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Ryan Joe

Ryan Joe

Managing Editor

As managing editor at AdExchanger, Ryan Joe helps edit and oversee the staff writers’ daily coverage. He often reports on issues surrounding data management as well as the confluence of media, creativity and technology. Prior to AdExchanger, he was senior editor at Direct Marketing News. He also spent three years as an analyst at Datamonitor, where he focused on customer interaction technologies (ie: contact centers). His articles about the traditional publishing industry occasionally show up in Publishers Weekly. He is a writer, but he is not from Brooklyn.

Articles By Ryan

  • Publishers

    Although Pro Sports Moves Fast, The NFL And NBC Sports Take It Slow In Digital

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    Let’s be honest: For all of its success as a business, it’s hard to be impressed with the NFL’s digital presence. Good luck using its overdesigned, slow-loading website to find video highlights of your favorite team’s last game. But little by little, the NFL has opened up its assets to digital experimentation. In January, it […]

  • Email

    Private Equity Firm HGGC Buys Majority Stake In StrongView

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    Once again, a private equity firm has bought a majority stake in a marketing tech company. Email marketing solutions provider StrongView will get a strategic growth investment from private equity firm HGGC. The deal is expected to close in 30 days, and financial terms weren’t announced. Read the release. HGGC has a solid background in […]

  • Digital Marketing

    Dreamforce: Taking Stock Of Salesforce’s Integration Into Ad Tech

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    The marketing clouds were heavy with ad tech this week. On Wednesday, Adobe uncorked its self-serve programmatic platform. On Thursday, MediaMath and Oracle hooked up. And of course, Salesforce is concluding its annual Dreamforce blowout, where Scott McCorkle, CEO of its Marketing Cloud, laid out to AdExchanger how the CRM giant thinks about ad tech. […]

  • Social Media

    As Twitter Remains Rudderless, More Marketing Execs Will Bail

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    Twitter’s comms chief, Gabriel Stricker, departed suddenly in July, and now more execs will likely follow. A key marketing figure is already job prospecting, sources say. Bottom line: If Twitter doesn’t find a permanent chief executive quickly it risks a flight of talent within its marketing organization. And it’s not at all clear how much longer […]

  • Digital Marketing

    Ad Tech Meets Marketing Tech As MediaMath Integrates With Oracle

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    Ad tech company MediaMath has integrated with Oracle Marketing Cloud’s email marketing systems, specifically Oracle’s B2B solution Eloqua and the B2C solution Responsys, the companies revealed Thursday. The ad tech integration is the first of its kind for Oracle, said Alex Hooshmand, Oracle’s VP of product. Typically, clients log into the Oracle data-management platform (formerly […]

  • Digital Out-Of-Home

    Dreamforce: General Motors Wants To Drive Media Buyers To OnStar

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    At Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce celebration, Rick Ruskin, who heads marketing and product management for General Motors’ OnStar service, sits in a parked Buick that’s serving as a makeshift conference room. He points to his phone, where there are offers from Best Buy and Audiobooks.com. “These two spots here are like Google AdWords, where people are […]

  • Omnichannel

    Dreamforce: With Eye On The Internet Of Things, Salesforce Unveils Beta IoT Cloud

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    The technological problem with the Internet of Things (IoT) is that various connected devices, household appliances and vehicles all have different operating systems with different communication or data collection methods. This means they can’t talk to each other because they don’t speak the same language. “Information isn’t valuable without an infrastructure to make it actionable […]

  • Advertiser

    Papa Murphy’s Takes 'N’ Bakes A Digital Transformation

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    The wonderful thing about ordering food online is that you can get what you want quickly and accurately, without ever once talking to the indifferent high school stoner taking your order through a choppy phone connection. It’s like consumer nirvana, and it certainly explains why restaurants delight in talking about their upgraded ordering systems. Case […]

  • Investment

    Stay Hopeful For Sizmek? Ad Tech Company Revamps Sales Strategy And Bets On Programmatic Growth

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    Sizmek has gone through some seismic changes to its sales staff and some of its product offerings. So despite a 9% YoY decline in Q2 revenue to $40.2 million, CEO Neil Nguyen’s word to investors during Sizmek’s earnings call Wednesday was: “Look for efforts to match our results in the second half of the year and even more […]

  • Online Advertising

    Where Does "Transparency" Fall In The Google Alphabet?

