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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

  • OPINION: On TV & Video

    Alphonso TV CEO Ashish Chordia: Digging For Connected TV Data And Insights

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    As smart TVs take off, viewing data becomes more available and actionable. Although companies such as Alphonso TV, Samba TV, Sorenson Media, iSpot.TV and Gracenote have been around for a while, they’re finally able to capitalize on an ecosystem that’s ready for their technology – even as consumer privacy concerns grow. Many of these companies […]

  • The Big Story podcast
    PODCAST: The Big Story

    The Big Story: What Makes A Top Programmatic Publisher?

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    The Big Story is a breezy new podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. It used to be that a top programmatic publisher simply did something using automation – usually using real-time bidding to sell its remnant inventory. […]

  • Online Advertising

    Sizmek Revamps The Rocket Fuel DSP – But Does The World Need Another Buying Platform?

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    Many in the ad tech industry view demand-side platforms (DSPs) as commodities. Sizmek is hoping to prove otherwise, as it took the wraps off a revamped buying platform Tuesday. Made from the old Rocket Fuel DSP, the new offering, according to Sizmek CEO Mark Grether, has a more streamlined user interface than its previous iteration, […]

  • Omnichannel

    UCLA Offers Advertisers A New Way To Buy Traditional Media

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    National advertisers don’t particularly covet college media inventory. The buying process is manual and clunky, and the ad is often just an image slapped onto a rudimentary webpage. And don’t even think about any meaningful ad verification. On the other hand, college media reaches a demographic that is very much coveted: affluent 18- to 24-year-olds […]

  • TV

    AMC Networks To Offer Addressable TV Inventory

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    AMC Networks said Thursday it will allow advertisers to dynamically insert ads to reach specific households, marking its first foray into addressable TV. The offering will be available in the fourth quarter, said Adam Gaynor, AMC’s VP of advertising and data solutions. Sorenson Media’s addressable ad platform will power the capability with Samsung smart TVs […]

  • TV

    Comcast Q2: Optimistic About The Upfronts And Challenged By Cord Cutting

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    Comcast’s strategy has long been to invest in every area where customers get their entertainment or information, so that even if one line of business is affected by changing consumer preferences, another could benefit. Cord cutters, for instance, reduced Comcast’s video business but aided its broadband business. The following are items of interest gleaned from […]

  • The Big Story Podcast
    PODCAST: The Big Story

    ‘The Big Story’ Podcast: Facebook’s Fury

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    This is a new podcast from AdExchanger. It will be available wherever you subscribe to podcasts.  In the wake of Facebook’s suspension of social listening tool Crimson Hexagon from its platform late last week, it’s easy to trace the reason for the crackdown to residual squeamishness from its Cambridge Analytica nightmare. In the latest episode […]

  • The Big Story podcast
    PODCAST: The Big Story

    The Big Story Podcast: Acquisition Mania

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    This is a new podcast from AdExchanger. It will be available wherever you subscribe to podcasts.  If acquisition volume in ad land isn’t up substantially, acquisition value is. JEGI noted in its recent H1 2018 report that value is up 43% from 2017, totaling $140 billion. In the second episode of “The Big Story,” the […]

  • Data

    Salesforce Will Acquire Data Integrator Datorama For A Reported $800M

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    Salesforce has signed an agreement to acquire Datorama, a marketing tech company whose platform connects and consolidates data from different sources, the companies said Monday. The deal is anticipated to close Q3. Terms were not disclosed, though the publication CTech said the offer is for $800 million. “With one unified view of data and insights, […]

  • OPINION: On TV & Video

    Samba TV CEO: ‘Our Legal Basis For Having Data Is A Direct-To-Consumer Relationship’

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    The data and analytics company Samba TV launched in 2008, around the same time the first smart TV came to market. Over the next few years, the concept of a TV that hooked directly to the internet would remain a novelty. But now about 62% of the US uses smart TVs, according to eMarketer. With […]

