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Zach Rodgers

Zach Rodgers

Executive Editor

Zach runs AdExchanger’s editorial operations and supports programming strategy for AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO and Industry Preview events. Under his leadership the publication was recognized with a Jesse H. Neal Award in the category of “Best Media Brand” in 2016 and two regional Azbee Awards for “Best Technical Article” in 2017. He was previously Managing Editor at ClickZ, and his work has been published in The Guardian, Mashable and elsewhere.​ He is the host of AdExchanger Talks, a podcast featuring key leaders in the media, marketing and advertising technology arena. He frequently moderates at industry events. ​

Articles By Zach

  • Online Advertising

    Skinected Brings RTB to Non-Standard Ads

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    Skinected is a young company, and small, with just five employees. But the pain point that spawned the business goes back some 15 years, and has plagued legions of media brokers and buyers. Co-founders Chip Meyers and Stefan Kosel began trying to integrate non-standard ad formats into movie websites in the late ’90s, beginning with […]

  • Agencies

    Martin Sorrell Q&A: WPP Will Broaden Its Tech Footprint

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    The six global ad holding companies (WPP, Publicis, Interpublic, Omnicom, Dentsu, and Havas) are basically legal roosting boxes for advertising agencies, but a few years hence we may see them very differently. Or, a few of them anyway. Speaking with AdExchanger today, CEO Martin Sorrell said, “I think our business has changed dramatically in the […]

  • Agencies

    WPP Accelerates Tech M&A With Stake In Argentina's Globant

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    WPP Group has taken a 20% stake in Globant, a fast growing Latin American marketing and software development firm. Buenos Aires-based Globant blends engineering and design-driven driven approaches. It employs 2,700 in six countries — including Brazil, Argentina, and Columbia — and offers its clients software development, data architecture, e-commerce applications, design, and mobile development […]

  • Agencies

    How MediaCom Does Data

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    As a WPP Group agency, MediaCom works closely with the holding company’s Xaxis trading desk to execute data-driven media strategies. In such relationships between agencies and trading desks, it can be hard for a client to know where the desk stops and the operating agency begins. That creates a tricky problem, since first party data […]

  • Social Media

    Facebook Exchange Adds Search Intent Data, As Chango Joins Partner List

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    Facebook has added retargeting firm Chango to its list of preferred partners for Facebook Exchange, bringing a powerful aggregator of search intent data to the real-time bidding marketplace. The move is notable in that it represents an incursion by Facebook on the “intent currency” of Google (Bing and Yahoo too), after a period of failed […]

  • Social Media

    Fan Acquisition Tougher Amid Facebook's Engagement Push

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    Fan acquisition has been a major (and much derided) goal of Facebook advertising campaigns for years, but the door is closing on easy “likes.” A November 21 change to Facebook’s ad creative policies for Page Post Ads has significantly hampered the ability of brands to grow their Facebook audience by using a “like” call to […]

  • Data

    Salesforce.com's Michael Lazerow: Personalization Will Explode Next Year

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    As part of our year-end coverage, AdExchanger is publishing a variety of perspectives on a single question: “What will happen next year in marketing and advertising that hasn’t happened before?”  The below response is from Michael Lazerow, Chief Marketing Officer of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and CEO of Buddy Media. Buddy Media’s sale to Salesforce.com in […]

  • Ad Exchange News

    2013 Predictions: Xaxis Expects New Exchanges From Twitter, Apple

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    Programmatic media arrived in force this year, and brought with it a few surprises. (Facebook Exchange anyone?) To get a sense of what might be waiting in 2013, we’ve reached out to a number of industry all-stars to answer a single question: “What will happen next year in marketing and advertising that hasn’t happened before?”  […]

  • Mobile

    2013 Predictions: Gokul Rajaram, Facebook's Ad Architect

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    December is an optimistic month for people in media and advertising, as retailers and other brands unleash a final torrent of spending before the period of relative hibernation known as “Q1.” It’s also a month of grand prognostications, when we collectively succumb to the folly of trying to guess what’s next. To supplement your personal […]

  • Data Nugget

    Data Nugget: How Undervalued Is Display?

