Amazon’s advertising business grew by about 40% year over year, in line with the annual growth of the overall “Other” segment, CFO Brian Olsavsky told investors during the company’s Q4 and year end 2019 earnings call Thursday. Advertising revenue is still a drop in the bucket compared to the $280.5 billion the entire company brought […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Kerel Cooper, senior vice president of global marketing at LiveIntent. There’s a famous line between editorial and revenue at every legitimate publisher. Newsrooms aren’t influenced by the teams responsible for revenue, and nary do […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fun While It Lasted A few years ago, programmatic companies started sharing online ad identifiers as a way to improve reach and targeting. But with Chrome phasing out third-party cookies in two years, the days of shared IDs and cookie-based consortia are on the […]
Amazon is the ultimate bottom-of-the-funnel play for brands. But the company sees big opportunities to expand into branding. “I don’t think we do a good enough job of allowing brands to have a recreational and ongoing conversation with consumers,” said Colleen Aubrey, VP of performance advertising at Amazon, at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview in New York […]
The marketing industry loves to highlight case studies of success. But it’s possible to learn just as much if not more from failure. Marketing Fail is a new series from AdExchanger exploring the mistakes, missteps, gaffes and in some cases downright bad behavior of the marketing industry. This is the first installment. What must’ve seemed […]
Netflix’s future is bleak – and not just because of the onslaught of competition in 2020. The particular players and how they’re going to market are also problematic for the streaming giant. Netflix’s single revenue stream is about to enter a price war, noted Laura Martin, senior analyst at the investment bank Needham and Company, […]
As Google’s new data privacy policies roil the industry, the company’s ad tech and ad network businesses appear to be more open to industry collaboration in response. For instance, Google is coming around to some industry initiatives where it’s been a notable holdout. In spring of 2020, Google will implement Sellers.json, an IAB Tech Lab-backed […]
“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 Krish Sailam, global senior vice president of programmatic solutions at DWA, a Merkle company. Some may think artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) personalization is all about altering banners and landing pages. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Cost Of Content AT&T is still bleeding pay-TV subscribers as it beefs up its investment in HBO Max, which is driving losses in the short term. Consolidated revenues for the quarter were $46.8 billion but would have been $48 billion without the HBO […]
Remember those “ad targeting-related headwinds” Facebook keeps talking about every quarter? They’re finally going to hit this year. Facebook experienced some effects in 2019 from global privacy regulations, privacy-focused changes made by mobile operating systems and browsers (Google did a thing) and its own privacy product rollouts. However, “the majority of the impact lies in […]
OpenX CEO Tim Cadogan is leaving after 12 years to become CEO of GoFundMe. OpenX President John Gentry, a seven-year vet at the company, will step into the CEO role. “I’ve been walking in this direction for a long time,” Cadogan said. “It’s been a quarter of my life.” He said he told the board […]
Where there’s a screen, there’s an opportunity for a programmatic ad. Curb Media Network, the media division of taxi technology provider Curb Mobility, has turned on programmatic access to 1,200 digital screens across its fleet of yellow cabs in New York City. Curb has operated a media network for years in partnership with 15 thousand […]
It’s taken longer for real-time auctions to make their way into the app world than on the web. But programmatic is finally starting to take hold and change the way developers buy media thanks to several parallel trends. And a new crop of opportunistic startups is emerging to help developers take advantage of the shift […]
“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 Peter Vandre, chief analytics officer at Dentsu Aegis Network Media. The idea of a safe place where marketers can analyze sensitive data has been around at least since the early […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The O&O Studio MGM has held talks with Apple and Netflix to gauge their interest in a sale, CNBC reports. Rumors of an MGM deal have swirled for years, but there’s more urgency now as media tech giants (AT&T, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, etc.) fuel […]
You’ve heard of dynamic product placement. So, why not dynamic audio? Spanish-language broadcaster Univision is experimenting with a new advanced TV product that dynamically swaps out the generic sounds in an episode and replaces them with a bit of branded audio. T-Mobile is Univision’s first partner for the initiative, which debuted during the Monday night […]
Like a handful of companies thrust into the CDP category, Simon Data predates the acronym’s hype. Simon Data co-founder and CEO Jason Davis saw the need for a data layer accessible to marketing while working at Etsy, which acquired his first startup Adtuitive, an automated ad tool for small businesses, in 2009. He wanted to […]
Ad tech expertise is increasingly finding its way out of the advertising industry and into seemingly unrelated verticals. The most recent example is Petabyte, a veterinarian and pet industry technology company that launched last month. The company’s initial product is a vet clinic management solution called Rhapsody. Petabyte CEO Michael Hyman and President Tim Mahlman […]
“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 Rishad Tobaccowala, chief growth officer at Publicis Groupe and author of “Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data” (Harper Collins, publishing on Jan. 28, 2020). […]
Mike Brooks, WeatherBug’s SVP of revenue, is a mobile programmatic evangelist. “We’ve seen a huge positive impact from adopting a unified auction, and we like to be vocal about it,” Brooks said. “We talk about programmatic to anybody who will listen, because this is the way of the future.” In early 2018, the weather app, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Under The Hood Does the web need more browser engines? The recent trend has been toward browser engine consolidation. Google helped this along by growing Chrome’s market share, but Microsoft gave up on its own web-rendering software and moved to Chromium at the end […]
Generation Z consumes media differently than millennials, but brands don’t always understand that. To help brands better relate to younger audiences, former Wavemaker exec Noah Mallin left a career in agencyland to join Gen Z-focused media company IMGN as its first chief brand strategist, the company said Monday. IMGN owns the social media handle of […]
Corporate siblings WarnerMedia and Xandr are full steam ahead on data-driven TV sales. Just look at this year’s upfront, where the AT&T subsidiaries will go to market together for the first time. The companies have been inching their way toward a joint offering over the past year and a half in an effort to sell […]
There’s not enough awareness that compliance can’t be a cut-and-paste job when it comes to kids. Just because you’re compliant with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), doesn’t mean you’re compliant with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), or the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Plus, US states are coming out with their own […]
“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 Martin Kihn, senior vice president of marketing strategy, Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Martin will present “The Cookieless Web And The Future Of The DMP” at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview conference, being held […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ronan Higgins, CEO at TVadSync. The addressable TV advertising sector is poised for growth. New initiatives and smart TV technologies offer the potential to unlock the “other 14 minutes” of TV ad airtime. However, every time […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stalling The Install Google is changing its search-to-app install campaign measurement starting this month so that iOS installs driven by Google searches will no longer be reported by third-party attribution companies, Ronan Shields reports for Adweek. The change is a forerunner to Google’s eventual […]
Location data is a privacy landmine. But there are still buyers out there for providers, including Media And Games Invest (MGI), the public German conglomerate that acquired mobile location company Verve earlier this week. The last few years haven’t been kind to Verve. The company experienced multiple rounds of layoffs last year and closed its […]
Sarah Personette’s career has taken her on a wild tour around the industry. After graduating from Northwestern in 2001, she landed an agency job at Starcom – taking the interview on a whim. She was on an upward trajectory when she left the agency world to join an upstart social media company called Facebook. “My […]