  • PODCAST: AdExchanger Talks

    Podcast: Marketing Finds Its Voice

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    AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This episode of AdExchanger Talks is supported by Exponential. The rise of voice interfaces has the potential to be a highly disruptive trend in consumer technology. About a quarter of US broadband households own at least one smart home device, and 50% will accommodate smart speakers alone […]

  • TV

    AT&T Will Acquire AppNexus

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    The rumors were true. AT&T said Monday it will acquire AppNexus for its advertising and analytics unit, which is headed up by former GroupM chief (and ex-AppNexus board member) Brian Lesser. The acquisition is expected to close in Q3. Read the release. Terms were not disclosed, though The Wall Street Journal pegged the price tag […]

  • Agencies

    Ebiquity At Cannes: There Are Too Many Pitches Right Now And It’s Bad For Everyone

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    Ebiquity shook the industry when it dropped its report on media transparency two years ago. Advertisers and agencies alike still reel from its impact. As a consultancy Ebiquity isn’t as flashy as others, like MediaLink or Accenture – both of which plastered the Croisette with their branding. Still, some of Ebiquity’s activities after the K2 […]

  • Agencies

    K2’s Media Transparency Report Still Rocks The Ad Industry Two Years After Its Release

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    It’s been two years since the Association of National Advertisers, working with  consultancy Ebiquity and investigative firm K2, dropped a damning report on agency transparency. And everything’s better now, right? Quite the contrary, said Bill Duggan, the ANA’s group EVP, during a Cannes rooftop panel hosted by Mastercard. “Trust between clients and agencies is at […]

  • TV

    AT&T Advertising CMO Kirk McDonald On Redefining The Ads Experience, Blank Banners And Big Rumors

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    AT&T rode into Cannes this year amid fanfare following its Time Warner acquisition, freshly rebranded as WarnerMedia. But trailing in its wake are a lot of questions around what this mega-merger means for the advertising landscape. Intentionally or not, AT&T added to the ambiguity with its Cannes branding – or complete lack thereof. The telco […]

  • Mobile

    Facebook Messenger Comes To Cannes To Make Its Pitch

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    Facebook’s been doing the Cannes thing for several years, but this year was the second that execs from Messenger donned their deck shoes and salmon-colored shirts for their festival debut. It’s an opportune time to double up on its presence. The messaging service, which has 1.3 billion users, is entered into the Cannes Lions competition […]

  • TV

    CEO Stephenson: AT&T Will Acquire More Companies 'In The Coming Weeks' To Support Ad Unit

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    AT&T, which closed its acquisition of Time Warner on Thursday, will acquire more companies to support its Advertising and Analytics unit, CEO Randall Stephenson said Friday during a CNBC interview. Watch it here. Stephenson spoke of an upcoming ad-supported skinny bundle called AT&T Watch TV, featuring Turner content, that will be formally announced next week. […]

  • Online Advertising

    IAS Acquisition Highlights Growing Competition Among Ad Verification Vendors

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    Vista Equity Partners’ plan to buy a majority stake in Integral Ad Science – valuing the company at $820 million, according to AdExchanger sources, or up to $850 million, according to Axios – underscores the ongoing importance of ad verification and the pressure these vendors face to grow their product offering to remain competitive. “There’s […]

  • Online Advertising

    Vista Equity Partners Acquires Majority Stake In Integral Ad Science

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    Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in ad verification vendor Integral Ad Science. Terms were not disclosed. IAS detects ad fraud by scanning billions of insertions from both buy and sell sides, searching for anomalies. It also assesses whether individual impressions are fraudulent or not. Industry insiders had wondered about […]

  • Advertiser

    Church’s Chicken CMO Hector Munoz Tries To Reinject Life Into The Brand With A New Campaign

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    Hector Munoz knows quick-service restaurants (QSRs), having worked in the space for more than 25 years. Munoz rose through the ranks at Burger King, then spent six years as CMO of Popeye’s Chicken. In February 2017, he became CMO at Church’s Chicken, which launched a brand campaign called “Here’s the Deal” on Friday. “If we […]