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    Most marketers, even search devotees, can agree that display advertising (some of it anyway) gets short shrift when it comes to conversion attribution. But how short is the shrift? We asked Visual IQ, a well-regarded attribution platform, to share with AdExchanger readers some data to illuminate – broadly — how display and search perform in […]

  • Platforms

    Inside The AppNexus Machine

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    AppNexus is an object of some fascination in digital marketing circles, and why not? Led by former rivals from Right Media and DoubleClick Ad Exchange, the privately held company has grown up to become perhaps the only scaled “pure” technology company in the real-time bidding landscape. It provides no managed services, accepts no insertion orders, […]

  • Social Media

    Facebook Exchange Certification Is Elusive for Some RTB Partners

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    A quick search on Facebook’s Preferred Marketing Developer directory reveals that the number of real-time bidding partners for the Facebook Exchange is 12, three fewer than were announced back in September. What gives? Contrary to appearances, the three missing companies — [x+1], Optimal, and Kenshoo – have not been kicked off of FBX for violating […]

  • Data

    Agencies Talk DMP Value: Has The Promise Been Realized?

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    The Data Management Platform is a widely used and often misunderstood product category — adopted in varying measures by publishers, agencies, and third party data brokers. To get more depth on what a DMP should be and whether marketers are realizing the category’s potential, we asked three agency execs this question: “Where is the real […]

  • Online Advertising

    Kinetic Social Speaks! CEO Says Firm Is Not Epic Media Group Reincarnated

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    Yesterday we covered a Federal Trade Commission settlement with Epic Media Group over allegations of “history sniffing,” and pointed out that the company had many things in common with a new ad company called Kinetic Social. Those similarities include employees, executives, and website copy. Today Kinetic reached out to AdExchanger to address its supposed connection […]

  • Data

    Adometry Takes a Step to Integrate Attribution Data With DSPs

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    It’s a common refrain that last click attribution is broken, but what should replace it has yet to be resolved. Algorithmic attribution modeling is perhaps the leading candidate, and vendors such as Visual IQ, Convertro, and Adometry are competing to provide solutions in this area. But these attribution specialists still struggle to make fractional attribution […]

  • Ad Networks

    FTC Settles With Epic Media Group. Whither Kinect Social?

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    The Federal Trade Commission has settled “history sniffing” allegations with defunct online ad network Epic Marketplace Inc., whose parent company was Epic Media Group LLC. The agreement bans Epic from using the practice and requires it to destroy all data collected by that means. The FTC’s announcement makes no mention of Kinetic Social, a company […]

  • Platforms

    MediaMath Buys Mobile And Video Ad Server Tap.Me

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    Demand side platform MediaMath has scooped up Tap.Me and its roughly 11 employees for an undisclosed sum. The deal brings MediaMath a far more robust mobile and video ad serving capability than it had previously, according to CEO Joe Zawadzki. Tap.Me was previously focused on in-game ads (AdExchanger 2011 Q&A). But as sometimes happens in […]

  • Mobile

    Adelphic Lands $10M Led By Google Ventures to Solve Mobile Media Puzzle

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    Adelphic Mobile is one of a handful of companies trying to address the problem of poor audience segmentation in mobile. It hopes to get there faster with the help of a $10 million investment led by Google Ventures. The money is earmarked largely for marketing and other go-to-market spending. “We’ve been pretty heads down, working […]

  • Platforms

    AudienceScience Shutters Ad Network, Goes All In With Technology

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    AudienceScience has shuttered its publisher network business to focus completely on marketing technology. The move is yet another sign of weak demand for traditional ad networks, as buyers steadily migrate budgets to exchange-traded media bought through DSPs. President Mike Peralta tells AdExchanger, “The transition has been in the works for 12 to 18 months. Across […]

