Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. If You Can’t Beat ‘Em Shares of the 56-year-old retailer Kohl’s have almost doubled in the past year as it bridges a new generation of shoppers with help from ecommerce natives. Kohl’s was seen as accepting a Trojan horse when it announced a deal […]
Martin Sorrell took a page out of his own playbook when he launched his new holding company, S4 Capital, in April. S4 released a 191-page prospectus Tuesday detailing its financials, share structure and go-to-market strategy. If all goes as planned, the company will begin trading on the London Stock Exchange on Sept. 28. But Sorrell’s […]
The writing was on the wall, but now it’s written in ink: Oath honcho Tim Armstrong will leave Verizon at the end of the year. Current Oath president and COO K. Guru Gowrappan was named as the new CEO, Verizon said in a release. Armstrong will aid in the transition. When Armstrong joined the telco […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This episode of AdExchanger Talks is supported by Tealium. The social navigation app Waze inspires great loyalty among its users. While the app may at first seem to compete with its corporate sibling Google Maps, there are big differences. “Waze is for drivers. Waze is about traffic. […]
Turner inventory will soon be available through the AppNexus ad platform, AT&T top dog Randall Stephenson said at an event Wednesday. Speaking at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia conference in New York, Stephenson also told attendees how he hopes to expand HBO viewership and said that federal authorities must codify rules around privacy and net neutrality. Advertising is […]
“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 Ka Mo Lau, chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Thunder. With the recent uproar over bid caching, where an exchange enables a losing bid in one auction to […]
Independent media agency Mediasmith has a new owner – but clients might not notice. The San Francisco-based agency, launched in 1978 by David Smith and Karen McFee, has sold to four members of its management team. COO John Cate, SVP and media director Greg Pomaro, VP of insights and technology Marcus Pratt and finance director […]
While Turner divisions like CNN and Bleacher Report have been producing podcasts for years, the broadcast giant never formalized a podcast sales strategy across its network. But with podcast advertising poised to double to $659 million by 2020, according to the IAB and PwC, it made sense for Turner to extend the reach from its […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Michael Weaver, senior vice president of business growth and development at Al Jazeera Media Network. In the publishing world, there’s a fine line between jumping the gun on an emerging distribution platform and being […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Search Wars, Part 2 Amazon has lit a fuse under the staid discipline of search advertising. With paid placements commanding more real estate on Amazon’s results pages, organic listings have been pushed lower on the page. As Recode reports, this has led to escalating […]
There’s always fanfare when Apple releases its new iPhones every September, as the company is expected to do at its annual hardware event in Cupertino on Wednesday. But away from the pomp of its hardware launch, Apple has been working behind the scenes to boost its growing software and services business – one that market […]
The German software company eyeo GmbH, which owns Adblock Plus (ABP) and created the Acceptable Ads whitelisting program, will launch its first programmatic technology for reaching ad-blocking audiences on Wednesday. The Acceptable Ads Exchange (AAX) has been in in alpha testing since February with three DSPs – one in the US and two in Europe […]
The Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference (Dmexco) kicks off Wednesday in Cologne, Germany, the first event since its main organizer parted ways with the conference’s co-founders. That led some marketers to question the future of the conference and if it would remain a “must-attend” among the ranks of CES and Cannes Lions. But it seems […]
“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 Michael Mallazzo, director of marketing at Narrativ. The data that powers the bulk of programmatic ad spend can only identify if a user is male or female about 50% of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Time Will Telco There’s plenty of pressure on Brian Lesser to build advertising into a pillar of AT&T’s business and marry the wireless company’s customer data to the new WarnerMedia content assets. “But probably more than anything, I feel this sense of responsibility to […]
Snap’s chief strategy officer, Imran Khan, is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities, it announced in an SEC filing Monday morning. Khan did not disclose his next role. He plans to stay at Snap for an unspecified interim period to help with the transition and recruit a new chief business officer. “This has been […]
As of Monday, all advertisers on Facebook will be able to see a full list of contextual placements where their ads might appear before a campaign starts and where they actually ran after a campaign ends. Facebook has been testing this capability for more than a year. As of last autumn, advertisers were already able […]
For the last four years, mobile measurement company TUNE has been “fighting with one hand tied behind its back,” said Alex Austin, CEO and co-founder of California-based deep-linking outfit Branch. In 2014, TUNE lost its Facebook marketing partner badge for allegedly retaining user data for too long. “But we’re giving TUNE both its arms back […]
Oath is attempting to deliver on its promise of becoming an alternative to the duopoly. But a question remains as to how compelling its proposition will be to buyers without the full complement of Verizon data at its disposal. On Monday, the Verizon-owned company unveiled the long-awaited fruits of a year’s worth of hard labor: […]
“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 global ecommerce marketing at Anheuser-Busch InBev. Brand marketers are good storytellers but often bad at driving consumer action. This wasn’t as troubling when content consumption was more linear with fewer stimuli; brand […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lance Neuhauser, CEO at 4C Insights. From Comcast and NBC to AT&T and Time Warner, the unification of premium content with rich consumer data is driving our current phase of media consolidation. These companies are […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Retarget On Your Back Criteo shares fell on Friday after it was revealed the retargeting company had been removed from the Facebook marketing partner program, Bloomberg reported. The situation is not dire, since Criteo’s share of revenue from Facebook has dropped from 9% […]
The Wall Street Journal’s revelation Friday that Tim Armstrong, leader of Verizon’s Oath media and advertising group, is in talks to depart the company is in stark contrast with the elevation of media and advertising at its biggest competitor AT&T. When Verizon first assembled Oath, many industry insiders wondered if it would create a new […]
The robots are taking over user acquisition on Facebook and Google, and that’s (mostly) a good thing. Whenever one of the large platforms automates an aspect of UA, it means more time for focusing on strategy and creative rather than drudgery, said Jess Hasenplaugh, head of UA at Berlin-based mobile game studio Wooga. “I’m happy […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Matt Prohaska, principal and CEO at Prohaska Consulting. Like the US political news cycle today, the mar tech news cycle moves pretty quickly, so I recognize we are near or at the end of […]
“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 Tutuwa Ahwoi, ad operations manager at National Public Media. Podcasting is becoming a popular medium. Monthly US podcast listeners are expected to reach 73 million in 2018, a 10% percent increase […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Grandpa’s Got Game Nielsen has acquired gaming intelligence firm SuperData Research to better track user engagement with video games and esports, VentureBeat reports. SuperData tracks the behavior of 160 million gamers and extrapolates that out to the US population. As gaming and esports become […]
If there’s one takeaway from the IAB’s fourth annual Podcast Upfront in New York City on Thursday, it’s that richer measurement has made podcast advertising more enticing to ad buyers. This year, Apple and Spotify began sharing more granular analytics with publishers, and the IAB released the 2.0 spec of its podcast measurement technical guidelines. “This will […]
The advertising technology ecosystem has been waiting for Google to implement the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF), a protocol for collecting consent and conveying it to intermediaries for data-driven advertising. Google and IAB Europe have been negotiating for almost three months about how to reconcile their technology and interpretations of consent for GDPR, […]
