Putting together a sponsored content program is a time-consuming headache for buyers and publishers. BrandVerge, a marketplace where buyers can browse publishers’ sponsored content options, aims to make it faster and easier to create sponsored content deals. The platform claims to shorten the deal-making process by an average of 67%. Smaller agencies and direct-to-consumer brands […]
Human resources service provider TriNet launched its first-ever omnichannel brand campaign in October – without the help of an advertising agency. While the company worked with DWA as its media agency and Bombora, The Trade Desk and Nativo as ad tech partners, it was on a tight deadline to reposition the brand without an agency […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jochen Schlosser, chief strategy officer at Adform. MediaMath recently announced it would stop buying from supply partners that manipulate auctions via bid caching, wrapper misuse and other tactics. This is a welcome move from […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Another Bite Apple has never really warmed to advertising, but its search ads business could clear $500 million this year and quadruple to $2 billion by 2020, according to Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi. That growth could provide a boost for Apple in its goal […]
Verizon’s Oath content and advertising subsidiary brought in $1.8 billion in the past quarter, down 6.9% from the same period last year, Verizon said in its earnings report Tuesday. Verizon attributed the downturn to declining desktop and search advertising. CEO Hans Vestberg said the Oath business should remain flat for the short term and that […]
Consumer health and pharmaceutical giant Bayer is taking programmatic in-house. Bayer will partner with MightyHive to in-source its digital and programmatic media planning, buying, execution, strategy and analytics as well as search over the next two years. MightyHive will handle execution for the first year and phase out during 2020, Josh Palau, VP of digital […]
What kind of stories do people in market for a luxury SUV read? Forbes is answering that question using data, not a gut feeling, so brands can buy sponsorships and branded content based on what resonates with an audience. That question was once impossible to answer. Publishers would know, for instance, if readers indexed highly […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This episode of AdExchanger Talks is supported by StackAdapt. For this, our 100th episode of “AdExchanger Talks,” we bring you a wide-ranging conversation with Facebook’s top ad engineer, Mark Rabkin. This is Facebook’s first time on the podcast, so there was plenty of ground to cover. Rabkin, […]
If Amazon-owned Twitch reaches its goal this year of – according to Bloomberg – doubling its ad sales revenue to $1 billion, it has quite a lot to offer but a lot it must still do. On the plus side, Twitch, the popular video streaming platform that boasts more than 15 million daily active users, […]
“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. The podcast industry faces a glut of obstacles: fragmentation in listening, a lack of discovery and insufficient measurement, to name a few. It’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. If You Can’t Beat ’Em While Disney and WarnerMedia challenge Netflix head-on, Viacom is going the partner route. The network is relaunching MTV’s “The Real World” on Facebook Watch, for example, and running sequels as Netflix originals. Viacom’s Paramount Pictures will partner with streaming […]
Oracle kicked off its OpenWorld conference Monday by introducing a customer data platform (CDP) to connect disparate data sources and a subscription management product to capitalize on the blossoming subscription economy. The CDP, CX Unity, is now pre-integrated with the Oracle Customer Experience (UX) Cloud and is designed to tie marketers’ first-party data to anonymous third-party offline […]
Audio ads should be personalized, too. That’s the thought behind Adobe’s partnership with A Million Ads, which powers dynamic creative optimization in digital and programmatic audio, announced Monday. Adobe launched programmatic audio capabilities in July 2017, after receiving an uptick in demand from its customer base, said Justin Merickel, VP of media optimizer at Adobe […]
After stagnant growth in 2017, holding companies are getting rid of assets that aren’t related to their core focus on digital transformation, programmatic, data and technology. Omnicom, Publicis Groupe and WPP have significantly pruned their portfolios this quarter. IPG and Havas, on the other hand, have disposed of smaller and less strategic agencies in the […]
When Shpock, a European shopping app, started using search behavior to inform its ad targeting this year rather than just relying on demo data, it began to realize what its users were actually interested in. “For many years, demographic targeting was one of the main options used by brands and agencies alike,” said Jon Hatfield, […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV. Today’s column is written by Jay Friedman, president and partner at Goodway Group. The goal of every marketer is to spend the least amount of money possible to achieve the best possible results – to spend right to the point where […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Marketing Diet P&G’s marketing cuts haven’t caused the sky to fall. On the contrary, the CPG giant and world’s largest advertiser, which cut its marketing budget by 6% this year, saw net sales grow 4% to $16.7 billion in Q3, its strongest rate in […]
TV data provider Sorenson Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday, seeking to extricate itself from a costly deal with Sinclair Broadcasting. Sorenson provides technology so local affiliate networks owned by Sinclair or Hearst can dynamically insert targeted ads at the household level. It has a similar relationship with Samsung Ads. Sorenson’s Chapter 11 filings […]
IPG’s $2.3 billion acquisition of Acxiom Marketing Solutions will transform the holding company’s services around its clients first-party data, said CEO Michael Roth said on the company’s Q3 earnings call Friday. “Acxiom is a world-class data asset,” he said. “As all companies look to make their first-party data work harder for them, and do so […]
The in-housing trend prompted Gartner’s first-ever Magic Quadrant report for ad tech, which was released late last week. Even if not all marketers are ready or interested in taking their media buying in-house, there’s a desire across the board for more control over their tech stack – or at least to know what the heck’s […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Matt Harada, general manager of data at Sovrn. Publishers without an updated Ads.txt file are missing out on revenue and stand to lose more in the near future. Despite strong initial adoption of Ads.txt […]
“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 Jordan Lieberman, vice president at a4. The most progressive area of the digital advertising industry can be found on the campaign trail – both nationally and locally – where political […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Thanks For Sharing Procter & Gamble is asking retailers to share loyalty card and point-of-sale data so it can target customers likely to shop at a specific supermarket, Digiday reports. “It’s a big ask because it’s going way beyond EPOS data and click data,” […]
Publicis Groupe will divest part of its health care unit, Publicis Health Services (PHS), to restore its balance sheet and focus on the strategic growth areas of its business, the company announced Thursday. PHS, which services contract sales organizations and doesn’t exist in other health care communications networks, has been a drag on the overall […]
Sovrn closed a $25 million Series E round Thursday to help it acquire companies outside of ad tech. Sovrn’s original investors, led by Foundry Group, all participated in the round. “Our business is 100% focused on tools and technologies that help publishers – of which advertising is an important one,” said Sovrn CEO Walter Knapp. […]
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 complexity of digital advertising means it revolves around trust. At the same time, everyone has to make money. That basic tension leads to […]
Brad Stamulis, director of digital marketing at Dish Network, has long called out viewability measurement’s shortcomings – but at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O in New York City on Tuesday, he specified the steps the industry needs to take to fix it. Eliminating waste in programmatic marketing is always a challenge when it comes to viewability and […]
Credit card loyalty programs are table stakes for banks – nearly every bank has one. Points often accumulate unused and consumers sometimes forget they’re even there. But HSBC uses data and artificial intelligence to personalize its offers and make its program more redeeming. “There are so many choices in the credit card market, so we really […]
“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 Tiffany Morris, vice president of global privacy at Lotame. The California Legislature passed privacy regulation AB 375 in June. Media coverage has rightly characterized AB 375 as the equivalent of the General […]
