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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

    Innovid Acquires Contextual Data Specialist Taykey

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    The interactive video ad server Innovid has acquired Taykey, a company that uses machine learning to extract contextual information about video, text and images to help inform ad buys. Terms of the deal, announced Thursday, were not disclosed. Innovid, which has 220 employees, will take on half – or about 20 members – of Taykey’s […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Forrester: The Walled Gardens And Mobile Video Dominate The Future Of Digital Ad Spend

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    Online display advertising spend in the US will grow 70% from $42 billion this year to $72 billion by 2021, propelled mostly by social media ad spend, according to Forrester’s annual Online Display Advertising forecast, released Wednesday. As mobile adoption continues to surge, Forrester predicted, social ad spend will reach $40 billion by 2021, and […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    NBC: Inconsistent Measurement (And Bad Ads) Are Holding The Industry Back

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    The ad industry needs to check itself before it wrecks itself. That was the rallying cry Tuesday at NBCUniversal’s swanky State of the Industry Forum, where 150 digital and broadcast advertising luminaries gathered in midtown Manhattan for fancy eggs and frank discussion. “I’ll cut right to the chase: We have a problem,” said Linda Yaccarino, […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Amazon Expands Its Influence On Video Infrastructure, Releases Publisher Workflow Tools

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    Amazon wants to own a greater chunk of the video supply chain. Its cloud division, Amazon Web Services, released a suite of video tools called AWS Elemental Media Services on Monday, designed to help live and on-demand video content providers manage workflow. It is available only as a managed service for now. “We’re trying to […]

  • Advertiser

    MGM Resorts Lays The Foundation For A Unified Data Strategy

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    MGM Resorts International’s media, ecommerce and analytics teams used to work in silos. “You’d have one team in analytics sending out reports … and separate product owners doing A/B testing and data management,” said Sylvester Obafunwa, the company’s director of digital analytics. “In the past, a lot of our [tech] integration was also primarily focused […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    How Streaming Video Service Crunchyroll Strikes A Balance Between Subscriptions and Ads

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    For video service Crunchyroll, finding the right mix of ads and subscriptions is critical for ensuring long-term success in the OTT space. That strategy also includes a range of alternative revenue streams, such as offline events and ecommerce. But before it could effectively monetize, Crunchyroll built a scaled audience by catering exclusively to Japanese anime […]

  • Mobile

    What The DOJ Lawsuit Against AT&T And Time Warner Is All About – And How It Might Affect Future M&A

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    The US Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against AT&T has thrown a wrench into the $108 billion planned merger between the telco and Time Warner. The complaint, filed late Monday, alleged the merger could “hinder [AT&T’s] rivals by forcing them to pay hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner’s networks.” The filing […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Conagra Uses Creative To Capture More Data In Cross-Screen Video

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    For large CPG brands like Conagra that typically generate the most awareness through mass reach, hyperpersonalized video creative hasn’t always been their top consideration. But that is changing. “We’re seeing more personalized creative and ad versioning from CPG brands [that] might not own any data from the consumer up until the actual purchase point, because […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Dmexco Future Murky In Wake Of Founder Fallout

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    Will Dmexco become a no-go? Late last week, the organizers of the Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference (Dmexco) in Germany abruptly severed ties with the show’s two co-founders, Christian Muche and Frank Schneider, sparking concerns over Dmexco’s future. Reports alleged that Dmexco’s organizer and the event’s trademark holders had parted ways with Muche and Schneider’s consulting […]

  • Advertiser

    Shutterfly CMO On How Data Became The Lifeblood Of A ‘Web 1.0’ Ecom Brand

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    Nearly 20-year-old photo-sharing brand Shutterfly “probably shouldn’t have made it” in a modern mobile world – and that’s the company’s CMO talking. But despite competing with Apple, Google and Facebook, and needing to match new consumer behavior, Shutterfly’s revenue is up. The early “web 1.0 ecommerce company,” as chief marketing exec John Boris referred to it, […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Shifts Come To Oath’s Top Ad Tech Brass

