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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingEmail Marketers Must Be Portfolio Managers
“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 Jose Cebrian, vice president and general manager of email and mobile messaging at Merkle. Data-driven marketing has multiple meanings. In the traditional definition, marketers use data to drive their decisions. […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoContext Vs. Targeting: Which Matters More For Programmatic TV?
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, senior vice president and media director at R2C Group. Conventional wisdom and recent history suggest that targeting trumps context. But what if this is based on a false success metric? One of […]
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WPP Buys A Niche; Media Execs Turn To Tech
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Buying Niches WPP teamed up with with US buyout firm Providence Equity Partners to acquire sports marketing firm Chime Communications for $584 million. “WPP needs to build its position in the sports market and therefore this is a strategic asset,” said Simon Davies, analyst […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderTaking Content Beyond Its Awareness Roots
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Todd Anderman, president of sales, marketing and operations at Thrillist. Everyone talks about branded content nowadays, such as custom, sponsored, native and native programmatic (talk about an oxymoron). The IAB even defined one of […]
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Crackle Makes A Deal With GroupM; P&G Continues Simplifying
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. 100% Or Bust Sony’s multiplatform video network, Crackle, sealed an upfront deal with GroupM on the strength of a promise over cross-screen viewability, Ad Age reports. Though GroupM is “substantially” growing its investment in Crackle, the agency declined to quantify that growth. Crackle will […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingRich Media Could Be The Hardest Hit In The Flash Fallout
“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 Gal Barnea, chief technology officer at Eyeview. Over the past few weeks we’ve seen a massive shift in the Flash and HTML5 balance as more Flash security flaws are exposed […]
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TV Advertisers Extending Reach Via Facebook; Radius Raises $50M
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook: Goes Great With TV Facebook can help TV advertisers extend their reach by targeting millennials, according to March research by Nielsen for Facebook IQ. According to the data, Facebook-only campaigns reached 13.4% of 18-to-24-year-olds in the US, while cross-platform campaigns reached 15.5% of […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingHow Can We Overcome Programmatic’s Principal-Agent 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 Kirk McDonald, president at PubMatic. Many in the programmatic world shamelessly borrow strategies, tactics and even language from the world of finance. Some companies have “tickers” on their websites that […]
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Digital Publishers Not Into Ad Tech; Twitter Ads Irrelevant
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Just Not That Into It Upstart digital publishers are “just not that into ad tech,” writes the Journal’s Mike Shields. Vox, Mic.com and Refinery29 have been vocal about working with as few ad tech firms as possible. “We are not running any programmatic whatsoever,” […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingRising Above The Average: The Economics Of Performance Media Planning
“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 Syal, joint managing director and director of media practice, EMEA, at Essence. Averages can hide a multitude of sins. As a media planner, you need to know that every […]
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Google Adds EU Cookie Consent; InMobi Partners With Device Makers
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Publishers Must Add Cookie Consent For EU Visitors To comply with EU data protection laws, Google is requiring publishers to add cookie consent for users coming in from EU countries. Google’s new user consent policy would affect publishers using AdSense, DoubleClick Ad Exchange […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingAutomotive Brands Offer Early Road Map For Location-Based Marketing
“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 Loren Hillberg, president and general manager at Thinknear by Telenav. Automotive marketing has long been organized into three well-established tiers, comprising a system that offers interesting lessons for other industries. […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoThe Future Of TV And Lessons From 1996
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Randy Cooke, vice president of programmatic TV at SpotXchange. If you’re in the TV business, you’re painfully aware of how quickly things are changing. Less than a decade ago, TV was its own self-contained […]
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Snapchat Adds More Content; Car Makers Not Sharing The Data
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Content: Gateway To Revenue Snapchat added some new publishers to its Discover content hub, among them BuzzFeed and Vox. The additions come after a redesign that makes Discover more prominent in Snapchat’s navigation. Snapchat’s ad prices, initially sky-high, have since fallen. Re/code’s Kurt Wagner […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderIs Facebook Forcing Publishers To Maintain an Outdated Strategy?
