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James Hercher
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James covers the ecommerce, advertising technology, Google and other topics. He joined AdExchanger in March 2015 after a stint in communications for advertising technology companies. He spent two years in TV production, working for the NFL and then for the PBS NewsHour, where he covered the 2012 election and foreign affairs.

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BidSwitch's Barry Adams On Keeping An Eye On The Bouncing Ball In Ad Tech

AdExchanger's Social Distancing With Friends podcast now has its own channel. Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Barry Adams, general manager of BidSwitch, lived abroad for 20 years, in China, Hong Kong and most recently London – until the end of January this year, when he got married and moved to New... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // June 16th, 2020 //
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Lytics: How An OG CDP Distinguishes Itself In a Crowded Category

This is the sixth in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment and ActionIQ.  Everyone and their mother operates a customer data platform (CDP) nowadays. And that crowding obscures the actual purpose of a CDP, said James McDermott, co-founder and CEO of the CDP Lytics. “If Tealium, Segment,... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // June 15th, 2020 //
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AMC Becomes First Independent Network To Join The On Addressability Initiative

The On Addressability initiative, a joint venture between Comcast, Charter and Cox, has added AMC Networks as its first independent broadcast partner, the companies announced on Wednesday. Comcast launched the On Addressability initiative at the Cannes Lions festival in June 2019 to transition more TV commercials to addressable ad sales. The joint venture allows brands... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // June 10th, 2020 //
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How B2B Sellers Became DTC Brands During The Pandemic

The direct-to-consumer brand revolution has been going strong for a decade, but the coronavirus pandemic has created new opportunities for B2B and wholesale manufacturers to flood the consumer market. Rastelli’s, a New Jersey-based food supplier, fortuitously started a consumer branding business last year, said director of marketing Zachary Paul. Instead of selling products through grocers... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // June 5th, 2020 //
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Ad Tech Madness Stokes Online Competition For Tournament-Starved Techies

Welcome to Ad Tech Madness, a no-holds-barred Twitter tournament where David finally has a fighting chance against Goliath. Born as a content marketing stunt by Beeswax CEO Ari Paparo, Ad Tech Madness pits ad tech players against each other in daylong races for votes, and has captured pent-up desire for live competition and for elimination... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // June 2nd, 2020 //
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Doritos To Sponsor Twitch Tourneys, Embracing Live Gaming Risk And Reward

Video games have proven their marketing mettle during the coronavirus crisis, with people stuck at home and live sports and TV frozen in limbo. The latest example of that trend comes from Doritos, which is teaming up with Twitch to host a series of esports tournaments over the course of the year. The Doritos Disruptor... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // June 2nd, 2020 //
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Beeswax Releases Snowflake Cloud Partnership To Take On Ads Data Hub

The demand-side platform Beeswax launched a data warehouse product Monday that company CEO Ari Paparo described as analogous to Google’s Ads Data Hub (ADH). The Beeswax version is called Antenna and it’s built on the cloud technology company Snowflake, a warehousing and analytics service that is itself built on cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // June 1st, 2020 //
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Bacardi CMO John Burke On Recapturing Experiential Marketing (And Fun)

Bacardi CMO John Burke has been in lockdown at his home in London for the past two months. And his challenge is to figure out how to bring people together to relax and enjoy a drink … when people can’t gather together or, seemingly, relax. There are opportunities to reach consumers and be a part... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // June 1st, 2020 //
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President Trump Signs Executive Order To Remove Legal Shield For Online Platforms

Miffed by Twitter adding fact-checking labels to some of his tweets this week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that, if enacted, would challenge social media companies or other aggregation platforms that moderate or remove political content. The reported draft of the executive order targets Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // May 28th, 2020 //
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Connexity Buys Skimlinks, Adding An Affiliate Network To Its Retail Marketing Toolkit

That’s one serious commission. Retail performance marketing company Connexity has acquired Skimlinks, one of the larger (now formerly) independent affiliate networks. Terms of the deal, announced on Thursday, were not disclosed. But Connexity is adding the roughly 80-person Skimlinks team, said CEO Sebastien Blanc, who took on the top job in 2018. That brings Connexity's... Continue reading »
by James Hercher // May 28th, 2020 //
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