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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

  • Investment

    Conversant’s Q1: Drawing Strength From Cross-Device Deployments

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    If the message in ad tech company Conversant’s year-end quarterly was one of renewal following a rough 2013, its Q1 was about stability and sustainability as the company beat the guidance it provided in its Q4 2013 call. This was largely due to improvements in the company’s display business as well as its work in […]

  • Omnichannel

    Checking In On Oracle's Marketing Cloud Integration

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    Oracle hosted a “launch event” Wednesday to introduce its Marketing Cloud, though the fact that Oracle has a suite is about as newsworthy as the world’s roundness. The enterprise software giant has been using that particular nomenclature since it acquired marketing automation solution Eloqua in December 2012. Oracle’s Marketing Cloud has several components. In addition to Eloqua, there’s social […]

  • Social Media

    A New Star At Facebook: David Jakubowski To Head Atlas Solutions

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    UPDATE: Facebook has confirmed that David Jakubowski will be joining the company, and that he will have a role that extends beyond Atlas. UPDATE 8:15PM ET: Jakubowski, through Neustar’s public relations agency, released the following comment via email: “I have been presented with an opportunity that I simply couldn’t refuse. I can assure you that Neustar has […]

  • Investment

    Twitter Q1: Emphasis On Engagement Over Views As Ad Revenue Shoots To $226M

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    Twitter tried to avoid last quarter’s narrative, centered around flagging audience growth, in its Q1 call Tuesday; instead, the company emphasized a 28% quarterly increase in ad engagements (specifically retweets and favorites), driven by higher-quality ads and the use of rich media. Such was the overall theme: engagement over timeline views and audience growth. Yet, the fact remains the latter […]

  • Omnichannel

    MediaMath Acquires Another Piece Of Its Cross-Device Puzzle: Tactads

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    There are two general methods for targeting consumers as they flit across desktops and devices: match various online log-ins and/or make educated guesses about an identity based on aggregated device characteristics. Many data-focused ad tech companies can do the former; fewer can do the latter as well. MediaMath, through its acquisition Thursday of French cross-device […]

  • Publishers

    Despite Solid Q1 Ad Revenue Growth, The New York Times Warns Of Potential Decline

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    The New York Times saw total Q1 2014 revenues increase 2.6% year over year to $390.4 million from $380.7 million. Advertising revenue increased year over year 3.4% to $158.7 million. Print advertising saw a bigger boost (3.7%) than digital advertising (2.2%); the latter clocked in at $37.8 million for Q1 2014, compared to $37 million […]

  • Mobile

    Google App-lies Its Own Spin To App Install Ads

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    First Facebook, then Twitter and now Google. The search giant unveiled plans Tuesday to offer app install ads on mobile search and YouTube (where they’ll be presented like TrueView ads), similar to the units that have been a cash cow for Facebook. The company said it plans to launch this new product over the next […]

  • Platforms

    New Yields For Yieldex In Programmatic Direct

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    Premium publishers have needed some convincing to open up their more valuable inventory to programmatic buying technologies. But interest in tools that streamline the often unwieldy direct sales process has heated up. It’s one of the reasons Yieldex, a company best known for producing forecasting and analytics tools for premium inventory, introduced a new line […]

  • Data

    Evidon Rebrands As Ghostery, Focuses On Enterprise Tools

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    In recent months, Evidon has pushed to get more people to use Ghostery. As of Monday, everybody who uses Evidon will by default be using Ghostery, because the entire company is taking the name of its popular browser app. More specifically, Evidon will become Ghostery Enterprise. “We’re refocusing on the concept of transparency for everyone,” […]

  • Data

    The Cross-Device Question: Krux

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    Krux’s co-founders, CEO Tom Chavez and CTO Vivek Vaidya, discuss what the company offers in terms of linking consumers across devices. This is the eighth in AdExchanger’s series on the cross-device question, in which we examine what each DMP can provide in terms of connecting the identities or profiles of consumers across the digital, mobile […]

