Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google’s World At its I/O conference, Google made a big splash in voice-activated search, where it competes with Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri. Its new Google Assistant UI chats with you “across devices and contexts.” And the intent data will be rich indeed. Per the company […]
Facebook’s head of ad tech, David Jakubowski, will participate in a panel discussion on sell-side impressions at the May 24 CLEAN ADS I/O conference in New York. As Facebook expands its Audience Network, it faces a number of challenges. Keeping out fraud. Achieving high viewability. Ensuring off-site placements still drive performance. By directly integrating with publishers versus […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Dynamic Display ESPN will begin targeting ads based on fan preferences, The Wall Street Journal reports. A new product, Live Connect, creates versions of display ads featuring individual players or teams, and then targets them based on user preferences and behavior. Dick’s Sporting Goods saw click-through […]
Since Google opened up its ad server and brought exchange bidding to dynamic allocation a month ago, publisher ad tech and media companies have been asking many questions but receiving few answers. People in the industry want to know: How much will Google charge? Nobody seems to know. What kind of data will publishers be […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. No Harm, No Foul The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a claim brought against the data broker Spokeo after it misidentified a single, 29-year-old man named Thomas Robins as married and in his 50s. The plaintiffs failed to adequately demonstrate how Robins was hurt by […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Spring Cleaning Pinterest will bring back affiliate links to give influencers and publishers an easy way to monetize the platform, Business Insider reports. Pinterest banned affiliate links last year after users complained of spammy and broken links undermining the experience. But a new spam-filtering technology promises […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Marketo On The Market? Bloomberg is hearing whispers that Marketo might be seeking a buyer. At least, that’s one of the “strategic alternatives” it’s hired Morgan Stanley to help consider. Bloomberg indicates this activity in the early stages and of course no one at Marketo or […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DCO by Adobe Is dynamic content optimization (DCO) really coming back? Adobe has hooked its Media Optimizer DSP’s DCO capabilities into the rest of the Marketing Cloud. Adobe’s example of what this enables: “Instead of serving a standard promotion to a consumer who researched flights and […]
Peloton’s biggest problem with digital advertising is that it’s difficult to succinctly explain its product in a banner ad. The four-year-old company, which started on Kickstarter but projects $150 million in revenue this year, sells exercise bikes with video screens. It also live-streams classes funded by monthly subscriptions, sells bikes in showrooms and runs an […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Sridhar Speaks “The last word is yet to be written on mobile web versus apps,” Google’s senior-most ad platform exec, Sridhar Ramaswamy, said during an appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt. “The app model is still very clunky, in that you have to go download something that’s 20-odd […]
