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Google Debuted A Marketing Mix Modeling Partner Program; Unilever Rolls Back Ad Spend With WPP
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Back In The Mix Google debuted a marketing mix modeling (MMM) partner program yesterday. It’s an easy-to-miss and important addition to Google’s measurement platform. The self-evident benefits of multitouch attribution (MTA) have failed to overcome last-click in large part because MTA fails to capture macroeconomic or […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoAs Content Spending Goes Wild, What Role Will Advertising Play?
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jacqueline Corbelli, co-founder and CEO at BrightLine. No one can deny that these days the reigning king is content, illustrated by Netflix’s and Amazon’s rapidly expanding services using original content to woo subscribers. We’re […]
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Amazon Encroaches On Google And Facebook; Mobile App Companies Embroiled In Lawsuit
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Welcome To The Jungle Amazon has become a legitimate threat to Google and Facebook in the media space. In a note to investors, BMO Capital Markets analyst Dan Salmon raised his price target for Amazon from $900 to $1,200 and said it will take significant market […]
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Keeping Performance Marketing In Perspective; NBCU Stays Committed To Audience Guarantees
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Performance Abides There’s a large population of performance-minded marketers for whom the industrywide debate on measurement equivalency doesn’t resonate. “They’re less hung up on whether they pay for five seconds of screen time or 10 seconds, or how their ad efforts compare with TV campaigns. They just […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingRethinking The Open Garden In The Wake Of Brand Safety Woes
“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 Adam Chandler, chief business officer at Kargo. What a week. More than 250 brands pulled back their ad spending due to unsafe supply in the very walled gardens that claim […]
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Google Responds To YouTube Brand Safety Woes; The Esports Audience Is Growing Fast
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Safe At Any Speed? In separate media interviews, Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler pushes two narratives: (1) The problem of ads running next to hate speech is tiny (“very very very small numbers,” Schindler tells Recode), and (2) Google has the tech to fix it. […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoWhat TV Advertisers Can Learn From Snapchat
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Patrick Hanavan, co-founder and chief client officer at Extreme Reach. Snapchat became the darling du jour of the media and advertising world after its recent IPO. While I’m not yet convinced it’s the TV […]
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Omnicom Implements YouTube Brand Safety Tools; Skinny Bundles Bulk Up
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Better Safe Than Sorry Omnicom has implemented new brand safety checks to vet YouTube videos for hateful content. The tool uses automated scanning and human oversight to score and whitelist content on the platform. Like WPP, which last week announced a YouTube brand safety deal with […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderPublishers, It’s Time To Share The Risk Of Online Video
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ashley Swartz, co-founder and CEO of Furious Corp. Despite being the fastest-growing advertising medium, digital video remains a seriously difficult business for premium publishers. The costs of producing premium content remain high, it’s a […]
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JPMorgan Chase Takes Brand Safety Into Its Own Hands; Mic Will Roll Out Nine Brands
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Chasing Safety In addition to pulling its ads from YouTube, as many big brands have done in recent days, JPMorgan Chase also culled the number of sites where it runs ads from 400,000 to just 5,000, The New York Times reports. According to CMO Kristin Lemkau, […]
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GroupM Combats YouTube Brand Safety Issues; Pinterest Goes After SMBs
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Monitoring Preferred GroupM hopes to quell brands’ YouTube panic by partnering with OpenSlate, which analyzes individual YouTube videos and scores them for quality and brand safety. The solution is exclusively available to GroupM agencies and will open YouTube ads to third-party measurement for the first time, […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderThe Two-Tier Supply Pool: A Big Opportunity For Smart Buyers
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Bannister, co-founder and executive vice president at CafeMedia. Just as buyers are now grasping how header bidding impacts their programmatic buying approach, publishers have already moved on to the next big thing: server-side […]
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The Guardian Is Suing Rubicon Project; AppNexus Continues With Its IPO Pursuit
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publisher Plaintiff The Guardian is suing Rubicon Project for not disclosing fees it charged advertisers on programmatic buys, Lara O’Reilly reports for Business Insider. While The Guardian takes its claim to High Court with hopes of a refund in the “single-digit millions,” Rubicon maintains the fees […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingMatch Rates Are Just A Number
“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 Terry Chen, product manager, Adobe Analytics Cloud. I recently overheard a few co-workers debating the merits of online dating apps. One was particularly enthusiastic about the demographic and geographic filters […]
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Digital Media Struggles To Scale; Google Continues Work On Header Bidding
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Thumb On The Scale Digital media has a scale problem. Only a handful of publishers, including BuzzFeed, Vice, Vox, Refinery29, Huffington Post and Bleacher Report, have done $100 million or more per year, which Digiday calls “the arbitrary mark of a ‘scaled’ media company.” With limited […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoThe VMVPD: Cable’s Answer To Cord Cutting
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jordan Decker, associate director of video investment and Horizon Advanced at Horizon Media. Consumers have been loud and clear about how the traditional cable bundle model does not serve their needs, which has fueled […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingHas Ad Tech and Mar Tech Investment Peaked?
