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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

  • Digital TV and Video

    Everyday Health And Videology Aim To Unlock Hard-To-Reach Health Care Audiences

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    Health care and pharma brands spend north of $3 billion each year on TV ads, according to Kantar Media, but oftentimes the trade-off is the associated waste that results from mass reach. Although these advertisers have been comparatively slow to adopt data-driven digital tactics, more are investing. EMarketer estimates the sector will spend $1.8 billion […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Adobe Debuts Its Data Exchange

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    Adobe rolled out the Audience Marketplace data exchange on Tuesday, featuring a data cooperative (which Adobe first revealed to prospective partners last summer) and a data partner network. Both are powered by Adobe’s data management platform, Audience Manager. The co-op aspect is designed to let companies pool their first-party data sets. The data partner network […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    As Innovid Forges Connected TV Ties, It Sets Its Sights On Programmatic Creative

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    Interactive video ad server Innovid has rolled out a programmatic creative tool designed to let agencies and advertisers personalize video messages across devices. This capability is driven, in part, by Innovid’s experience tackling different ad-serving requirements through a series of connected TV partnerships. Innovid entered an audience solutions agreement with Roku in the summer, which […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Will The Rise Of Subscription Services Usurp Ad-Supported Video?

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    While the rise of subscription video services won’t lure all consumers away from ad-supported offerings, it represents a disruption to current business models – partially driven by ad blocking and consumer demand for better experiences. “If you think about all of the content we consume that is supported by an advertising model, if a consumer […]

  • Advertiser

    How Frito-Lay Levels The Playing Field Between TV, Digital And Offline For NFL Promos

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    Frito-Lay, the $14 billion chip-and-dip division of PepsiCo, wants to engineer 360-degree marketing programs. Ram Krishnan, CMO of Frito-Lay North America, recently outlined a 70-20-10 plan, which will enable it to do so.  The brand will allocate 70% of its resources to proven methodologies, 20% to partners who prove value (Krishnan called it “validated risk”) […]

  • Advertiser

    Expedia Rewires Its Media Mix Using TubeMogul’s New Cross-Screen Planning System

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    Everyone talks about TV dollars leaking into digital, but what happens behind the scenes to make those dollars move? Vic Walia, senior director of brand marketing for Expedia, said it involves change management and rewiring old assumptions. “We’ve always invested heavily in TV as a brand, but we wanted to extend our reach beyond our […]

  • Investment

    Criteo Pools Data From Over 6,000 Brands To Power Its Device Graph

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    Criteo is prepping a Universal Match product as a serious contender in the cross-device arms race. The company is pooling anonymized data from two-thirds of its 9,300 brand customers in its consumer database. Every brand that participates provides CRM data (not unlike Google’s Customer Match) that would enable them to target specific users cross-platform through […]

  • Agencies

    Merkle's New Programmatic Chief On Why Agencies Need To Be Systems Integrators

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    It might surprise those who think of Merkle as only a CRM agency to hear it has a media practice that employs 400. Although the division has taken four years to construct, Merkle has over the past several months recruited a handful of media agency heavyweights (including ex-Razorfish COO Michael Komasinski) to help support its […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Clypd And SpotX Team Up With TiVo To Translate Digital Ad Exposures Into TV Speak

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    Clypd and SpotX, two sell-side systems for TV and digital publishers, have jointly launched a cross-screen monetization platform for media owners. TiVo will be the pair’s first data partner, enabling platform users to anonymously match digital ad exposures to national households across TiVo’s 2.5 million set-top boxes. The goal is to allow an advertiser or […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    After The Marriage: 5 Things You Need To Know About AOL Under Verizon

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    In the four months since Verizon’s acquisition of AOL closed, AOL absorbed Microsoft’s advertising business, dropped $238 million on Millennial Media and Verizon revised its privacy policy in anticipation of its data flowing into the AOL stack. Since AOL launched a unified platform called ONE, it has preached the gospel of “openness.” But will that standard hold once Verizon’s […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Programmatic Drives 10-15% Of NBCUniversal’s Total Digital Upfront Business

