Customer data platform (CDP) Amperity announced a $50 million investment round on Monday, bringing its total funding to almost $90 million. A cohort of large venture capital investors, including Tiger Global Management and Goldman Sachs, backed the new Amperity round. “What I think many industry observers see is the opportunity for a multi-billion dollar, blue […]
For decades, the global CMO role has been the pinnacle of the marketing career pyramid, because the largest brands, like Mars, Coca-Cola and Unilever, needed a single executive to oversee content and messaging across the portfolio. But the days of the global CMO may be nearing an end. Coca-Cola scrapped its global CMO role late […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Philip Inghelbrecht, co-founder and CEO at Tatari. Savvy marketers operate across channels to reach current and potential customers. While search and social media – Facebook, in particular – are still the most popular, TV advertisers […]
“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Emily Ketchen, head of Americas marketing at HP. Despite criticism that it is just a marketing gimmick, brand transparency is more relevant and meaningful than ever. It is becoming fundamental to how companies engage with customers. By […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Facebook Is Fine Looks like Facebook was prescient in setting aside billions in anticipation of a $3 billion to $5 billion FTC fine. The FTC reportedly approved a $5 billion fine against the social networking giant on Friday. If the fine is approved by […]
WarnerMedia’s announcement Wednesday that three of its top sales executives would leave as part of a reorg reflects changing times in the business of network TV. Donna Speciale, president of ad sales, Dan Riess, EVP of Turner Ignite, and Frank Sgrizzi, EVP of portfolio sales and client partnerships, are leaving WarnerMedia one year after its […]
WPP said Friday it has sold a 60% majority stake in Kantar to Bain Capital in a deal that values the company at around $4 billion. Read the release. The news marks the end of a months-long bidding process that involved Apollo Global Management and Vista Partners. Bloomberg reported earlier in July that Bain had […]
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It’s hard enough to develop features that work well for one app or site – let alone more than 100. But that’s the task at hand for Kara Chiles, senior director of product development at USA Today Network, a national news service that shares content and resources between USA Today and Gannett-owned local properties across the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Stephanie Layser, vice president of advertising technology and operations at News Corp. On an overcast day in April at Google’s New York headquarters, the tech giant’s product managers presented their vision for the latest innovation […]
“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 Rachel Gantz, SVP, commercial, at Comscore. Time’s up. #MeToo. Equal pay. This is the world many of us proudly live in. Gender identity and norms have become more fluid and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. It’s A ’xu Out There OpenAP, a TV audience measurement and targeting consortium backed by Fox, Viacom and NBCUniversal, selected dataxu as its go-to DMP and data match service. Read the release. Dataxu’s OneView DMP will let OpenAP members build audience segments. In using […]
This week on The Big Story, it’s all about quality – the quality CPM (qCPM). It’s a new – but actually kind of old – way for ad buyers to figure out whether they’re getting good value for the inventory they purchase by adding indicators of quality, such as viewability and brand safety, to the […]
Zeta Global, the marketing tech and data cloud, announced a strategic partnership with the location data company PlaceIQ on Thursday that will see Zeta take over PlaceIQ’s managed media business, including more than 20 employees. Zeta has its roots in CRM, but has taken big strides into media buying this year, taking over Visto’s managed […]
“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 Auren Hoffman, CEO at SafeGraph. Organizations are awash in data. They are creating more and more of their own data, and they are now starting to buy increasing amounts of external […]
Jason Bigler, who has headed up Google’s sell-side business since April following Jonathan Bellack’s exit, wants publishers to know that Google Ad Manager isn’t going to be a black box anymore. Bigler will prioritize sharing more information with publishers about the Google Ad Manager team’s decision-making process. “With every change we make, we are providing […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. Buying connected TV ad inventory is fragmented at best and complex at its worst. Channels we are familiar with from the corded TV days – TLC, HGTV, Bravo […]
Podcast production networks Stitcher and Wondery are taking their ad offerings across the pond with the launch of a joint venture called Podfront UK. The company, launched Thursday with equal ownership, will represent inventory from both networks to advertisers seeking to reach listeners in the UK market. Former audioBoom exec Ruth Fitzsimons will lead Podfront […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In-House 2020 We hear a lot about marketers taking advertising in-house, but now politicians are doing it too. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has hired 300 staffers to produce TV and digital advertising and buy digital ads for her presidential primary campaign, Politico reports. Most candidates […]
Updated 8:00 PM EST to reflect a statement from WarnerMedia CRO Gerhard Zeiler WarnerMedia’s president of ad sales, Donna Speciale, is leaving the company as part of a broader ad sales reorg. The Information first reported the development. Speciale, who has been president of Turner’s ad sales business for seven years, took on the role […]
This week’s podcast guest is Jane Clarke, CEO and managing director of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement. She will give a related presentation, titled “The Next Wave Of TV Measurement,” at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO New York conference. In this episode, Clarke discusses the measurement crisis created by the old TV ratings system’s […]
“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 Brian Crook, chief technology officer at Verve. The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently put the ad tech industry on notice that its real-time bidding (RTB) practices for handling consumer data […]
Firefox is starting to block third-party tracking by default, which will throw a wrench into the business model of any company that relies on cookies. But that doesn’t mean Firefox doesn’t care about how this change affects the bottom line – especially its own. Beyond the normal usability testing done before rolling out a new […]
The French ad-tech company Pubstack said Wednesday it raised $2.3 million in seed funding from two VC firms and a handful of angel investors, including Criteo co-founder Romain Niccoli. Pubstack’s tech is designed to make it easier for publishers to monitor their programmatic partners in real time, and it connects monetization data with what happened […]
Yelp is moving from targeting your local corner restaurant to businesses with hundreds or thousands of locations. Tom Foran, Yelp’s SVP of national sales, is leading this effort. It’s working. National sales grew 22% in the past year. Revenue for its top 100 customers soared 50%. His 250-person team is focused on Yelp’s “multi-location segment” […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Illegitimate Interest? European regulators are circling real-time bidding companies, claiming the online ad framework violates GDPR by passing sensitive information through bid requests without explicit consent. Regulators in the United Kingdom and Ireland are investigating RTB, and Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain and Poland have […]
CalMatters reports nonpartisan, in-depth stories about California state politics on a nonprofit budget – and it needed a tech stack to fuel that vision. The site is shifting this week to use a suite of publisher tools bundled together by The News Project. Founded last year, The News Project wants to serve the wave of […]
Facebook is putting out the welcome mat for professional content creators by diversifying the ways they can earn revenue on the platform. Creators can pursue up to four different revenue streams. They can set up subscriber-only paid groups, receive “stars” as tips from fans, rent their audience to their branded content partners and share in […]
You are what you watch. On Tuesday, smart TV data company TVadSync, which uses visual automatic content recognition (ACR) technology to track viewing behavior, released a planning and analytics tool that creates clusters of viewers based on the TV and video content they consume. “If you move beyond demographics and genre, you can make people’s […]
LiveRamp pioneered data onboarding, the technology to match anonymized online user cookies and mobile IDs to real-world consumers and offline data. But now, LiveRamp must contend with rivals following the trail it blazed. LiveRamp executed a neat financial pirouette last year, when it re-listed on the stock exchange with a market cap of more than […]
