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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

  • Ecommerce

    Why Alibaba’s IPO Could Ignite A Commerce Spending Spree

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    As Asia-Pacific commerce powerhouses like Alibaba and Rakuten push West, it’s still unclear how they will grow large US-based audiences. One such method is through acquisition. Alibaba late last week priced its IPO at $60 to $66 per share and expects to raise $24 billion when the company begins trading on the New York Stock […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    How Google Groomed YouTube For The Brand Advertising Game

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    Each day, 7 million fans tune in to YouTube to see bubbly video blogger Bethany Mota make breakfast or braid her hair. The breakout video star draws tweens eager for a taste of Mota’s fashion and beauty must-haves, averaging 100 million minutes of video watched per month. She’s equally attractive to brand advertisers, clinching campaigns […]

  • Ecommerce

    Catalina Acquires Cellfire To Tie Mobile Offers To In-Store Sales

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    Catalina, a purveyor of consumer purchase insights for CPGs, has acquired digital coupon company and “instant savings” application Cellfire for an undisclosed sum. Cellfire bridges the gap between digital coupons and store loyalty systems, first launching its service with grocer Kroger in 2008; additional roll-outs with Safeway, CouponLink, ShopRite, Giant Eagle and Stop ‘n Save […]

  • Data

    EXelate Steps Into Data-As-A-Service Business As LinkedIn Leaves

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    LinkedIn’s discontinuation of Bizo’s business data service is an opportunity for data-management platform (DMP) and data services company eXelate. The company revealed plans Thursday for B2BX, a data-as-a-service offering for B2B advertisers. The company appointed Frannie Danzinger, Bizo’s former director of marketplace development, to spearhead the new development as VP of strategic solutions and plans to hire more […]

  • Native Advertising

    About.com CEO: On A Path Toward Better Programmatic

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    A year-long effort to redesign About.com and ramp up native ad formats forced the publisher to take a hard look at itself. On the plus side, there was no dearth of content onsite. “We make 6,000-7,000 new pieces of long form content every month and we have a corpus of over 3.5 million articles,” Neil Vogel, About.com’s […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Iconic Print Publisher Meredith Sees Connected TV Future

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    Meredith Corp., the publisher of popular women’s interest titles like Better Homes and Gardens and Ladies’ Home Journal, is getting into the television game. Over Labor Day weekend, Better Homes and Gardens debuted free, ad-supported programming compatible with connected devices from Samsung, LG, Sharp, Philips, Toshiba and Roku. Meredith worked with Net2TV’s Portico TV Service […]

  • Agencies

    Could a Publicis-Criteo Takeover Transpire?

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    It wouldn’t be the first summer weekend French agency holding company Publicis Groupe sent shock waves through the advertising ecosystem. Close to the anniversary of the infamous ad merger of equals that never quite materialized as Publicis Omnicom Group (POG), French pub Boursier reported on a rumor the holding company could be close to extending […]

  • Ecommerce

    Mercent CEO: The Next Phase Of Commerce Is Amazon Vs. Google

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    Google and Amazon are going after each other. Google has ramped up commercial search and fulfillment, and Amazon is building a Google-like ecosystem around ads – a project involving an ad-buying platform to rival AdWords, according to The Wall Street Journal. And of course, both are investing heavily in video content and advertising. What is Amazon’s […]

  • Ecommerce

    Nordstrom’s Journey To Connect Instagram Images To Sales ROI

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    Despite having close to a half million Instagram followers, upscale retailer Nordstrom knows that “likes” and “follows” are great for growing community and measuring engagement or affinity, but these actions don’t necessarily translate into hard business metrics. Retailers want to know if that showroom-grade snapshot on social actually sold a tube of lipstick. “What we’ve primarily […]

  • Investment

    Alibaba’s Q2 Revenue Nearly Doubles Year Over Year On Road To IPO

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    Just days shy of its IPO, Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group reported Q2 revenue of $2.54 billion, a 46.4% increase over last year, while net income skyrocketed to $1.99 billion. The company could raise close to an additional $20 billion out of the IPO based on an average valuation of $168 billion. In a revised […]

