One week after Amazon reached a “definitive agreement” to buy the Sizmek ad server and DCO tech, the French ad tech company Weborama is trying Friday to re-open the process with a press release and what it claims is a larger offer. FTI Consulting, the financial advisory overseeing Sizmek’s bankruptcy review, emphasized its agreement with […]
Jamie Power has been in addressable TV since the early days. After working her way up through the agency world as a media planner and a brief stint in sales, Power joined Modi Media, GroupM’s advanced TV division, in 2013. She’s now chief operating officer at Cadent Addressable, an advanced TV platform head up by […]
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“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. Amazon bought Sizmek’s ad server and dynamic creative optimization (DCO) tool last week. If you’re not a Sizmek customer, this may not seem like a big deal. And […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Simpler Sell In the United Kingdom, Dentsu Aegis is following a new holding company trend by consolidating and restructuring disparate agencies across media, data and creative. WPP recently merged J. Walter Thompson and Wunderman into one business, Wunderman Thompson, and consolidated VML and […]
This week on “The Big Story” we start by winding down the epic of Sizmek. The near-final chapter of this saga came last week with Amazon’s acquisition of two of Sizmek’s most coveted assets: its ad server and its dynamic creative optimization (DCO) technology. Of the two, Sizmek’s ad server has always been the notable […]
“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 Todd Tran, chief strategy officer at Teads. AI is driving innovation in every industry, but in advertising, it’s still a bit murky. Brands need to understand what AI means and […]
Apple dropped a mini bombshell Monday at its Worldwide Developer Conference: a privacy-safe logon button for apps. Positioned as “the fast and easy way to sign in without all the tracking” according to SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi, “Sign in with Apple” is a developer-initiated alternative to the single sign-ons offered by the likes […]
If mobile and display advertising was the first stage of programmatic technology, connected TV (CTV) and broadcast advertising could be considered the second. But there is one big question: Will ad networks – a mainstay of early digital programmatic display advertising – spring up in the data-driven TV tech ecosystem? One early contender in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Paid Influence Instagram is allowing brands to promote organic content created by influencers as ads in its feed. “One of the biggest requests from brands to date is the ability to incorporate branded content posts into their advertising strategies,” Instagram said in a blog […]
When Snap first acquired Placed in 2017, it teased the prospect of proving to buyers how Snap Ads translate into store visits and real-world results. Yet over the next two years, before Snap sold Placed to Foursquare last week, Snap never highlighted the Placed technology in its pitch to media buyers; Placed was never integrated […]
When Amazon acquired Sizmek’s ad server and dynamic content optimization (DCO) businesses last week, most of the attention fell on the server. And rightly so, since the server is the meat and potatoes of the deal. But don’t sleep on the DCO solution as a potentially valuable asset for the Amazon Advertising Platform (AAP). After […]
Martin Sorrell has harsh words for his successor at WPP Group. During a wide-ranging interview on this week’s AdExchanger Talks podcast, Sorrell sharply questions decisions made by WPP’s current leadership in the year since he abdicated to start his own holding company, S4 Capital. He suggests WPP brass have executed poorly on a well-intentioned strategy […]
“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. Does behavioral targeting make publishers more money? That’s a huge question with many potential ramifications, most significantly the conversations about government regulation of user tracking. A study released last week examined that […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Benioff Hearts MuleSoft Marc Benioff was effusive on the subject of MuleSoft Tuesday during Salesforce’s first quarter earnings call for its 2020 fiscal year. Benioff waxed lyrical about how the systems integrator – which Salesforce purchased for $6.5 billion last year – is helping […]
A crop of amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act have been sent to the state Senate for a vote. The bills, which aim to modify and clarify the regulation, were first approved in waves by the California Assembly throughout the month of May. The ones that receive the Senate’s eventual blessing will then head […]
Neal Richter, who spent two years as Rakuten Marketing CTO, is headed to SpotX as the company’s first ever chief scientist. Richter is one of the early tech leaders in programmatic, helping to develop all three openRTB specs released by the IAB, as well as online ad authorization industry initiatives like Ads.txt and Sellers.json. As […]
The former CTO of Disney ABC Television, Michael Napodano, who also spent a decade at NBCUniversal, joined Operative on Monday in the newly created role of Chief Delivery and Information Officer. “Having been on the programming side of the house for so long, I wanted to challenge myself to be a part of a company […]
This article is sponsored by TiVo. Pay-TV customers have never had more options. According to a study by Ampere Analysis, streaming content now includes more than 160,000 subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) titles. Nearly one quarter of TV viewers now subscribe to four or more SVOD services. Yet content discovery hasn’t changed much from its cable TV […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Power Players Google is preparing for an antitrust investigation by the US Justice Department, which could include a far-reaching probe of its advertising practices. Google’s usual regulatory hotspot is search, where it wields immense influence in the consumer journey and can prioritize keeping people […]
Apple’s high-profile assault on third-party tracking continues. Starting with iOS 13 in the fall, users will be able to log in to apps and services using Apple Face ID without sharing other personal information. The new “Sign in with Apple” button, an unconcealed jab at Google and Facebook, is a way to sign in “without […]
As more people increasingly listen to podcasts, the advertiser dollars are following. As a result, podcasting is poised to become a billion-dollar advertising business in the United States within the next three years. Advertising revenue earned by podcast creators grew an estimated 53% in 2018 to $479 million, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and […]
Out-of-home (OOH) advertising is the only traditional media that’s still showing growth, but some advertisers are holding back, because the process of buying billboards and transit ads is like wrangling cats. To try and get more advertisers on board, AdQuick, a startup backed by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, is creating an online marketplace for buying […]
When nutritional supplement company Transparent Labs ran a video on social media as its first-ever marketing campaign, it didn’t expect to go viral. But the five-minute video raked in 21 million views and 18,000 shares across social media, translating to a 4:1 return on ad spend. Through the campaign, Transparent Labs was able to grow […]
Amazon’s acquisition of Sizmek’s ad server and dynamic creative optimization (DCO) platform Friday puts it in a better position to compete with Google for advertiser budgets. Amazon will likely gain new clients from Sizmek who don’t want to deal with switching ad servers, as well as some advertisers who don’t like the idea of working […]
“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Alex Weinstein, senior vice president of growth at Grubhub and the author of the Technology + Entrepreneurship blog. CEOs have complained for decades that half of marketing spend is wasted, and we don’t know which half. Despite the move to digital, […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Paul Alfieri, chief marketing officer at Cadent. Google’s recent test of ads on the home screen of an Android-powered Sony TV should have been an eye-opening event for TV service providers intent on growing “time […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trust Issues The Justice Department may open a case against Google over alleged antitrust violations in its search business. Back in 2013 Google was forced to make changes to its search ads business as part of a settlement with the FTC. But a new […]
Placed has found a new home. Foursquare is buying the location-based measurement company from Snap. Separately, it raised $150 million in fresh funding courtesy of The Raine Group, some of which is going to fund the acquisition. The rest is earmarked for R&D. The deal, announced early Friday morning, comes less than two years after […]
Updated at 11:50 EDT Amazon announced on Friday that it will buy Sizmek’s ad server business and dynamic content optimization (DCO) solution, following a two-month sales review since Sizmek declared bankruptcy in March. The deal would give Amazon the second-largest ad server footprint, trailing Google, and has important implications for Amazon’s advertising ambitions and the […]
