The Washington Post’s former chief revenue officer, Jed Hartman, has landed at Channel Factory, which uses video AI to help brands curate their YouTube buys for better brand safety and contextual relevance. For Hartman – whose departure from the Post was left unexplained – the new role as chief commercial and strategy officer fulfills a […]
Footwear brand ASICS is running out of patience with shoddy viewability measurement. “People still continue to buy nonviewable impressions – it’s just crazy,” said Philip Bryant, senior manager of media at ASICS Digital, a subsidiary of the ASICS corporation that’s focused on building, testing and implementing digital technologies for use across the larger org. One of […]
Unlike competing browsers like Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome has to strengthen user privacy without undermining online advertising. Chrome walked that razor’s edge when it revealed plans to create a “privacy sandbox” that will increase protections to user privacy without breaking programmatic advertising that funds publisher content. To bolster its position, Google claimed […]
The IAB Tech Lab and IAB Europe on Tuesday released the second version of the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), the collaborative industry solution for conducting targeted advertising in compliance with GDPR. Google has committed to its long-awaited integration with the framework by the end of Q1 2020. The TCF initially was a feature included […]
Apple shed light on its policy on cross-site tracking prevention last week and, if you read between the lines (and use a magnifying glass), it’s leaving the door slightly cracked on a potential workaround for certain tracking-related use cases. The document, posted on Wednesday, is designed to make plain, if it wasn’t already, Apple’s intentions […]
Two days after LinkedIn announced its Audience Engagement API, Omnicom has released a product built around it – an analytics tool called “Professional Audiences.” Omnicom released its B2B analytics tool Thursday, and it’s designed to help creative, business development and media teams generate insights for campaigns or pitches, said Slavi Samardzija, global CEO of Annalect, […]
In the race to be the open internet’s default cookie-based advertising ID, The Trade Desk has jumped out to an early head start. The Trade Desk has allowed other ad tech companies to freely sync with its cookie pool for years, and last year it fully commercialized that product with the launch of the unified […]
GumGum, the image recognition tech startup, announced two C-level appointments on Monday as the company sharpens its focus on contextual advertising technology. Patrick Gildea, the former CFO of Gracenote, has joined GumGum as financial chief, and Ben Plomion was promoted to chief growth officer. Ad tech companies have seized on contextual targeting largely because audience […]
Late last year, analysts questioned whether The Trade Desk could keep pace with runaway growth forecasts, after it rocketed from a $1 billion company in 2016 to $6 billion. Less than a year later, The Trade Desk continues to beat expectations. Its Q2 revenue grew by 42% year over year to $159.9 million, according to […]
Nike continues to build out its digital platforms. On Wednesday, the athletic apparel giant revealed it had purchased the analytics startup Celect for an undisclosed price. Read the release. Celect marks Nike’s second analytics acquisition, following its 2018 purchase of customer analytics startup Zodiac Metrics, which was folded into Nike’s data science group, now led […]
