Marketers are looking for better methods to assign value across the entire customer journey and Google appears to be answering the call. Today, building on its Multichannel Funnels and Attribution Model Comparison tools for Google Analytics, Google has rolled out Data-Driven Attribution globally for Google Analytics Premium customers. Bill Kee, product manager for attribution at […]
It’s a frenzied IPO season in the ad tech space. Despite the tepid reaction of investors to public offerings by Tremor and YuMe, companies like Rocket Fuel aren’t showing signs of cold feet. True, it helps to have a set of impressive financials, which Rocket Fuel submitted to the SEC last week. The Redwood City, […]
Google is ramping up its focus on online gaming by bringing its video ad-skipping tool TrueView to the space. In doing so, Google is making good on a promise Susan Wojcicki, SVP of advertising, made back in February at the IAB Annual Meeting to expand the use of TrueView, which the company sees as a […]
Groupon’s launch today of a global affiliate marketing Groupon Partner Network (GPN) illustrates the company’s plans to own a lion’s share of the local ad market. It also puts more distance between Groupon and its daily deals heritage. The Partner Network is part of Groupon’s goal “to provide a comprehensive, effective and large-scale marketing platform for […]
GroupM has lowered its global ad spending forecast for the second year running. The media investment arm of WPP cited Eurozone weakness as the main reason why it expects 2013 ad growth of 3.4%, instead of the 4.5% it previously predicted. Argentine currency volatility, a wobbly Japan and Egypt’s chaos were secondary reasons. The five […]
Somehwhere there may be a business school class enjoying this. It’s a pretty simple construct – when commoditization occurs, the increased competition leads to eroding margins for an entire swath of companies. And then the games begin. Business case in point is today’s nexus of media and ad tech businesses – whether it’s Omnicom-Publicis, Tremor […]
Rakuten – owner of affiliate giant Linkshare and the Mediaforge retargeting platform — is determined to grab a wider share of digital marketing spend. The Japanese ecommerce player has agreed to buy PopShops, a Seattle-based provider of pipes for live product-data feeds. PopShops is primarily used by affiliate publishers as a means to obtain up-to-the-minute […]
Aside from the big news that AOL was acquiring video-ad marketplace Adap.tv to further its programmatic goals, the portal reported its Q2 earnings, which showed continued strides on its display business. While the single-digit gains made during the period may not seem too exciting, they do compare favorably with the recent earnings from Yahoo and […]
Having just passed its seven-year anniversary, Seattle-based AdReady and its founder and CEO, Aaron Finn, have seen their share of changes. For a time the company, which offers a self-serve ad platform with dynamic creative optimization capabilities, dove hard at the real-time bidding and demand-side platform trend, led by former CEO Karl Siebrecht, who took over […]
Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford graduate student who has been a highly vocal advocate for consumer privacy, has resigned from the Tracking Protection Working Group, which is charged with setting the browser spec for a “Do Not Track” mechanism. In an email delivered yesterday afternoon to members of the Working Group, Mayer writes, “We do not […]
Creating a futures marketplace is easier said than done, but over the years, the TV upfront model has been adopted and refined by parts of the ad industry in a multitude of ways. The latest comes from AOL, which this past week unveiled a plan to hold a “Programmatic Upfront” in September. The AOL event […]
Barely two months after promoting its video content among the various other digital NewFront presentations, AOL is now planning a “Programmatic Upfront” for September. As we reported earlier today, CEO Tim Armstrong wants to position AOL as the antidote to the long chain of ad technology vendors that serve as the pipes connecting marketers’ online […]
Flexing his salesmanship skills, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced to a group of reporters last night in New York City that his company would undertake its “first ever Programmatic Upfront event” on September 23, which is to coincide with the beginning of Advertising Week festivities in New York. Seated to Armstrong’s left during the announcement […]
The growing demand for personalized, “real-time marketing” (think: the doings of Oreo and its digital agency 360i that resulted in “Dunk in the Dark” during the Super Bowl), is one of the forces underpinning the push toward unifying the “human” and “technological” elements of the programmatic equation. AOL’s earlier announcement of a new strategic partnership […]
Bob Lord is leaving his twin posts as Global CEO of Razorfish and CEO of Publicis Groupe’s Digital Technologies Division to take on the role of CEO of AOL Networks, a post that has been vacant since April when former head Ned Brody exited in April for Yahoo, pending his non-compete. However, Lord, who joined […]
