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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

  • Agencies

    MDC Partners Shuffles Media Units, Spins Off ‘Assembly’

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    Agency holding company MDC Partners has rebranded its Maxxcom Global Media unit as MDC Media Partners. It has also rolled two prior agency acquisitions, TargetCast and RJ Palmer, into a new, 250-person-strong media agency called Assembly, which will function as a unit within MDC Media Partners. Assembly combines resources from independent media communications agency TargetCast […]

  • Ecommerce

    Silverpop’s Ecommerce Launch Underscores B2B-B2C Convergence

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    Marketing automation platform Silverpop’s recent push into revenue analytics for B2B marketers culminated Tuesday in the launch of Marketing Automation for Ecommerce. The product addresses a multitude of B2C needs, at the core of which is the ability to tie email to revenue. The problem with attributing email to purchase activity is that a customer […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Cable, Distributor-Caliber Metrics At The Advertiser Level Will Reinvent TV Ad Buys

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    Visible World, which has been developing addressable TV technology since 2000, claims to cover nearly 90% of cable TV households in the US through its targeted ad products. The company has developed a video and TV campaign platform used by advertisers directly or by distributors to sell to advertisers. That same platform is now being […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Television Executives Still Hesitant About Automation

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    Much of the debate about the convergence of digital video and TV advertising has centered on budget and measurement. Members of the advertising industry have wondered whether digital video would cannibalize TV ad dollars and to what extent the right metrics are in place to effectively execute cross-platform video buys. A report from Nielsen and […]

  • Digital Marketing

    Facebook PMD ifeelgoods, VivaKi Partner Up On Personalized Offers Push

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    Palo Alto and Paris-based startup Ifeelgoods is betting consumers will gravitate toward personalized offers over traditional loyalty concepts like deep discounts. The digital rewards network founded in 2010 has launched a Personalized Offers Platform for marketers and established a strategic partnership with VivaKi for an initial rollout to Publicis Groupe agencies Razorfish, Digitas and Performics. […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Video Platform Zefr Talks $30 Million Raise, YouTube Development Futures

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    You could say digital entrepreneurship runs in the family. Zach James cofounded Movieclips.com in 2009 before embarking on his latest venture into video with Zefr, which helps brands and networks manage and monetize their YouTube video assets. James is also the brother of Josh James, founder of Omniture (which was sold to Adobe Systems for […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Addressable TV Has Value For Advertisers, But Complementary Data Is Key

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    Addressable TV advertising shouldn’t be viewed as a replacement for mass audience or network buys – or executed without rich data extensions, warned cable operators, agencies and media companies at the Advanced Advertising forum Thursday in New York. Ultimately the promise of addressable TV depends on the granularity of audience-targeting data marketers get at the household level. […]

  • Mobile

    Tapad Taps Former DoubleClick International Chief To Lead Euro Expansion

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    Mobile demand-side platform (DSP) Tapad has hired Ben Regensburger, the former president of the DoubleClick ad exchange in EMEA and APAC before its acquisition by Google. Regensburger will serve as president of Tapad Europe. He joins Jim Clark, formerly of Turn, whom Tapad brought on this month to lead media and programmatic ad sales, as well […]

  • Mobile

    Zumobi CEO Talks Video, Mobile CRM Platform Launch For Marketers

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    Zumobi, a Seattle-based mobile media and advertising technology company that supplies integrated app content to brands and publishers, launched Wednesday the Zumobi Brand Integration Platform for Marketers. Zumobi operates premium mobile app network The Zumobi Network and has worked with publishing partners like Hearst Digital Media and MSN to monetize its mobile apps through its […]

  • Data

    Where The Marketer, Data Scientist And Cloud Intersect

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    As marketers and advertisers try to parse real-time interactions across multiple channels, they’re finding they need big data warehouses and analytics tools. The problem is, some are startlingly slow or, in other instances, they simply hit a wall when volumes are high. To combat this, vendors selling big data tools to marketers are increasingly building their […]