  • Ecommerce

    Under New CEO, Monetate Tackles More Than Site Optimization

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    Monetate, a platform primarily known for landing page optimization, has expanded well beyond the A/B test. Appointing long-time board member and entrepreneur Lucinda Duncalfe as CEO on Tuesday, the Philadelphia-based company says it’s tackling a “multi-billion dollar” market opportunity: digital personalization. While Monetate’s early product strategy around website targeting and optimization drove early growth for […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    TubeMogul Q2: "Chasing RFPs Is a Very Expensive Proposition"

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    Video demand-side platform (DSP) TubeMogul, which first began trading on the NASDAQ in July, reported $28.7 million in revenue for the second quarter. This was a 127% increase over last year, when that figure totaled $12.6 million. Total advertiser spend in Q2 was $61.1 million. Read the earnings release. As a point of reference, video […]

  • Online Advertising

    MAGNA Global: Digital Ad Sales Could Outpace TV By 2017

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    Digital media could be the No. 1 ad category in the US by 2017 with $72 billion in spend, outpacing TV by about $1.5 billion, according to a MAGNA Global quarterly Advertising Forecast released Tuesday. The report attributed the shift partly to “the advent of programmatic buying in digital media and the stabilization of cost […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Innovid CEO: “In-Banner Video Is Not Video”

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    Interactive video ad tech startup Innovid has changed significantly since its beginnings in 2007, when it had nothing to do with advertising. Though it has since helped companies like Toyota, Chrysler and Sony Pictures serve up dynamic and interactive pre-, mid- and post-roll video ads, and has worked with both Roku and Sony Playstation to […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Amazon Acquires Twitch In $1 Billion Video Landgrab

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    After committing $100 million to develop original video content this quarter, Amazon has invested a whole lot more in the medium, swooping in Monday with $970 million in cash to acquire the video gaming platform Google had been eyeing: Twitch Interactive. Read the release. Variety first reported news of Google’s interest in May, citing sources claiming it […]

  • Agencies

    Selling Jelly Belly, Programmatically

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    San Francisco-based agency Nice Advertising services small-to-midsize CPG brands like Jelly Belly, Sunsweet and Crystal Geyser. The independent agency is creating a programmatic buying outfit in-house, partnering with TubeMogul as its dedicated video demand-side platform. The growth in programmatic spend is most striking. Since the agency’s Director of media and analytics Eliot Kent-Uritam joined Nice […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    NFL’s Mobile Chief Moves To Tremor To Lead SSP Roll-Out

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    The National Football League’s (NFL) GM of mobile, Manish Jha, has leapt to Tremor Video to spearhead sell-side relationships in his new role as president of publisher platforms. “Tremor has been working with the NFL for some time now and we were really able to manage our direct sales business and network relationship in a […]

  • Advertiser

    How ConAgra Links Shopper Marketing Data With Media

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    ConAgra Foods, owner of brands like Healthy Choice and Orville Redenbacher, is blending offline shopper data with household addressability to deepen brand awareness. While consumer brand strategies have always leveraged purchase histories and loyalty-card intel, marketers have gotten increasingly sophisticated with cross-device targeting and re-targeting at the household level, said Bob Hall, VP of platform […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Will Deal ID Catch On In TV? Ad Platform Clypd Hopes So

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    One of the purposes of Deal ID is to allow buyers and sellers to negotiate deals that combine the personal touch of the direct sale with programmatic efficiency. But the Deal ID also has challenges around sell-side scalability and limitations in audience discovery for advertisers. Nevertheless, some industry experts say the Deal ID might help […]

  • Investment

    AppNexus Attracts Public Equity Investment, Now Valued At $1.2B

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    The independent ad tech company that powers more than 30 billion ad impressions per day through its platform is now, officially, a $1 billion-plus business. AppNexus revealed Monday it has closed a $60 million investment round from an unidentified Boston public equity and asset management firm, valuing the company at about $1.2 billion. At the […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    IDG Invests In Premium Video, Programmatic Tech

