David Kaplan is a former Video/Publishing Platforms editor for AdExchanger.com. A New York City-based journalist for over 20 years, Kaplan has covered media, advertising and marketing. A former staff reporter at paidContent, Adweek and MediaPost, he has also written for Advertising Age, Broadcasting & Cable, Crain’s New York Business, The New York Post, Newsday and the Boston Globe; he has also covered financial issues for the Bond Buyer and Worth magazine.
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Agencies, Marketers Look To 'Preferred Relationships' For Programmatic Video
In a sign that programmatic video buying is becoming more essential, IPG’s Magna Global has chosen video ad marketplace operator Adap.tv as its preferred partner. The deal comes a day after cereal marketer Kellogg turned to BrightRoll to help spearhead its programmatic video plans. Magna, which is the research and buying arm for the IPG […]
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Extreme Reach Planning At Least Three More Acquisitions After DG Purchase
Video ad delivery management service Extreme Reach’s $525 million purchase for competitor DG’s TV ad business unit is only the beginning of what is shaping up to be a shopping spree, according to its CEO John Roland. Extreme Reach has three basic product lines that Roland wants to develop very quickly, perhaps by the end […]
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DG Still Preaching Convergence After Selling TV Ad Distribution Unit
The $525 million sale of digital ad management provider DG’s TV ad distribution business to rival Extreme Reach is not just about freeing the Irvine, TX-based company from heavy debt incurred by acquisitions designed to build its online capabilities. It’s also about taking better advantage of TV-digital convergence by staking out a position solely on […]
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European TV Industry May Map Programmatic Path For The US
While the US is generally considered the leader when it comes to advances in online advertising, Europe’s varied broadcast industry could point the way for what will happen on these shores in the area of programmatic television, according to a report by Forrester analyst Jim Nail. “TV has never been as central to the marketing […]
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Tremor Vs Facebook? Not Exactly, But Other Players May Jostle For Video Ad Demand
Facebook’s big push into video ads, expected this fall, is bound to have ripple effects in the online video space — as a major new source of premium inventory becomes available. From Tremor Video’s perspective, Facebook’s focus on what appears to be in-banner ads will allow the company to further differentiate itself in what remains […]
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After Disappointing IPO Debut, Tremor Q2 May Silence Doubters
By most accounts, Tremor Video’s introduction to the public markets was nothing to cheer about, as the video ad network saw its share price sink 20% in its first month of trading. The company’s first earnings report is solid and may be enough to turn investors around. Among the high points of Tremor’s Q2: its […]
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In Going Public, YuMe Wants Brands' Respect Alongside Investors' Capital
YuMe’s stock price at the end of its first trading day remained at $9 – exactly where it was when the video ad tech company’s shares were priced the night before. While the opening price was less than the $12 to $14 the Redwood City, CA-based company had aimed for when it filed its initial […]
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AOL Will Take Time Connecting Adap.tv To Its Network
Its $405 million acquisition of video ad marketplace Adap.tv closes two big loops for AOL. The first is around video, which has become a bigger part of both its and rival Yahoo’s strategies. Both portals have doubled down on original video content creation, but AOL has looked to video as an ad-tech solution, whereas Yahoo […]
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AOL Display Dollars Demonstrate More Progress, If Not Greatness
Aside from the big news that AOL was acquiring video-ad marketplace Adap.tv to further its programmatic goals, the portal reported its Q2 earnings, which showed continued strides on its display business. While the single-digit gains made during the period may not seem too exciting, they do compare favorably with the recent earnings from Yahoo and […]
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Despite Consistent Revenue Gains, YuMe IPO Falls Short
As of today, YuMe is the latest video ad-tech company to officially go public, and although it has posted clearly strong revenue growth and profitability in the past year, the company’s IPO has been priced at $9 per share, according to an SEC filing late Tuesday night. Read it here. YuMe is selling 5.1 million […]
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Nielsen, Adap.tv, Others Join Video Viewability Consortium
The open-source collaboration formed by video demand-side platform TubeMogul last spring to promote an industrywide standard for viewability keeps adding members, but the group is still grasping at definitions that all its members can agree on. In the meantime, a number of key video ad-tech players, namely Tremor Video and YuMe, remain committed to developing […]
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Amazon's Bezos Buys Washington Post Co. Flagship For $250 Million
In a surprise Monday afternoon announcement, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has struck a deal with the Washington Post Company to buy its namesake newspaper for $250 million. Read the release. The purchase comes just a few days after WaPo’s Q2 earnings demonstrated some slight income and revenue gains, though, as usual, that was due to […]
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Video Ad Targeter EyeView Plans For US Expansion, Waits For Programmatic TV
Personalized video ad targeter and distributor EyeView raised an $8.1 million third round this past week to build out its US presence in the Midwest. The company is planning on opening offices in Chicago and Detroit to strengthen ties to ad agencies, as well as fast food and auto marketers. The five-year-old company, which started […]
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NYTCo Digital Dollars Slip Again, Attributed To 'Complexity, Fragmentation'
While the New York Times Co.’s digital advertising revenue could have been worse in Q2, the publisher saw its display strategy continued to be challenged by what the company said was a “complex and fragmented” marketplace. Read the release (PDF). Digital ad sales brought in $51.2 million during the quarter, a decline of 2.7%. In […]
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LiveRail Backs Deal ID In Bid To Make Programmatic 'More Like Direct'
Video supply-side platform LiveRail is introducing Deal ID support for all its publisher clients to bring real-time bidding and direct-ad sales methods closer together. Read the release. While general market SSPs like the Rubicon Project and PubMatic have used Deal IDs for publishers in its private marketplaces for some time, video-brand media companies have been […]
