BuzzFeed, the ultrapopular purveyor of listicles and viral content, began with a question: “What does it take for something to spread on traditional media without the cost structure associated with traditional media?” The publisher’s CEO and founder, Jonah Peretti, recalled onstage at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview last week the way the company originated as “almost a […]
Although vertical ad network Precision Health Media has frequently altered itself during its six years of operation, its rebrand into PageScience to expand its contextual ad targeting categories (like consumer electronics, finance and home improvement) is its most significant pivot to date. PageScience also hopes its new name better reflects the work the company has […]
Japanese Internet and ecommerce company Rakuten, which has steadily built its Rakuten Marketing business through acquisition, has hired Jessica Joines as CMO and debuted an attribution tool called “Cadence.” “Cadence is the product that links all of our media channel services together,” commented Joines. “It’s a single point of entry and our clients can see […]
During Yahoo’s Q4 2013 earnings call Wednesday, CEO Marissa Mayer said the company intended to focus next year on mobile, social, video and native, and explained why former COO Henrique de Castro will not be replaced. Display advertising, excluding traffic acquisition costs, was $491 million, down 6% compared to $520 million for Q4 of 2012. […]
AppNexus has laid off half its 44 part-time auditors as the company looks to streamline its operations in that area. The auditing department is responsible for hundreds of thousands of creative executions and pieces of inventory that run through AppNexus’ system. The team was constructed of a mix of full- and part-time auditors and contractors […]
Mobile and the rise of programmatic media buying are where two international priorities for publishers and marketers meet, according to global industry experts. During the “Marketing Tech Through the Global Lens” panel moderated by Constellation Research Analyst Ray Wang at Industry Preview 2014 on Tuesday, Jay Stevens, GM for international at online advertising technology company […]
During a Q&A with AdExchanger’s Director of Research Joanna O’Connell at the Industry Preview 2014 conference, interactive agency veteran and AOL Networks CEO Bob Lord discussed AOL’s moves into programmatic, its emphasis on video through marketplace provider Adap.tv, the importance of cross-device advertising and the need to make ad tech in general less confusing and […]
Ad exchange operator PulsePoint is trying to find a middle ground between private exchanges, which often require more scale than smaller publishers can manage, and real-time bidding (RTB) platforms, which tend to attract more performance marketers than brand campaigns. In its quest, PulsePoint began its partnership late last year with demand-side platform (DSP) MediaMath to […]
Fred McIntyre, CEO of social marketing platform Awe.sm, has noticed that while the present-day patterns of media consumption are exciting, they also pose challenges to the DNA of cost planning for publishers and marketers. “If you look at media consumption across most categories in television, radio, online and social, they’re going up in each category,” […]
Yahoo Chief Operating Officer Henrique De Castro has been canned, according to a regulatory filing. Re/code’s Kara Swisher reported on the story first. De Castro’s departure date is Jan. 16. A former Googler, De Castro is credited by industry insiders with helping to build Google’s display ad business and making YouTube profitable. De Castro joined […]
