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Kelly Liyakasa

Kelly Liyakasa

Senior Editor

Kelly Liyakasa is a senior editor covering commerce, video, TV and marketing tech for AdExchanger. Previously she was an associate editor for Information Today, where she reported on enterprise technology and strategy for its flagship publication, CRM magazine. Prior to that, she was a reporter for a New York metro Business Journal and luxury lifestyle magazine, profiling as diverse a set of individuals as a pre-election Donald Trump and Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges. Kelly holds a BA in Multimedia Journalism from Florida Atlantic University.

Articles By Kelly

  • Ad Exchange News

    Digital Place-Based Advertising Is Primed For Programmatic Growth

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    Digital place-based (DPB) media – screens with digital content placed in malls, offices, taxis, airports and other locations outside of the home – surpassed $1.02 billion in revenue as an industry in 2015. It is expected to grow at a rate of 10-12% annually, according to new research from the Digital Place-based Advertising Association (DPAA) […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Facebook Adds More Viewable Video Options, Automated Captions For Autoplay

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    Despite the explosion of consumers watching 100 million hours of video every day on Facebook, marketers want more ways to make an impact in a video environment rife with muted autoplay. Consequently, Facebook on Wednesday released automated captioning for autoplay video and a complete integration to third-party measurement provider Moat and rolled out globally a […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Snapchat Deal Boosts Viacom's Cross-Screen Mojo

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    Viacom sales chief Jeff Lucas’s affinity for Snapchat dates back a year, to when the broadcast network first explored distribution opportunities with the popular video-messaging app. Now the two have set up a multiyear content and advertising agreement, which gives Viacom’s sales teams the right to monetize Snapchat US-based ad inventory. In turn, Snapchat gets […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    CBS May Be Super Bowl’s Biggest Ad Winner As Cross-Device Streaming Spikes

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    Somewhere between Drake’s turn for T-Mobile, Mountain Dew’s “Puppy Monkey Baby” and Anthony Hopkins shilling for TurboTax.com, another brand scored: CBS, the exclusive network partner for Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 game. Overnight ratings data from Nielsen indicated Sunday’s matchup was the second highest-rated Super Bowl in metered markets in the game’s history, while cross-device streaming […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    IPG: Time Spent Is A Better Indicator Of Ad Effectiveness Than Percent Of Pixels In-View

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    Just because an ad is “in-view,” that doesn’t mean it’s effective. On the contrary, time spent is often a better indicator of ad effectiveness than percentage of pixels in-view on a page. That’s according to a new viewability study from Interpublic Group (IPG) and measurement firm Integral Ad Science. The report, “Putting Science Behind The […]

  • Investment

    Neustar's Marketing Services Continues To Grow Following MarketShare Acquisition

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    Neustar’s marketing services revenue grew 23% to $51.1 million YoY in the fourth quarter, and climbed 16% to $170.4 million for the full year 2015. It’s a small but increasingly important part of Neustar’s overall business (which also includes information services and security services). According to CEO Lisa Hook the total business brought in $1.05 billion in […]

  • OPINION: On TV & Video

    Server-Side Stitching: How Publishers Are Bypassing Ad Blockers And Avoiding Video Latency

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    Server-side ad insertion (SSAI), also known as ad stitching, is emerging as a key method for video publishers to mitigate ad blocking and boost video playback across devices. Though the technique is not new, industry insiders say there is massive growth potential as consumers stream more video content and new over-the-top devices enter the fray. […]

  • Investment

    Comcast Eyes More Advanced Ad Targeting As Q4 Brings Video, Cable Subscription Growth

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    Comcast is losing fewer cable TV customers than it has in the past eight years. That’s no small feat, considering signs of rampant cord cutting inundating the broadcast industry. Comcast added 89,000 customers for video service Xfinity in the fourth quarter, the most of any quarter since 2006, according to its earnings release. Video revenue […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Adstream Eyes The US Video Market With Acquisition of Deluxe AdServices

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    London-based Adstream (not to be confused with AppNexus’ Open Adstream), which specializes in video delivery and digital asset management, on Monday acquired the AdServices division of US-based media and entertainment production firm Deluxe. The move gives Adstream greater presence in North America and sets the stage for global expansion. Adstream did not disclose the deal […]

