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Don Willmott

Don Willmott

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  • Publishers

    The Economist Makes First Impressions With New Multiplatform Ad Units

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    The Economist has rolled out “First Impression” multiplatform ad units to let advertisers grab a weekly premium spot across all Economist channels, including its website, tablet and smartphone apps, as well as its print edition. The publisher has also debuted a new weekly reader measurement called “Total Economist Weekly Audience” (TEWA) in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers to help […]

  • Online Advertising

    As Google Locks Down, Will Advertisers Be Locked Out?

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    Google’s search engine may eventually reward Web sites that use encryption and if it does, advertisers may find themselves cut off from useful data. Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam team, hinted at the recent SMX West conference hosted by Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan that Google is indeed considering revising its search […]

  • Agencies

    Programmatic Gets Local For LA Agency Davis Elen

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    You walk into a Honda dealership, and a Toyota ad pops up on your cell phone. The future of programmatic is destined to get more mobile and more local as ad exchanges and agencies team up on innovations that will target consumers more specifically, even when they’re on the move. Christina Lee, a senior digital […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Forrester: Programmatic Will Take Over Online Video…And Then TV

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    Attention, traditional television media buyers: You may soon be replaced by an algorithm. According to “How Software Is Eating Video Ads And, Soon, TV,” a new report from Forrester, programmatic buying has made serious inroads into the online video ad market. As automation of media buys becomes more common and viewing hours of online video […]

  • Data

    Direct Marketers Speak Out Against New Data Protection Legislation

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    Senators John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) introduced legislation Wednesday that would require data brokers to be accountable and transparent about the information they collect and sell about consumers, but the direct marketing industry is already pushing back hard. “Consumers deserve to know what information about their personal lives is being […]

  • Data

    Death to Spreadsheets: STAQ Unifies Multiple Reports

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    The best-of-breed hodgepodge has created a giant puzzle for marketers, who must piece together various vendor reports to see a clear picture of ad campaign performance. “Publishers and marketers rely on third-party reporting to run their businesses,” said James Curran, CEO of STAQ, a systems integrator specializing in advertising technology. “They have multiple log-ins, multiple […]

  • Platforms

    Asia-Based Komli Media Launches 'Remarketing DSP'

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    Komli Media, a digital media technology provider in the Asia-Pacific market, has launched a Remarketing Demand Side Platform (DSP) geared to enterprise clients. The goal is to help digital marketers convert site visitors into customers using custom tools that blend the advantages of both remarketing and DSP services into a single platform. “DSPs have typically […]

  • Digital Marketing

    Finding The Formula For The 'Zero-Waste' Interactive Ad

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    When Joe Marchese, CEO of digital agency true[X] media, took to the stage at New York’s Paley Center for Media in December to discuss the future of digital advertising, his premise was simple: “You don’t hate the commercial. You hate the break.” Simply dropping a noninteractive ad into an interactive medium is as foolish as playing […]

  • Publishers

    Programmatic Selling To 50M Women: Speaking With Meredith VP Chip Schenck

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    Meredith Corp., the publisher of magazine brands such as Ladies’ Home Journal, Parents, Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle, knows how to talk to women. With more than 18 titles, 100 special-interest publications and a digital audience of 50 million monthly visitors, the company is well-positioned to create unique marketing programs that engage its […]

  • Data

    Matchmaker: How LiveRamp Activates CRM Data For Marketing Purposes

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    Back in August, San Francisco-based LiveRamp released GetOnboard, a CRM “data onboarding” software system designed to bridge the gap between marketers’ customer data and their online marketing efforts. By prepping massive amounts of data for every possible marketing service and destination, and by doing it quickly, GetOnboard has been selected by more than 200 customers […]

  • Data Nugget

    IAB: Digital Ad Spend Surpassed $20B In First Half Of 2013

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    Digital ad spending in the first half of 2013 grew 18% year over year, according to the 2013 Half Year IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report. The increase marks the fifth consecutive year of double-digit growth in the first half. The IAB report, conducted by Pricewaterhouse Coopers, tracks and analyzes US Internet ad spending. Mobile is […]

  • Social Media

    Forrester Scores Audiences On Propensity To Engage Marketers On Social Sites

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    However much click tracking, psychographic surveying, and big data analysis marketers do, few have a solid understanding of how their customers engage with social marketing content — or how those customers’ behavior differs between commercial and non-commercial interactions. To address the knowledge gap, Forrester Research has come up with a “Social Technographics Score,” a model […]