  • Social Media

    Twitter Embraces App Install Ads

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    Twitter, as rumored, is developing an ad product specifically designed for app installs. On Thursday, Twitter acknowledged the existence of the mobile app promotion suite, the first product that connects Twitter with the mobile ad exchange it inherited when it acquired MoPub last September. Advertisers shouldn’t try to jump on board quite yet, however: The […]

  • Investment

    Google Posts Q1 Revenue Increase To $15.42B, Lays Out Future Plans

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    Google posted a solid quarter, as total revenues for Q1 2014 jumped to $15.42 billion, a 19% increase compared to this time last year. During its earnings call, Google emphasized its ambitions to extend its value as a brand builder and to close the price gap between mobile and desktop display advertising. Google also stated […]

  • Data

    The Cross-Device Question: Lotame

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    Lotame’s VP of Product Management Kalyan Lanka discusses what the company offers in terms of linking consumers across devices. This is the seventh in AdExchanger’s series on the cross-device question, in which we examine what each data management platform (DMP) can provide in terms of connecting the identities or profiles of consumers across the digital, […]

  • Data

    The Cross-Device Question: Adobe

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    Adobe senior product manager Chris Comstock discusses what the company offers in terms of linking consumers across devices. This is the sixth in AdExchanger’s series on the cross-device question, in which we examine what each DMP can provide in terms of connecting the identities or profiles of consumers across the digital, mobile and offline ecosystem. […]

  • Data

    The Cross-Device Question: Neustar Aggregate Knowledge

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    Correction 4/11: This article initially wrote Neustar reports to a Congressional committee. A company spokesperson said Neustar does not have a government contract and they are not audited by Congress. They have a telecom industry contract that is overseen by the FCC. David Jakubowski came on board Neustar as SVP of marketing services after it acquired […]

  • Publishers

    The New York Times To Loosen RTB Restrictions, Expand Programmatic Initiatives

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    What’s up with The New York Times Co. and programmatic? We’ve pondered that question before, but the publishing giant declined to speak at the time. Since then, Times SVP of Ad Products and R&D Michael Zimbalist has revealed to AdExchanger that the company intends to release more inventory cautiously into the RTB space. It also is planning an […]

  • Social Media

    SnappyTV Releases Social Playback Of TV Clips, Fox Sports Hopes To Capitalize

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    Online video, especially online video embedded in social networks, is essentially a free-for-all. There are few rules or best practices and brands and vendors are still figuring out what works best for consumers. SnappyTV is figuring its one-tap native video playback on Facebook and Twitter, a feature the video content platform is releasing Tuesday, will […]

  • Data

    Need For Speed: BlueKai Ramps Up Data Onboarding

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    Data solutions provider and Oracle acquisition target BlueKai has released an update designed to expedite a very unsexy but nevertheless crucial element of data-driven marketing: the onboarding process. Continuous Fast Ramp updates the company’s Fast Ramp product released last summer. Fast Ramp was designed to improve the data onboarding timeframe to weeks from the industry-average […]

  • Online Advertising

    MediaMath Plugs Into Yahoo, Microsoft And Others For Guaranteed Inventory Access

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    Microsoft and Yahoo are loosening their stranglehold on their premium display inventory. MediaMath has set up a buying program that includes guaranteed direct buys in a programmatic environment. The program is enabled through partnerships with publishers Yahoo and Microsoft, along with technology partners Shiny Ads, iSocket and Yieldex. The partnership represents the latest industry attempt […]

  • Online Advertising

    Disqus Releases Its Second Advertising Product: Sponsored Comments

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    Want to buy a comment? Commenting platform Disqus released Monday a featured called Sponsored Comments, following a month-long beta testing period that included The New York Times, Yahoo and Xerox, among others. This is not Disqus’ first foray into advertising products. Sponsored Comments arrives roughly one and a half years after it released its first […]

  • Omnichannel

    Sizmek To Roll Out AdTruth-Powered Feature

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    Connecting consumers across devices is on every advertiser’s mind these days, and vendors are ramping up to accommodate. Add Sizmek to that list. The ad tech company plans to release during the second week of May Device Intelligence, an analytics feature designed to enable targeting and measurement of mobile ads. The analytics component is made […]

  • Investment

    As Buyers And Sellers Wise Up, Are Programmatic Media Companies On The Outs?

