IBM has big digital marketing dreams. Last spring, those dreams warranted a $100 million commitment to future marketing investments. Wednesday saw the latest development, when IBM hooked its own marketing solutions into various Facebook ad products including the CRM matching program Custom Audiences to enable things like lookalike modeling. IBM also is expanding its Digital […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Catherine Oddenino, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. In recent conversations with marketers and technology providers for an upcoming AdExchanger Research report on content marketing, several have emphasized the ability to quickly respond to cultural events as a top […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Reddit’s O&O The Verge reports that Reddit is dipping into original video, where it can “control the conversation around the marketing and also tap into more lucrative advertising formats.” The videos will initially focus on the company’s AMA brand, the best loved of Reddit’s […]
Google on Wednesday released research conducted in partnership with teams at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and other institutions that details the harm ad injections from toolbars create for consumers, publishers and advertisers. Google and its university partners identified millions of cases of ad injections by tracking the pipeline of users who have foreign software […]
Facebook’s mobile ad network seems to be a hit with developers. In the six months since it rolled out Audience Network globally, the number of apps participating has grown by a factor of five, a big jump even from Q4 2014 when the number had grown 3x. Basically, app developers are flocking to Facebook. A […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Kathy Leake, CEO at Qualia. As cross-screen marketing continues to evolve, the industry’s approach to the underlying data science also will mature. The amount of time consumers spend per platform […]
The joke is that France’s socialist roots made it easy for publisher coalitions to spring up in the country. La Place Media led the way, three years ago, followed by Audience Square in December 2012. But now the idea of cooperation among former competitors is spreading. In recent weeks, AdExchanger profiled coalitions in the UK […]
An attention economy solves for viewability. That’s the thinking at real-time analytics firm Chartbeat, which announced $15.5 million in Series C cash on Wednesday, bringing the company’s total funding to $31 million. The bulk of the round, led by Harmony Partners, with participation from DFJ, Index Ventures and Digital Garage, will go toward building products […]
Nielsen unveiled a multitouch attribution (MTA) system Wednesday designed to help marketers optimize spend across all channels, from digital to television, using both Nielsen and marketer data. Nielsen selected Krux as its data-management platform (DMP) partner to house and combine disparate data sources, according to Nielsen global President Steve Hasker. Krux can combine Nielsen data […]
Mobile app analytics company App Annie is beefing up its Usage Intelligence product with the acquisition of mobile measurement firm Mobidia. Although terms of the deal, unveiled Wednesday, were not disclosed, App Annie CEO Bertrand Schmitt told AdExchanger it was a mixture of cash and equity. Mobidia will help App Annie developer and publishers “build a […]
