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 […]
Kellogg’s has teamed up with Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS), Moat and Yahoo’s BrightRoll to measure how factors in video advertising like “time in view” and “audibility” affect purchases. For each set of exposures Kellogg’s bought using BrightRoll, Moat provided metrics around player size, time spent and whether the video’s sound was on or off. Nielsen […]
Adobe has rolled out an Advertising Cloud, a merger between its Adobe Media Optimizer products and the acquisition of video DSP TubeMogul, the company revealed Tuesday at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas. Adobe Media Optimizer previously was housed under the Adobe Marketing Cloud and consisted mostly of search, dynamic creative and somewhat limited display […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Godzilla Vs. Mothra EMarketer’s latest macro forecast shows Facebook and Google consolidating power and share across mobile, display and search. Facebook’s US ad revenue will surge 32% to $16.3 billion this year, giving it almost 40% of the US display market and stealing share from Google, […]
Along with its eponymous New York stock exchange, Nasdaq Inc. powers more than 80 transactional markets around the world. Now, its blockchain technology powers a startup advertising exchange called the New York Interactive Ad Exchange (NYIAX), which plans eventually to create a market where digital media inventory could be bought and sold like stock on […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Racing The Clock Platforms are apparently behind schedule to answer Marc Pritchard’s rallying call for third-party measurement accreditation by the year’s end. Among all major players, including Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pinterest and Snap, only Google has begun MRC audits. Audits take about three months to complete, […]
Brand advertising is becoming a necessary ingredient for B2B success. While US telco CenturyLink sees two-thirds of revenue come from B2B services, consumer-oriented strategies like a national TV campaign and sports sponsorships are taking a larger share of CenturyLink’s budgets, said CMO Bill Hurley. Consumer branding increasingly “lays the foundation” for effective B2B sales, Hurley […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Strong Silent Type “With little fanfare, Amazon Video Ads rolled out this week to advertisers working with the Amazon Media Group,” reports Laurie Sullivan at MediaPost. The ads are mobile, outstream and autoplay, and they meet IAB and MRC viewability standards. Amazon’s habitual silence means […]
The Williams-Sonoma home decor brand West Elm is piloting a new retargeting model that personalizes video ads to its known customers. “Traditionally, we haven’t done any TV advertising, which involves a lot of fuzzy math, at all,” said Luke Chatelaine, VP of innovation for West Elm, at Beet.tv and Eyeview’s TV leadership summit on Thursday. “We […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Carrier Pot o’ Gold Telcos in Europe and the US are looking for ways to spin their data into marketing gold. “Though carriers are in testing mode, the burgeoning telco data sector and millions of dollars in recent startup funding signals a near future in which […]
Data-driven advertising requires good data. But lots of bad data and questionable data practices can harm a marketing campaign. Marketers need to know when to use their own data, and when to rely on partners. They need to understand the trade-offs between cost, accuracy and scale. They need to know where their data came from, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. From Audit To Agent Accenture Interactive, the consulting giant’s digital services group, now has more than 13,000 employees. The company made a push at Mobile World Congress and increasingly comes up against the holding companies, reports Digiday’s Shareen Pathak. WPP CEO Martin Sorrell and other agency […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ramped LiveRamp is using the occasion of its RampUp conference to unveil some marquee onboarding partners, with an emphasis on TV and audio media. The Acxiom-owned company paired with Simulmedia, SambaTV and Spotify to help brands match their customer files against new audiences on those platforms. […]
Outstream video is one way publishers can bypass the pre-roll shortage, but the format doesn’t always fly for pubs with heavy ad-blocking audiences. Ziff Davis, the publisher of tech, gaming and lifestyle properties like PCMag, IGN and AskMen, found that certain titles – IGN audiences in particular, which amasses a cult following among gamers – […]
Facebook is again tackling cross-device measurement and attribution. Although its Atlas product struggled as an ad server in the marketplace, Atlas could successfully use Facebook IDs to measure across devices and help marketers assess campaign performance. Now Facebook is making those features available to marketers through its Business Manager, in a tool dubbed Advanced Measurement. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cross-Pollination Salesforce and IBM have joined forces on AI. Each company will let the other’s anthropomorphized AI (Watson in IBM’s case, Einstein in Salesforce’s) play in its sandbox. For example, USA Today reports, “an insurance company running Salesforce could use real-time weather updates from Watson to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. WPP Skids WPP Group told investors it would grow just 2% in 2017, citing “weaker comparative net new business trends” (i.e., customer wins). Basically the holding company failed to offset last year’s losses of AT&T and Volkswagen enough to maintain its previous growth rate. Earnings release. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Snap, Crackle, Pop Snap Inc. shares closed above $24 after its public market debut, but skepticism is in the air. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and Google, Snap doesn’t have a concrete story to tell about its business plans post-IPO, writes Peter Kafka of Recode, likening its strategy […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Snap Audit Facebook and YouTube recently caved to advertiser demands that they submit to an MRC audit. Now Snapchat is “under pressure from ad buyers to follow suit,” writes Mike Shields at The Wall Street Journal. “We have clients that will walk away from sites that […]
Google revealed Tuesday that it would introduce a $35-per-month, ad-supported streaming service called YouTube TV, but will it take off with content owners and advertisers? Google has a good chance of success if it gets enough subscriptions to rival traditional pay TV networks plagued by cord-cutting, sources say. But that shouldn’t be a tall order […]
The Dentsu Aegis Network is testing a cross-screen measurement system developed by video platform YuMe, released Wednesday, which maps connected TV (CTV) IDs to Nielsen panels. The system gives TV planners access to audience measurement based on demographic breakouts across multiple app publishers through a partnership with Nielsen. Dentsu’s digital video investment team wants a […]
Although Verizon’s appetite for ad tech was the main driver behind its acquisition of AOL, it’s content that really sweetened the deal. “Our content is a differentiator for Verizon amidst all of the other telcos,” AOL CMO Allie Kline told AdExchanger. But there’s a lot knocking around under the AOL umbrella – everything from ad tech […]
The New York Times has added a new sales channel for its video inventory: programmatic. At the beginning of February, the Times opened its video inventory for the first time to programmatic buyers. Those buyers can access desktop and mobile web ad space, with mobile in-app to come. The move was in response to requests […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Bye Buy Side Rubicon CEO Frank Addante points to the company’s 2015 acquisition of Chango as a cause for some of its current woes. “The Chango acquisition didn’t work out the way we wanted it to,” he says in a MediaPost interview. “With desktop display, we […]
Spanish-language broadcaster Univision’s media sales arm has been busy the past six months. In addition to packaging Univision Digital inventory more holistically with sister portfolio properties like The Root, Fusion and The Onion, Univision has tweaked its programmatic stack on the back end. That overhaul is one of the agenda items for Dave Katz, who joined Univision […]
This post is not sponsored. Thirty-seven percent of publishers fail to properly label their sponsored content to comply with the FTC enforcement policy issued in December 2015, according to MediaRadar. The ad sales intelligence firm scanned sponsored content ads from 12,000 brands over the course of 2016. The numbers may look bad, but they actually […]
