Marketers want integrated analytics solutions – a trend clearly demonstrated by the diversity of the players populating Gartner’s most recent “Magic Quadrant for Digital Marketing Analytics,” released Monday. Adobe unsurprisingly took the lead, with SAS and Google trailing right behind. But in a sign of where the market is headed, attribution companies like Visual IQ also […]
DataLab USA, a boutique analytics firm that works mostly with financial services and insurance companies, is betting on advancing addressable TV through customized algorithms. “Our role in the data world is to aggregate all the aggregators,” explained Alex Aigner, DataLab Digital’s COO. “We’ve commoditized how we build custom algorithms. Whether those algorithms are used for […]
Drawbridge has measurement on the mind. The probabilistic cross-device platform rolled out new reporting functionality Tuesday designed to peel away a few more layers of the attribution onion, including reporting around multitouch and cross-device path to conversion. Rather than giving each ad equal weight, Drawbridge is instituting time-weighted attribution on a sliding scale, in which […]
Analytics giant comScore is looking to bolster the bid. The company announced Tuesday that it has acquired Proximic, a company whose pre-bid solution comScore plans to use to support its validated Campaign Essentials and Media Metrix products. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Proximic’s technology is centered on real-time contextual, rather than semantic, analysis at […]
The industry appears to be inching slowly but surely toward advertising metrics and pricing models that better reflect reality. Twitter, for example, recently nixed timeline views – the number of times users refresh their feed – as a measure of engagement on its platform. Peter Stabler, senior analyst at Wells Fargo Securities, commended the decision […]
MarketShare has acquired DataSong, a San Francisco-based marketing analytics startup that catered to omnichannel retailers like Neiman Marcus and Williams-Sonoma. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. MarketShare, which creates tools for marketers, agencies and media companies to assess business performance, will also roll out the MarketShare DecisionCloud, a marketing analytics, attribution, planning and execution platform. […]
Facebook is working with a dozen mobile ad networks to better track installs beyond mobile media it directly controls. Millennial Media, InMobi and AppLovin are among the networks to sign on for the beta program, but Facebook’s biggest competitors predictably aren’t playing along. The feature is part of a product called Analytics for Apps that […]
At Industry Preview 2015, a group of analytics pros discussed what attribution looks like in 2015 in this panel led by Gartner’s Martin Kihn. Participants included: Anush Prabhu, Chief Channel Planning & Investment Officer, Deutsch NY Jon Vein Co-founder & CEO, MarketShare Michael Wexler, Director, Digital Insights and Marketing Effectiveness, Citi Sunny Youn, Director, Digital Media Analytics, Epsilon Check […]
Just because someone didn’t click on an ad doesn’t mean that ad didn’t have an effect. Facebook has been beating that drum for quite some time now with the release of a variety of tools aimed at getting nearer to true multitouch attribution and effectively measuring the connection between online media and offline sales, including […]
comScore is making a foray into the world of inventory quality analysis. The measurement company, known for its validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) product and Media Metrix planning tool, announced Thursday that it’s going to make viewability, non-human traffic certifications and publisher rankings available via programmatic trading platforms with the launch of what it’s calling “Trust […]
The attribution space heated up this year. First Google snapped up Adometry, then AOL grabbed Convertro. Not to be left out, Rakuten bought DC Storm. Everybody wants a solution to the attribution problem – but attribution is more than just another shiny object. “The marketer’s world has never been more fragmented – from channels to possibilities […]
What’s better than first-party shopper data? First-party shopper data paired with predictive analytics. That’s the thinking behind Adroit Digital’s acquisition of Arcametrics, a small North Carolina-based company whose technology uses predictive modeling to create lookalike audiences based on high-quality customers. Adroit declined to share details of the deal, including price, although company president Jacob Ross […]
Nielsen and Adobe revealed a partnership Tuesday designed to combine Nielsen’s digital audience measurement products with Adobe Analytics and Adobe Primetime, the company’s platform for online TV delivery and monetization, making both available to joint Nielsen/Adobe clients through Adobe Marketing Cloud. The result is Digital Content Ratings (DCR), a cross-platform census-based metric that aims to do for digital […]
Plenty of companies offer social analytics, but the industry seems to lack a unified definition of what constitutes social native marketing and how best to measure sponsored content on social channels. And according to analytics company Socialbaker’s CEO and co-founder, Jan Rezab, all content is going to move to social channels one way or another. In […]
Rather than an isolated channel, programmatic is a means to an end – and it all starts with measurement between devices and across channels. And from measurement comes revenue. “The whole cross-device measurement question is about understanding the broader marketing goal, but we also all know that if it’s not measured, it’s not valued,” said […]
