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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingBig Data: The Time For Talking Is Over
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Lung Huang, vice president of digital advertising and global partnerships at dunnhumby. In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy asks the wizard if he has ever been frightened. The Great […]
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Shoppable Images; Omnicom Tech
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Shoppable Images Online tag management company Stipple is going after the ecommerce market with its new tool, Stipple Shopping, which enables shoppers to purchase by clicking on an image without being redirected to another page or website. “We don’t want to just provide information; […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingRetargeting And Prospecting: An Integrated Approach
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Gurman Hundal, co-founder of Media iQ. Ad network pitches usually go like this: Their proprietary technology enables them to prospect new potential customers for advertisers. The truth is that, in […]
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RTB Trends; Twitter Programmatic
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. RTB Trends Accordant Media has released results from a study of Q1 2012 real-time bidding data seen through its ad buying platform. According to a release, “Ad placement transparency improved significantly from 32% to 41%” – which seems to mean that Accordant could see […]
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Weather, Beer, Ads; Mapping Credit Card Data
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Weather, Beer, Ads The term “weather targeting” is bandied about with some frequency, but its meaning can seem a little…foggy. Is it more than predictive umbrella peddling? Digiday shares findings from The Weather Company that suggests media buyers should indeed watch the skies. For […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingProgrammatic Premium: Can We Settle On One Definition?
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Anthony Katsur, CEO of Maxifier. What’s in a name? Well, when it comes to “programmatic premium,” quite a lot. Interpretations of this term differ widely, as evidenced by the […]
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Q1 Audience Insights; Gaming The Bake-Off
Here is today’s AdExchanger.com news roundup. Want it by email? Sign up here. $egmenting Audience Real-time bidding company Turn has released a new report showing that costs for display advertising, video ads and other rich media are increasing, while those for mobile and social ads have fallen, according to TechCrunch’s Anthony Ha. Noting a Turn audience […]
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EU Settles With Google; The Mobile Ad Choices Icon
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Trust In Google The European Union has extracted concessions out of Google as it relates to its anti-trust investigation. The Financial Times reported over the weekend, “The US internet giant will revamp its results page to include prominent links to rival search engines and […]
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The Data In Mobile; Programmatic Overhaul
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mobile Money A survey released at the IAB’s Mobile conference looking at how smartphone users interact with their finances (you did remember to file your taxes, didn’t you?) finds that nearly two out of three respondents (58%) regularly use their bank’s mobile app, while […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingCan Facebook Solve Its Relevance Problem?
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Chris Tuleya, VP of Direct Response at Underscore Marketing. For months, the industry has been abuzz about Facebook’s Real-Time Bidding exchange, with pundits touting the millions of impressions it makes […]
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The Trading Desk Conundrum; Social + In-Market
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Trading Desk Conundrum The party might be over for agency trading desks, writes AdWeek’s Mike Shields as he examines the controversy surrounding the usefulness of independent trading desks. The debate, according to Shields, centers on “whether the agency holding company should decentralize its […]
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TripAdvisor Buys Gilt's Jetsetter; Nice Weather For Mobile
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. TripAdvisor Buys Gilt’s Jetsetter After a relatively quiet few years as the online travel space heated up around it, hotel and accommodations reviews site TripAdvisor has bought hotel bookings site Jetsetter from luxury deals purveyor Gilt Groupe, reports Skift’s Dennis Schaal. Jetsetter will be […]
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Slow Programmatic; Video RTB Rises
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Slow Programmatic Yesterday at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference, eBay’s head of digital display said programmatic needs to be less about real-time. As reported by Forbes’ Robert Hof, Stephen Howard-Sarin said, “The marketer needs to know, how long does it take for someone to buy […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingHow To Hire In Programmatic Sales
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Ed Carey, VP Demand Sales at The Rubicon Project. At this stage of the programmatic growth story, almost every business in the chain of marketers, agencies, platforms, and publishers has […]
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Adapting To Nielsen OCR; Attention-Getting
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adapting To Nielsen OCR Adap.tv has signed on to use Nielsen’s Online Campaign Ratings, which aims to measure the reach of video ad campaigns across screens. The video ad platform hopes to show it can tackle issues of price, quality/engagement and above all, a […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingHow Publishers Can Beat Agencies In Trading-Desk Advertising
