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Kelly Liyakasa

Kelly Liyakasa

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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

  • Investment

    TubeMogul's Self-Serve Business Kicks Into High Gear

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    In the first quarter, TubeMogul’s self-serve software, called Platform Direct, accounted for 78% – or $55.3 million – of total advertiser spend running through the company. The video demand-side platform (DSP) has worked to migrate managed services clients onto its platform, which could garner the recurring revenue and customer-retention rates characteristic of enterprise software deployments. Agencies accounted for 37% of Q1 spend on […]

  • Investment

    Verizon-AOL Deal Foretells More Merger Fervor

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    If Verizon closes its $4.4 billion AOL acquisition, it will mark one more marriage between a telco and an ad tech company. It’s also a harbinger of more to come. Last summer, Australian telco Telstra grabbed a majority stake into streaming video distribution platform Ooyala and then bought video supply-side platform Videoplaza. In 2012, Singapore […]

  • Data

    Gigya Hooks Into The Marketing Tech Ecosystem To Manage Identities

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    On Tuesday, Gigya, a company that develops customer identity management solutions for Fortune 500 brands, rolled out IDX Marketplace, a platform anchored by 50-plus marketing and ad-tech partner integrations. Gigya claims users can activate audiences across a variety of partner tools, including data-management platforms like Krux, Adobe AudienceManager and Lotame; marketing clouds like Oracle and […]

  • Digital Marketing

    Amex Grooms Merchant Loyalty Coalition Plenti For Marketing Insights

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    Plenti, the new American Express-operated loyalty coalition, seeks to streamline the rewards program. The premise is that consumers can gather loyalty points for up to two years from a variety of partner brands, including ExxonMobil, Hulu, Macy’s, Rite Aid, Direct Energy, Nationwide, AT&T and Amex, and can redeem those points across participating Plenti merchants. “The […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Google Claims YouTube Ads More Viewable Than Standard Video Ads

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    Just over half (54%) of all video ads across the web are viewable compared to YouTube’s 91% average viewability rate, according to a Google report released Friday. It’s not surprising Google is releasing video viewability figures, given its investment in TrueView formats for brand advertisers, which are sold on a cost-per-view basis. Google claims it […]

  • Investment

    YuMe Says It’s Launching A Video DSP In Q2

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    While it has taken video ad network YuMe quite some time to make programmatic progress, the company revealed during its first-quarter earnings call it would launch a demand-side platform sometime in the second quarter. Wall Street analysts wondered whether YuMe’s DSP, called YuMe For Advertisers (YFA), would include a bidder or simply integrate with external […]

  • Ecommerce

    Alibaba Replaces CEO, Addresses Hiring Freeze

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    Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has replaced CEO Jonathan Lu, effective May 10. Announced Thursday during its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call, the company revealed incumbent COO Daniel Zhang would be promoted to CEO while Lu will continue on as vice chairman of the board of directors. Zhang, an eight-year Alibaba vet and original founding member, has held […]

  • Digital Marketing

    IBM’s Digital Marketing Future Includes Facebook Deal And Data Exchange

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    IBM has big digital marketing dreams. Last spring, those dreams warranted a $100 million commitment to future marketing investments. Wednesday saw the latest development, when IBM hooked its own marketing solutions into various Facebook ad products including the CRM matching program Custom Audiences to enable things like lookalike modeling. IBM also is expanding its Digital […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Why The Nielsen-Roku Nuptials Could Shore Up More OTT Inventory

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    Nielsen and Roku’s marriage for over-the-top (OTT) measurement, along with Roku’s development of a unique device identifier, may be a watershed moment for the connected TV ecosystem. The agreement, announced last Thursday, will enable Roku’s publisher partners to measure the impact of ads on some 10 million set-top boxes by accessing Nielsen’s demographic data and […]

  • Investment

    Criteo's Revenue Catapulted By Cross-Screen Growth, Favorable Market Conditions

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    Criteo, the French online display retargeter turned performance marketing company, saw its Q1 revenue increase 68% YoY to €105 million ex-TAC, driven by the growth of its cross-screen tools and client retention “consistently north of 90%.” It added 640 new clients in Q1, giving it a total of 7,800. Additionally, market conditions have been favorable for Criteo. CEO Jean-Baptiste “JB” […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Cablevision Says Audience Addressability Will Trump Cookies And Proxies

