“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 Richy Glassberg, CEO and co-founder of SafeGuard Privacy. These past few years have seen a whirlwind of change – and not a few upheavals. So business leaders can be forgiven […]
The Coca-Cola Of Accounts WPP won the pitch of the year: Coca-Cola’s media, creative and data agency business. The new account is “unparalleled in our industry in terms of breadth and depth of capabilities,” said WPP CEO Mark Read in a release. The fusion of creative, media and mar tech is indicative of a trend […]
Despite Apple’s ATT curveball, Zynga is having its best revenue and audience growth year since the company was founded in 2007. The social game developer, whose titles include Words With Friends and the FarmVille franchise, grew its advertising business 99% year-over-year in the third quarter to $134 million. Total quarterly revenue was $705 million, a […]
The twentieth century saw very little disruption for category-leading brands. Del Monte fruit, Nabisco biscuits, Gold Medal flour, Sherwin-Williams paint, Gillette razors, Lipton tea, Ivory soap – across practically every consumer business, America’s top brands in 1923 were the same category leaders 60 years later. But nearly one century on, those rankings are starting to […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Ken Harlan, founder and CEO, MobileFuse. CTV is taking center stage as the digital media industry’s next frontier. But there’s still quite a bit of in-market confusion around best buying practices, realities of fraud and […]
IAB Europe; IAB You’re Up The IAB Europe published a blog post on Friday with the news that the Belgian data protection authority (the APD) will find the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF), the industry mechanism for conveying consent signals in the bidstream, to be in breach of GDPR. The decision hinges on the IAB […]
Pokémon Oreos, limited edition Sour Patch Kids, Heinz Halloween outfits and McDonald’s BTS meals. As brands go all-in on ecommerce and digital data, there’s been a notable recent uptick in their efforts to acquire first-party ecom data by dangling personalized or limited-edition products. Savvy kids might even call them thirsty, even as they enter their […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Randi Stipes, CMO of IBM Watson Advertising and Weather. As marketers, we are tasked with amplifying a brand’s vision and echoing its core values to the world – values that today most often include […]
“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 Dmitri Kazanski, head of product for North America at MGID. Last click is the most commonly used attribution. Why? Because it’s very simple – but it’s also clearly flawed. A […]
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The Fortresses Of Anti-Solitude It’s worth reading at length, but a Q&A between Ben Thompson of Stratechery and Eric Seufert, writer of Mobile Dev Memo, elaborates on platform advertising dynamics, particularly for self-attributing networks like Facebook, Snapchat and Apple. Will ATT and Apple’s privacy policies prove more damaging than expected to platforms like Facebook or […]
The direct-to-consumer cookware company Made In noticed its social media dashboards went a bit screwy after Apple tightened its privacy controls this year. Luckily, Made In uses all of its own dashboards – which didn’t go haywire – and tracks identity changes closely, CEO Chip Malt shares as special guest on this week’s The Big […]
By Eran Udassin, VP of product and operations at Rivr This article is sponsored by Rivr. Programmatic bidding should be efficient and effective – especially RTB. But over time, the tools we use to execute and measure programmatic have become fragmented, and inefficiencies and waste seeped between the cracks. This has led to many issues, […]
Nielsen’s panel woes mean alternative measurement providers are having their moment. “We’re getting a lot of inbounds,” said Joanna Drews, CEO and co-founder of HyphaMetrics, a measurement startup that launched last year and now has a panel that’s working to scale to 5,000 homes and roughly 15,000 devices. But the recent wave of interest in […]
The Power Player ID When Google said earlier this year that it wouldn’t support email-based identifiers, it also made a concession to publishers called publisher-provided IDs (PPIDs). Now, PPIDs – which are primarily based on emails collected by publishers – will be available to Google DV360 advertisers. That’s a big advantage for DV360, but Google […]
Gartner’s fourth annual Magic Quadrant for buy-side ad tech in a nutshell: Keep your eye on Amazon. Amazon is ascending into the stratosphere, where it’s now rubbing shoulders in the “leader” category alongside Google and The Trade Desk. Rounding out the leader quadrant you’ll find Adobe, Amobee, Adform and Mediaocean. MediaMath, Criteo, Verizon Media (ahem, […]
“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 Beth Daly, political advertising director for Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable. With the tumultuous 2020 election behind us, some may say we are currently in an “off […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Declan Owens, digital analytics expert at Piano. As the deprecation of third-party cookies looms, the vision of first-party data as the backbone of advertising is clearer than ever. But before they make the switch, […]
A Commanding Performance Google is expanding Performance Max, a product introduced last year that buys across YouTube, Maps, Search, Gmail, Google’s display network and Discover, which includes the product discovery and shopping feed. Check out the blog post. As part of the move, Google Local Marketing campaigns and Smart Shopping, a retail-sponsored product solution, will […]
“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 by Nate Woodman, founder of independent consulting firm Proof. AdExchanger readers should be familiar with the term “weaponized privacy.” The idea explains the primary effect of Big Tech raising the walls of their […]
By Oz Etzioni, CEO of Clinch This article is sponsored by Clinch. What has the advertising industry been doing for the last 25 years if not constantly changing? And with every great evolution, there’s always more change ahead. Ever since ad tech became a driving force in the industry, almost all players have touted their […]
Change is the law of life – and it’s on Kathryn Spaeth’s daily to-do list. As the newly appointed global chief transformation officer at WPP agency Wavemaker, Spaeth is bringing her experience from the consulting world at Accenture to bear in agency land. The agency model must evolve along with technology and consumer behavior. Plus, agencies, […]
Programmatic and privacy don’t have to be mutually exclusive, even though they’re often treated that way, according to Joe Root, CEO and co-founder of London-based publisher technology startup Permutive. “A privacy-first web is about removing the data leakage that’s inherent in programmatic,” Root said. Permutive aims to stop that leakage with technology infrastructure to preserve […]
“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 Abhishek Shrivastava, senior director of product at LinkedIn. Recently, I’ve heard from many in the marketing community that they feel a sense of unease. Consumer privacy is changing the game, […]
Screen Dreams Has social media outgrown the phone? YouTube may be the biggest player in streaming TV, but other social platforms are eager to follow, spurred on by ecommerce dollars. Late last week, Pinterest announced Pinterest TV, a content app that can be downloaded to Apple or Android TV systems. It’s a natural next step […]
The Trade Desk spent the last year and a half signing up a host of partners to support the Unified ID 2.0 program – but none of that means much without getting brand marketers involved. Most of UID2’s supporters so far have been ad tech companies and online publishers, which makes sense. Ad tech players don’t […]
A single Media Rating Council audit can take thousands of man hours and cost tens of thousands of dollars depending on a vendor’s size and the complexity of its offering. It’s a long and rigorous process – which is why the MRC doesn’t take suspending or withdrawing a company’s seal of approval lightly, said George […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jane Clarke, managing director and CEO at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM). With the ever-increasing availability of larger and more granular media exposure data sets, one of the primary questions in cross-platform […]
The Value Of Loyalty Retailers are all-in on loyalty programs – which means earmarking serious growth marketing budgets to acquire new subscribers or members. These campaigns typically target regular or high-spending customers who aren’t already part of the loyalty program. That makes intuitive sense for consumers and marketers alike … right? That’s the question at the […]
The business practices of both Facebook and Google came to light in unflattering ways over the past week. Last Friday, a judge unsealed the 173-page antitrust complaint against Google – and there was a lot of interesting info underneath those black squares. Many of the details allege that Google manipulated the auction to ensure market share […]