“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 Mark Smith, president at Kitewheel. Marketers’ essential need to reach consumers with the right messages along their journeys has stayed the same, but the amount of solutions available to them […]
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TweetDeck May Offer Paid Subscription; Tech Companies Buy More Sports Rights
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Subscrips On Deck Twitter’s TweetDeck analytics and management service is sending out feelers about a paid subscription. “A subscription business could offer Twitter a vital new revenue stream at a time when its advertising revenue has been in decline,” writes The Verge. It’s not an unprecedented […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderPublishers: Data Strategy First, Then Management And Execution
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ameet Shah, senior director of global technology, publisher and data strategy at Prohaska Consulting. Buyers (advertisers) and sellers (publishers) are crucially aware of the importance of data. But too often, departments develop siloed data […]
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Tencent Gains On Facebook; Michael Barrett's Salary Revealed
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Getting To The Next Level WeChat owner Tencent is gaining ground against Facebook. Monthly active users (MAUs) grew 28% year over year to 889 million, the holding company said during its earnings report this week. In contrast, Facebook MAUs grew 17% in 2016 to 1.86 billion. […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoOnline Video Metrics Need To Go Retro
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by James Brooks, founder and CEO at GlassView. How many people are watching a brand’s video ads? And for how long? Those questions are perennial ones for advertisers, particularly after Google recently agreed to third-party […]
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AT&T And Verizon Pull Google Spend; New Ad Standards Released
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Trigger Warning Google’s brand safety backlash leapt the pond Wednesday when telco giants AT&T and Verizon both said they will pull advertising from YouTube and the Google Display Network, according to reports. What’s going on? Some see a classic case of negotiating leverage. While Havas UK […]
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Walmart Is Behind In Ecommerce; Digital Ads Get More Expensive As Reach Goes Down
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Walmart Shopping “We’re behind,” said Marc Lore, Walmart head of ecommerce, at Recode’s Code Commerce conference this week. “We need to catch up.” Catching up means loosening the purse strings. In 2017, Lore spearheaded three acquisitions totalling $200 million (and that doesn’t include Walmart’s $3.3 billion […]
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Agencies Get Called Out; Header Bidding Hidden Dangers
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. You Had One Job Google has been punished in the UK for ignoring brand adjacency issues, but should agencies shoulder more of the blame? Stratechery’s Ben Thompson argues agencies’ reliance on Google and Facebook to handle the logistics of ad targeting have caused them to fall […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoWith YouTube TV In The Mix, We Need Faster, More Precise TV Measurement
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bill Wise, CEO at Mediaocean. TV’s digital moment has arrived. Within the very week in which Netflix and Amazon scored Oscar wins, YouTube announced YouTube TV, its planned subscription service bringing major network content […]
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The ANA Demands Transparency; Average CMO Tenures Drop
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lines In The Sand The ANA has demanded walled gardens – specifically Amazon, Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Instagram – open their platforms to third-party audits. Google and Facebook have agreed to such audits, though the industry “would appreciate both companies keeping the marketing community […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderBroke But Not Busted: Publishers’ Epic Battle For Media Monetization
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Neil Lustig, CEO at Sailthru. The struggle that publishers are facing when it comes to monetization is so pervasive that many aren’t even bothering to hide the evidence. But it’s not earnings reports, revenues […]
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Google Inserts A Promotion Into Home; Rubicon Project Stocks Took A Hit This Week
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AI, Meet Paid Media As part of a deal between Google and Disney, Google’s voice-activated assistant Home slipped a promo for the upcoming “Beauty & The Beast” premiere into its morning recitation (weather forecast, schedule, commute, etc.). Google maintains it’s not an ad, “but it’s definitely […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingIntroducing Marketing-Stack Management, Powered By Enterprise Machine Learning
“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 Nathan Woodman, senior vice president of strategic development at IPONWEB. There’s a scene in the 2002 Tom Cruise movie, “Minority Report,” that has become legendary in marketing and ad tech […]
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The Ad-Supported Internet Helps The Economy; iHeartRadio Adds Targeting Options
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ads Can Do It! The ad-supported internet is a boon to the US economy. According to an IAB report led by Harvard Business School professor John Deighton, the ad-supported internet drove more than $1 trillion into the US economy last year, more than doubling in the […]