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    One of Google’s themes, when it announced it was dividing its core advertising business from its more experimental endeavors by restructuring into the holding company Alphabet, was “transparency.” Specifically, in the words of Alphabet CEO Larry Page, “improving the transparency and oversight of what we’re doing.” What that means, however, is anyone’s guess. We asked […]

  • Investment

    YuMe’s “Disappointing” Quarter, Dragged Down By Direct Client Losses

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    Though video ad company YuMe held to last quarter’s promise that it would release a programmatic ad stack, it did little to improve its Q2 2015 financial performance. “We had a disappointing quarter,” said Jayant Kadambi, co-founder and CEO during a Monday earnings call. YuMe’s Q2 2015 revenue was flat – $40.4 million in Q2 2015, […]

  • Omnichannel

    Acxiom Still Evolving, Currently In Growth Phase

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    The story of Acxiom is one of constant evolution. Consequently, it’s also in what seems like a perpetual growth phase. With the development of its data-management platform Audience Operating System and its acquisition of data onboarder LiveRamp, it seemed to become a neutral infrastructure provider, the pipes facilitating the flow of information across its clients’ […]

  • Online Advertising

    ComScore-Google Partnership Emerges From Beta

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    ComScore’s partnership with Google, which integrates the former’s Validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) measurement into the latter’s DoubleClick products, has come out of beta. The partnership was first revealed in February 2014. During a Q2 earnings call Tuesday, comScore CEO Serge Matta noted that “vCE is the first independent measurement system to be directly integrated into Google […]

  • Platforms

    As Neustar Faces Loss Of Its Big Government Contract, CEO Hook Says Marketing Services Won't Be Affected

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    Neustar is banking on growth in its marketing services division, the primary point of conversation during its Q2 2015 earnings call. That the company will likely lose a major contract that supplies number portability services to the United States might be a financial hit, though CEO Lisa Hook was adamant that it won’t affect Neustar’s growing marketing […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Does TV Measurement Even Need A Standard?

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    As advertisers apply more data to their television buys, how will old measurement standards meet their needs? The idea ignited a debate during a panel on the state of TV at AOL’s New York headquarters Tuesday. “I don’t know if we need a standard currency,” said Dan Aversano, SVP of client and consumer insights at […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    As Univision Begins An 18-Month Partnership With Snapchat, Will The Platform Prove Its Value?

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    When Univision embarks on an 18-month partnership with Snapchat, it will be the latest test for the nascent social platform to prove its value as a content hosting platform for broadcasters – and for brands advertising against that content. The partnership, revealed Thursday, centers around Snapchat’s Live Stories product, “a curated stream of user submitted […]

  • Online Advertising

    Q2: Alliance Data Systems Bets On Conversant’s Pipeline

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    Alliance Data Systems CEO Ed Heffernan isn’t thrilled with data marketing unit Epsilon’s 5% top-line performance, he said during Alliance Data’s Q2 earnings call Thursday. “That isn’t an acceptable long-term number,” he said, adding he thinks its potential is 7% or 8%. Getting to that potential will require double-digit growth in Epsilon’s tech offering – […]

  • Online Advertising

    Opportunity In Crisis: Polish Buying Platform RTB House Sets Up Shop In Greece

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    Anyone interested in a modern-day Greek tragedy should check out the country’s economic situation. But all tragedy ends with catharsis, and it’s why RTB House is upping its investment in the country. The two-and-a-half-year-old demand-side platform (DSP) from Poland is bringing on a business partner Alexandros Rigas. “We’re mainly working with shop owners, which is […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Why Microsoft Matters

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    Microsoft isn’t the advertising behemoth it once aspired to be when it purchased aQuantive for $6 billion in 2007. Since then, Microsoft has mostly been a publisher, selling inventory both directly and programmatically across its Microsoft Network (MSN) family of sites, its Outlook email portal, Skype and Xbox. Following the Microsoft-AOL search and display deal, […]

  • Investment

    From Foundry To Ventures: How Unilever Invests In Startups

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    Change or die. The smart brands acknowledge this. It’s one of the reasons why ad tech cabanas and beach houses have taken over the sandbars surrounding the Cannes Lions festival, and why ad tech yachts almost exclusively line the port. “It’s important to us to understand what will change in the future and what will […]

  • Social Media

    Can Branded Content Validate Yahoo's Tumblr Buy?