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    Oath is switching things up within its ad and platform executive ranks. The company has named Tim Mahlman president of advertising and publisher strategy, Oath revealed Tuesday. Mahlman replaced Bob Lord as president of AOL’s platform business in June 2016 and has manned AOL’s publisher and ad platform strategy since. Rohit Chandra becomes head of […]

  • Ecommerce

    The Purchase Data Playbook For Marketers

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    While tapping into purchases helps advertisers close the loop around the actual conversion, the use cases for purchase data have evolved far beyond measurement. The use of transactional data is maturing in media activation, as is the ability to commingle it with other data sources like behavioral, location and even panels in channels like addressable […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Dmexco Conference Organizer Fires Its Co-Founders

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    The organizers of the Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference (Dmexco) have abruptly parted ways with the conference’s co-founders, Christian Muche and Frank Schneider. In a memo dated Nov. 2, the conference’s organizer, Koelnmesse, extended its partnership with the show’s trademark holder, the German Association for the Digital Economy (Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft or BVDW), and cut […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    VPAID Is Out, And The IAB Tech Lab Says It Has Its Replacement

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    The video player ad-serving interface definition (VPAID) standard, which was supposed to improve the delivery of digital video ads but struggled to hit its stride, will be sunsetted. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab revealed Thursday (read the blog post) that the unpopular nine-year-old video ad spec will be retired and replaced with two […]

  • OPINION: On TV & Video

    Dailymotion Programs A New Programmatic (And Publisher) Strategy

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    The French video platform Dailymotion is a fraction of Google’s size – YouTube’s 1.5 billion-plus monthly viewers dwarf Dailymotion’s 300 million. But scale isn’t stopping the company from repositioning its platform to woo US advertisers and publishers from the dominant video-sharing site. Breaking into a video market ruled by streaming video services such as Netflix […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    AdRoll Names Former Adap.tv Chief Toby Gabriner As CEO

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    Former Adap.tv CEO Toby Gabriner, who became AdRoll’s president in April, has been promoted to CEO, effective immediately. The company’s founding CEO, Aaron Bell, will transition to chief product officer. Gabriner has for the past year advised AdRoll, which wanted to evolve from an early retargeter focused mostly on Facebook to a mid-stage, cross-channel performance marketing […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    American Express Expands The Ways Marketers Can Use Its Cardholder Data

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    American Express on Tuesday launched a data-driven business division called Amex Advance. Along with it Amex is debuting a data platform designed to let marketers run custom audience segmentation and predictive modeling against Amex’s own first-party data. Amex Advance lets marketers and merchant partners use American Express’ database of deidentified cardholders to extrapolate insights about […]

  • Digital Marketing

    How GDPR Drives SAP’s Acquisition Strategy

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    SAP acquired Gigya for $350 million in September for its consumer identity management solution. The deal, which just closed, will help SAP extend its cross-platform identifier – the SAP Hybris Profile – to new channels like over-the-top TV and social. It also gives SAP more clout to help companies manage their opt-ins amid looming privacy […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    DoubleVerify And SpotX Flag New Type Of Ad Fraud: ‘Verification Stripping’

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    The ad server SpotX and ad verification company DoubleVerify have flagged a new type of fraud they’re calling “verification stripping.” DoubleVerify says the new method may be responsible for up to 10% of ad fraud spikes it identifies. Verification stripping happens when fraudsters hinder the transmission of network calls between the ad server and measurement […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Apple’s Safari Tracking Changes Cost Criteo $1M In Q3, And Could Cost A Minimum Of $20M In Q4

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    There’s a storm cloud darkening Criteo’s sunny Q3 earnings (33% YoY growth ex-TAC to $234 million), in the form of Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) feature, which went into effect Sept. 19. [More AdExchanger coverage.] ITP cost Criteo a little less than $1 million in Q3, but that number is expected to grow as iOS 11 […]

