Dentsu-owned performance agency iProspect said Wednesday it has acquired independent performance agency MuteSix. Terms of the deal, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, were not disclosed. MuteSix does creative production and performance marketing for direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands, including Theragun, Burst Oral Care and Grunt Style, and enterprise clients such as Petco and Shell. The […]
Amazon’s clean room is … well, not open for business. But it exists! James Hercher and Alison Weissbrot on Tuesday reported on a closed beta test run by Amazon that will give ad buyers access to more of its vaunted data. This week on The Big Story, we’ll see what they uncovered in terms of […]
As a CPG, Diageo is always looking for efficiencies. And as a spirits’ brand, it’s especially vulnerable to brand safety issues. That’s why the beverage giant brought programmatic and social buying in house in North America, a decision that has driven both more control and “a lot of productivity and return,” said Jason Acker, Diageo’s […]
A successful article at HuffPost doesn’t have the most traffic – it has the most traffic from loyal readers with the highest engagement time. HuffPost overhauled its audience strategy last year to super-serve its most faithful readers and increase their numbers. The publisher is also diversifying its revenue through subscriptions. In April, it soft-launched a […]
“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. Various complaints argue that RTB is incompatible with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and other privacy regulations emerging around the world. Regardless of the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A ’score To Settle Comscore has gone from arguably the best-positioned company to solve television’s cross-channel measurement problem to being mired in executive overhauls and new product builds beleaguered with setbacks. Things looked bright in April 2018, though, when Comscore brought on former 360i […]
Amazon is developing clean room data technology that could improve measurement and data for ad campaigns, according to sources familiar with the product. The idea is similar to other clean room offerings, like Google’s Ads Data Hub (ADH) or Facebook’s enterprise data-sharing service, which enable advertisers to measure campaigns or mingle their first-party data with […]
Two years ago, Neustar was taken private when Golden Gate Capital acquired it for $2.9 billion. Since then, the company has focused its marketing industry offering around three areas: marketing analytics, first-party data services and identity resolution. Many of these capabilities were brought into Neustar through acquisitions of companies like MarketShare, TRUSTID, Aggregate Knowledge and […]
“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 Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. According to the IAB’s Outlook for Data Report, marketers plan to spend more money on data than ever. But just as investment […]
This is not a test: App messaging platform Airship is buying Apptimize, an A/B testing platform that helps mobile marketers rapidly run experiments across apps and sites, including OTT apps. Airship, which rebranded from Urban Airship in April, declined to share terms for the deal, which was announced on Tuesday. But around 20 people from […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. ‘Open’-ing Up? Google renamed its exchange bidding product to “open bidding.” The name mirrors AdMob’s open bidding, Google said in a blog post. Google’s exchange bidding – its answer to header bidding – made headlines this summer as Google tussled with The Trade Desk […]
“Guys, it’s that time of the month … no not that time. It’s time to spin some more BS to Uber to keep the lights on.” That’s an excerpt from an email sent on Oct. 31, 2016 between two employees at Phunware, according to a lawsuit filed by Uber on July 12 in San Francisco. […]
The Washington Post’s former chief revenue officer, Jed Hartman, has landed at Channel Factory, which uses video AI to help brands curate their YouTube buys for better brand safety and contextual relevance. For Hartman – whose departure from the Post was left unexplained – the new role as chief commercial and strategy officer fulfills a […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by James McLoughlin, director of data science at Inscape. Smart TV viewing data can measure the viewing habits of a target audience, but not everyone who integrates it into a targeted marketing campaign realizes the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Under The Hood Facebook is reviewing all of its 600-plus marketing partners after a Business Insider report revealed some were scraping data and storing passwords on Instagram without consent. The move shows that Instagram, which has been largely shielded from the public backlash over […]
Footwear brand ASICS is running out of patience with shoddy viewability measurement. “People still continue to buy nonviewable impressions – it’s just crazy,” said Philip Bryant, senior manager of media at ASICS Digital, a subsidiary of the ASICS corporation that’s focused on building, testing and implementing digital technologies for use across the larger org. One of […]
“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 Greg Anderson, managing director at Xaxis. The constant growth in the numbers of devices and media outlets has rapidly changed the ways in which consumers can access content. That has […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Patrick O’Leary, founder and CEO at boostr. Much has changed in selling media and advertising. The original relationship-focused DNA of the typical ad seller is no longer sufficient to thrive. Programmatic has flipped the equation, requiring strong analytical and numerical skills. […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Knewz Corp News Corp is launching a news aggregation service called Knewz.com with the intention of highlighting smaller outlets that often get passed over by Google and Facebook. The service, expected to launch on desktop and mobile later this year, will link directly to […]
The practice of sending targeted messaging to people online is under fire – and not just in Europe. Both Apple and Mozilla are restricting the ability to target on their respective browsers, and it’s forcing Google’s hand with Chrome. This week on The Big Story, we take a look at some recent news related to […]
Most chocolate and candy bars are bought last minute on the way to the cash register, a difficult experience to recreate online, where there is no physical checkout. Rankin Carroll, Global VP and CMO of Mars Chocolate, oversees a portfolio including Skittles, M&M’s and Snickers, and he must not only transform their business models as […]
Unlike competing browsers like Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome has to strengthen user privacy without undermining online advertising. Chrome walked that razor’s edge when it revealed plans to create a “privacy sandbox” that will increase protections to user privacy without breaking programmatic advertising that funds publisher content. To bolster its position, Google claimed […]
“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 Carl Spaulding, executive vice president of strategy at NCSolutions. Advertisers need a refresher course on the difference between attribution and causation – and why proving the latter is so much […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lindsey Harju, co-founder at Blinc Digital Group. Time-sensitive marketing triggers are nothing new. Ever moved and received a mailbox full of offers? In the last few months, my business partner and I have sold […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. European Conflict Google has shuttered Adobe DSP’s access to the Google Ad Manager ad exchange in Europe, citing malware fears. “There are concerns that Adobe’s DSP was recently identified as a tool used to help spread a notorious form of malvertising known as eGobbler,” […]
Fake installs on Android are costing mobile app marketers beaucoup bucks and messing with their data sets. On Wednesday, mobile marketing analytics company Singular released a tool that deterministically validates whether an Android install is real or bogus before the install gets attributed. There are other tools on the market that aim to do the […]
Major League Baseball team the San Diego Padres is calling out-of-home up to bat. In the past, the Padres generally avoided OOH advertising, because the team doesn’t have an awareness problem in its local market, said SVP and CMO Wayne Partello. Although the Padres do buy local radio and TV to drive conversions among more […]
The IAB Tech Lab and IAB Europe on Tuesday released the second version of the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), the collaborative industry solution for conducting targeted advertising in compliance with GDPR. Google has committed to its long-awaited integration with the framework by the end of Q1 2020. The TCF initially was a feature included […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Paul Bannister, co-founder and executive vice president at CafeMedia. As we all know, “cookies are crumbling” – third-party cookies specifically. But the crumbling goes far beyond cookies and into other ways of tracking users, including fingerprinting, link decoration, localStorage and other […]