  • Investment

    Google Touts Traction With Mobile Ads, YouTube's TrueView In Q4

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    Google had a strong showing in Q4, its first quarter airing results under an entirely new segment-based reporting structure. Google’s holding company Alphabet reported $21.3 billion in Q4 2015 revenue, an 18% increase YoY. Google itself saw $21.2 billion in quarterly revenue (an 18% YoY increase) and $74.5 billion for FY 2015. Read the release. Breaking down the […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    ComScore Completes $768M Merger With Rentrak In Bid For Cross-Screen Measurement

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    ComScore and Rentrak have completed their merger, cinching a deal aimed at establishing new multiscreen currencies to rival TV ratings incumbent Nielsen. The all-stock deal was originally valued at $732 million based on market prices at the time the deal was announced in September. The merger, which gained shareholder approvals late Friday, represented $767.7 million in final deal value, […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    The ANA And The 4A's Clash Over Media Transparency Guidelines

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    The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the American Association of Advertising Agencies (the 4A’s) are divided over how to shed light on issues of transparency and agency rebates. The two trade groups – the ANA representing brands and the 4A’s representing agencies – collaborated last spring by forming a working group of about 15 […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Ooyala Charts The Course For Automated Guaranteed In TV

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    Automated guaranteed will color direct deals in TV in a big way, not just in digital, predicts Scott Braley, GM of programmatic at Telstra-owned video platform Ooyala. While traditional TV teams are accustomed to buying on a reserved basis, automated guaranteed deals could diversify the direct orders process. Broadcasters could subsequently gain more flexibility around […]

  • Ecommerce

    Cardlytics Banks On Programmatic

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    Cardlytics, which, in its first iteration, fueled card-linked offers for banks and financial services firms, is opening up new ways to monetize around the private bank channel. The company, which sits on transactional data spanning 109 million accounts in the US alone, is eyeing longer-term deals with agency holding groups. It’s also beefing up demand […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Videology Diversifies Viewable Video Delivery Options

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    Myriad vendors are setting minimum thresholds that meet Media Rating Council (MRC) guidelines for viewability, but video ad platform Videology on Tuesday said it is the first to guarantee delivery of video ads (at least on a self-serve basis), based on both the MRC standard and GroupM’s “extended viewability” standard. Videology clients can now plan and […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    AOL Debuts A Publisher Platform, Acquires French RTB Shop AlephD

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    AOL rolled a slew of sell-side tools into a unified publisher platform called ONE by AOL: Publishers, which launched Monday, and revealed its intent to acquire French yield management startup AlephD. It didn’t take long for AOL to make good on an earlier declaration by then-President Bob Lord in late October that AOL would remain […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Ad Tech Vet Jason Kelly Becomes LiveIntent’s President

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    LiveIntent, which automates the placement of ad inventory within email messages, appointed industry heavy-hitter Jason Kelly as its president on Monday. Kelly was instrumental in helping mobile ad network Millennial Media sell to AOL for $240 million in September, facilitated the sale of retail DSP Sociomantic to Tesco/dunnhumby in 2014 and served as CRO of […]

  • OPINION: On TV & Video

    StyleHaul CEO: Video Reach And Engagement Are Not Created Equal

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    There’s a world of difference between achieving mass reach and engagement in multiplatform video. Just ask Stephanie Horbaczewski, CEO of the fashion and beauty multichannel video network (MCN) StyleHaul. StyleHaul was among the first YouTube MCNs to join larger companies (Maker/Disney, Fullscreen/AT&T and Chernin Group, Collective/ProSieben) when German broadcast giant RTL Group purchased a majority […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Google Debuts ‘Real-Time Ads’ To Drive Live Engagement

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    Google sounds more and more like Twitter, heralding ways marketers can tap into live events for engagement. As such, the company on Wednesday rolled out a new ad product called Real-Time Ads at a press event in New York. With Real-Time Ads, Google aims to capitalize on the ripple effect of live events, such as […]