After the stock market closed today, Google reported its results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2013. The revenue numbers: “Google Revenues (advertising and other) – Google revenues were $13.11 billion, or 93% of consolidated revenues, in the second quarter of 2013, representing a 20% increase over second quarter 2012 revenues of $10.96 billion.” […]
Retail marketers are focusing most of their digital marketing efforts on paid search and email, according to new findings from Forrester Research and Shop.org’s joint State of Retailing Online 2013: Marketing and Merchandising report, released today. Mobile optimization, unsurprisingly, is another area of interest as more commerce companies look to the mobile device as a vessel […]
Yahoo today reported a 1% decline in ex-TAC revenue year-over-year of $1,071 million in the second quarter. See the release. And get the earnings slides (PDF). For earnings number lovers, Yahoo came in at Wall Street’s projected numbers: “GAAP net earnings per diluted share was $0.30 in the second quarter of 2013, compared to $0.18 in […]
After a year existing as a retargeting API feature within ad-exchange operator AppNexus’ system of technology tools, AdExtent says it is launching an independent version of its retargeting offering with a particular focus of augmenting Demand Side Platforms (DSPs) own solutions. In addition to AppNexus, the company is working with MediaMath, Turn and Google’s DoubleClick […]
Performance marketing company CPX Interactive announced today that it has hired former AudienceScience CEO Jeff Hirsch as the company’s chief marketing officer. With deep experience in the world of advertising networks, including stops at ValueClick, Fastclick and, most recently, Underdog Media, Hirsch will join a company known for its direct-response advertising focus. As he prepares […]
Internet business models have been turned upside down and ad-tech is no exception remarked Youssef Squali, global head of Internet media equity research for Cantor Fitzgerald, during a speech at today’s IAB Advertising Technology Marketplace in New York City. As a result, he sees this disruption enabling faster, cheaper processes and ultimately, better pricing – […]
With Tremor Video taking its video-advertising technology company to the public markets this week – and YuMe preparing to follow suit — AdExchanger reached out to ad-tech industry veteran Dave Morgan to discuss the implications. Morgan, who founded TACODA and Real Media, has experienced the whims of the public markets. To be sure, Morgan has an interest […]
“Twitter is in many respects the most powerful ad tech company in the world, just because of their ability to keep their finger on the pulse of where the conversation is right now. If you’re a brand and you want to enter the conversation, Twitter is obviously ground zero to that. The power they wield […]
As the debate over the intersection of consumer privacy and online advertising rages, a recent announcement that browser maker Mozilla would work with Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society to create a “cookie clearinghouse” appears to have poured more fuel on the fire. Debuted by Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich’s blog on June 19, and then reiterated in […]
Centro is bringing mobile and tablet ad inventory to its programmatic display ad serving system, called Brand Exchange. Publishers and agency trading desks AdExchanger spoke with view the offering as a way to further unlock the largely untapped local ad market. While mobile and tablet usage is growing, it’s still a mere fraction of the […]
Disagreements continue between the advertising industry and privacy advocates as advertisers point to potential weaknesses in the “Cookie Clearinghouse” project that Mozilla, maker of the Firefox browser, and the Stanford Center for Internet and Society’s have unveiled. The Cookie Clearinghouse promises to create two lists of domains: one for those that browsers would permit to […]
After stints running TV media sales software INVISION and heading corporate development for ad exchange operator AppNexus, former AOL executive Lynda Clarizio is joining investment bank Berenson & Co. to help expand its digital media dealmaking portfolio. Read the release. The post puts Clarizio on the other side of the M&A table from her early […]
WPP Group digital agency Possible hopes to bulk up its targeting and performance-based advertising abilities to bridge earned and paid media channels by partnering with Google’s social technology tool, Wildfire. Read the release. Jason Burby, Possible’s chief performance marketing officer, cited Wildfire’s recent integrations with Google Analytics and DoubleClick as the chief reasons the agency […]
Today in Cannes, Tumblr CEO David Karp sat down with me to discuss his views on advertising and the work Tumblr and Yahoo are doing there. “They’ve got more than a decade of real powerful ad tech under their belt,” he said. “This is very likely an opportunity for us to move much faster to […]
Web publishers using Google’s AdSense program will get new ad formats and better tools for optimizing ads on their sites in coming months and years, Google’s ad chief promised Monday. Susan Wojcicki, Google’s senior vice president of advertising and commerce, hinted at the improvements during a live video Google Hangout on Tuesday celebrating the official […]