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    A programmatic API for cable television? Cablevision, a telecom and cable systems company reaching 2.5 million households in the New York tristate region, claims it has developed one. It launched Total Audience Application (TAPP) last Thursday, an audience-planning tool that allows marketers to apply first- and third-party data to optimize addressable or linear TV campaigns. […]

  • Mobile

    Updated MRAID Spec Could Be A Mobile Video Demand Driver

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    Specs and standards aren’t that sexy, but industry experts say the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s recent video addendum to rich media standard MRAID could be one of the keys to unlocking more programmatic mobile video dollars. MRAID is a mobile standard, used by many publishers and app developers, to render and serve mobile rich media programmatically. […]

  • Agencies

    As Hill Holliday Hits The Gas On Self-Serve, It Turns To TubeMogul For Video

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    So you want to be a programmatic company? As it turns out, it’s not as simple as licensing a single vendor platform and hitting the on switch. For integrated Interpublic Group agency Hill Holliday, the process of building a self-serve programmatic model started last fall and spanned several technology selections. While Hill Holliday uses Turn as […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    AOL Inks Deal With NBCUniversal, Pursues Perpetual Video

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    Fifty-four stories above New York’s World Trade Center site, 800 media planners gathered Tuesday evening for AOL’s annual advertiser NewFront. The big “reveal” was a new video content and distribution agreement with broadcaster NBCUniversal. Starting this summer, select NBCUniversal videos from network partners Bravo, CNBC, E!, MSNBC, NBC, Oxygen, Syfy, Telemundo and USA will be […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    National TV Network Cadent, Videology Borrow Each Other’s Strengths

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    Traditional cable nets are increasingly turning to video demand-side platforms to factor things like digital purchase habits into the TV-planning process. Cadent Network, a national media network that partners with more than 200 multichannel video programming distributors (MVPD) and more than 80 cable networks at the local and national level, including Verizon FiOS, Comcast and […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    It’s Video Or Bust For BuzzFeed And Bloomberg

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    On the opening day of advertiser NewFronts, BuzzFeed and Bloomberg Media were clear about their intentions: They’re pursuing video. Aggressively. At its Monday event in New York, BuzzFeed said it will release by the year’s end a proprietary tool called Pound, designed to show advertisers how BuzzFeed stories and video content travel across the web. […]

  • Data

    Kroger Acquires Dunnhumby Data Assets From Tesco, Forges New Venture

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    Finally. British grocer Tesco’s customer data science and loyalty division dunnhumby, reportedly on the market for several months now as its parent company explored “strategic options,” will transfer many of its employees and data assets to Tesco’s US-based joint venture partner Kroger. Under the transaction, “dunnhumby Ltd and Kroger will replace their existing exclusive joint venture with a […]

  • Publishers

    Social Commerce Platform Polyvore Tries On Promoted Trends

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    Polyvore, a site where fashionistas make product recommendations, on Monday rolled out Promoted Trends, a native ad package purchased on a per-day basis. This structure contrasts with the CPC pricing of the company’s Promoted Products, which integrates ads into Polyvore’s news feed. Since its launch in 2013, Promoted Products has more than 300 advertisers, including etailer […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Failed Comcast-TWC Merger Asserts TV Audience Arms Race

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    The $45 billion Comcast-Time Warner Cable (TWC) deal is officially kaput. If the merger had materialized, it would have created an unsurpassable media and cable conglomerate with massive audience reach. From day one, regulators were wary about one company controlling too much broadband access, resulting in Comcast terminating the deal Friday. “Today, we move on,” […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Amazon’s Q1 Sheds (More) Light On Ad Revenues

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    For the first time, Amazon extracted its lucrative Amazon Web Services (AWS) business from its “Other” category, which traditionally included co-branded credit cards and advertising services. When coupled with AWS, the category came in at about $1 billion each quarter. As it turns out, Amazon’s North American ads business brought in $187 million in Q1, a 22% […]

