Customer data platform mParticle has raised a $45 million Series D round to invest in data quality tools, data governance and partnerships. Led by Arrowroot Capital, the haul, announced Monday, brings total funding to $121 million for a company founded well before the category became a mar tech investment darling. “The space is hot,” said […]
This is the second in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read other interviews mParticle, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. A customer data platform is about a lot more than simply combining data. The real promise of a CDP is analytics, said Omer Artun, chief science officer at Acquia, a SaaS digital […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Raquel Rosenthal, CEO at Digilant. Connected TV (CTV) is attractive to advertisers looking for ways to combine TV’s compelling brand storytelling with a digital marketing approach that can better target and measure those messages […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Empire Strikes Back Amazon Prime smashed brick-and-mortar retail with a combination of price discounts, speedy shipping guarantees and a raft of other benefits, with the biggest being the Prime Video streaming service. Now Walmart plans to launch a paid membership service with a focus […]
First it was Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, then Facebook’s global marketing conference followed by F8 and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Fear over spreading the coronavirus is scuppering events around the world, and rightfully so. As of Friday, there are 31 active cases of coronavirus reported in Spain, with three in Barcelona. […]
If advertising wants to keep using big data sets filled with consumer information, they’ll have to do a better job protecting them. And differential privacy is one of the most promising weapons in the privacy-protecting arsenal. This week on The Big Story, senior editor Allison Schiff dishes on differential privacy. It might sound like an […]
“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. Many media owners still struggle to see the long-term opportunity in front of them. But I am filled with hope when I hear that some […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Makes It Tik? A story by Bloomberg’s Kurt Wagner and Sarah Frier examines the intense sharing activity on TikTok, where successful marketing campaigns can get billions of views. “This type of virality just does not happen on Instagram or Facebook or YouTube,” said […]
The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green painted a rosy picture for 2020, telling investors during the 2019 earnings report on Thursday that he’s never been so confident about the company’s growth prospects. The Trade Desk earned $215.9 million in Q4 2019 and $661.1 million for the full year, up 35% and 39%, respectively, from the […]
In the midst of a three-year turnaround plan, WPP posted lackluster results for Q4 and 2019. Revenues dropped 1.9% in Q4 and 1.6% for 2019, bringing full year revenues to roughly $14 billion. WPP’s stock dropped almost 15%, its sharpest decline since 1992. Most of WPP’s issue stem from North America, where like-for-like revenues dropped […]
Subscribe to AdExchanger Talks on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud or wherever you listen to podcasts. This week on AdExchanger Talks, Gabe Rogol, CEO of B2B marketing platform Demandbase, gives an update on his company and the account-based marketing (ABM) trend. ABM tracks closely with programmatic advertising. Both disciplines emerged about 12 years ago […]
“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 Ocean Fine, senior vice president of sales and demand at Factual. What if you found out you were paying for your cell phone data plan twice every month but didn’t know it? […]
Comcast’s FreeWheel ad server business has been developing a blockchain-based data onboarding service called Blockgraph since December 2018. The system is finally ready for a broader push into the TV ad industry, said Blockgraph GM Jason Manningham. Last year, Blockgraph ran the first campaign where a marketer’s first-party CRM data was directly matched to a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Mark It Down A 2019 report in the Harvard Business Review declared that marketing has lost prominence within the overall business hierarchy, based on US ad expenditures decreasing. Two of its authors revisited the topic in a new article, noting, “Many scholars and practitioners […]
Rubicon Project delivered a strong end to 2019 by increasing Q4 revenue by 17% to $48.5 million, the top end of its guidance to investors. The exchange also highlighted its growth in video as it prepares to close its merger with Telaria in early April. Video revenue soared 43% to $28.6 million in 2019. Video […]
Guess you can’t please everyone. Comments on the second draft of the California attorney general’s implementation regs for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are rolling in, and no one seems all that satisfied. Privacy advocates, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, think the California attorney general is watering down the law, while ad industry […]
Although Amazon, Walmart and Target know which brands are sending them fruitful traffic, the brands themselves are often in the dark. Some of the top-spending brands don’t have meaningful dot-com sales of their own, and even when they direct traffic to retailers with an affiliate link, people don’t always convert immediately or on the same […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a regular column tracking developments in the 2020 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Daniel Sepulveda, senior vice president for policy and advocacy at MediaMath. Lawmakers and industry leaders have not yet reached consensus on digital political advertising rules. As a result, no one is satisfied with the platforms’ varying […]
“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 Hugo Loriot, partner at 55. There is no question that the death of third-party cookies is turning the industry on its head by disrupting activation and measurement tactics. The old programmatic […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bye Of The Iger? Bob Iger is stepping down as CEO of Disney, the company said Tuesday. He will be replaced by Bob Chapek, most recently chairman of Disney Parks, effective immediately, and stay on as executive chairman through 2021, CNBC reports. Over his […]
Comcast has acquired the OTT streaming service Xumo, the companies announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Xumo is best known for its free, ad-supported app on platforms like Roku and Apple TV. It licenses content and other networks to create a linear-like television experience. Xumo’s ad revenue is undisclosed, but it’s a […]
If there was ever any ambiguity about the extent to which marketers could transact on NBCU’s linear and digital inventory in one fell swoop, consider that confusion lifted. The broadcast giant detailed Tuesday how advertisers could plan, buy and measure via One Platform, which NBCU formally unveiled at CES 2020. Here’s what you need to […]
The data, insights, technologies and communication channels that today’s marketers have at their disposal should make this the transformative age of marketing. But as new regulations such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) go into effect, US marketers are finding that earning the trust of consumers while remaining compliant is increasingly complicated. Successful brands […]
This is the first in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read other interviews with Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. When mParticle was founded in 2012, the moniker “customer data platform” didn’t exist yet. David Raab, founder of the CDP Institute, wouldn’t coin the term until 2013. And […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Danny Khatib, co-founder and CEO at Granite Media. It’s 2020, and we still have both supply-side platforms (SSPs) and demand-side platforms (DSPs) standing in the way of buyers and sellers, each taking a 15-20% […]
For two years, the 404bot worked unchecked, exploiting a flaw in the ads.txt spec that cost advertisers $15 million in wasted video ads. The 404bot served 1.5 billion video ads, according to Integral Ad Science, which revealed the scheme Tuesday with a warning for the industry, including for publishers to audit their ads.txt files. Ads.txt […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Data Dwindles Facebook will no longer share device-level data with its partners for mobile campaign measurement. The company quietly updated the terms of its advanced mobile measurement program in January, which previously allowed advertisers to view and share raw data associated with unique […]
Omnicom Media Group is already rethinking how to monetize attention, in light of Google’s decision to remove third-party cookies from Chrome in two years. “We are starting to push clients to think about attention as dynamic and be more considerate in how we activate against it,” said OMG CEO Scott Hagedorn. But rethinking customer attention […]
Big tech is all in on differential privacy. It’s a foundational concept within Google’s Privacy Sandbox; Apple applies it to the study of diagnostic device, health and web browsing data; and, just last week, Facebook used differential privacy to protect a trove of data it made available to researchers analyzing the effect of sharing misinformation […]