Pinterest has the best data among the social platforms that have yet to embrace ads in a big way. It’s often said the company, like Google, is inherently intent-based, exposing potential future purchases each time a user “pins” the wrap skirt or maple countertop her heart desires. Today Pinterest is creating more granularity around user interactions with […]
Metamarkets founder and CEO Mike Driscoll is wary of describing his company’s technology as a “Bloomberg Terminal” for online advertising. Though it’s a shorthand used by Khosla Ventures, a Metamarkets investor, Driscoll steps cautiously around it. “It’s not our place to analogize our products and services,” he said. “It’s a seductive metaphor, but it was […]
Adobe has tweaked its approach to attribution, removing out-of-view ads from its attribution model in an effort dubbed “Project Iceberg.” The project has allowed the company to analyze the viewability of sequences of ads served to individual users, as part of its larger evaluation of how well those ads drove subscriptions for its Creative Cloud product […]
AdFin co-founder Jeanne Houweling has moved on from her position as the digital advertising analytics firm’s CEO for “personal reasons,” a move confirmed by company co-founder and CTO Milosz Tansky. Tansky, who’s operating as interim CEO, said Houweling will continue her involvement with AdFin on the advisory board. “Outside of that we’re just as focused […]
After nine months of testing with beta clients such as Citi, Fox Sports and Visa, marketing intelligence software developer Origami Logic has launched a product that aims to help marketing organizations get a better handle on cross-channel performance. At the heart of the technology is a “Marketing Graph” search functionality, designed to let marketers query […]
Forrester Research’s Wave report on Web analytics providers positioned Adobe Analytics Premium as the clear winner. The report prioritized vendors’ ability to serve enterprise clients. Lagging just behind Adobe in the “leader” category were IBM, Webtrends and AT Internet. Google was a “strong performer” and SAS Institute was a “contender.” No vendors were classified as […]
This is the first in a series on what’s broken in the analytics space. Part one deals with data ownership, part two will address technology and part three will focus on people and processes. Like a sports car missing a few key parts, marketing metrics look tantalizingly complete from an outsider’s perspective. But ad tech […]
Advertising intelligence provider Integral Ad Science has acquired Simplytics, a UK-based mobile ad server and analytics platform. The deal brings mobile verification capabilities for in-app and mobile Web campaigns to Integral’s existing verification services for video and display ads. “We’re very excited because Simplytics is complementary to what we do and once we add our fraud […]
While publishers have been getting deeper into the integrated marketing business, female-focused celebrity news and pop culture media platform PopSugar is trying to go one step further by starting an analytics business. PopSugar Insights’ ambition is to become a daily repository of data and trend analysis of women 18-40, the company’s core audience, said Rob […]
As publishers have become more comfortable with the idea of programmatic direct for their online sales, sell-side-focused analytics provider Umbel is trying to get sellers to expand that comfort zone to include audience targeting around offline media and live events. The 2-year-old Austin, Texas, startup’s pitch to publishers has rested on the idea that they […]
Digital analytics operator AdFin was officially launched this September with the promise of serving as neutral provider of real-time online ad prices across the entire ad exchange marketplace. The company is now moving to cover direct sold inventory as part of its broader expansion plans. The company raised $6 million out of the gate and […]
While publishers generally concede that brand advertisers will pay higher CPMs for “in-view” ads, there’s less acceptance around the different tools, like Nielsen’s Online Campaign Ratings or comScore’s Validated Campaign Ratings (vCE), designed to determine viewability. The big problem is that the viewability solutions have so far tended to focus on the advertisers, leaving publishers […]
Last summer, analysts and industry players predicted viewability would become the standard metric for display branding performance. But for Jonah Goodhart, CEO of analytics services provider Moat, viewability is a starting point to determine the value of a display placement instead of the tool that will kill the clickthrough. “Two-thirds of all the world’s ad […]
After several months in beta, Nielsen is finishing its decadelong project to combine audience measurement of TV, online and mobile with its Digital Program Ratings (DPR). The company is winding down a pilot test, running since May, with nine major clients: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CW, A&E, Discovery, Univision and AOL. DPR’s public debut next […]
A significant update to Adobe’s Analytics suite seems almost on cue from Google, which recently formalized data-driven attribution modeling for Analytics Premium users. One new feature, Anomaly Detection, helps users identify statistical anomalies in their marketing data — useful for incident detection or to expose new areas of opportunity. “The more advanced feature we’re announcing […]
