Recounting an anecdote in his opening keynote yesterday at Merkle’s customer summit, Merkle CEO David Williams illustrated what a “game-changer” Facebook’s Custom Audience product has been for Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) companies like his. Williams said that Facebook executives initially told him it would not only never let email addresses match to Facebook login data […]
Facebook ad platform Blinq Media has made some big changes since Gannett bought it last year for an estimated $92 million. Among those changes is a potentially powerful tie-in with ShopLocal, the dominant player in digital ad circulars and Blinq’s corporate sibling at Gannett. The idea is to convince ShopLocal’s existing customers (national retail giants […]
Following the news that Facebook will be reducing its ad formats by half and redesigning Sponsored Stories, Salesforce.com has released a report on the performance rates of various Facebook ad types that marketers use through its platform, Social.com. Based on data collected from Social.com between January and March of this year, the study measured the […]
Though associating display advertising with a popular character from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings makes for an entertaining visual, Legolas Media and its new CEO Jonathan Shaevitz have decided it’s time to call a spade a spade and purposefully engage the guaranteed media marketplace; they’ve re-branded the company Upfront Digital Media effective immediately. The […]
Beginning in Q3 of last year, American Airlines began buying connected TV ads using Rovi’s interactive guide page. The goal was to raise its profile among travelers coming from the UK. The airline won’t disclose how much it spent with Rovi’s ad network – through its agency Universal McCann – on interactive TV ads, but […]
“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 Andrew Shebbeare, Founding Partner & Global Chief Strategist at Essence. Only a few years ago, I grazed on hundreds of different destination sites. These days, there are only three […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Traffic Scam Online advertising fraud continues to be a topic of discussion, and Adweek has named six companies that consistently come up when talking about traffic fraud: AdOn, Adknowledge, eZanga, Jema Media, MGID and BlueLink Marketing. Adweek’s Mike Shields covers it: “’AdOn is just […]
Pointing at its own 350 person-strong digital team and “hyper growth” for its products and services related to the digital channel, Merkle kicked off its “CRM Executive Summit” today in Charleston, South Carolina. Merkle CEO David Williams recounted for customer attendees how it was only four years ago that “the stars were aligning” and true […]
Last week, when Facebook signaled plans to sharply reduce the number of discrete ad formats it offers, no one criticized the move. And why should they? After Facebook’s early frenzied experiments in advertising, it’s a natural step to assess what performs best, lose the rest and restructure the whole ad offering around advertiser objectives rather […]
A survey of 300 advertisers and agencies commissioned by video ad platform BrightRoll and Canada’s IAB suggests that 2013 is the “breakout year” for that country’s video marketplace. Spending on digital video is up 42% from 2012, and 41% of Canadian agencies expect to spend “half or more of their video-related ad budgets on programmatic […]
