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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingTime To Include (Digital) Out-Of-Home In Our Definition of Programmatic Media
“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 Jeremy Ozen, cofounder of Vistar Media. Here’s a trivia question: When and where was the first ever display ad? Some of you will answer 1994 on Hotwired.com. That AT&T […]
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Brilig Swallowed By CRM Agency Merkle; Evidon Eyes Tags
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Monday’s Consolidation Audience data platform Brilig has been acquired by CRM agency Merkle. Terms were not announced. Ad tech consolidation continues to propel forward as “early” players (AdExchanger ripple dissolve: See Brilig’s 2009 Q&A) who were a part of the demand-side platform world craze […]
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Three Pre-Reqs to Capture the Hearts, Minds And Budgets Of Brand Managers
At my company, we’ve been active in the programmatic buying space for brand marketing and we’ve seen some very positive business results to date. I truly believe it’s the future of all media buying (not just digital, but I’ll save that discussion for another day). Yet, we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg of […]
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AudienceFuel Consolidates Itself; eBay's Data U-Turn?
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Pub-Side Consolidation AudienceFuel has been acquired by Clever On Demand says TechCrunch’s Anthony Ha who adds that Active International has made another investment in the combined companies to be known as AudienceFuel. Is Active looking for a digital version of barter? Clever on Demand […]
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Tumblr Getting Into Ads; Twitter's Mobile Mojo
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Tumbling Into Ads AllThingsD’s Liz Gannes reports that Tumblr, whose CEO has said not-nice things about advertising, has hired an ad man. Lee Brown, who hails from Groupon, will help sell big brands on native ad experiences. “Tumblr has experimented with brands like Adidas […]
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Retargeter MediaForge Scooped Up By LinkShare; Real-Time Badders
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Display Ad-quisition Rakuten LinkShare – you know, LinkShare – has acquired Utah-based display ad retargeter MediaForge. Read the release. The NextWeb points out, “The company, which was simply called LinkShare before it was acquired by Japanese e-commerce and Internet services giant Rakuten for $425 […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingCharting the Path to Direct Sold RTB Advertising
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Tom Chavez, founder and CEO of Krux Digital. When he was running the Right Media Exchange, Ramsey McGrory posited what I call the McGrory Conjecture during a panel […]
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Epsilon Slicing, Dicing Email; Israel And Ad Tech
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Targeting Email Direct marketing agency Epsilon announced the launch of its Email Response Network (ERN). This baby can slice and dice your email data better than a Ginsu Knife. From the release, the ERN “features Scheduling Intelligence, which allows email marketers to match the […]
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Google All-In For Digital Ads; Facebook Likeage Leakage
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Can’t Unseat Nielsen A Google TV Ads blog post explains that the company is abandoning its efforts to disrupt traditional buying models and will go after digital alone. Google’s Shishir Mehrotra says, “We’ll be doubling down on video solutions for our clients (like […]
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Mobile Entertainment Ads Pulsing; Facebook Rev Review
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. That’s Mobile Entertainment Mobile ad network Millennial Media takes the pulse of entertainment ad spending in the space and finds that the category saw dollars grow 133 percent over the past year. One big driver of that involved ads around theatrical releases, which made […]
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Tracking Pinterest Spend; Google On The Multi-Screen World
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Recommended By Pinterest Amazon’s Zappos has unveiled a feature in its online store that recommends purchases based on what users post on Pinterest. For Amazon and Zappos, this could pave the way for greater combinations of e-commerce and social media. “Social shopping is a […]
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AdSafe Says Half Of Ads Are Viewable; Dentsu Invests In Maxifier
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lowering Standards Fewer than half of all online ads are viewed for even a second, according to online ad effectiveness provider AdSafe Media. The company’s study of the state of viewability suggests that only 49.9 percent of ads sold directly meet new industry standards, […]
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Aol's Dividend And Display; Mobile Is Big, Really Big
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Patents And Display Aol has announced that its investors will receive proceeds of its patent sale in the form of a stock buyback and dividend. See the release. Ronald Josey of ThinkEquity was positive about the development in a note to investors but added, […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingUse Closed-Loop Data to Unlock Display Ad Effectiveness
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Matthew Keylock, SVP, Media Partnerships at dunnhumby. Display advertising has suffered the same ailment plaguing much of digital marketing – frequent irrelevance is easy and cheap. This trend […]
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RTB For Backgrounds; Audience Buying Drives Patent
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. RTB’ing The Background Everything will be biddable. Perhaps Gourmet Ads, which has been “busy” with its real-time bidding strategy, is proof. The vertical ad network has introduced real-time bidding of its background skins through its private exchange enabled by AppNexus. Read the blog post. […]
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BrightRoll, Datalogix For TV Audience Extension; Budget For Banners
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. BrightRoll Teams With Datalogix More babysteps for connected TV as a deal was announced yesterday between BrightRoll and Datalogix, which is using TiVo viewing data from 4.2 million U.S. household set-top box devices for its DLX platform. The release states, “With DLX (Datalogix) TV […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingLocation Targeting: Perception And Reality
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by David Shim, CEO at Placed. While there are a handful of companies close to realizing the potential of location-based targeting, as an overall industry there is a gap between […]
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Facebook Adds Search Ads; BrightTag Adds Europe
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Sponsoring Search Ads Facebook is adding search ads to its product mix reports Techcrunch’s Josh Constine. But don’t expect too much from Facebook’s emulation of the Google’s model says Constine, “While these will ‘help’ people discover new apps and content, I don’t see Sponsored […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingService: A Dirty Word in Ad Tech?
