“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 Brian Dolan, CEO and founder of WorkReduce. If 2020 prepared us for anything, it’s to expect the unexpected. And with 2021 already throwing us curveballs, it’s not crazy to think […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Parley For Parler The social media app Parler is offline after Amazon kicked it off its servers, reports Business Insider. For those blissfully unaware, Parler’s calling card is its claim that unlike other social media networks, it permits all types of speech. So […]
OpenAP, a consortium of TV networks that allows advertisers to buy standardized audiences across their inventory, launched its first tech product on Monday, a supply-side platform (SSP). SSPs are a mainstay of digital publisher technology, and now they’re coming into the TV world to help improve the antiquated linear TV ad buying process by adding […]
Comscore released a solution for audience targeting and activation on Monday that relies on contextual signals rather than cookies. You’d be forgiven for asking the question, “Wait, Comscore has tools for targeting?” It does. Although far more well well-known for its media measurement capabilities, Comscore has had its own suite of audience and contextual targeting […]
Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. If there was any doubt that short-form video would play a massive role in the future of media and communications, […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mike Baker, former CEO of dataxu. It would be an understatement to say that the past nine months have had a monumental impact on the way we consume entertainment. One need only point towards […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Built On Sand? The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching an investigation into Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome, CNBC reports. The CMA says it’s received several complaints about how Google’s Privacy Sandbox proposals will impact competition. One of […]
When Cadillac put together a marketing strategy for its 2021 Escalade last year, gaming bubbled up as a place where the brand needed to play. “All of our research into current and future Escalade owners shows gaming as popping up pretty high from an index perspective,” said Marcie Pérez, associate director of media and performance […]
When we recorded this episode of The Big Story on Wednesday to discuss what we expect the new year to bring, insurrection at the Capitol was not on the table. That soon changed. I would say we live in a different world than the one we inhabited last week, but the same could be said […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stepping Back So … 2021 is off to a great start. After pro-Trump mobs stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, advertisers are pulling their paid social advertising and reevaluating their overall ad spend, Digiday reports. Some advertisers paused their paid social just as DC’s […]
Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. Will 2021 be a pivotal year for AI? In the second episode of AdExchanger’s Industry Preview podcast series, IBM’s Sheri […]
“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, senior editor at AdExchanger. It’s part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team. While most people were glued to their TV screens watching the chaos unfold in […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Publishers enter 2021 in a position of strength, but only if they can overcome the data disadvantages that created their long self-inflicted servitude to big tech companies. This week’s guest on AdExchanger Talks, Quantast VP of product management […]
Assessing a customer’s lifetime value (LTV) usually requires observing that person’s purchase behavior over time. But there are more efficient ways to calculate LTV earlier in the customer journey, said Emad Hasan, CEO and co-founder of Retina, a startup that uses machine learning and data analytics to help brands predict LTV and lower customer acquisition […]
“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 Zack Zalon, CEO and co-founder of Super Hi-Fi. Audio advertising is stuck in a time warp. There have been no meaningful changes to speak of over the past ten years. In […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Craig Berlingo, Product Lead for OTT and CTV at PubMatic. With millions of people stuck at home watching streaming content, 2020 could have provided a chance for publishers to rake it in. Instead I […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trump’s Hatred Besides his war on the democratic process, President Trump is also going after apps with ties to China. According to the Wall Street Journal, the lame duck president – just a day before he incited a massive protest in which crowds stormed […]
Vizio and Samsung, watch out, because LG, the second-largest TV manufacturer in the world, is breaking itself off a little piece of ad tech. On Tuesday, the South Korean electronics company announced an $80 million investment – and a controlling stake – in TV data provider Alphonso. This is the first time Alphonso has taken […]
Food delivery app Deliveroo has long wanted to justify spending more on affiliate marketing, but the tech to measure affiliate incrementality just hasn’t been there, says Tiziana Bacchilega, Deliveroo’s global affiliates lead for performance marketing. “There’s no doubt about the value of this channel,” Bacchilega said. “We just need some backing to be confident in […]
“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 Alan Chapell, president at Chapell & Associates. Like most of you, I’ve been following Google’s announcement of the Privacy Sandbox, the eventual depreciation of third-parties cookies in Chrome and the […]
“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 Craig Howard, VP, chief solution architect at Merkle. Marketers want to be able to do more in real-time, but can they truly understand and explain what that means and the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Runaway Runoffs With the control of the U.S. Senate hanging in the balance, all eyes were on Georgia leading up to the runoff elections on Jan. 5 –and where there are eyes, ad dollars follow. Axios reports that the two Georgia Senate runoff races […]
Google utterly dominates the identity resolution marketplace, with LiveRamp and Salesforce trailing in the middle distance. That’s according to the most recent Advertiser Perceptions ID resolution marketplace report, which found that most advertisers and agencies (29%) use Google as their primary identity resolution solution. That number drops to 13% apiece for LiveRamp and Salesforce. Amazon, […]
“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 Nico Neumann, assistant professor and fellow, Centre for Business Analytics at Melbourne Business School. Two recent episodes of the well-known Freakonomics podcast reviewed novel academic work on advertising effectiveness under […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. New Year, Same Controversies Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: Political ads on Facebook contain misinformation. Well, it’s zero hour before the Jan. 5 Georgia runoff election for control of the Senate, and Republican ads on Facebook related to the race reportedly […]
Industry Preview is a special, limited-run audio series, featuring interviews with key leaders in marketing, media and technology who share their predictions and key priorities for 2021. This podcast is sponsored by IBM Watson Advertising. It’s probably safe to say that Sebastian Tomich, SVP and global head of advertising and marketing solutions at The New […]
Although it’s too early to predict how the antitrust lawsuits filed against Google and Facebook late last year will play out, one immediate outcome is more awareness of how digital advertising functions. “Many of the topics we’ve been so obsessed with in the ad tech industry are no longer just being talked about within the […]
“The Sell Sider” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Mary Keane-Dawson, group CEO of TAKUMI. Influencers’ role in society is evolving dramatically, particularly in 2020 which has brought a global pandemic, racial unrest and the most volatile […]
“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 Tasso Argyros, CEO and founder of ActionIQ. The pandemic has disrupted every industry, forcing far too many businesses to shut their doors. But when it comes to digital transformation, COVID-19 […]
