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James covers the intersection of commerce, media and advertising technology.
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Why Toyota Loves Distracted TV Audiences
When a Toyota commercial airs, Vinay Shahani, the company’s North America VP of integrated marketing operations, knows that most people who see it aren’t in market for a car. So the company looks at search activity to assess the value of its TV ad spend. Using data and analytics company EDO, Toyota can measure web […]
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Verizon Media Brings DOOH Supply To SSP, Completing Its Stack For Outdoor Screens
Verizon Media, the telco giant’s ad tech and content unit, added digital out-of-home (DOOH) supply to its SSP on Tuesday. The SSP launch completes Verizon’s full-stack DOOH offering, having launched a DSP solution for outdoor media buys earlier this year. Verizon also has a network called Verizon Digital Signage, a collection of 3,000 interactive screens […]
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The IAB Finalizes CCPA Framework As Industry Readies For More Regulators
The IAB on Thursday released its California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance framework, the legal and technical mechanism for using ad-targeting data or first-party publisher data in programmatic advertising. It also released a legal agreement meant to accompany the compliance framework. Get it all here. The finished framework comes only two weeks after it first […]
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GroupM Sees Highest Ad Spend Growth Rate Since 2000. Can It Last?
The United States advertising market is inching up to the quarter-trillion dollar mark. Total ad spend in the United States will reach $244 billion this year, a 6.2% bump from 2018, according to GroupM’s annual media forecast. That’s a very strong growth rate – the highest since 2000 – but it could also be the […]
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Ad Buyers Starting To Use The Trade Desk DSP Over Google, According To Advertiser Perceptions Report
Google’s Display and Video 360 demand-side platform is in a tough fight as offerings from Amazon and The Trade Desk equal or exceed Google’s usage rates, according to Advertiser Perceptions’ quarterly tracking report. The report surveys 314 media executives, split between brands and agencies, about their opinions of the major buying platforms. The report tracks […]
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Can Amazon Be King? How The Ecommerce Leader Could Surpass The Duopoly
Amazon has become the indisputable number three digital ad platform, after Google and Facebook. But while the possibility of Amazon’s advertising business unseating the duopoly has been percolating, can it really surpass either Google or Facebook as an ad industry titan? The numbers are … discouraging, at least in the short term. Google is just […]
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New Salesforce Marketing Cloud CEO Adam Blitzer Doubles Down On CDP
The Salesforce Marketing Cloud is crowning a new leader. Longtime Salesforce vet Adam Blitzer will take the CEO reins from Bob Stutz this month. But the business strategy will remain the same: customer data platform (CDP) all the way. Salesforce introduced its CDP service, called “Customer 360,” in June, and Blitzer colored in more detail […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoAmobee’s CSO On How TV Convergence Accelerates Ad Tech Maturation
The demand-side platform (DSP) category was starting to get pretty boring. Forrester stopped conducting DSP waves last year, due to the minimal differentiation and innovation. And VC investments have all but dried up. But the programmatic ecosystem has geared back up as tech companies eye “the next battleground” of cross-channel video, said Philip Smolin, Amobee’s […]
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PayPal Drops $4B On Honey, A Browser Extension Rich In Shopper Data
PayPal raised eyebrows and bank balances in the ecommerce marketing technology space on Wednesday when it announced its $4 billion acquisition of Honey Sciences Corporation. Honey operates a shopping tool people install in browsers and apps that scrapes the web for discounts. The deal, expected to close early next year, is a home run for […]
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Adswerve Looks To Recreate DoubleClick Services Strategy With Google Vets
Google’s $3 billion acquisition of the DoubleClick ad server business in 2007 was a massive home run. But today, privacy regulations and changes to digital advertising have transformed Google’s ad tech unit. Google’s original vision for DoubleClick, to combine tech with automation, is still a recipe for scale, because it minimizes hands-on service, said Clint Tasset, […]
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