Media.Monks, S4 Capital’s content, data and media arm, is going big on Salesforce. On Wednesday, Media.Monks merged with Maverick Digital, a 50-person Salesforce consulting and implementation firm with a presence in North America and India. The deal price was not disclosed. Maverick Digital, whose clients include UFC Gym, Mercy Health and the Chicago Blackhawks hockey […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Mike Brooks, SVP of revenue at WeatherBug. Recent analysis from PubMatic highlights two trends that we at WeatherBug have been experiencing firsthand. One, iOS CPMs have dropped over the last two quarters and, two, […]
Will Meta “GIF Up” GIPHY? Facebook parent company Meta is in the hot seat again. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition watchdog, has called on Meta to offload Giphy, the GIF search engine and content animation service it acquired in May 2020, citing multiple anti-competition concerns in a press release. The CMA […]
As the ad tech industry matures, vendor types historically focused on other markets are expanding to meet its needs. Media and advertising, for example, is now Snowflake’s biggest business vertical, and payment solutions provider FastPay is helping publishers and ad tech companies manage reconciliation and accounting gaps between when ad campaigns are served and advertisers […]
When VideoAmp CEO and Founder Ross McCray first started reaching out to investors around seven years ago about his new company, they were less than impressed. “People hated the space,” McCray says on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks. “I would go and pitch our solution about the future and you’d have VCs saying … […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Daniel Elad, chief strategy officer at TheViewPoint. Operating systems have often been overlooked when discussing the fragmented ecosystem of connected TV. But as the hunger for connected TVs grows among consumers, more and more gatekeepers […]
“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 Corey Weiner, CEO of Jun Group. As the ad tech industry shifted in the last five years toward more privacy-conscious advertising, first-party data became the golden child. The pitch was […]
Ads Are There For You Publishers attempting to cut themselves a slice of the commerce pie are running into an unlikely – or maybe not so unlikely – competitor: Google. Seems like everywhere they turn, there’s Google with a new way to penalize them for experimenting with alternative revenue sources. Take BuzzFeed, which has emphasized […]
Roast turkey wasn’t the only thing to gorge on this Thanksgiving weekend. On Friday, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s top antitrust regulator, published a 125-page document outlining the next phase of its ongoing antitrust investigation into Google’s Privacy Sandbox. (You can read the whole shebang here.) The document contains an updated set […]
“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 George Ivie, CEO and executive director at Media Rating Council. Most transactions are predicated on a good-faith promise. Parties agree to exchange goods, services or funds of agreed-upon value with […]
Subscription Conniptions We live in a “subscription economy” now, writes Nieman Labs. You don’t buy the Aladdin DVD; you subscribe to Disney+ “until you die or your card expires.” But as subscriptions become more important business metrics, particularly in news and entertainment, it’s important to be honest about what companies mean when they report subscriber […]
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Many of the shopping behaviors that developed over the past couple of years due to COVID-19 have solidified and appear here to stay. The majority of consumers (56%) say they plan to shop primarily or exclusively online this holiday season, and more than three-quarters say they’ll use in-store pickup services this year as much or […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Roman Garbar, marketing director at Tenjin. While the eyes of the world were recently locked on the rebranding of Facebook to Meta, something with more immediate and concrete implications for the advertising world was happening. […]
Bolt From The Blue Twitter Blue, Twitter’s $3-per-month subscription service, was met with applause this month by digital media and news publishers thrilled to see a tech platform cut them a rev share. Participating publishers offer ad-free articles on Twitter’s in-app browser and earn a share of the Twitter Blue subscription pool in return. The […]
The subscription business has never been easy. But this is perhaps the toughest season ever for subscription-based companies. On the one hand, physical product shortages and ecommerce delivery struggles make digital subscription deals more compelling. Consumer products like Masterclass, Peloton and Audible all sell subscriptions. But those same businesses are among the most keenly affected […]
“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 Allison Schiff, managing editor at AdExchanger. It’s part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team. Everyone knows the difference between first-party data and third-party data, right? First-party data […]
“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 Peri Shamsai, media and entertainment industry lead, NE at Accenture, based on a sales leadership workshop co-run with the Interactive Advertising Bureau. The digital ad ecosystem is undergoing seismic shifts […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Sarah Lewis, global director for CTV at ShowHeroes Group. Once upon a time, CTV was the new kid on the block. But it’s fast becoming an integral part of many advertisers’ video strategy. Now, as […]
Street Appeal Outbrain will acquire Video Intelligence, a contextual targeting startup focused on video and CTV, for $55 million. It’s Outbrain’s first big move since the content recommendation company IPO’d in July. The deal makes sense. Web advertising isn’t dying, despite reports you may have heard. Then again, it’s also not in an impressive growth […]
Nielsen took some kicks while it was down this year, delivered courtesy of rivals happy to capitalize on its MRC dis-accreditation and soured relationships with broadcasters. But big companies can take a few kicks, and still throw a few punches of their own. Nielsen is suing TVision and HyphaMetrics, two panel-based TV measurement startups, for […]
Although privacy and online advertising are often framed as mortal enemies – or at least mutually exclusive – it doesn’t have to be the case, says Lindsey Shepard, CMO of Mozilla, maker of the Firefox browser. “The advertising ecosystem online is fundamentally broken right now – I believe that,” says Shepard (although, you can call her “Shep”). […]
“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 John Byrne, head of product at 7th Minute. Imagine being a brand marketer and having the ability to instantly understand the precise moments on TV that impact your brand (positively […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by David George, CEO of Pixability. Traditional TV is losing customers and advertisers to connected TV (CTV) and digital video, and large brands are asking questions about how they should align their ads with content that […]
Safari, Don’t Call It A Comeback Veteran browser developer Bruce Lawson recently penned a manifesto of sorts calling for Apple to “set Safari free.” But there is reason to believe the Safari WebKit group is being dusted off after a decade spent in storage in Apple’s attic. WebKit evangelist Jen Simmons tweeted out the group’s […]
Ocean Spray is using a version of the vigorous measurement approach that the Food and Drug Administration uses to test medicines and vaccines, including the COVID-19 vaccine. The method, called randomized control trial (RCT) measurement, isn’t a new concept. (Fun fact: Apparently, the first randomized control trial took place in Nuremberg, Germany in 1835, as […]
If you’ve heard enough about publishers launching their own first-party media platforms … stop reading. And maybe take a vacation for the next year or two. Warner Music Group (WMG) is the latest to throw its hat in the ring, with the launch on Thursday of a rebranded agency and ad tech business geared specifically […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro de Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. Ad tech stocks are soaring even as regulators clamp down on ad tech, especially in Europe. How can we understand this irrational behavior? Let’s backtrack. […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Polar CCO Matt Crenshaw. As of 2020, there are 10 million unique advertisers on Facebook. That means 10 million advertisers are already building ad creatives to target audiences on the social platform. Compare that to […]
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