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    Since Yahoo’s maligned acquisition of Tumblr, many insiders have questioned its value as a marketing tool. Yahoo has made some overtures toward answering that. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said during the company’s Q3 2014 call last October that she expected Tumblr to drive $100 million in 2015 revenue, and that users increased 40% in 15 […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Michael Roth On Trading Desks, Agency Reviews And IPG's Guts

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    Much has changed for Interpublic Group since 2005, when Michael Roth stepped in to lead the then-troubled holding company. His background, as the CEO of a life insurance company, was unconventional, but it made sense given his role was to push IPG back to financial solvency. “The original profile for this job was financial,” he told […]

  • Data

    Krux Hires Kellogg's Paid Media Honcho, Hopes To Entice Marketers To Sign On To Its DMP

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    Krux is looking to overcome its industry perception as a publisher-focused data-management platform (DMP). This is one of the reasons why it hired Jon Suarez-Davis – previously Kellogg Co.’s VP of global media and digital strategy – as its chief marketing and strategy officer. Suarez-Davis officially starts Thursday and will report to Krux CEO Tom Chavez. “My […]

  • Ecommerce

    How Sharks Crunch Data: Daymond John Keeps Swimming

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    As Daymond John approached the hotel valet, a kid – who recognized John as one of the sharks on the ABC series “Shark Tank” – asked for help becoming a rap star. John demurred. “I can’t do that,” he said. “I make T-shirts for a living.” And then the valet pulled up with the kid’s […]

  • Marketing Automation

    Ad Tech And The Customer File: State Of The Courtship

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    If MediaMath co-President Mike Lamb has his druthers, the convergence of ad tech and marketing tech – the industry’s current inescapable narrative – will manifest in two ways. The first is beginning to happen: a set of integrations that advertisers or their agencies can use to clip together their paid media platform to their marketing […]

  • Investment

    Tremor's Programmatic Biz Keeps On Truckin'

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    Tremor Video’s growth continued in Q1 2015 as the company netted $40.6 million in revenue (16.4% YoY growth), above analysts’ predictions. Read the release. Eighteen percent of that revenue came from programmatic, which has been growing at a steady pace. Last quarter, programmatic was 14% of Tremor’s revenue; it was 4% this time last year. […]

  • Social Media

    Coming Soon To Google's DoubleClick Bid Manager: Promoted Tweets

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    DoubleClick Bid Manager (DBM) clients can soon use the buying platform to purchase Twitter Promoted Tweets across the mobile web, in-app and desktop. Read Google’s blog post. The capability isn’t available yet, but Twitter CEO Dick Costolo anticipated a May release during the company’s earnings call. Google first needs to do some technical jiggering to […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    Amid Rebate Debate, Marketers And Agencies Seek Common Ground

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    Agencies and clients might have their disagreements, but the relationship isn’t as bad as it’s sometimes depicted in the press – at least according to an Association of National Advertisers (ANA) survey of 126 members and 105 agencies showing that by and large there’s a lot of trust between the two and relationships are strong. […]

  • Ad Networks

    Layoffs At Rocket Fuel, As Company Begins $30M 'Efficiency' Push

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    As it grapples for profitability, ad net/programmatic media platform Rocket Fuel has initiated layoffs as part of what it called “a new efficiency program that is expected to reduce the publicly traded company’s operating costs by $30 million annually.” Read the release. The move comes just one month after co-founder George John stepped down as […]

  • Investment

    Nielsen Q1: Hope For Total Audience, Though Revenue Misses The Mark

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    Nielsen is chomping at the bit to start measuring total audience, but it also needs advertisers and publishers to figure out what exactly they want, especially in video. In its Q1 2015 earnings call, Nielsen reiterated last quarter’s commitment to push forward on “Total Audience Measurement” as its top 2015 priority. Total Audience Measurement, as described by CEO […]

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