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    NBCUniversal transacted 10-15% of its digital business programmatically during the 2015-2016 season, the company has revealed to AdExchanger. Prior to the upfronts, the company expected to secure 50% of commitments on a “converged” basis, with elements of both TV and digital in a single deal. In this most recent upfront, NBCUniversal’s digital business grew 50% and, of […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Facebook's LiveRail Cans Some Ad Network Customers As It Goes Direct-To-Publisher

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    Facebook doesn’t want umpteen degrees of separation between its LiveRail exchange and the stable of publishers who use it to monetize, and the company is taking swift action to cull intermediaries. In an email obtained by AdExchanger, Facebook says it will terminate publisher services for an undisclosed number of customers (namely third-party resellers of desktop […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Nielsen Catalina Soups Up Its Shopper Data By 30%, Adds Walgreens To The Mix

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    Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS) wants to build the most comprehensive set of shopper data out there, and it appears right on course. The company has expanded its shopper data set by 30%, fueled mostly by a new data partnership with Walgreens, NCS revealed to AdExchanger Wednesday. This means Nielsen Catalina now has access to shopper […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    News Corp. Puts Unruly To Use And Diversifies Video Inventory

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    News Corp.’s acquisition of video ad platform Unruly last month is already bearing fruit. Unruly has rolled out a new in-article video format priced on cost-per-completed-view (CPCV). Out of News Corp.’s roster of publications, MarketWatch, The Sun and News.com.au in the UK and Australia will be first to deploy the format. Unruly will also sell the format directly to […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    DISH Opens A Programmatic Exchange, Enables RTB

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    DISH Network is subscribing to the programmatic playbook, enabling greater automation and data application for buyers bidding on addressable TV spots. The satellite pay-TV provider, representing 8 million addressable households nationwide, on Monday debuted a programmatic marketplace and supply-side platform running on IPONWEB. Its initial demand partners are Rocket Fuel, TubeMogul and DataXu. After an […]

  • Advertiser

    Cadillac CMO: ‘Luxury Brands Sell Dreams, Not Products’

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    General Motors’ Cadillac might be a nostalgic brand, but it’s trying to become more relevant to the modern car buyer. The brand is facing an ongoing sales slump as buyers steer toward the German luxury automakers like BMW and Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz. “We will not out-German the Germans,” said Uwe Ellinghaus, Cadillac’s chief marketing officer who, […]

  • Digital Marketing

    IBM Rolls Out A ‘Behavior Exchange,’ Brings On Ad Tech Partners

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    IBM is pushing deeper into the cloud and paid media. Big Blue on Thursday launched the IBM Universal Behavior Exchange (UBX), a platform that unifies marketing tech acquisitions including Unica campaign management, Silverpop marketing automation, Coremetrics analytics and Xtify mobile personalization. It also named 25 UBX partners, including a handful of ad tech players like […]

  • OPINION: On TV & Video

    Finding Success With The Second Screen: Univision Uses Apps To Complement Live Views

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    Univision hasn’t been plagued with the problem of retaining live linear viewers, one of the byproducts of the cord-cutting craze. Although the Hispanic broadcaster claims 91% of viewers prefer to consume its content live, it still estimates visitors to its properties spend 36% more time on mobile than the average consumer. Thus, it determined its […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Dentsu Video Investment Chief Says Buyers Need Data Consistency, Clarity In Mobile Video

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    We hear about TV budgets being reallocated to digital, but how much budget exactly? According to an AOL survey of 300 brands, agencies, and publishers, nine out of 10 of those buyers push 10% of their TV budgets to digital. While that’s good news for online publishers, it creates additional burdens around how data can […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    ANA Retains Two Firms To Investigate Agency Rebates

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    The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) is looking into kickbacks following allegations leveled at agencies. Several months after the ANA formed a joint transparency task force with the American Association of Advertising Agencies (the 4As), it revealed Tuesday it has hired two firms, K2 Intelligence and Ebiquity/FirmDecisions, to do more fact-finding around the issue of media transparency. The vetting process included 26 firms, […]