  • Data

    The Bigger Picture: What The Oracle-BlueKai Buy Means For The Market

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    Oracle’s planned acquisition of data exchange and solutions provider BlueKai pushes Oracle deeper into marketing tech. Like its peers IBM and SAP, Oracle had prioritized business departments like supply chain, finance and HR above media buying and digital marketing. And rather than building a marketing and ad stack from scratch in order to clinch CMO […]

  • Digital Marketing

    Wine Enthusiast Cracks Down On Cross-Channel Waste With Convertro

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    Despite Wine Enthusiast’s history marketing through direct mail, the purveyor of accessories and storage for wine connoisseurs is pushing into digital channels to complement its catalog business. Founded in 1979, Wine Enthusiast has published more than 300 million catalogs to date. It has a publishing arm, several Internet properties and a B2B distribution division responsible […]

  • Agencies

    Starcom’s Sirkin: Real-Time Marketing Metrics Must Meet Workflow Demands

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    Marketers need to fundamentally rethink the traditional purchase funnel if they want to effectively target media and messaging in the future, says Kate Sirkin, EVP and global research director of Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG). Leading a discussion at Publicis Groupe’s New York headquarters Thursday alongside social analytics agency Mashwork, Sirkin discussed how social data is unlocking […]

  • Online Advertising

    Criteo’s Tedemis Buy Is Another Email-Mobile Offensive

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    Criteo has acquired fellow French email marketing and retargeting company Tedemis for €17 million up front with €4 million deferred (based on mutually agreed upon milestones), further underscoring the importance of email data in ad tech. “Criteo and Tedemis are part of the wave to tie different channels together for a more integrated digital marketing […]

  • Ecommerce

    Shopzilla Bulks Up On Programmatic Media-Buying, Plans Multiscreen Products

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    Shopzilla, the comparison shopping site started in 1996 during the beginning stages of the ecommerce explosion, acquired on Wednesday programmatic media-buying platform Connexity to ramp up its audience-buying efforts. Shopzilla will integrate Connexity into its audience-activation division, Aisle A, formed one year ago to facilitate display ad sales and retargeting on Shopzilla.com as well as […]

  • Social Media

    Sprinklr Acquires Dachis Group, Preps Paid Social Product

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    Enterprise social media management company Sprinklr has acquired social data analytics and services firm Dachis Group for an undisclosed sum, the latest venture from Razorfish’s cofounder and former CEO Jeff Dachis. As a combined entity, Sprinklr, founded in 2009, and Dachis Group will employ 300 with offices in New York, London, and Austin, and serve […]

  • Digital Marketing

    The Marketing Stack: It's All About Integration And Ease Of Use

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    Enterprise technology providers like Adobe, Oracle and Salesforce.com have engaged over the last four years in a marketing cloud arms race, snapping up point solutions at breakneck speed. Consider that from 2010 to 2013, tech giants cumulatively spent close to $30 billion acquiring marketing solutions. The press releases announcing each of these acquisitions tend to […]

  • Online Advertising

    Behind eBay’s Ads Business: We Think Our User Data Is ‘Pretty Important’

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    Three years ago, eBay rebooted its advertising business after stepping back from a five-year alliance with Yahoo, initially established as a way to offset Google’s growing influence online. “[2011 was] the year we formed a partnership with Triad Retail Media and, earlier that year, we bought WHERE Ads, which became the PayPal Media Network,” said […]

  • Agencies

    Agency Q4: IPG Places Hopes In Digital Services, Publicis-Omnicom Merger Might Be Delayed Until Q3

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    Investing in new and existing creative and digital talent in 2014 will be a key development pillar for Interpublic Group (IPG), the holding company said in its Q4 call. IPG revealed full-year 2013 revenue of $7.12 billion, an organic increase of 2.8% from $6.96 billion in 2012. Fourth quarter revenue was $2.12 billion, compared to […]

  • Social Media

    LinkedIn Outlines Paid Product Trajectory, Content Push

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    Professional social platform LinkedIn is cooking up a number of paid product extensions, at the base of which is its nearly 300 million-member-strong social graph and a quickly growing content operation. At LinkedIn’s FinanceConnect in New York Thursday, an event that drew roughly 200 marketers, financial professionals, customers and partners to the Time Warner Center […]

