselves with a lot of inventory that they cannot clear due to no one bidding on Firefox users.” And, he has other scenarios. Read more.
Step Aside, TV Buyers
About 15 years ago, the media departments at ad holding companies moved from being back office clerks to operating units in their own right. Now, as Adweek’s Mike Shields reports, the digital buyers are now starting to take the lead over the TV executives. Although no one is expecting real-time bidding for TV ad inventory, the general approach digital media buyers and planners are imbued with are starting to make their presence felt in other ways. “Most of the work in digital media is done after a plan starts,” said David Cohen, Universal McCann’s chief media officer. “So we’re trying to bring some of that thinking to TV, for example, along with concepts like machine-to-machine buying. One thing you notice is that it’s a somewhat foreign concept [in TV] to buy audience over content.” Read more.
Programmatic And Pubs
In an Upstream Group blog post for the seller crowd, Doug Weaver looks toward the “programmatic” gods and (figuratively) raises his hands to say, “Bury thyself!” He thinks there are two main issues that publishers need to get their arms around rather than “programmatic”: “automated process reform (APR) and dynamic pricing policy (DPP).” Read about them.
Mobile Ad Deception
An update to the FTC’s guidelines for online ad disclosure may help marketers avoid allegations of deceptive advertising in the mobile/social age. The macro take-away: a small screen size is no excuse to slack. “Advertisers using space-constrained ads, such as on some social media platforms, must still provide disclosures necessary to prevent an ad from being deceptive,” says the press release.
You’re Hired!
- Specific Media Appoints Larry Madden as Chief Financial Officer – press release
But Wait. There’s More!
- Google Benefits as Priceline Outspends Expedia on Web Ads: Tech – Bloomberg
- iCrossing Widens Global Footprint With Agency Partnership in Russia – press release
- Yahoo’s Mayer Gets Internal Flak For More Rigorous Hiring – Reuters
- The Agency And Consultancy Collision – ExchangeWire
- Introducing Pinterest Web Analytics – Pinterest Blog
- Ghostery Index Surpasses 1,300 Individual Companies Delivering More than 2,800 Individual Tracking Scripts – press release
- Eye-Tracking Tech Will Be Open to iPhones and Other Devices – The New York Times
- Google’s Product Listing Ads Come To The Smartphone – Inside AdWords