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Mike Peralta, CEO at AudienceScience. Online publishers rely on Facebook and other social sharing channels to extend the distribution of their content. Social is essential for driving traffic, building exposure and incremental revenue. But […]
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Centro Buys GraphScience; Amazon Web Services Grows
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Centro Buys Social Centro snapped up GraphScience for an undisclosed sum in a bid to extend its ad buying hooks to Facebook and other social platforms. Ten employees come with the bargain, and Centro says it will hire more to further build out GraphScience’s […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingAd Fraudsters’ Next Major Target: Mobile
“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 Ephraim (Jeff) Bander, president and chief revenue officer at Sticky. The global mobile advertising market will hit two significant milestones in 2016, according to eMarketer: It will surpass $100 billion […]
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Programmatic Worsening Viewability Problem; Putting Buy Buttons In Perspective
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic Vs. Viewability? A study by ad verifier Meetrics suggests that programmatic buying is exacerbating the viewability problem. The research found Germany and France have higher viewability rates than the UK or US, where programmatic has been adopted more rapidly. In the UK, 45% […]
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OPINION: The Sell SiderIt’s (Finally) Time To Stop Data Abuse
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Abderrezak Kamel, chief technology officer at Technorati. One of the largest inefficiencies about the current ad tech setup is the industry’s rapid-fire approach toward data pixels. In addition to being offensively inefficient, the approach […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingIs Advertising Technology Making People’s Lives Easier?
“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 Rachael Hadaway, vice president of media solutions at 84.51°. The speed at which data and technology has been deployed to enable advertising functions over the last five years is astonishing. […]
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More Trouble For Google; Blaming Ad Tech
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Antitrust Allegations Google’s headaches abroad just intensified. Several rivals of the tech giant, including OpenX and AppNexus, have asked regulators in Brussels to investigate Google’s dominance of the ad tech market. The Financial Times reports that representatives from Google’s competitors have visited the European […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingViewability: Let’s End The Numbers 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 Eric Bosco, CEO at ChoiceStream. Viewability. It’s a phrase tossed back and forth in sales meetings, delivered solemnly by speakers pacing conference stages and increasingly mandated by brands in their […]
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GroupM Tries Social Listening; Comcast's Visible Worlds Gets A COO
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. WPP Scouts Social Data In a holding companywide deal, WPP’s GroupM synched up with Networked Insights, a Chicago-based social listening firm that mines more than 560 million social media posts per day. The goal is to tap into data about what consumers share on […]
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OPINION: Data-Driven ThinkingThe Real Value of “Non-Working” Dollars in Digital 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 Julia Amorim, CEO at MediaNet. As with traditional advertising mediums, marketers who invest in digital and programmatic advertising make a distinction between working and non-working dollars, which combined make up […]
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OPINION: On TV & VideoWill Programmatic Video PMPs Edge Out The Open Marketplace?
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Irfon Watkins, co-founder and CEO at Coull. Private marketplaces (PMPs) are on the rise across programmatic video advertising. Some agencies and advertisers see them as a means to an end in solving issues of […]
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More Targeting For Instagram; Facebook Offers 100% Viewability
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. First-Party Data On Instagram In an interview with eMarketer, Instagram exec Jim Squires talks up the opportunity around Facebook’s targeting data. Today advertisers on Instagram can only access gender, age and location data. Squires said Instagram “will be introducing new targeting functionality that will […]
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OPINION: The Sell Sider¿Se Habla Programmatic? A Publisher’s Guide to Learning Programmatic
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Matt Maroon, a targeting and programmatic sales specialist at Microsoft. After my freshman year of college, I took a short leave from school and moved to Central America. I had taken Spanish courses for […]
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AOL On The Merger; Microsoft Still In Ad Biz
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL On Parade AOL Platforms CTO Seth Demsey opens up to Business Insider on the Verizon-AOL merger, and claims the value’s in registered and verified data. “We are an ads company, we already have some of that,” he said. “You can imagine what that […]
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The Agency On Reviews & Rebates; Dynamic TV Slow Adoption
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. GroupM’s Clark On Reviews And Rebates Speaking to The Drum, GroupM North America chief Kelly Clark shares his two cents on the watershed number of media accounts in review. “A lot of the reviews that are taking place are agency/client relationships that have existed […]
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The Founding Principles Of An Omnichannel Strategy
“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Mayur Gupta, global head of marketing technology and innovation at Kimberly-Clark. Much of what has been written about omnichannel experiences reflects two perspectives. The first: Every consumer expects it and every brand wants to deliver it. […]