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Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Tim Hwang’s 2020 book “Subprime Attention Crisis” argues that targeted advertising is a bubble set to burst. He contends that the intricacies of ad tech and the perverse incentives of agencies and ad tech platforms to maintain a […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Rick Webb recently wrote an essay for the Why Is This Interesting newsletter about Apple’s looming App Tracking Transparency release, which will become reality next week. In it, he digs into some less commonly discussed issues with Apple’s […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Within the retargeting category, Criteo has been the most successful player by a wide margin. It built a global retargeting empire from its home base in France, conquering the US market and many others too. It was a […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Our guest this week has spent his entire career in ad tech. Since 1997, Manny Puentes has worked at a series of companies ranging from ad servers to publisher networks to programmatic platforms. In 2016, he founded Rebel […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Melissa Burdick is the cofounder and president of Pacvue, which launched in 2017 to help advertisers scale on big ecommerce platforms like Amazon, Walmart and Instacart. The retail media space has accelerated significantly since the biggest chains jumped […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Streaming TV adoption has accelerated to the point where a large majority of US households contain a connected TV device, and nearly as many (78%, per Leichtman Research) subscribe to at least one streaming service. But marketers are […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Ever since Apple dropped its iOS 14 bombshell last June, developers have been scratching their heads, running in circles, doing nothing and doing their best to prepare. But it’s been a big challenge, mainly because “there is very […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. “Inspire creativity and bring joy.” TikTok’s mission statement applies as much to its advertising as it does to its consumer-facing product. This week on AdExchanger Talks, head of ecosystem partnerships Melissa Yang describes why the company decided to […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. There’s a growing need for marketers to unify their ad buying across social, mobile app, CTV and other digital channels. Luckily that dream is moving closer to reality, as these channels are increasingly addressable. Less luckily, measurement is […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. In this episode, Experian Marketing Services President Genevieve argues for greater fragmentation of identifiers as the best path to herd immunity against future advertising disruptions. Instead of driving marketers to a single solution, she says Experian is focused […]
Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by Engine Media Exchange. You know you’re a good marketer when you can convince a four-year-old that broccoli is a treat. Although Rupen Desai […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. InfoSum is a company to watch. The five-year-old data services business enables onboarding, the development of new identity solutions and other use cases with a focus on privacy and data security. In this episode, President Lauren Wetzel talks […]
Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by ENGINE Media Exchange. NBCUniversal has aggressively developed technologies designed to help advertisers reach out to audiences across all platforms even before the 2020 […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. The fight against ad fraud is not over, but progress has been made, says Michael Tiffany, president and co-founder of bot detection and cybersecurity company White Ops. For example, back in the day, around 2012 through 2014, purchasing […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. In its early days, programmatic buying was mostly used by ad networks. These companies packaged media supply for agency buyers as a line item on their plans, offering more efficient access to publisher audiences. Later, those agency buyers […]
Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. With almost a year of the pandemic under our belt (ugh), brands have figured out a way forward. In many cases, […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Our guest this week, Manu Mathew, got in on the ground floor of multi-touch attribution (MTA) when he founded Visual IQ. The MTA company rose with the programmatic tide before being acquired by Nielsen in 2017. The category […]
Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. When the global pandemic shut down the world, ecommerce and streaming video surged. Amazon plays prominently in both spaces. But with […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. AdExchanger readers may recall the story of AdFin, which set out to build a Bloomberg terminal-style dashboard for advertising that pipes in log-level data to offer clients a holistic view of their supply chain. AdFin tried to serve […]
Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. LiveRamp CEO Scott Howe has a unique view of the advertising industry’s crossroads. The company is one of the key tech […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. MediaMath has finished phase one of its SOURCE product – AKA “the industry’s first fully-transparent supply chain,” in the words of CEO Joe Zawadzki. To assemble SOURCE, MediaMath obtained buy-in from a large group of SSPs, publishers, brand […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Publishers enter 2021 in a position of strength, but only if they can overcome the data disadvantages that created their long self-inflicted servitude to big tech companies. This week’s guest on AdExchanger Talks, Quantast VP of product management […]
When Reader’s Digest Association rebranded to Trusted Media Brands in 2014, a reporter commented to CEO and president Bonnie Kintzer at the time that “it’s not a sexy name.” “And I said, ‘Thank you, we’re not a sexy company,” Kintzer jokes in this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks. The rebrand, though, helped kickstart an era […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. This week on AdExchanger Talks, Insider Inc’s publisher and CRO Pete Spande talks about the shifting revenue mix at his company, which owns Business Insider, Morning Brew and Insider Intelligence. Among other topics, he predicts the likely revenue […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. PubMatic raised $118 million in its public offering on Wednesday, significantly more than the $75 million it hoped to rake in in its November S1 filing. After a long period of investor disdain, are the good vibes back […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. GumGum is one of the handful of companies that have muddled along for years in the unsexy backwaters of contextual advertising, alongside competitors such as Peer39, Oracle-owned Grapeshot and Zefr. Over the last eight to 10 years, “The […]
When Lara Vandenberg launched Publicist earlier this year, things didn’t go as planned. She had returned to her native Australia to weather the coronavirus pandemic, and was working nights in order to collaborate with colleagues in New York. On top of that, she was sick with COVID herself. But launch she did, and she has […]
Zeta Global has hoovered up a lot of ad tech over the last two years, acquiring Sizmek’s DSP, Rocket Fuel’s DMP, IgnitionOne’s DSPand PlaceIQ’s managed media business. The spree was a departure for the 12-year-old marketing cloud, traditionally known for its CRM and data solutions. How’s the rollup strategy working out? CEO David Steinberg joins […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. This week on AdExchanger Talks, Advertiser Perceptions VP of Business Intelligence Lauren Fisher walks us through her company’s recent study on identity resolution solutions, sharing insights gleaned from more than 300 advertisers, marketers and agencies in the United […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Celtra is a DCO OG. The company, founded in 2016, has been in the dynamic creative optimization business for nearly 15 years. But last year, Celtra stopped classifying itself as a DCO provider and embraced a new category: […]