  • Mobile

    Qualia Merges With BlueCava To Connect Intent To Cross-Screen Conversion

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    Intent-targeting platform Qualia has merged with early cross-device shop BlueCava, AdExchanger has learned. The move will marry cross-screen data with purchase signals, which the two companies say will strengthen their collective offering. BlueCava’s technology – and 40 employees – will fold into the larger Qualia brand. BlueCava chairman and CEO Phil Myers will move into […]

  • Ecommerce

    1-800 Contacts Pushes Tech Partners For ‘Proof Of Concept’

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    Over two years, a lot has changed for online contact lens seller 1-800 Contacts. “In 2013, we didn’t even have a mobile app,” said its VP of digital commerce, Justin Olson. Contrast that with 2015: “Seventeen percent of our total orders came through the app and about 20-25% of orders come through mobile web.” Olson, […]

  • Advertiser

    H&R Block Spends Evenly On Digital And TV Ads, CMO Says

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    H&R Block is targeting millennials, TV and your tax dollars. The tax preparation giant is gearing up to air three new 30-second broadcast TV ads just in time for tax season, with a goal to increase awareness among the youngest demographic set of tax filers. H&R Block declined to disclose how much it is investing […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Facebook Video: The Possibilities And The Pitfalls

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    At 1.55 billion monthly active users and growing, Facebook’s audience reach is massive. And Facebook is hammering out constant improvements to the video discovery mechanism in the news feed. But the social platform remains largely in experimental mode with video, and agencies and publishers are chomping at the bit for a clearer monetization path and […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    MediaCom Gauges The Emotional Impact Of Video Ads

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    It’s one thing if a consumer views your video ad, but it’s another if they were receptive to your content. In an effort to gauge that impact, WPP agency MediaCom forged a global partnership Tuesday with Realeyes, an emotion analytics platform that uses opt-in facial-coding technology to gauge user response to online video ads. The […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Yahoo Responds To Video Ad Fraud Allegations

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    Yahoo doesn’t have a fraudulent traffic problem, a company leader said Friday. Tod Sacerdoti, VP of display and video ad products and the founder of Yahoo’s video ad exchange BrightRoll, was responding to a CNBC report late last week, which claimed widespread fraud in Yahoo’s ads business and sales “ineptitude” as responsible for the downfall of […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    As LiveRail Sunsets Its Ad Server, Facebook Formalizes New Buy/Sell-Side Focus

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    Sandwiched somewhere between the smart cars and $599 headsets at CES, Facebook dropped a mini-bomb by way of its developer blog when it revealed Thursday that LiveRail – the video ad server, SSP and publisher monetization platform it acquired in 2014 – would exit the ad-serving business. Facebook purports the move will allow it to […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Warner Brothers Tests The Waters With Programmatic Video

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    Warner Brothers is moving deeper into programmatic video, using Tremor Video’s supply-side platform exclusively to set brand controls around certain properties and to help monetize more mobile video inventory. The move to adopt an SSP, which it first began testing in Q2 of last year, is in lockstep with Warner Brothers CEO Kevin Tsujihara’s prediction […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    AudienceXpress Rolls Out ‘Self-Serve’ Programmatic TV In First Launch Under Comcast

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    AudienceXpress, a TV planning and buying platform Comcast acquired last summer via its purchase of parent Visible World, is opening up new programmatic TV tools to several agencies, including Horizon and US International. These tools include a self-serve platform and direct APIs, AudienceXpress’ first major product launch since the Comcast acquisition. The beta will last through the […]

  • Ecommerce

    After The Divestiture: eBay Enterprise Aims To Corner ‘Post-Click’ Commerce

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    The remnants of eBay Enterprise (which, despite the name, is no longer owned by eBay) is seeking to plant a stake in “post-click” commerce. This is why its private equity owner Sterling Partners merged eBay Enterprise, back in November, with a commerce tech company in its portfolio called Innotrac. The combined entity will be rebranded […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Oracle To Acquire AddThis, Bulk Up On Audience Data

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    Updated Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire AddThis, a social bookmarking startup that has since transitioned into a publisher audience platform, for an undisclosed sum. Oracle’s Data Cloud, which combines Oracle’s earlier acquisitions of BlueKai and Datalogix, will benefit the most. Making an acquisition has become a holiday-time tradition for the enterprise giant. “Oracle Data Cloud is the […]

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