Sizmek needs another investment round after facing setbacks and revenue shortfalls in 2018, and it won’t find new funding with Vector Capital, the firm that backed the acquisitions and integration of Sizmek and Rocket Fuel. Sizmek is working with Cerberus Capital Management, the PE firm that financed the debt on Vector’s deal for Rocket Fuel […]
“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 Robert Rasko, CEO and founder at The 614 Group. I find it quite interesting that the IAB has asked the federal government to regulate a portion of the digital advertising […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Twitter’s Unfinished Ad Business Twitter still has some catching up to do on the advertising front, CFO Ned Segal acknowledged Monday at Morgan Stanley’s Technology, Media and Telecom conference in San Francisco. Segal said Twitter needs to prove its ad formats drive interest even […]
Xandr just can’t deal right now, according to sources. When AT&T hired Brian Lesser to run its new targeted advertising business and acquired AppNexus as its anchor asset, the company signaled it might move quickly on more acquisitions. But the appetite for mergers has faded since then, and the company now plans to hold off […]
On Monday, Pinterest introed a tool to help retailers automatically ingest their online product catalogs as pins, including up-to-date pricing and stock info. Advertisers can then take the additional step to promote their product pins as targeted shopping ads, which are now available via self-serve after a prolonged beta that started last year. Similar functionality […]
“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. Anyone who has raised a child knows that along with the pride and joy of watching them mature comes the sinking disappointment of seeing your own faults reincarnated […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Sarah Stringer, senior vice president and head of innovation at Carat “Friends” may have launched in 1994, but thanks to streaming platforms, the show is as popular as ever. When it appeared on Netflix […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Stankey On The Warpath CNN’s digital business will undergo a significant overhaul under AT&T, The Wall Street Journal reports. WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey, a longtime AT&T exec who has shown himself to be a disruptive force within the company’s newly acquired media holdings, is […]
Zach Rodgers and Allison Schiff contributed. Comcast is looking to enhance its targeted advertising business by acquiring more ad tech assets, and is evaluating a group of companies that includes Cadent and dataxu, AdExchanger has learned. Comcast is motivated by a range of factors, including stiffer competition from AT&T and its Xandr ad unit as […]
After two years of stock declines, WPP is finally inching toward progress. The holding company on Friday reported revenue was down 1.3% in 2018 to $2 billion and billings up 0.4% to $7.4 billion, at the upper end of guidance set in October. Shares jumped 8% upon the news. But work remains to be done […]
“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. We have all read the stats that private marketplace (PMP) transactions continue to outpace overall programmatic spending. Sixty-one percent of publishers in an eMarketer […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Shopping News Meredith generated $400 million in retail sales last year due to commerce integrations across a dozen of its sites, working with 400 retailers to post 40 million products. To expand its shoppable integrations, Meredith acquired Linfield Media, the six-person affiliate marketing […]
As the specter of California’s Consumer Privacy Act looms over the tech world, many industry giants and trade groups have assumed a new role as collective cheerleader for broad federal privacy legislation. It wasn’t all that long ago that tech companies balked at the idea, but many have changed their tune. That has some Democrats […]
It’s out with the old and in with the new at Nielsen. Revenue for Nielsen’s Watch segment decreased 3.5% to $881 million in Q4, while Buy segment revenue declined 8.4% to $777 million. But freshly minted CEO David Kenny has a plan. Kenny, who joined Nielsen from IBM Watson in November 2018, wants to bring Nielsen’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 Maja Milicevic, co-founder and principal at Sparrow Advisers. In the past decade, programmatic advertising has evolved from helping publishers sell previously unsalable remnant inventory to a technology layer that ably powers […]
Targeting on TV with the same precision as digital is becoming a reality. Hulu, Roku and other over-the-top (OTT) providers offer advanced audience and behavioral targeting capabilities like CRM onboarding, while companies such as Xandr and NCC Media are applying unique data sets to make the linear TV landscape more addressable. But just because marketers […]
When the world changes, sometimes you need to change with it. But evolution doesn’t always happen – or sometimes you just end up moving in the wrong direction. This week on “The Big Story,” AdExchanger looks at RockYou’s bankruptcy and, on a much larger scale, the major pain at Kraft Heinz. With RockYou, the publisher-slash-ad […]
Tubi has no interest in becoming a subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) service. As giants like Netflix and Amazon Prime pour money into original content housed behind paywalls, Tubi wants to provide access to the world’s largest library of free, on-demand content. The 8-year-old, ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) network has more than 12,000 titles available across 18 streaming platforms. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hungry Mouse Disney is in talks to acquire WarnerMedia’s 10% stake in Hulu, Variety reports. Disney currently owns 30% of Hulu and will pick up 20th Century Fox’s 30% stake if and when the Department of Justice approves their merger. Adding WarnerMedia’s stake and […]
Rubicon Project’s revenue increased 32% in Q4, earning $41.4 million on $301 million in ad spend. It met its goal for a positive adjusted EBITDA and, as a bonus, became cash flow positive a year ahead of projections. The news sent Rubicon’s stock up 15% in after-hours trading. But Rubicon also noted pressure in its […]
The Trade Desk shocked many observers last May when shares jumped from around $50 to $90, and then again in August when the stock leapt to about $130. Now shares are trading at almost $200. But what’s behind The Trade Desk’s monumental growth in the past year? The company benefits from a smaller field of […]
Ad buyers need to be on the lookout for a new problem called “declaration fraud,” where buyers paying for full-screen mobile video ads instead get itty-bitty versions that take up less than 5% of the screen. The trick takes advantage of the same loophole sellers used to spoof domains prior to ads.txt. Here’s how it […]
Kraft-Heinz’s $15 billion write-down on Kraft and Oscar Meyer last week shows that underinvesting in marketing and brand hurts long-term growth. “It indicates investment in innovation and branding is essential,” said Martin Sorrell, CEO of S4 Capital. “In addition to being frugal, you have to invest in product or service innovation and marketing. You’re throwing […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Two years ago, I looked in my crystal ball and envisioned a future where all media would run programmatically. Today, we have all […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Case Dismissed The government lost its appeal to stop the AT&T and Time Warner merger on Tuesday. While AT&T will continue to operate Time Warner as a separate group, The New York Times reports, the two companies can integrate more deeply and move forward […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Advertising in retail and ecommerce environments has grown from a subset of shopper marketing to a key channel for the world’s biggest brands. This week on the podcast, Triad CEO Sherry Smith talks about that evolution. Triad’s customers are big retailers like Staples, Kohl’s, GameStop and […]
The programmatic video ad tech provider Telaria earned $55.2 million in 2018, up 26% from the year before, with total profits up 20% to $16.8 million, the company disclosed in its earnings report on Tuesday. Telaria shares were up more than a third during the day and have now recovered from the company’s earnings report […]
Facebook wants that upfront money. On Tuesday, Facebook said it will start letting TV buyers purchase inventory in specific programs hosted on Watch. This offering, called Showcase, resembles an upfront buy, as the inventory will be priced against Nielsen-validated demos and sold in advance at fixed prices. This content includes programs like “Sorry For Your […]
Marketers’ push for viewability, ads.txt and GDPR eventually led to the Chapter 7 bankruptcy of RockYou, an ad network and media holding company, on Feb. 13. The bankruptcy filing listed $14.9 million in liabilities to 738 different ad tech companies and publishers. Most notably, RockYou owed $2.1 million to Facebook, where it likely paid to […]