  • Advertiser

    How AB InBev, Spark Foundry And Condé Nast Assess Data Quality

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    Advertisers, agencies and publishers agree that the bar for better data quality has never been higher. Yet the quality of many third-party data sets is questionable, and advertisers don’t always know what they’re getting when they purchase it. Here’s how Anheuser-Busch InBev, Publicis agency Spark Foundry and the publisher Condé Nast are all vetting data […]

  • OPINION: On TV & Video

    Quartz On Chasing Quality, Not Quantity In The Video Experience

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    Atlantic Media-owned Quartz is unapologetic about the absence of pre-roll on its properties. “It’s the reason we don’t support standard ads and why we have control over what runs onsite,” said Joy Robins, SVP of global revenue and strategy for Quartz. “It’s also another reason why we made a conscious decision not to run pre-roll […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    John Roland Is Out As CEO Of Extreme Reach

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    The longtime CEO of TV ad platform Extreme Reach is surrendering that role, AdExchanger has learned. CEO John Roland is “stepping down” from the company he has helmed for more than a decade, the company said in a statement. According to an AdExchanger source with knowledge of the situation, the Extreme Reach board voted to […]

  • Investment

    Connatix Raises $15M Series A To Help Publishers Navigate The New Video Ecosystem

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    Video platform Connatix raised $15 million in growth equity from Volition Capital on Tuesday. The company had previously raised an undisclosed seed round, and it claims it is profitable. Connatix will use the funding for product development, to beef up sales and marketing and to fuel US expansion. After it penetrates the US market, Connatix […]

  • Agencies

    IBM’s Agency Pitch Goes Straight To The C-Suite

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    Unlike at a traditional agency, which typically services the brand marketer, IBM Interactive Experience (iX) has a direct inroad to CEOs. Clients undergoing massive transformation will often hire IBM to rethink commerce or marketing – and those conversations trickle down to IMB iX to put into practice, said Robert Schwartz, global head of agency services […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Nielsen Aims To Fill In The Blanks Around Ad-Free Viewing On Netflix

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    Although Netflix’s audience is large (and growing), it’s notoriously hard to measure. Nielsen hopes to remove some of the difficulty gauging audience viewership in ad-free environments like Netflix with its launch Wednesday of a syndicated measurement service called Nielsen Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) Content Ratings. Eight networks and studios, including A&E, Disney-ABC, Lionsgate, NBCUniversal […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    How LG Works Advertising Into Smart TVs

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    Thanks to its smart TVs, LG Electronics controls a channel that can bring the granularity of digital advertising into the world of connected TV. But LG is a consumer electronics manufacturer, not an advertising company, and in recent years it has learned how to accommodate a new business practice. Its first foray into ad monetization […]

  • Advertiser

    How Beauty Manufacturer Coty Gave Its Data Operation A Makeover

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    About a year and a half ago, global beauty manufacturer Coty realized it needed to get a grip on its own data. The company was about to complete a merger with several P&G specialty beauty brands and become a $9 billion global business. And since Coty was expanding its portfolio, pressure was mounting because each […]

  • Agencies

    Merkle’s Global COO On Navigating Platforms, Publishers And Cloud Stacks

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    As the global COO of Merkle, Michael Komasinski keeps the proverbial engines running both internally and in the agency’s services business. After joining Merkle in 2015 from his post as COO of Razorfish North America, Komasinski helped drive 30% revenue growth across the business in 2016. Komasinski also was largely responsible for leading the integration […]

  • OPINION: On TV & Video

    Havas’ Innovation SVP: Advanced TV Buyers Needs Reach, But Not At Data’s Expense

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    For Gabrielle Rossetti, leading innovation and strategy for Havas sometimes means acting as a scout on behalf of brand clients. Even if a tool doesn’t fit into a client’s tactical tool kit, Rossetti’s team can help them build a blueprint for the future. “It’s about helping them understand where they can innovate and the technologies […]

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