  • Investment

    Criteo Q4: Mobile, Mid-market and China On The Mind

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    French retargeting company Criteo closed Q4 with revenues of €135.9 million, up 57% from the €86.6 million recorded for the fourth quarter one year prior. The company, which has been rooted in retail and travel retargeting since its start, said last quarter exceeded expectations after it clocked €113.8 million in the third quarter, its first […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Measurement In Focus As Amazon, Google Prep For Video Surge

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    Although the jury is out whether consumers will completely cut the cord on traditional TV consumption and migrate en masse to Web streaming, publishers are preparing for the cross-platform possibilities presented by shifting viewer habits. “We’re moving toward consistent measurement,” commented Sarah Baehr, SVP of digital for independent media buying agency Carat, citing the cross-platform […]

  • Data

    Datalogix’s Spire Buy Suggests Blending Of Shopper Marketing, Brand Spend

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    Datalogix’s acquisition Tuesday of shopper marketing and loyalty data company Spire indicates a growing trend around in-store marketing: blending traditional shopper-and-trade-marketing dollars with brand spend. “[Traditionally], shopper decisions would be made specifically by the teams at P&G and Unilever or Kraft, who own those retailer relationships and have got a certain fixed allocation of shopper […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    FreeWheel Co-Founder On Growth And Video Ad Alliances With Amazon, AOL

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    FreeWheel, a technology and services company cofounded seven years ago by Jonathan Heller, Doug Knopper and Diane Yu, helps media companies like NBCUniversal and Viacom connect TV buyers with premium digital video inventory. It also worked with Amazon to help power video ad content for the ecommerce giant. Knopper, who also serves as FreeWheel’s co-CEO, […]

  • Email

    Why Email Is An Enterprise, Ad-Tech Investment Target

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    From 2010 to 2013, enterprise giants like Adobe, IBM, Oracle and Salesforce.com collectively spent close to $30 billion acquiring digital marketing technologies. Yet, enterprise platform companies will continue to invest to fill gaps in their marketing stacks in 2014, experts predict. Email, one of the oldest of digital channels, still remains an attractive target for […]

  • Social Media

    MomentFeed CEO: Why Google, Microsoft Are Looking To ‘Local’

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    Location-based marketing technology company MomentFeed is betting big on the hyper-local search and marketing movement. Founded in 2010, the Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) company has raised $3 million in seed funding and recently closed a $6 million Series A round. According to its chairman and CEO Robert Blatt, MomentFeed is “the first company to […]

  • Online Advertising

    AOL Q4 Earnings: Video, Programmatic Investments 'Paying Off'

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    AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said 2013 delivered the “best results we’ve had in a decade.” Although the company reported 13% overall growth in revenue year-over-year in the fourth quarter, growing from $599 million to $679 million, AOL noted net and operating profitability was affected by a “pre-tax restructuring” that cost it $13.2 million. This was […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Among New YouTube Chief’s First Challenges, Addressing Measurement

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    Google’s shift of ads and commerce chief Susan Wojcicki Wednesday to SVP of YouTube, which has 20.5% stake in the US video ad market, and which eMarketer estimated had $5.6 billion in gross ad revenue last year, comes at a critical time for the online video platform. With Wojcicki’s appointment, Salar Kamangar, SVP of YouTube […]

  • Advertiser

    How Toyota Scion Is Tackling Hyperlocal Targeting

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    Although national automotive ad budgets are often planned three years in advance, the successes in digital media and marketing on local campaigns have brand managers rethinking those appropriations more frequently. Such was the case with Toyota’s Scion line, a brand designed for younger auto buyers. “Come March, we will likely have discussions as for how […]

  • Digital Marketing

    Bizo’s Glass: Why Marketing Tech Still Struggles With Scale

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    Bizo, a maker of B2B digital media and marketing solutions, is betting on the growing importance of paid media to marketing tech. After citing Q4 gross revenue of $12.4 million and a $50 million annual run rate with media costs that average in the 35-40% range, Bizo’s CEO Russ Glass said Bizo for Marketing Automation, […]

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