“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Paolo Provinciali, head of US Media at Anheuser-Busch InBev. With increasing amounts of data available in our profession, being a data-driven marketer has become a badge of honor in the industry. Yet, in spite of celebrating a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Coming Under Fire Roku has built a lead in the OTT streaming device market, despite strong competition from Amazon, Google and Apple. But that may not be true forever. Morgan Stanley analysts said Amazon’s Fire TV market share has grown in the past year, […]
Direct-to-consumer brands like Mack Weldon, Manscaped and Peloton have expanded beyond their Facebook and Instagram roots – but don’t expect them to start advertising with or selling most of their products on Amazon. Though Amazon seems like a natural expansion for ecommerce startups, reducing the impact of the world’s biggest ecom platform is a strategic […]
“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 Natasha Stevens, executive vice president of strategy at GfK. Black boxes play a role in almost everything we do. My car’s engine is a black box, as is the ATM […]
Between “fake news” and lawsuits, few tech companies have been busier than Facebook. As a result, the platform’s technological ethos is changing. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has hinted that the company might phase out its classic news feed to focus on its Stories and Messenger features. Among these new avenues for monetization is Facebook Watch, […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris LaHaise, director of TV solutions at dataxu. LUMA Partners CEO Terry Kawaja recently named advanced TV as the thing he was most bullish about in the coming year. “I am most excited about […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Worth A Fortune Meredith sold the business news publication Fortune to Thai billionaire Chatchaval Jiaravanon for $150 million. Jiaravanon is the son of Sumet Jiaravanon, executive chairman of Thailand’s largest conglomerate, Charoen Pokphand Group, which spans food, retail, auto, finance, pharma and telco companies. […]
“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 Chris Simmance, managing director at Optus Digital. Marketers must better understand how people will use voice. After years of training, consumers have become efficient text searchers – but that is […]
For Julie DeTraglia, what started as an after-school habit watching re-runs of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Rhoda,” “All in the Family” and “The Carol Burnett Show” turned into a career in network and streaming TV. “It didn’t take long for me to understand that Hulu is the perfect place for me to have landed,” […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Mark Cullinane, senior vice president and general manager of digital at Publishers Clearing House. Advertisers know that engagement metrics matter most when establishing ROI on digital ad spend. But engagement metrics themselves are still relatively nascent. Publishers have started to […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sir Martin Calling Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital is in advanced talks to acquire programmatic agency and advisory firm MightyHive, the Financial Times reports. FT sources put MightyHive’s value at $140 to $200 million, with annual revenues of $25 million. Run by former Googler Peter […]
The Trade Desk reported Q3 revenue of $118.8 million, a 50% year-over-year increase. The company has maintained growth of 50% or more in the past two quarters, matching its growth rates from the same periods last year. With an upward revision to the company’s revenue forecast next quarter, CEO Jeff Green said he expects the […]
With the acquisition of several Fox properties under its belt, Disney is focused on building out its content library. It will launch its long-anticipated streaming service, Disney+, in late 2019, Disney CEO Bob Iger said Thursday during an earnings call with investors. Disney+ will be powered by BAMTech, a data platform in which Disney acquired […]
Privacy advocates in the UK filed a series of complaints Thursday against Criteo, Tapad, Quantcast, Acxiom, Oracle, Equifax and Experian, questioning whether consumer profiling is legal under GDPR. Watchdog group Privacy International is claiming that the way many ad tech and data companies use data is in direct contravention to Europe’s new privacy law. The […]
The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) released a study on Thursday that found an 84% drop in fraud compared to the industry average when all members in the supply chain are vigilant, badged and on the level. TAG analyzed 75 billion display and video impressions across desktop, mobile web and in-app channels to look for sophisticated […]
With a divided Congress, don’t expect 2019 to usher in federal privacy legislation a la GDPR… or to see a breakup of big tech. Even if the midterms hadn’t shaken out as expected – with Republicans keeping the Senate and Democrats securing a majority in the House – the chance for congressional action on either […]
Unruly wants to help brands get in their feelings. The video-focused ad tech company, owned by News Corp, creates audience segments based on multiple data sets, including survey and “emotional” biometric data. The company works with agencies and advertisers to relay how certain audiences react to their campaigns. This ultimately helps brands understand what kinds […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Why It Matters Axios is on track to rake in $20 million in revenue in 2018 – more than double last year. The news site, which launched in January 2017, even has “an outside shot at being profitable,” CEO Jim VandeHei tells Digiday. It […]
Of the $70 billion in national TV ad spend, Roku’s Q3 cut was $100 million. But the over-the-top (OTT) platform and device manufacturer is gunning for more, using its relatively new measurement program to convince advertisers to divert linear spend to OTT. Roku touted that $100 million milestone on Wednesday, noting that its platform business, […]
The Big Story is a breezy podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. With the midterms over and the recounts – where applicable – just beginning, the AdExchanger team looks at the redemption of polling data after a […]
The 2016 election was a disaster for the reputations of political pollsters, many of whom missed badly. With the midterm elections now in the bag, how well did the pre-election surveys match Tuesday’s results? Pretty well, actually. Public polls and data aggregators like FiveThirtyEight were, broadly speaking, closer to the mark in 2018 than they […]
Dynamic creative advertising technology is becoming more personalized. Forrester ranked Jivox, RevJet, Thunder, Clinch and Celtra as “leaders” in its first-ever Creative Advertising Technology wave, released Monday. Adform, Flashtalking, Sizmek and Google were ranked “strong performers,” while Adacado was listed as a “contender.” Vendors have tried to marry creative messaging to audience targeting for a […]
Cadent has launched what it says is the first national platform for addressable TV advertising. The aptly named Advanced TV Platform is designed to be a planning and reporting tool for major advertisers looking to buy addressable TV inventory. The interface is created from multiple first-, second-, and/or third-party data sources, integrated into a single […]
“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. For years, programmatic promised to lower costs and make transactions easier while generating the same amount of revenue. But that wasn’t the case. It created great operational complexity and made doing […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Drying Out The Well Venture capital funding for ad tech and mar tech startups will decrease by 75% in 2019, from $7.2 billion to $1.8 billion, according to Forrester Research. As regulations like GDPR raise concerns over digital privacy, new startups will have a […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Jounce Media founder Chris Kane gave a popular presentation at Programmatic IO New York on the buzzy discipline of supply-path optimization (SPO). In this episode, Kane comes into the AdExchanger studio for a deep dive on SPO and the ways advertisers can use it to optimize […]
This article is sponsored by Rubicon Project. As alternative methods for TV viewing – connected TV, over-the-top (OTT) devices and set-top boxes – proliferate, the line between traditional and digital TV is more blurred than ever. In fact, a Nielsen Total Audience Report for Q1 2018 indicated that as many as 35% of TV viewers […]
The data management platform (DMP) category is now a three-horse race, with Salesforce gaining on Oracle, and Adobe nipping at their collective heels. “Salesforce is definitely on an accelerated path,” said Kevin Mannion, chief strategy officer at Advertiser Perceptions, which released its Q3 2018 DMP wave on Tuesday. “Its upward movement is the most obvious […]
Horizon Media wants to be at the forefront as broadcast radio buying becomes more automated and data-driven. On Tuesday, Horizon said it would use programmatic radio platform Jelli for all of its radio upfront planning and buying – typically where advertisers spend at least half of their annual budgets. The media agency, one of the […]