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Chris O’Hara, Chief Revenue Officer at NextMark. Worthless. That’s what I – and most of my colleagues – thought of leftover or remnant advertising when I was selling highly premium banner […]
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Facebook's Home Phone; Native Pitfalls
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Home Invasion Om Malik sees a privacy menace in Facebook’s ‘Home’ phone integration (AdExchanger story). He argues Facebook will know our home location, shopping habits, and travel routes. “Facebook is going to use all this data — not to improve our lives – but […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingDisplay Advertising Fraud is a Sell-Side Problem
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is by Douglas de Jager, founder of Spider.io. In Will Luttrell’s AdExchanger article of last week, he argues that if the display advertising buy side adopts better performance metrics then the problem of fraud […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven Thinking10 Tips For 'Real-Time Branding'
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is by Andrew Shebbeare, Founding Partner & Chief Strategist at Essence Digital. No doubt about it: Direct response marketers bankrolled the real-time bidding revolution, while brand dollars keep fuelling growth on the reservation side. […]
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Playing Tag With Cash; Amazon AWS RTB
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Playing Tag With Cash Gotta tag? It’s valuable if you can scale the management of millions and billions of the ad variety. Tag manager Tealium has raised $15 million-plus (total for the life of the company is $27 million). The release claims large revenue […]
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PlaceIQ's New Metric For Mobile; OmniMultiChannel
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Measuring ‘Walk-Throughs’ PlaceIQ is offering a new metric for mobile ads that’s essentially a real-world equivalent of the online “view-through.” The so-called “Place Visit Rate” is defined thusly: “The ratio of people who viewed mobile ads for a physical retailer and subsequently were observed […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingThe Elusive Integrated Campaign: How To Get There
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jim Parkinson, Chief Digital Officer, Valassis. Today, marketers have a unique opportunity to engage consumers through the integration of print and digital mediums. The marketer who is able to […]
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Commerce Adding Offline To Online; About-Face for Facebook?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Commerce Adding Offline To Online J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth shares his notes about eBay’s recent analyst day. He calls eBay “the next generation of commerce featuring the convergence of online and offline shopping, and significant impact from mobile devices.” More notes (PDF). Jefferies […]
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The Bottle And The Data Genie; Facebook Phone
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Bottle And The Data Genie In a piece on web privacy in the New York Times’ Sunday edition, behavioral economist Alessandro Acquisti from Carnegie Mellon University tells the NYT in a series of anecdotes, studies and statements that consumers don’t undestand whats happening […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingOnly The Buy-Side Can Solve Our Fraud Problem
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Will Luttrell, Co-founder and CTO at Integral Ad Science. Fraud impacts the entire online advertising industry and costs us millions of dollars each year. While everyone can play a role in […]
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Amazon Buying The Pipes; Acquisitions For The Funnel
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon Buying The Pipes It’s not ad technology “pipes” but it’s something similar for books. Yesterday, the company announced the acquisition of a social network for book lovers and authors called Goodreads. paidContent’s Laura Hazard Owen writes, “Goodreads is (…) likely to be less […]
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Finally, The Year Of Mobile! Nope, You Missed It.
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Steinberg, SVP, Digital Ad Sales at The Weather Company. Are you still waiting for the year of mobile? Well, guess what? You missed it. That’s right, I said it – and if you didn’t know […]
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Walmart's Addressable Product Line; Attributing Big Data
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Addressable Products During a media day presentation earlier this week at Walmart’s eCommerce outpost in California, Neil Ashe, president and CEO of Walmart Global eCommerce, told reporters, “We aim to connect every product in the world with every customer, and let them decide how […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingBeyond the Firewall: Why Business Intelligence Matters To Advertising
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Khurrum Malik, CMO at eXelate. Advertisers who fully grasp the interplay between ad tech and Business Intelligence (BI) will maximize customer lifetime value in the accelerating digital world. Here’s why. In […]
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The Value of Mobile; Rolling Home
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Value of Mobile Google, one of the biggest players in mobile ads, takes another shot at persuading marketers to invest in ads for smartphones and tablets with its new “Full Value of Mobile Initiative.” Approximately “three of ten mobile searches result in visiting […]