Judith is a former associate editor at AdExchanger where she covered the burgeoning world of mobile advertising. Prior to this, she wrote about marketing trends and business intelligence news at CRM magazine. Her work has appeared at the New York Daily News, TheStreet.com and Business Insider. She has an M.A. in journalism from New York University.
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Mobile DSP, Ad Net Or Agency? Vendor Overlap Sows Confusion
Mobile advertising is still emerging as a category but the vendor landscape is already crowded with platforms offering overlapping feature sets. As mobile ad networks, data management platforms, targeting firms and other technologies continue to pile up, drawing a clear line between these services and guarding against conflicts of interest is getting harder, according to […]
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Ogilvy & Mather Exec: ‘Demographics Mean Nothing’
Leveraging customers’ behavioral data is a crucial component of a mobile campaign, but it continues to be a challenge for most companies. One mistake marketers make is relying on a narrow perspective of their customers, pointed out Martin Lange, executive marketing director of digital strategy and global head of the Mobile@Ogilvy division of Ogilvy and […]
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Altimeter Sees Two Paths To 'Native At Scale'
Scale continues to be one of the most challenging aspects of native advertising, and a growing number of companies are working to solve it. As advertisers look for solutions, a number of trends are beginning to emerge, according to a new report from the research firm Altimeter Group. “We’re seeing two fundamental ways that the […]
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Agencies React: MoPub Buy 'Reclassifies' Twitter
Twitter’s acquisition of mobile ad exchange MoPub adds a new layer to its strategy. In addition to selling native ad units, Twitter will become a seller of standardized mobile ads as well — perhaps with its own user data thrown into the mix. “Buying MoPub reclassifies Twitter beyond a social platform, or even a broadcast […]
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Twitter Acquires Mobile Ad Exchange MoPub
Twitter has acquired MoPub, which provides ad management services to thousands of mobile publishers. The move gives Twitter considerable advertising reach in mobile, including real-time bidding inventory through MoPub’s Marketplace mobile ad exchange. Kevin Weil, Twitter’s VP of Product for Revenue, wrote in a blog post: “The two major trends in the ad world right […]
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Pew Report: 86% Of Online Users Attempt To Hide Their Digital Footprints
A few days after Acxiom unveiled Aboutthedata.com, a website where people can review the (sometimes inaccurate) online data that the marketing firm has collected about them, Pew Internet has published a report suggesting internet users are trying to remain anonymous online. Out of a survey of 792 online users in the US, 86% of the […]
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SingTel’s Mobile Ad Firm Amobee Snaps Up RTB Platform Gradient X
Amobee, a mobile advertising company that was acquired by Singapore-based telecom SingTel last year, has bought Gradient X, a Los Angeles-based startup that offers a real-time bidding platform for mobile ads. Gradient X will provide Amobee with a real-time bidding functionality for various ad channels and formats, such as video and HTML5, as well as […]
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Microsoft, Nokia, Verizon And Vodafone Take Bets On The Smartphone Market
Under two separate deals that took place this week, Microsoft, Nokia, Verizon and Vodafone took steps that speak to the companies’ expectations for the smartphone market and the telecom industry as a whole. Microsoft’s decision to acquire Nokia’s devices and services division could help it shore up its place in the smartphone ecosystem while Verizon […]
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Germany Catches On: Ad Exchange Sees Uptick In RTB Ad Buys
A new report from Germany-based ad exchange AdScale shows that US advertisers, agencies and vendors are not the only ones seeing rapid growth in real-time bidding (RTB). The average cost per thousand (CPM) for standard ad space purchased via RTB now averages close to 35% more than the average CPM of campaigns booked without RTB […]
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Salesforce.com's Strong Q2: Analysts See Strength In Marketing Cloud
Greater usability, product “stickiness” and the newly acquired ExactTarget propelled Salesforce.com into a strong second quarter, according to analysts. Salesforce.com posted $957 million in revenues, a 31% increase compared to last year. The San Francisco-based company projects its revenues will top $4 billion for the 2014 fiscal year and is on track to hit a […]
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