Members of a key online standards body are hashing out what to do about Microsoft’s controversial decision to ship Internet Explorer 10 with the Do-Not-Track setting turned “on” by default. On a conference call yesterday, representatives of three member companies in the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) “tracking protection” working group argued forcefully that Microsoft’s […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Michael Katz, VP II, Optimization & Analytic at Yahoo! and former CEO of interclick, a Yahoo! company. Data is everywhere. There are iconic ecosystem slides dedicated to it. Billions […]
Building digital consumer products for clients – in contrast to marketing campaigns – is a growing discipline for agencies, but they have to get the data right. That means embracing analytics and A/B testing from the outset; tapping customer databases; and using targeted ads to spread awareness among both existing customers and prospects. “Clients are […]
Ilya Lichtenstein is Co-Founder of Mixrank, an online advertising, competitive data and analytics company. Lichtenstein discussed his company’s offering last week with AdExchanger as well as today’s release of a new API (read more) designed to “enable any enterprise customer complete access to our entire dataset of historical data going back nine months or so […]
The following is from Rachel Whetstone, SVP of Communications and Policy at Google and is in response to today’s claim by Microsoft that Google had bypassed IE privacy settings. Microsoft omitted important information from its blog post today. Microsoft uses a “self-declaration” protocol (known as “P3P”) dating from 2002 under which Microsoft asks websites […]
Gordon Meyer is CEO and David Dowhan is President of TruSignal, an online advertising targeting company. TruSignal is a sister company to eBureau, from which it was spun out in January. Read the release. AdExchanger: When was it that you recognized that eBureau needed to add something that focused on digital media? GORDON MEYER: It […]
The IAB has partnered with Winterberry Group to author a new study on the practices “in data aggregation, management and deployment” called “From Information to Audiences: The Emerging Marketing Data Use Cases.” According to a press release, four different use cases are used as a baseline for discovering how ad targeting data is being implemented […]
Eric Roza is CEO of Datalogix, a company which focuses on integrating database marketing and digital media. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Roza to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of Datalogix today. Click below or scroll down for […]
Today’s mega-retailers sit in a unique position that will prove a critical element to media online and off. They have a store at the corner. Many corners. And that’s because – news flash – humans aren’t going all-digital with an I.V. into a data warehouse. Though we may spend endless hours in our Facebook world […]
Peppa Pig is everywhere. Whether or not you have children, you likely know the little girl pig from the kid’s cartoon show. But the Peppa media franchise is just getting started.
Is TTD forcing agencies to adopt the new Kokai interface despite claims they can still use the interface of their choice? Here’s what we were able to find out.
Product prices and marketing budgets are flip sides of the same coin. But the phase-in effects of tariffs, combined with vicissitudes of global weather and commodity production, challenge that truism.
IAB Tech Lab CEO Anthony Katsur didn’t mince his words when declaring unauthorized generative AI scraping of publisher content “theft, full stop.”
Last week, the DOJ and Google filed their respective witness lists and the exhibit lists for the remedy phase of the ad tech antitrust trial. Lots of familiar faces!
What’s the point of a market research survey that could take weeks, when consumer sentiment is rollercoasting up and down every day? That’s the problem MX8 Labs aims to tackle.