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    IDG, the parent company of global business media properties ranging from PCWorld to CIO, is ramping up on talent and technology for its IDG.tv and IDG TechNetwork divisions. IDG.tv is IDG’s video inventory portal; IDG TechNetwork is a vertical ad network and media exchange that supports IDG’s media properties. By appointing Dina Roman, Adap.tv’s former […]

  • Social Media

    Sprinklr Acquires Social Ads Platform TBG Digital

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    Social media management company Sprinklr has acquired Facebook and Twitter ads platform TBG Digital in a deal estimated under $50 million, the companies revealed Thursday. Sprinklr’s been busy on the acquisitions front. In February, it snapped up Razorfish cofounder Jeff Dachis’s social media marketing and services firm Dachis Group. London-based TBG Digital was founded as TBG London […]

  • Investment

    Facebook, LinkedIn Ads Partner AdStage Picks Up $6.25M

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    AdStage, a cross-platform campaign automation tool as well as a Facebook and LinkedIn ads API partner, has raised $6.25 million in Series A financing from Verizon Ventures and myriad other investment firms. This brings the company to $8.78 million in total funding since its founding less than two years ago. AdStage will predominantly use the […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Twitter Beta Tests Promoted Video Ad Format To Attract Brand Dollars

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    Twitter has made good on its promise to roll out a tool designed to share, upload and measure video effectiveness. The company on Tuesday revealed in a blog post that it has begun beta testing a Promoted Video product following the launch of Twitter Video Cards earlier this year. Promoted Video piggybacks on Twitter Amplify, which allows broadcasters like ESPN […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    TubeMogul Teams Up With AudienceXpress To Expand Addressable Audience For TV Buyers

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    AudienceXpress, a TV audience-buying platform and division of early addressable TV tech company Visible World, has named its first buy-side programmatic video partner: the newly public TubeMogul. As a result of the deal, media buyers using TubeMogul for digital video campaigns can now access select linear spots from AudienceXpress’s cable MSO and multichannel video programming […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Australian Telco Telstra Acquires Majority Stake In Video Platform Ooyala

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    Australian telco Telstra has acquired video-monetization, streaming-video and content-management company Ooyala, the companies revealed Monday. Telstra had already invested $61 million for a 23% stake in Ooyala, which works with supply-side inventory partners and publishers to help monetize video content, and now owns 98% for an additional $270 million investment. Read the release. The acquisition, which is expected […]

  • Online Advertising

    Demand Media Names Ex-Ticketmaster Chief CEO Amid Q2 Loss

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    Demand Media has named a former Ticketmaster chief Sean Moriarty as its new CEO. The move follows a rough second quarter, when it revealed last Thursday that its revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs (ex-TAC) declined 10% year-over-year to $87.1 million. The company on Monday also acquired online art community Saatchi Online in a $17 million cash-and-stock deal. Moriarty […]

  • Digital Marketing

    How Good Is Google At Digital Marketing?

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    While Google has gotten really good at display – more than $4 billion in display ad revenue good – how about the rest of Google’s digital marketing stack? Like enterprise platform players Oracle, IBM, Adobe and Salesforce.com, Google’s ad and marketing tech offering is a sum of many acquired parts. Google followed its $3.1 billion […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Addressable TV Will Be A ‘Massive’ Ad Category, If Cable Operators Are Willing

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    Rentrak sees surging interest in addressable TV advertising, according to Bill Livek, CEO of the audience measurement and data services firm. “We believe this will be a massive advertising category,” Livek remarked during the company’s quarterly earnings call Thursday. “The folks who are doing addressable campaigns, every time a brand runs a campaign they can […]

  • Ecommerce

    Shopzilla Pivots From Comparison Shopping To Marketing Services

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    Comparison shopping site Shopzilla has a lot of data. About 20 years’ worth, to be exact. Shopzilla’s been around since 1996 and unbeknownst to some, still drives 50 million monthly unique visitors across its owned-and-operated network that includes consumer insights and merchant ratings site Bizrate. But the company will soon become primarily a marketing services […]

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