A world with fewer restaurants is bad for Anheuser-Busch InBev. The company, whose brands include Budweiser, Michelob Ultra and Blue Point among many others, depends heavily on orders from restaurants and bars. And sales haven’t been great since the COVID-19 pandemic began. So AB InBev invested to help restaurants and bars stay afloat through 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 Paul Cimino, president at Cimino Collaborative Consulting. Safety and privacy have become driving forces in advertising. New laws, ad blocking and OS/browser changes have turned the industry upside down. I […]
Gaming might have an audience of all ages, but if a brand is just going to slap an ad into a game, then it might as well not bother. “If you just want to run a simple media activation, frankly, you don’t need gaming for that – media can run anywhere,” said Alexandre Tan, VP of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. AVOD FTW? Subscription video-on-demand services dominate the headlines, but time spent with ad-supported video is responsible for a significant slice of viewing. Year-over-year growth in minutes watched in Q2 among players aside from Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video and Disney Plus was more […]
Former Xandr exec Kirk McDonald will join GroupM as its CEO for North America, the company said Tuesday. McDonald, who’s been serving as the interim head of AT&T-owned Xandr since CEO Brian Lesser stepped down in March, will report directly to GroupM Global CEO Christian Juhl. McDonald will be replaced by AT&T exec Mike Welch […]
Digital advertising requires a hacker mentality. That’s truer than ever today, as the COVID-19 pandemic changes consumer habits, and marketers prepare for the end of third-party cookies in Chrome and the IDFA on iPhones. “The very substrate of how digital marketing has worked … is radically changing,” said Scott Hagedorn, CEO of Omnicom Media Group […]
With iOS set to get a lot less measurable, developers are considering putting more of their performance budgets into Android. The impetus is Apple’s move to start requiring an opt-in for its proprietary advertising ID, the IDFA, beginning with iOS 14 in September. Without ready access to the IDFA, apps are limited in their ability […]
It’s not easy for a hotel to stay top of mind during a global pandemic. The marketing team at Kimpton Hotels, part of the Intercontinental Hotel Group, spent most of the spring trying to keep a conversation going with consumers while its properties were closed. “It took time to understand how our brands can be […]
“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 Matthew Greitzer, co-founder and CEO at Actable. There are a lot of customer data platforms in the market. And I mean a lot – my team tracks this closely and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. State Of The TransUnion Credit bureau and consumer data provider TransUnion acquired cross-channel marketing company Signal on Monday (not to be confused with TruSignal, the predictive analytics and data firm TransUnion acquired in May of last year). TransUnion didn’t share a deal price. 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 Gary Kibel, a partner in the digital media, technology and privacy practice group at Davis & Gilbert. There’s an election this November, and there will be a huge issue on the […]
If agencies, media companies and ad tech firms are going to fulfill their renewed promise in recent months to diversify their workforces, they’ve got to reach out to Black students and recent college grads early to explain why a career in advertising is something worth pursuing. With that in mind, Steven Golus, a DoubleClick and […]
Lack of measurement has long deterred brands from investing heavily in podcasts. Apple, which has dominated podcast listening in the United States for years, has a history of obscuring how many people actually heard an ad after downloading a podcast episode through its player. That left brand advertisers to negotiate for CPMs without knowing […]
More likely than not, you’ve never heard of BIGO Live. But it’s one of the largest live streaming apps in APAC with around 400 million users across 150 countries. Launched in Singapore in 2016, BIGO Live now ranks No. 6 globally for downloads, ahead of Disney Plus and Twitch, according to Apptopia data for January […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em Those that want to survive the streaming wars are making friends with the competition. Apple is bundling TV Plus content with CBS All Access and Showtime at a discounted price of $9.99 per month, Bloomberg reports. CBS […]
Hallelujah, the attorney general’s implementation regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have been approved by the Office of Administrative Law (OAL). I’ll let California AG Xavier Becerra tell you about the joyous news himself: The final #CCPA regulations ▪️instruct businesses on how to comply with the CCPA ▪️provide tools to empower consumers to […]
Facebook launched a new feature on Friday that will allow small businesses to promote, host and monetize live online events on its platform – and took aim at Apple in the process. The paid online events feature, which will initially be available in the United States and 19 other countries, enables anyone with a monetizable […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an audience and data strategy consultant. From the consumer’s point of view, advertising hasn’t evolved. Digital ads mimic print’s design as simply a space on a page. And video ads take […]
Apple has a tendency to ask for forgiveness, not permission. Scratch that. Apple doesn’t apologize. Known for unilateral decision making that can throw entire industry sectors into a tailspin (just ask the mobile ad ecosystem), many of Apple’s recent moves fit a pattern of behavior. Developers have long considered Apple’s App Store policies inscrutable and […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Agency Woes Dentsu is yet another agency group that didn’t have a pretty Q2, as organic revenues declined 17.3% to $166 million. International arm Dentsu Aegis Network dragged down the group as organic revenue declined 20% to $100 million, compared to a 12% drop […]
Vivoom, a Boston-based mobile ad platform focused on user-generated ad campaigns, closed its operations on Wednesday, a victim of the pandemic economy. The company’s website is no longer live. Vivoom CEO and cofounder Katherine Hays relayed news of the shutdown in an email sent to clients and partners yesterday. “Despite our amazing partners, peers, advisors […]
This week saw a big flex from LiveRamp, which a few days ago reported its first profitable quarter since it spun off from Acxiom. All very cool, especially when you consider that this measured success happened during a global pandemic when the rest of the digital advertising community – and, really, the rest of the […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column by Steven Golus, founder at Steven Golus Consulting, is the third in a series that will present the fundamentals of how TV advertising works and how it is changing. In our previous article, we discussed the upfront […]
Ad tech used to generate most of the hype when it came to high-growth ad industry startups. But as the category matures, services firms that help brands navigate the complex world of digital advertising are growing faster. That’s the story in Inc. Magazine’s 2020 revenue survey charting the fastest-growing private companies in America, released […]
This Isn’t Even My Final Form Will Sony acquire anime streaming service Crunchyroll from AT&T and pair it with its existing service Funimation? According to The Information, the big sticking point keeping that dream from happening is the price: AT&T reportedly wants $1.5 billion. While the initial move to offload Crunchyroll began in May, it […]
This article is sponsored by Moat by Oracle Data Cloud. The global pandemic of 2020 has had far-reaching economic effects – with few industries spared from the need for quick adaptation. The television advertising market, for one, has already seen stay-at-home orders contribute to the first increase in traditional television viewership since 2012. Yet upfront […]
When it comes to measuring sales lift and ROI on media campaigns, CPG brands have traditionally been shooting in the dark. But with more real-time data sets available in market, CPGs are embracing granularity when optimizing and measuring spend. Earlier this year, Georgia-Pacific, the paper product manufacturer whose brands include Brawny and Quilted Northern, tapped […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Bannister, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CafeMedia. Ads.txt has been a standard for several years now and has become something that we take for granted. That’s a good thing, as it speaks to […]
Integral Ad Science and Channel Factory, a brand suitability and ad performance platform for YouTube, released a joint product on Wednesday that combines content curation with optimization and measurement for YouTube campaigns. The product, dubbed Channel Science (a portmanteau of their names), is generally available, but only on a manual basis for now. The companies […]
