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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Viewability Will Be 2014's 'Standard' Display Metric – But A Lot Depends On Google
Viewability has been a trending topic in the online ad space this year, particularly as brand marketers and large publishers vent their ever-present impatience with the lack of metrics for advertising that’s more about creating affinity than direct-response clicks and conversions. In April, Google’s viewable-impression metric, Active View, got the approval of the Media Ratings […]
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Rocket Fuel Agency Survey Finds Buyers Shifting Dollars From TV To Online
The recent stirrings around IPO plans in the video ad-tech space have been driven in part by the expectation of a clearer line between the $75 billion TV ad market and the $4 billion spent annually by marketers on broadband video. While it’s hard to go by intentions, especially when it comes to what media […]
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United Online Turns To OpenX's SSP -- But Please, No Private Marketplaces
United Online is not a typical publisher. Unlike newspaper or magazine sites, it operates the social-media yearbook site Classmates, online florist shop FTD, consumer internet-access tools NetZero and Juno and the MyPoints loyalty rewards program. But it does have plenty of inventory and claims to reach a collective 100 million registered consumer accounts every month, […]
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In A Crowded Programmatic Marketplace, SpotXchange Defends The Validity Of The Video SSP Niche
SpotXchange, a video-marketplace operator focused on the supply side, has seen revenues from Real-Time Bidding exceed 50% of the total dollars it takes in from clients – up from 5% just two years ago. But as CEO Mike Shehan plots the company’s future, the focus on RTB is just phase one. The next phase — […]
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Videology Takes 'Cartesian' Approach To TV/Online Convergence
The time when the blanket label “video advertising” will replace references to TV, PC, mobile, or tablet ads is still a long way off, but a new marketplace offering from Videology promises to advance that cause by letting buyers and sellers unify guaranteed and non-reserved ad deals. Dubbed “Descartes,” the system is named for the […]
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Kantar Aligns Dynamic Logic And Compete, As Measurement Gets Holistic
For the past few years, the analytics spotlight has been captured by Nielsen’s Online Campaign Ratings (OCR) and comScore’s Validated Campaign Essentials (VCE). WPP’s Kantar analytics group has tended to play a minor role in the wars over whether TV-centric metrics like gross ratings points can be relevant for digital media buys. But with today’s […]
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Casio Taps Ahalogy To Build Lifestyle Brand Via Pinterest Boards
Pinterest is starting to move toward a clear advertising model, as shown by last month’s hiring of Facebook’s global PMD head, John Yi, to run its marketing developer partnerships. The company has rolled out analytics and “Rich Pins” features geared to brands, and is believed to have a marketing API program in the works. Rather than […]
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Video Ad IPO Redux! Contrasting YuMe With Tremor Media
Video-ad tech firm YuMe has filed its S-1 with the SEC in hopes of raising $65 million in the public markets. The filing, expected by industry observers since the start of the year, comes less than a week after rival video-ad company Tremor filed its IPO. Among other video-ad firms in the wings for a […]
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Ad Tech Deals Doubled In First Half Of '13, But Options For Sellers May Be Shrinking
There were 34 “ad tech & services” deals during the first six months of 2013, double the amount during the same period the year before, according to figures complied by technology focused investment bank Coady Diemar Partners. Total value for H1-2013 M&A activity was up 664% with a collective $1.2 billion spent on acquisitions and […]
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Video DSP TubeMogul Stakes Future On GRP, Viewability
Many video ad technology players have a sell-side component — think Tremor Video, YuMe, Videology, BrightRoll, SpotXchange and Adap.tv. TubeMogul is one of the few with an exclusive focus on the buy side. TubeMogul has staked its claim as a video demand-side platform, and as such its relationship is chiefly with the agency, not the […]
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Aiming Solely At Major Publishers, LiveRail's Programmatic Impressions Doubled In 2013
At a time when most of the established video-ad players are looking to serve as marketplaces catering to both buyers and sellers, LiveRail is strictly focused on publishers. The 6-year-old company, which began life as yield optimizer for publisher video inventory, now offers a broader set of supply-side platform tools. Sixty percent of the 4 […]
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Tremor Prices IPO, Slightly Less Than Hoped For
Tremor Video has officially gone public, giving the company a valuation of $470 million or so based on the latest stock quote and 48.5 million shares outstanding (Amended S-1). In total, the company raised $75 million by selling 7.5 million shares for $10 a piece — below the previous target of $11 to $12 the […]
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Adap.tv Adapts To Programmatic World, Shuns 'Programmatic' Label
Video ad players like Tremor, YuMe, BrightRoll and Videology are quickly evolving from their ad network beginnings to serve both buyers and sellers in a unified programmatic marketplace. Adap.tv is one of those working to create a video ad marketplace with an end-to-end tech stack. The premise is to serve the demand side and the […]
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Centro Expands Locally Focused 'Brand Exchange' To Mobile, Tablet Inventory
Centro is bringing mobile and tablet ad inventory to its programmatic display ad serving system, called Brand Exchange. Publishers and agency trading desks AdExchanger spoke with view the offering as a way to further unlock the largely untapped local ad market. While mobile and tablet usage is growing, it’s still a mere fraction of the […]
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Digital Ad Vet Lynda Clarizio Joins Investment Bank Berenson As Tech Consolidation Heats Up
After stints running TV media sales software INVISION and heading corporate development for ad exchange operator AppNexus, former AOL executive Lynda Clarizio is joining investment bank Berenson & Co. to help expand its digital media dealmaking portfolio. Read the release. The post puts Clarizio on the other side of the M&A table from her early […]