  • Platforms

    'Facebook DSP' Triggit Raises $7.4 Million From Existing Investors

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    Triggit, a demand side platform that has lately repositioned itself as a Facebook Exchange specialist, has raised a $7.4 million Series B round from existing investors. Spark Capital and Foundry Group participated, as did the company’s recently added CRO Chris Zaharias. CEO Zach Coelius tells AdExchanger, “We’ve focused every bit of our development and resources […]

  • Social Media

    Parsing LinkedIn's New Ads API

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    With the launch of an Ads API access yesterday, LinkedIn joined a very small club of social companies that allow developers of outside platforms to customize and sell into their paid media products. The club shrinks further if you count only household names. Of the roughly 8 social companies with ad APIs, Facebook is the […]

  • Online Advertising

    Adobe's Next Phase: Promoting the End-to-End Stack, Possibly Buying More Stuff

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    It’s been three years since Adobe embarked on the digital acquisition spree that would bring it a major analytics platform (Omniture), a DMP (Demdex) and a media buying platform (Efficient Frontier). How to measure its success to date? Financial results tell one story. In Q3 2012 the digital marketing suite delivered 40% growth in revenue, […]

  • Mobile

    Quotes: How Walmart Does Innovation

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    Offered without comment, here are two recent quotes about Walmart’s approach to digital innovation: “We are uniquely positioned to give customers anytime, anywhere access to Walmart by combining the smartphone, online, and the physical stores. Ultimately, that will give us an edge over any competitor. …We’ve hired hundreds of incredibly talented people, in Silicon Valley […]

  • Agencies

    How Universal McCann Does Data

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    Any media agency will tell you it’s innovating hard around data in campaign planning and reporting. But what does that mean exactly? For Universal McCann, the global media arm of McCann Worldgroup, today’s challenge in analytics isn’t methodological. It’s all in the follow through – creating standardized measurement approaches and then getting insights into the […]

  • Social Media

    Percolate, 'Son' of Buddy Media, Helps Brands Build Interest Graphs

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    Traditional branding exercises often focus on questions that can seem a little silly. What color is your brand? What shape? Percolate founder Noah Brier says his company sprang in part from the realization that “What does your brand consume?” also needs to be part of that equation. The company, which has been compared to Buddy […]

  • Advertiser

    For Western Union, Data Driven Marketing Is Strictly An Opt-In Affair

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    Western Union describes itself as a financial services provider for the “underbanked,” a group it pegs at approximately 25% of the U.S. population. As with all financial companies it must be very careful with its customer data and how it uses that data to acquire customers and market new services. That caution extends to data-driven […]

  • Agencies

    Traffiq Embraces Agency Model, CEO Goldberg Talks Tech DNA

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    Traffiq is among the few companies to cleanly jump the fence from a product-centric to a services-centric model. One year ago, it was focused on developing and marketing a self-service marketing workflow tool. Over time however it became clear prospective customers weren’t ready. “We were building a model that could be self-serve, and what we […]

  • Online Advertising

    Casale Media Index Report: RTB 'Self Competition' Is a Myth

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    There is a common view that a big chunk of real time bidding activity consists of advertisers competing with themselves to win impression auctions. Not so, according to a new RTB report based on data gathered through Casale Media‘s sell-side Index Platform. “There are a lot of shared brands, and also a lot of retargeting,” […]

  • Data

    Winterberry Group: Biggest DMP Bottlenecks Are On The Client Side

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    Marketer integration is among the grand challenges facing the Data Management Platform space, according to a new white paper produced by Winterberry Group in partnership with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (download). Consider the top three “major hurdles” identified by the report’s 160 or so respondents: (1) “Internal Process & Marketing Ops Challenges,” (2) “No Clear […]

  • Mobile

    Agency CEOs: 2013 Planning Is About Mobile Integration

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    The year of mobile has come and gone — though we may never know which year it was exactly. So what comes next? Why the year of mobile integration of course. When we asked three senior agency executives what their top 2013 planning issue is (not mentioning mobile), all three came back with variations on […]

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