This article charts the coronavirus pandemic’s ongoing effect on the digital ad industry – from publishers to vendors, marketers and agencies. We will continuously update this story as more developments become public. September 3 Droga5 Lays Off 7% Of Staff In United States Advertising agency Droga5 laid off 40 people from its New York office, […]
“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. WeatherBug has participated in dozens of closed-door partner and ecosystem meetings regarding Apple’s impending iOS 14 release, and one thing has become painfully clear: App publishers bear […]
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Baby Steps Facebook will block political ads in the week leading up to the US Presidential election in an effort to suppress misinformation. The platform will also flag posts that come from candidates either claiming victory before the official results are finalized or trying to dispute the outcome. Facebook has already restricted the ability to […]
The rumors are true: Apple is going to postpone the enforcement of its planned IDFA restrictions in iOS 14 until sometime early next year. That sound you just heard? It’s the collective exhale of relief coming from mobile developers and measurement vendors who had been scrambling to adjust to the changes. In a statement provided […]
Here’s some TikTok news that doesn’t have to do with ByteDance being forced to sell the app’s US operations. Following in the footsteps of its larger platform siblings, TikTok launched a marketing partner program on Thursday that aims to connect advertisers with tech companies that have expertise in running and measuring campaigns on TikTok. Launching […]
“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 Laura Desmond, founder and CEO at Eagle Vista Partners. The current COVID-19 crisis has been an unprecedented game-changer for marketers. The last decade was driven by business and digital transformation, from […]
SKAdNetwork is Apple’s homegrown solution for attribution. Apple itself verifies when clicks lead to installs and shares that information directly with ad networks through an encrypted postback and without the need to pass an IDFA. That should make app marketing in iOS 14 pretty much impervious to fraud … right? Well, yes and no. It […]
Agencies spend too much time doing manual work. One of the biggest time sucks? Transferring data files between enterprise systems that don’t talk to each other. Max Cheprasov, now an exec at the Dentsu Aegis holding company level, recognized these inefficiencies while working at Dentsu agency iProspect starting in 2011. He set out to document […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Sona Pehlivanian, VP of addressable campaign management and operations at New York Interconnect. As TV and video viewership fractures across platforms, channels and devices, marketers are shifting their TV buying plans to account for new […]
It feels a tad early to be buying pumpkin spice lattes (even though you apparently can). But one thing it’s definitely not too early to do? Get ready for Apple’s IDFA changes in iOS 14. And even the biggies need to prepare. Last week, Facebook got very vocal about its plans, which involve not collecting […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Traditional Media In The Doldrums Ad spending in the United States will decline 8% this year, according to a survey of ad buyers released Wednesday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Digital ad spend will grow 6% despite the dip, while traditional media is set […]
Peacock’s exclusive launch window for advertisers will end this fall, as it opens up a portion of its inventory to a wider group of brands starting in Q4. The NBCUniversal-owned streaming service launched on July 15 with 10 advertisers, including Target, Unilever and Verizon, who received category exclusivity and the ability to test new ad […]
As the pandemic rages on, media agencies are helping clients navigate the shift to online shopping. Measurement and analytics platform Profitero said on Wednesday that it’s partnering with Dentsu, IPG, MDC Partners and VaynerMedia, as well as the commerce divisions at Horizon Media and Publicis Groupe, to make its ecommerce data and measurement tools […]
Even as mobile ad platforms get their houses in order as Apple restricts IDFA in iOS 14, there are still a lot of open questions that remain, said David Gregson, a product manager at Twitter’s MoPub who’s directly involved with the mobile exchange’s response plan to Apple’s updates. “There’s still a lack of clarity about […]
Marketing Moola The world is in an economic tailspin and traditional media doesn’t know which way is up – but big brands are still paying big bucks for marketing talent. Business Insider dug into disclosure data from the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification to find out how much large brands across CPG, apparel, fast […]
AT&T is reportedly exploring a sale of Xandr, the ad tech unit it launched in 2018 with lofty ambitions to transform the TV advertising industry with data and automation. The talks are still preliminary and a deal may not go through, per The Wall Street Journal, which broke the news. Xandr made a big splash […]
Ad creative can be a bigger driver of performance for app advertisers than audience-based targeting or segmentation. “We can make a huge difference, depending on the creative, in almost any game regardless of the target,” said Rick Grunewald, a digital marketing analyst at PerBlue, a Wisconsin-based mobile game studio with a license to develop games […]
InfoSum, a UK-based data platform that allows companies to match data in a privacy compliant-way, has raised $15 million and appointed Brian Lesser as executive chairman, the company said Tuesday. The funding round was led by Upfront Ventures and IA Ventures and supported by strategics including Ascential, Akamai, Experian, ITV and AT&T’s Xandr, where Lesser […]
Everyone knows what happened in March: COVID-19 broke out. But Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz, who is also a physician, was already pivoting his company to respond to the impending crisis. On March 2, he told everyone at Zocdoc, an app that connects patients with healthcare providers online, to drop their projects and begin building capabilities […]
“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 Bibhakar Pandey, vice president of customer experience and marketing services at Capgemini. A content assembly line is exactly what it sounds like: a series of progressive steps to create and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Prime Real Estate So what the heck does Walmart want with TikTok? The retailer, which has shifted toward ecommerce under CEO Doug McMillon, sees an opportunity to use the app as a virtual storefront while supercharging its burgeoning media business, The Wall Street Journal […]
Like all companies invested in the mobile ecosystem, Google is getting ready for iOS 14. But the company is playing its cards close to the vest. As opposed to Facebook, which yodeled from the rooftops about the negative impact Apple’s IDFA changes will have on publisher monetization through Audience Network, Google quietly updated its AdMob […]
“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 Adam Heimlich, CEO at Chalice Custom Algorithms If you hire a street team to give out coupons and pay them on coupons redeemed, you’d better make sure they’re not handing them […]
“On TV and Video” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Hamid Qayyum, SVP of Digital Sales at Stirista. Shelter-in-place policies have catapulted OTT and CTV consumption. Viewers stuck at home are binge-watching shows as quickly as Netflix, Hulu and Apple TV can drop […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Programmatic Please Programmatic ad spend is up from the trough of the pandemic. Through the end of July, total programmatic spend grew 11% since April, and the number of advertisers running programmatic ads increased 36% since January, according to MediaRadar. That’s a rebound from […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. Nancy Marzouk founded MediaWallah in 2013 to serve the growing demand for first-party data onboarding and “people-based” identity. Its plan was to build a graph of authenticated users by drawing on media company registration data. “We continue to […]
“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 Ari Buchalter, CEO at Intersection. The impending demise of the cookie, IDFA, and likely all 1-to-1 identifiers available to third parties will rewrite the rules across the entire media mix. Our […]
This is the 10th in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. Brands that sell commodities don’t differentiate on their products, they differentiate on data. “And they differentiate on relationships,” said Pini Yakuel, CEO and founder of Tel Aviv-based […]
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