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NYTCO Earnings Preview: Digital Ads Expected To Drop 2 To 5%
During the NYTCo’s Q1 earnings call in April, executives had discussed the possibility of a turnaround in the newspaper publisher’s display ad sales, particularly mobile, but analysts don’t expect a change any time soon. For now, it looks like more of the same, particularly for the company’s display ad sales, which fell 4% in Q1. […]
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Media Sellers Gird Against Publicis-Omnicom's Heavy Buying Power
The combined media spending of Publicis Groupe and Omnicom would amount to roughly $53 billion, according to separate sets of data from Pivotal Research’s Brian Wieser and WPP analytics unit Kantar Media. That translates into a tremendous amount of buying clout. Major publishers across all media continued to absorb the news from this weekend about […]
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Agency Trading-Desk Evolution To Accelerate
As more advertising dollars pour into digital — and into agency trading desks — the exchange model’s momentum is likely to continue, no matter what level of integration comes from the merger of Publicis Groupe and Omnicom. Several executives who have served with the trading-desk side of the agency business and moved on said that […]
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A Brief History Of The Upfront
Creating a futures marketplace is easier said than done, but over the years, the TV upfront model has been adopted and refined by parts of the ad industry in a multitude of ways. The latest comes from AOL, which this past week unveiled a plan to hold a “Programmatic Upfront” in September. The AOL event […]
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As TV And Online Converge, Taboola Dismisses 'One-Size Metrics'
Video is a big part of AOL’s new plans to stage a “programmatic upfront” in the fall (AdExchanger story) and content discovery and distribution platform Taboola is likely to be a big part of that effort. The two companies signed a deal late last month that starts with AOL posts adding Taboola’s “recommendation matrix” of […]
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Does The Online Ad Industry Need A 'Programmatic Upfront?'
Barely two months after promoting its video content among the various other digital NewFront presentations, AOL is now planning a “Programmatic Upfront” for September. As we reported earlier today, CEO Tim Armstrong wants to position AOL as the antidote to the long chain of ad technology vendors that serve as the pipes connecting marketers’ online […]
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As Earned And Paid Media Mix, LinkedIn Offers Self-Serve Native Ad Units
After six months in beta, LinkedIn unveiled its “Sponsored Updates” feature for marketers with budgets of all sizes, and mindful of balancing current trends around programmatic, native advertising and content marketing. Alison L. Engel, LinkedIn’s senior director of global marketing, acknowledged that those terms sum up the latest evolution of the professional social network’s advertising […]
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Frustrated With TV's Slow Embrace Of Targeting, Simulmedia Plans To Give More Data Away
The adoption of programmatic selling practices by television ad brokers, buyers and planners has been occurring in a number of ways over the last few years. But progress has been too glacial in the view of Dave Morgan, CEO of TV ad targeter Simulmedia. So he’s expanding the company’s offer of free reach and frequency […]
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Gannett Digital Now Comprises 30% Of Revenues, But Can't Soften Print Losses
As one of the country’s largest broadcast and newspaper owner, Gannett‘s Q2 results continue to perfectly demonstrate the promise and problems of media in transition: digital dollars are growing at a healthy 20% clip over last year, but it still only supplies 30% of the total revenues. Read the release (PDF). As the McLean, Va.-based […]
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Razorfish's Lord Embraces New Tech Role With AOL Networks
Bob Lord is leaving his twin posts as Global CEO of Razorfish and CEO of Publicis Groupe’s Digital Technologies Division to take on the role of CEO of AOL Networks, a post that has been vacant since April when former head Ned Brody exited in April for Yahoo, pending his non-compete. However, Lord, who joined […]
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Pre-roll Ads Will Continue To Dominate Video, As Long As They Get 'Smarter,' Innovid Says
When Innovid CEO Zvika Netter co-founded the interactive video ad-serving company in 2006, he and his partners thought they would be the advance guard that would witness the demise of the pre-roll format. Innovid would replace that model with its customizable, targeted iRoll product, which allows viewers to hit a button within a digital video […]
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A Day After Vowing Ad Tech Investment, Yahoo Buys AdMovate
Following Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s vague comments during Tuesday’s Q2 earnings call promising to increase investments in the company’s ad-tech offerings, the portal has done something concrete by acquiring mobile-ad targeter and data-management software provider AdMovate. Barely a year old and, up until now, operating in stealth mode, AdMovate describes its purpose as delivering “personalized, […]
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Omnicom Trading Desk Accuen Builds Programmatic Practice In Latin America
Accuen, Omnicom Media Group’s trading desk, is officially opening trading desk operations across 20 markets in Latin America, giving the programmatic unit coverage in 60 countries. Much of the focus on the nations that comprise Central and South America has tended to revolve around the rise in consumer spending by Hispanics in the US and […]
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Retargeter AdExtent Evolves From 'App' To Full Platform Closely Aligned With DSPs
After a year existing as a retargeting API feature within ad-exchange operator AppNexus’ system of technology tools, AdExtent says it is launching an independent version of its retargeting offering with a particular focus of augmenting Demand Side Platforms (DSPs) own solutions. In addition to AppNexus, the company is working with MediaMath, Turn and Google’s DoubleClick […]
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As Mocean Debuts Mobile Exchange, Parent Mojiva Still Sees Relevance For Ad Nets
Ad network Mojiva has added an online exchange to its ad-serving unit, Mocean Mobile, which the company sees as a real-time bidding addition to its primary focus on branding campaigns across smartphones and tablets. See the release. Despite the growing importance of mobile RTB as a way of doing business on the mobile Web and in-app, Mojiva […]