  • Digital Marketing

    NetSuite’s $200M Bronto Buy A Bid For Omnichannel Commerce Marketing

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    Though less known than some of the other big marketing cloud companies, NetSuite took one more step to ramp up its commerce marketing platform by dropping $200 million on marketing automation platform Bronto, the company revealed Thursday. The Bronto acquisition is the latest instance of marketing automation consolidation. It follows IBM’s roughly $300 million purchase of Silverpop last […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Audience Guarantees, Purchase Data Color NBC, ESPN Upfront Conversations

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    Advertisers are no longer interested in hitting demo targets alone and, leading into upfronts, media companies are baking behavioral and audience-based guarantees into their sales pitches. Buy- and sell-side parties want to link TV programs with purchase propensity to determine whether a media exposure helped loosen purse strings. “We’re seeing more demand to bring together business […]

  • Data

    Adobe Digital Index: More Marketer Interest For Non-Google Product Ads, Streaming Social Video

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    When it comes to shopping ads, it’s not all about Google anymore. While Q1 US spend for Google Shopping Ads (formerly Product Listing Ads) was up 37% year over year, Bing/Yahoo is starting to encroach on Google, at least in the United States, where spend increased 72% last quarter, according to the Adobe Digital Index […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Social TV Platform Beamly Learns The Second Screen Is A Feed

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    It’s a tough road for a stand-alone second-screen app. Beamly, the social TV network formerly known as Zeebox, would appear well positioned to help publishers engage millennial audiences across all platforms. Its install base grew from 2 million monthly active users in 2011 to 10.5 million today, and Comcast’s NBCUniversal and Viacom have a joint […]

  • Advertiser

    United Airlines Uses Identity To Soar Above Data Silos

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    United Airlines services more than 5,000 flights a day to 400 different destinations around the world. It uses desktop, mobile app, in-flight Wi-Fi, email and mobile web data to create an “intelligent, congruent customer experience,” said Nick Harris, senior manager of marketing channel optimization for United Airlines, at Ensighten’s Agility conference last week. However, connecting […]

  • Investment

    Programmatic I/O: Don’t Forget Take Rates When Sizing Total Addressable Market For Ad Tech

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    Programmatic ad tech companies aren’t properly estimating their total addressable market, said BMO Capital Markets equity research analyst Dan Salmon. Salmon presented a report Thursday at Programmatic I/O in San Francisco that pointed to two areas where these estimates tend to get thrown off. First, most ad tech vendors don’t factor in take rates – the […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Google Switches On Programmatic For TrueView Video Ads

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    The rumors were true. Google’s skippable and click-to-play YouTube ad format TrueView will be available programmatically, the company announced Thursday at the Programmatic I/O conference in San Francisco. The 5-year-old format, priced on a cost-per-view basis, represents more than 85% of in-stream ads on YouTube, according to Rany Ng, product management director for Google. TrueView […]

  • Digital Marketing

    Marketing Automation Meets Digital Media

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    Marketing automation, long defined as a B2B lead-gen system, is making its way into B2C territory. One of the most common complaints about standard marketing automation systems is that they’re simply too old or unable to sync data in real-time. But Salesforce.com’s Pardot and Marketo are all updating to compete effectively in a cross-channel media environment. […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Adobe Teams Up With Akamai To Tackle Video Ad Insertion Blips

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    Buffering video isn’t a great experience, but what is its impact on ads? Networks still face challenges when placing ads against over-the-top (OTT) content, which is one of the reasons why Adobe Primetime and content delivery network Akamai are partnering on a new tool to link Adobe’s ad-insertion technology directly to Akamai’s server-side plug-in, announced […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    With Formal Launch Of ONE, AOL Positions As The Anti-Walled Garden

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    Consider it AOL ONE’s coming-out party. A year after AOL first outlined a vision to unify its programmatic technologies for both advertisers and publishers under a single platform, Tuesday marks the day the product officially ships. AOL has also renamed each of its technologies to more accurately reflect their capabilities. For instance, Adap.tv is now […]

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