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    Are programmatic media companies about to hit the wall? Ken Sena, managing director and Internet analyst at investment banking analyst firm Evercore Partners, is wary. Despite the exuberant expectations around companies like Criteo and Rocket Fuel, Sena sees a possible multifront threat on the horizon. In an Evercore report called “Questioning Competitive Barriers In Programmatic,” […]

  • Ecommerce

    How Newegg Eggs On New Customers

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    Despite the recent headlines generated around Newegg.com’s battles with patent trolls, the company is best known as an ecommerce retailer of computer hardware and software. The company is privately held, and has an estimated revenue of $2.8 billion. A large part of Newegg’s growth has to do with its continuous customer acquisition. At Adobe Summit 2014 the […]

  • Ecommerce

    How SAP Works With Adobe

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    With Tuesday’s announcement that SAP will resell Adobe Marketing Cloud, packaged with the analytics platform HANA and the ecommerce solution hybris, it’s fair to wonder what SAP’s role in digital marketing will be going forward. Will it, for instance, ever develop its own marketing cloud to compete with Oracle, Salesforce.com or IBM? Brian Walker, chief […]

  • Marketing Automation

    Adobe Campaign's Beta Phase, And How It Fits Into The Marketing Cloud

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    Every couple of months, Adobe announces a new element of integration with its marketing automation and email product Campaign, the sixth and most recent addition to the Marketing Cloud. Last September, Campaign rebranded from Neolane, its maiden name before Adobe acquired the marketing automation company. In January, Adobe stated its intention to integrate Campaign with […]

  • Digital Marketing

    SAP's Digital Marketing Solution? Resell Adobe Marketing Cloud

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    For anyone wondering what SAP AG is up to these days in digital marketing, an answer was provided at the Adobe Summit in Salt Lake City. SAP has a global partnership with Adobe to resell the latter’s Marketing Cloud along with SAP’s HANA platform and its hybris Commerce Suite. Read the release. Let’s back up […]

  • Omnichannel

    Adobe Opens Summit With More Integration In Marketing Cloud

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    If Adobe’s Monday announcements at its annual Summit are any indication, the theme for the company’s Marketing Cloud going into 2014 is “Integration.” This theme manifests in new features Adobe introduced including: a customer data repository (Master Marketing Profile), the ability to evaluate online and offline marketing activities (Marketing Mix Planning), deeper integration with Adobe’s […]

  • Data

    Insight Into Ensighten’s Future – And Whether Or Not It Will Ever Be A DMP

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    Tag-management systems (TMS) are ripe for acquisition. Enterprise tech firms with data-management platforms (DMPs) have commonly incorporated them into their stacks, either by building their own or, like Adobe, by buying a start-up shop. But last week’s acquisition of TagMan by rival firm Ensighten was unusual in that it was a tag-management firm acquiring another […]

  • Online Advertising

    Why Programmatic Is A Cyborg

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    The term “programmatic” is contentious even among its faithful adherents. Not only does it inadequately describe a range of ad-buying activities, it also implies that everything is done automatically, as if robots are replacing a human sales staff. But a panel during the Premium Programmatic 360 summit (presented by Sonobi and MediaMath) held Wednesday in […]

  • Platforms

    Programmatic For…Traditional Radio? Jelli Launches Buying Platform

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    Traditional radio as a hotbed for ad tech? Well, not really – or at all – but this is precisely the problem Jelli co-founder and CEO Mike Dougherty recognized when his company launched on Wednesday a platform, called RadioSpot, designed to enable programmatic buying for radio advertising. “Radio is a little more simple [than digital […]

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