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WPP's Possible Links Up With Google's Wildfire To Go Deeper Than 'Last Click' Attribution
WPP Group digital agency Possible hopes to bulk up its targeting and performance-based advertising abilities to bridge earned and paid media channels by partnering with Google’s social technology tool, Wildfire. Read the release. Jason Burby, Possible’s chief performance marketing officer, cited Wildfire’s recent integrations with Google Analytics and DoubleClick as the chief reasons the agency […]
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Ooyala Expands Social Integrations As Video Viewing Becomes More Personalized
Streaming video distributor Ooyala, one of the first video technology companies to take advantage of Twitter’s addition of rich media embeds into users’ feeds, is working on similar integrations for LinkedIn while expanding its publishers’ abilities to post and target live video on Facebook, the company told AdExchanger. “As you get beyond the mainstream TV […]
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Video Ad Firm YuMe Sees Lasting Future For The Classic CPM Buy
The moment for “convergence” between TV and online video is starting to seem more real, but video ad tech firm YuMe believes that programmatic sales methods won’t be a substantial part of the conversation around television-style branding campaigns for many years to come. “We do have a small amount of ad sales coming to us […]
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Nativo And VivaKi Hope To Prove 'Programmatic Native' Can Be Done
One of the reasons that digital publishers like to talk about native is obvious: it resembles the age-old practice of high-priced “advertorials” and the natural customization of the placement dictates that marketers must deal directly with the site’s sales team. At the same time, those reasons have left agencies feeling frozen out by native ads, […]
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As It Marches Toward IPO, Tremor Seeks Differentiation On Viewability, Programmatic
Some might view the timing of Tremor Video’s May S-1 filing with the SEC in preparation for its IPO as sign of a “video ad bubble,” but Michael Pachter, managing director of equity research for Wedbush Securities, warns that a public offering generally says more about the individual company than a particular industry segment, like […]
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Gannett Buys Belo For $1.5 Billion, Aiming For Advertising 'SuperGroup'
Most of Gannett’s acquisitions in recent years have been about making the company more digital, but its $1.5 billion purchase of local broadcast operator Belo is a nod to the media business’s main advertising driver: television. But as McLean, VA-based Gannett goes about creating an advertising and content “SuperGroup,” as the company stated in its […]
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At Video Forum, Major Publishers Embrace Programmatic, As Buyers Demand Outcomes
For major publishers that built their businesses on print and glossy magazine pages, there is a clear sense that programmatic ad sales methods are becoming mainstream. What’s less clear is how to address the problems that programmatic has forced on them, namely, the struggle over developing a common metric and how to define terms like […]
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Extreme Reach Argues For Repurposing TV Spots, Against Acquiring 'Products'
A month after accepting a $50 million investment from PE firm Spectrum Equity in return for a minority stake in the company, video ad platform Extreme Reach is carefully planning a series of small acquisitions directly tied to building scale, not greater technology advancement. In an interview with AdExchanger, CEO John Roland didn’t address the […]
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American Airlines Tests Rovi's Connected TV Ads In The UK
Beginning in Q3 of last year, American Airlines began buying connected TV ads using Rovi’s interactive guide page. The goal was to raise its profile among travelers coming from the UK. The airline won’t disclose how much it spent with Rovi’s ad network – through its agency Universal McCann – on interactive TV ads, but […]
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Canada Video Ad Market Is Catching Up To US, Says BrightRoll
A survey of 300 advertisers and agencies commissioned by video ad platform BrightRoll and Canada’s IAB suggests that 2013 is the “breakout year” for that country’s video marketplace. Spending on digital video is up 42% from 2012, and 41% of Canadian agencies expect to spend “half or more of their video-related ad budgets on programmatic […]
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Two Months After Starcom Deal, Twitter Adds Agency Appeal With WPP Data Alliance
Twitter has shown aggressiveness over the past few months in developing its advertising business, and this morning’s global data-sharing deal with WPP Group represents another significant advancement. Read the release. The relationship is through WPP’s Data Alliance, which includes the holding company’s media buying and planning umbrella GroupM, the analytics provider Kantar and digital creative […]
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Visible World Taps FourthWall To Support Addressable TV Ads
Addressable TV ads company Visible World is working with FourthWall Media to make it easier for cable operators to deploy Household Addressable TV Advertising across any of the major cable operators’ set-top boxes. FourthWall Media purchased digital TV ad management platform Navic from Microsoft in May 2012. Following that deal, Navic was folded into FourthWall’s […]
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Can Aol Video Grab TV Ad Dollars? Or Just Display?
Aol wants to be the “new TV.” During its lavish NewFront presentation last month, it pressed the message “We’re ready for primetime” – that is, primetime TV ad spending. Today the company released a survey of 770 ad industry executives on the migration of TV spend to digital video. Respondents indicated plans to shift spend […]
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TubeMogul Gets $10 Million For Video Ads As SingTel Venture Arm Invests
TubeMogul has raised a $10 million third round of funding to help promote the online video demand-side platform and analytics company’s expansion into Asia. See the release. The funding comes amid a flurry of activity in the online video space, including Tremor Video’s IPO filing and yesterday’s $60 million financing raised by Videology. In the […]
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Videology Raises $60 Million, Prepares For Overseas Expansion And Convergence
The digital video ad market has been on fire with annual double-digit growth for the last four years. A sampling of headlines from the past week shows the heat is continuing into 2013: Tremor Video filed with the SEC to go public, a consortium of video ad rivals formed a group to promote a single […]