  • Agencies

    GroupM’s Gotlieb: ‘Media Needs To Morph From The Top Of The Funnel To The Transaction’

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    Television may be a little late to the programmatic party, but addressable TV promises to blend performance efficiencies with proven sales lift – and that’s changing the face of the TV buy. Media agencies were historically agents of the upper funnel, but data and technology are redefining the awareness and consideration phase. “A client used […]

  • Investment

    Ensighten Raises $53M To Expand Mobile, In-App Data Management

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    Ensighten has raised $53 million in debt and equity financing to push beyond its core tag management system. Existing investor Insight Venture Partners and others led the Series C round, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. The injection will be used for product development, continuing to expand its global leadership team and to ramp up […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    E-Sports: ‘Not Just Another Product Placement’ To Pizza Hut

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    It’s probably not a newsflash that the video gaming demographic likes pizza. It’s one of the reasons why Pizza Hut is the inaugural advertiser for a new e-sports and gaming network called SMASHER from multichannel network Endemol Beyond. The pizza chain will sponsor the premiere episode of “Legends of Gaming,” SMASHER’s flagship US series. “The […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Mar-Tech Consolidation Rages On As Selligent, StrongView Merge

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    StrongView on Thursday merged with marketing automation system Selligent. Private equity firm HGGC owns majority stakes in both companies. As a combined company, Belgium-based Selligent and Redwood City, Calif.-based StrongView will employ about 350 people. The goal is to expand products and services internationally, said Selligent co-founder and CEO André Lejeune. Lejeune will serve as […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Dstillery Pushes Into Programmatic Self Serve

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    Dstillery released Thursday a self-serve version of its digital audience platform, combining a data management and demand-side platform. While the bulk of Dstillery’s business comes from agencies, it does some brand-direct deployments. The new self-serve offerings won’t replace Dstillery’s managed services, but will offer more flexibility to clients who wish to take an active role […]

  • Advertiser

    Coke Opens Data-Driven Happiness, Builds Out Marketing Decision Engine

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    For 128 years, Coca-Cola has distinguished its brand through mass media, but consumer tech titans like Apple, Microsoft and Google have usurped its top spot among the world’s most valuable brands, as rated by Forbes. “That’s indicative of the world we’re living in,” said Michael Weaver, director of data strategy for The Coca-Cola Company, speaking […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    B2B Advertisers Seek To Bridge The Divide Between Demand Gen And Brand Engagement

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    To borrow a phrase from baseball, B2B programmatic advertising is still in the early innings. A couple of factors have kept B2B marketers from fully adopting the media strategy as rapidly as their B2C brethren. “The biggest difference in B2B and B2C programmatic is the value of the inventory,” said Tony Uphoff, CEO of Business.com. […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Varick Releases 'Alveo' For Agnostic Campaign Management

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    Varick Media Management, agency holding group MDC Partners’ audience and media-buying arm, has released Alveo – a planning, buying and reporting platform. Operating originally as more of an internal trading desk, Alveo can now be used by Varick’s clients to manage and visualize data as well as access reports across multiple campaigns. Alveo is available […]

  • Advertiser

    How Blue Apron And Zappos Use Data To Disrupt Themselves

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    The extent to which data drives an online brand’s marketing varies distinctly, a key theme that emerged at Quantcast’s data summit in New York on Thursday. For Blue Apron, a subscription commerce site and meal delivery service, data helps refine the online experience but is less applied to offline investments. For Amazon-owned shoe and apparel […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Quantcast Launches An Open Data Platform To Fuse Digital To TV And Offline Sales

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    Quantcast is tapping its deep ties to publishers by linking digital data signals to offline attributes like sales and TV viewership. The company is rooted in direct audience measurement and embeds its tags across millions of publisher pages. By looking at this data anonymously in aggregate, Quantcast can supply advertisers and publishers with intel around cross-site […]

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