  • Ecommerce

    Adobe Will Buy Ecom Platform Magento For $1.68B

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    Adobe said Monday it will buy the ecommerce platform Magento for $1.68 billion. Magento’s 2017 revenue was $150 million, and the deal is expected to close by the end of August. Ecommerce has long been a big hole in Adobe’s tech, even as competitors spent heavily to acquire Magento’s competitors. SAP has owned hybris since […]

  • TV

    GroupM Alum Nicolle Pangis To Head NCC Media

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    Nicolle Pangis, a former C-suite exec at WPP GroupM’s Xaxis and [m]Platform, has been appointed CEO and president of NCC Media. She will start May 29. NCC is a national cable sales group owned by Comcast, Charter and Cox Communications. In April, NCC started a division led by Comcast’s advanced ads division that will focus […]

  • TV

    When It Comes To Addressable TV, AT&T Has The Scale And Verizon Has The Speed

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    Verizon’s Oath wants advertisers to know that although it shuttered its programmatic TV offering OneTV, its addressable TV business based on Fios households – which launched in late 2016 – is here to stay. Verizon knows that for addressable inventory, it’s later to the game than Dish network as well as AT&T and its DirecTV […]

  • Online Advertising

    Chobani Dives Into Data With Nielsen Marketing Cloud

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    There was a time when the yogurt company Chobani had to track its digital marketing activity vendor by vendor. But last October, it put out an RFP to consolidate its activity with a marketing cloud. “One of the benefits with a marketing cloud is it gives us a holistic picture of all of our digital […]

  • Publishers

    Bonnier Evaluates Telaria’s Newest Offering: Analytics, Decisioning And An Ad Server

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    Telaria – the company formerly known as Tremor Video – has expanded its video supply-side platform (SSP) to a full stack with a decisioning engine, analytics and advanced-TV ad server, the company said Tuesday. The suite, called Video Management Platform (VMP), was made generally available Tuesday and has a handful of beta clients numbering in […]

  • Online Advertising

    Waze Ads Head Suzie Reider Sets Her Sights On QSR, Retail And Fuel

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    Don’t confuse Google’s Waze with its homegrown Maps product. Waze, which Google acquired in 2013, has a much different value prop. “Waze is for drivers,” said Suzie Reider, Waze’s head of ads in North America. “Google Maps is about navigating the physical world.” Waze also has a big community that works collectively to update the […]

  • Digital TV and Video

    Want Samsung Smart-TV Data To Inform Your Campaign? Then Go To Samsung Ads

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    Why would a consumer device giant like Samsung want to get into media sales? It seems implausible and yet that’s what happened, beginning in 2016 when the company quietly bought a Canadian demand-side platform and ad server called AdGear to build its own stack. It makes perfect sense to Tom Fochetta, VP of Samsung’s media […]

  • The Video Audience

    YouTube’s Brandcast: Finding Brand Safety In Google Preferred

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    Ariana Grande might have belted out a few songs at YouTube’s Brandcast on Thursday, but not even she could drown out the lingering chatter about YouTube’s massive brand safety crisis last year. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki sought to assuage advertisers who might still be wary of the video platform by addressing the issue early and […]

  • Agencies

    WPP CEO Martin Sorrell Steps Down

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    WPP CEO Martin Sorrell stepped down Saturday from the massive agency holding company he founded in 1985 and where he had served as CEO since 1987. WPP chairman Robert Quarta will be executive chairman until the new CEO is appointed. Mark Read, CEO of Wunderman, and Andrew Scott, WPP’s corporate development director and Europe COO, […]

  • Social Media

    Zuck’s Pledge To Congress: Political Ad Transparency, An App Crackdown And Big Security Investments

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    In Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s prepared statement for Congress, he describes how his company hopes to prevent illicit data sharing and enhance transparency around political advertising. The testimony, which will be delivered Wednesday, partially reiterates changes that Facebook publicized last week. Last Wednesday, Facebook detailed API data restrictions. And last Friday, it described the tools […]

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