Salesforce on Tuesday introduced Salesforce Customer 360, a unified customer ID that connects profile data across its Sales, Services, Commerce and Marketing cloud product suites. “There are so many ways for a person to engage with a brand nowadays and a certain level of control has been lost behind these layers of technology and media,” […]
Virtual reality still has much runway to travel before it lands a permanent spot on the media plan. It’s niche. But for brands like Cathay Pacific, VR content is just the ticket to engage consumers in a new and unexpected way, said Robecta Ma, VP of marketing for the Americas at the Hong Kong–based airline. […]
“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 Mark Gorman, CEO at Matrix Solutions. While M&A strategies offer media companies a leg up on competition, little attention goes to the behind-the-scenes drama when aligning the legacy technology platforms […]
The Plateau Problem Digital publisher Vox is set to miss its goal of $200 million in revenue this year by more than 15%, though it should still see double-digit growth over last year’s take of about $160 million, The Wall Street Journal reports. The issue came up at a board meeting last week amid investor […]
SiriusXM said Monday it has offered to acquire Pandora for $3.5 billion, a 13.8% premium on the current stock price. Read the release. If the deal goes through, SiriusXM would be able to distribute its content beyond vehicles and gain both a subscription radio business and an ad-supported streaming business. It would have the opportunity […]
AdColony laid off roughly 10% of its US workforce late last week amid struggles to gain a foothold in the app-install space. Headcount now stands somewhere around 350. The cuts were across sales, IT, finance and product, including the chief product officer position. AdColony confirmed the layoffs, but not the exact number. The beleaguered mobile […]
As the traditional holding company model declines, new models are rising as competition. While the “big six” – WPP, Publicis Groupe, IPG, Dentsu Aegis, Havas and Omnicom – still rule, legacy structures and poor financial performance are causing their dominance to wane. In March, WPP lost $2.6 billion from its market cap. Omnicom has been […]
“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 Julie Fleischer, vice president of marketing solutions at Neustar. We’ve all heard the stats. There are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day. Ninety percent of the world’s data […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lindsey Harju, co-founder at Blinc Digital Group. We love the constant barrage of headline-grabbing figures about cord cutters and connected TV, but most of the information we are devouring is really just academic. Sure, […]
Cold Shower For Market Power Big tech, are your ears burning? On Friday, the Federal Trade Commission held the second in an ongoing series of hearings digging into competition and consumer protection issues. The FTC is trying to update its enforcement and policy agenda in the face of fast-paced technological change. “Technology is no longer […]
AppNexus’s new telco owner, AT&T, has withdrawn it from the Advertising ID Consortium, a shared industry cookie ID it co-founded last year, along with other independent ad tech platforms. Adweek first reported the move on Thursday. Does the withdrawal spell curtains for the independent identity graph before it really got off the ground? The consortium […]
An ad campaign launched this month by IZOD, the men’s fashion company, encapsulates the advantages of in-housing marketing, from creative strategy and production through post-campaign attribution. The company doesn’t work with outside agencies, but has an agency model that serves constituents within the company instead of various brand customers, said Mike Kelly, chief marketing officer […]
Augmented reality is about to hit its stride thanks to large media platforms, which are leading the way. Snap was early, but over the past 12 to 18 months, Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba and others have all made big bets on AR by either investing in companies or creating (some might argue copying) […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Alessandro De Zanche, an independent audience strategy consultant. A few days ago, I read an interesting exchange on Twitter. A well-respected newspaper editor-in-chief advocated for digital news being free, like the newspaper he had, […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Give And Take Marketers and agencies will lose access to third-party data integrations on Facebook on Oct. 1. As Digiday reports, ad buyers were never sure how much they were paying for that data when Facebook was making deals with providers, since those costs […]
Adobe said Thursday it has agreed to acquire the B2B marketing platform Marketo for $4.75 billion. It’s the biggest deal in Adobe’s history. And the cloud technology giant may be shelling out so much because Marketo’s B2B category strength could help as Adobe moves into media buying and ecommerce, à la TubeMogul and Magento, where […]
Advertisers on Dish’s over-the-top service Sling TV can now power their addressable TV campaigns using Nielsen audience segments based on purchases and loyalty programs. Sling TV advertisers can also measure using Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings currency. These capabilities are available due to an expanded partnership between Dish’s media sales team and Nielsen, which the companies […]
The Big Story is a breezy new podcast featuring a roundtable of AdExchanger editors talking about the biggest stories from the past week. It is available wherever you subscribe to podcasts. The temperature is cooling, the leaves are falling and the skies are turning the color of slate. It’s a time for mystery. This week […]
Advertisers are moving over the top. Over-the-top TV (OTT) ad spend will grow 40% to reach $2 billion this year, according to Magna’s US Ad Spend Forecast Fall 2018, released Thursday. And addressable TV campaigns will reach $800 million in 2018. The uptick in OTT investment is driven by consumer adoption of smart TVs and […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Nola Solomon, vice president, global programmatic and strategic partnerships, at Dailymotion. When connected TV (CTV) first came to the fore, brands typically drew from their discretionary test-and-learn budgets or they’d steal from established buckets, […]
“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 Jessica Hawthorne-Castro, CEO at Hawthorne. The rise of data science has had a major impact on just about every industry out there, but the effect on marketing and advertising has […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Up The Amazon Marketers are projected to spend $4.6 billion on Amazon’s ad platform this year, about 4.2% of the online advertising market, propelling Amazon past Oath and Microsoft at 3.3% and 4.1%, respectively, according to eMarketer’s 2018 industry forecast. That being said, Amazon, […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This episode of AdExchanger Talks is supported by Tealium. As the old adage (sort of) goes: more data, more problems. That’s where the data marketing company Epsilon steps in to help. “Our vision is to know consumers and to be able to identify those […]
Consumers’ mistrust of data-driven advertising has reached a crisis point, and they must be reminded of the value they’re getting in exchange, said Google SVP of ads and commerce Sridhar Ramaswamy at the Data Summit in Dublin Wednesday evening. “It’s up to all of us to confront the crisis in front of us,” Ramaswamy told […]
For the last year, the founders of Tapfwd have been pivoting their business from a mobile data marketplace to a matchmaking platform for marketers. On Wednesday, the new company, which is called Wove, raised its $9 million Series A led by August Capital. The transition from Tapfwd to Wove is more natural that it might […]
When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect in May, Nestlé Germany was ready. Germany’s data collection laws have been notoriously austere for decades, much to the chagrin of some digital players. National laws – such as the Federal Data Protection Act, the Criminal Code, the Civil Code, the Telecommunications Act and Telemedia Act […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Michael Manoochehri, chief technology officer at Switchboard Software. Why do data projects continue to fail at an alarming rate? Gartner estimates that through 2017, 60% of data projects never get past preliminary stages. There are common reasons […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. When Google Coughs Google AdX’s publisher reporting has been having issues since the end of August. Three weeks later, those issues still have not been completely fixed. While system outages happen to everyone in tech, the length of this outage spurred grousing among publishers […]
“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 Terence Kawaja, founder and CEO at LUMA Partners. There was great uncertainty in the two years leading up to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). During this time, only […]