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Adam Berke, president at AdRoll. “We’re a technology company, but we provide managed services for large accounts.” How many times have you heard something along those lines from […]
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Google's Wildfire Adding Agency Partners; About.com Still In Play, Repeat, Still In Play
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google & The Agency Google will work with agencies to sell its social media marketing platform services now available through its acquisition of Wildfire. That was the message of yesterday’s press release as Google’s Wildfire “selected Likeable as a preferred channel partner. Likeable, a […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingHow CIOs Can Get Into the Marketing Game
“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 Yuchun Lee, VP and general manager of IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management. He was previously founder and CEO at Unica. I’ve talked a lot about the odd couple pairing of the CMO and […]
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Hulu Ad Machinations; Listings Or Bust For Yext
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hulu Ads, Direction Big changes are coming to Hulu, and they’re all starting at the top, beginning with the position of CEO Jason Kilar and the relationship to the streaming video site’s big media backers, reports Variety’s Andrew Wallenstein. Citing a three-page memo about […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingWhy Media Companies Are Being Eaten by Tech Companies
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Eric Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. My friend and colleague Todd Herman (LinkedIn) once wrote a strategy paper about video content when we worked together at Microsoft. Called “Don’t […]
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Payment Data Getting Attention; DAA Icon Vs Cookie Settings
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Taking Back The Data Wired looks at the recently-announced Merchant Customer Exchange (see release) that brings together major retailers to create a payment solution of their own and “hoovers” all that valuable customer payment data in the process. Wired’s Marcus Wohlsen writes, “[The Merchant […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingThe Myth of the End-to-End Ad Tech Solution
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Michael Greene, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research. The term “end-to-end” gets thrown around a lot in digital advertising circles and is increasingly part of the conversations we have with […]
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Hygiene On The Lijit Exchange; Ecommerce And Immediate Needs
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lijit Exchange The promise of “brand safety” seems to be a big draw in exchange circles these days, so Federated Media’s supply side ad tech unit Lijit Networks has introduced new inventory packaging capabilities on the Lijit Exchange to capitalize on the trend. In […]
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CMOs React To Facebook Pitch; Native Ads FTW
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook’s Pitch WSJ gives the feature treatment to Facebook’s courtship of global ad clients. Shayndi Raice notes that at one meeting of its client council, CMOs harangued CEO Mark Zuckerberg: “As the ad types peppered the young chief executive officer with questions, a theme […]
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Aol's Adtech Eyes Viewability; Adobe-Josh James Suit Settles Quietly
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Embracing ‘Effectiveness’ Just as comScore is engaging in a patent suit against ad effectiveness companies, AOL’s ad serving subsidiary Adtech is stepping into the fray with its own product designed to measure consumer “visibility” for marketers and agencies. “We are making the length of […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingYou Don’t Control Your Digital Technology Decisions, M&A Does
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Cameron Hulett, who is Executive Head of Solution Strategy at Acceleration. When someone is betting millions, they’ve typically done their homework. So when you see the current M&A activity in […]
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Google Adds To Content, Data Strategy; Buddy Deal Closes
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google’s Travel Grab Google’s latest acquisition puts it even more squarely on the content side of the media business (guess we won’t hear anyone at the search giant say it’s not a content company anymore, right?). The WSJ’s Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg and Amir Efrati […]