Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Drinking Up Data AB InBev, the beer and beverage conglomerate, is making a big play for data and digital assets. ZX Ventures, AB’s investment vehicle for new markets and technology, just bought the UK-based subscription beer service BeerBods, FoodBev Media reports. And that came […]
While big brands are slowly shifting their budgets toward digital media, small businesses are fueling the growth of internet ad spend. Digital will make up more than half of total global ad spend for the first time in 2021 at $350 billion, according to Zenith’s global ad spend forecast, released Monday. Total global ad spend […]
Consumer food preferences are changing almost as quickly as their media habits. For 130-year-old packaged foods brand Del Monte, keeping up with both required a major revamp. Del Monte used branding marketing campaigns to increase awareness of its canned fruits and vegetables and shopper marketing tactics to drive purchases. But with consumers gravitating toward fresh, […]
The lowest priced ads don’t always deliver the best results – especially for digital branding campaigns – so ad buyers are re-calculating CPM to a quality CPM (qCPM). The qCPM only counts impressions that are viewable, with on-target delivery, optimal frequency and in brand-safe environments. By looking at performance factors beyond cost, ad buyers can […]
Roku’s go-to-market strategy is simple: Get as many streaming devices into as many homes as cheaply as possible, and monetize them through advertising. That makes the growth of ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) viewing a “huge” bet for Roku, said director of international ad sales and strategy Tariq Mahmoud. Roku, which has 29.1 million active accounts, has […]
“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 Ka Mo Lau, chief operating officer at Thunder Experience Cloud. Since the 1970s, a decade when the latest technology was the Atari game console and Commodore computer, the standard for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ecom And Go Walmart’s big move into ecommerce, starting three years ago with its $3.3 billion deal for Jet.com, has been an overall success. It’s online sales grew by 40% last year, and an online grocery pick-up service is one of the fastest-growing elements […]
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Nothing says Fourth of July like a big helping of hot dogs, potato salad and The Big Story podcast. It’s the middle of the year (well, a little past the middle), and this week, the AdExchanger team takes stock of what happened so far and what will likely happen in the year to come. The […]
Any sign of bad traffic, and mobile game developer Glu flips the kill switch at the ad network and the publisher levels, said John Parides, Glu’s senior director of user acquisition. “This is something you need to be constantly monitoring,” said Parides, who’s been with Glu for almost five years, during which click spam became […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. The death of the cookie has been predicted since at least 2013, but the third-party cookie has lingered so long because the advertising industry still depends […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Audit This WPP has had enough of Accenture playing agency and media auditor at the same time. So, starting in 2020, it will no longer participate in pitches run by the consulting firm. WPP is concerned that Accenture can use the media and services […]
This week on AdExchanger Talks, digital ad consultant Matthew Scott Goldstein shares his observations from 29 public company earnings calls in the media, big tech, ad tech and related sectors. He will give a related presentation at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO conference in New York, Oct. 15-16. MSG, as he is known to many, listens to all […]
After more than a year on ice, Facebook is bringing back reach estimates in Custom Audiences. Facebook suspended the metric, which advertisers would use to preview reach estimates for lists uploaded to Custom Audiences, in March 2018 when academic researchers from Northeastern University discovered a vulnerability. The exploit could have allowed someone to infer attributes […]
With 21% of US adults owning a smart speaker, according to Edison Research and NPR, publishers have rushed to develop a presence on voice platforms. “We’re committed to bringing our readers the most compelling journalism on all of the platforms on which they expect us to be,” said Idalmy Carrera-Colucci, senior director of editorial operations […]
“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 Jacob Beck, associate director of programmatic at DWA Media, a Merkle company. Google announced in March that it will finally migrate Google Ad Manager – formerly AdX – to a first-price auction model. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Crab Apples Apple News Plus, the $10 per-month news bundle Apple launched in March, is headed back to the drawing board after a rough debut. Revenue from the service is split 50/50, with half going to Apple and publishers splitting the other half based […]
Streamers don’t browse – at least not on streaming services. Although the majority of households either own a smart TV and/or have a subscription-video-on-demand service (SVOD), most people (58%) still gravitate back to traditional TV channels when they’re not sure what they want to watch, according to Nielsen’s total audience report for Q1, released Monday. […]
Ashlen Cherry, Epsilon’s chief privacy officer, would bet on federal privacy legislation happening – just not before the end of the year. “This can be a bipartisan issue, and there’s an appetite for it on the hill,” said Cherry, who joined Epsilon last October after almost a decade as the global privacy program manager at […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jane Clarke, managing director and CEO at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM). Outcomes-based measurement is redefining advertising. GSK recently launched a self-optimizing outcomes-based digital-out-of-home campaign informed by real-time data. This follows announcements earlier this year by A+E […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Wondery-ful A spree of acquisitions of podcasting and streaming audio ad tech startups by Spotify, Pandora and iHeartMedia has somewhat consolidated the category, but the independent market is still growing. Podcast production network Wondery raised $10 million last week at a valuation of more […]
France’s data protection regulator is going public with its action plan – and targeted online advertising is to be a “priority topic.” The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) shared its 2019-2020 agenda in response to appeals from the public, privacy advocates and online marketing professionals looking for guidance on how to comply […]
Twitch streamers will sling products during two 12-hour streams on July 15 and July 16 to drive Amazon Prime Day sales. The Twitch Presents channel will be taken over by different streaming celebrities selling products ranging from electronics and gaming to kitchenware and kitsch. It’s QVC, but with gamers making the sale. The close alignment […]
ALC may be one of the biggest first-party data companies you’ve never heard of – but that’s about to change. Founded in 1978 as the American List Counsel, ALC started life as a provider of data services to direct marketers, which back then primarily meant developing customized consumer data files to support postal campaigns. But […]
Privacy protection isn’t a tick-the-box exercise, and so policymakers need to think outside the box. At the Federal Trade Commission’s annual PrivacyCon event in Washington, DC, on Thursday, the agency invited nearly 20 privacy researchers and academics from around the world to dig into the nitty gritty on consumer privacy, data collection, security and the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Scott Bender, global head of publisher strategy and business development at Prohaska Consulting. Sales teams are finally arming themselves with programmatic knowledge, but it’s not enough. The industry shift to audience-based buying requires a new […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Bridge Too Far? Are ISPs collecting customer browsing data for ad targeting purposes? A Wall Street Journal review shows that, with the exception of AT&T, most don’t seem to be doing it. Comcast, Charter, Verizon and Altice are all abstaining for the moment. […]
The IAB Tech Lab on Thursday released a new standardization system for third-party audience data and an auditing and credentialing program for data sellers. The effort to bring transparency to third-party data segments has “had a few lives” within the IAB, said Dennis Buchheim, the Tech Lab’s general manager. The longtime problem is that when […]
While most of the interest in TV happens in front of the glass, there’s a great deal of intrigue taking place behind it. This week on The Big Story, we dive into some of the most recent data dealings, with LiveRamp buying Data Plus Math and how much of that TV-generated data is collected and […]
