The IAB Tech Lab on Wednesday released a disclosure framework to help buyers evaluate the attributes of audience segment data. The Data Transparency Framework is open for public comment until July. The IAB Data Transparency Standards Working Group will incorporate the feedback into a final version released this summer. If the framework is adopted, digital […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jeff Lucas, head of Americas sales at Oath. The TV and digital video advertising industry is in the midst of a major transformation. Consumers are overwhelmingly cross-platform, engaging with multiple devices at the same […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Splitsville The long-term agency-client relationship is fading into the past, as major clients like HSBC, Campbell’s and Ford give up decades-long relationships for a fresher approach. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Jim Farley, Ford Motor Co.’s president of global markets, said […]
It wasn’t a surprise to most in the industry when Accenture Interactive said Wednesday it would formally launch a programmatic services unit as part of its offer to clients. The Accenture subsidiary has been steadily wading into agency territory for years by acquiring creative and design shops. While it hasn’t made any major acquisitions in […]
by Sarah Sluis, Alison Weissbrot and Ryan Joe Everyone in the industry claims – at least publicly – to be ready for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which starts Friday. But how can that be true? There are too many unknowns to predict what will happen when the industrywide regulation kicks in. AdExchanger turned […]
Header bidding-enabled ad spend is on the upswing thanks to mobile. And though it’s still early days for in-app header bidding adoption, that train’s just about ready to leave the station. The number of mobile impressions transacted through unified auction technology increased more than 110% year over year in the first quarter of 2018, according […]
“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 Richard Eisert, partner at Davis & Gilbert. The increasing prevalence of bots and other automated systems on the internet has roiled the digital ad industry over the past few years, […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Curran, founder and chief product officer at Staq. Publishers are starting to ramp up their investment in data, especially as they gain more prowess in programmatic advertising. Many are throwing around the idea […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CTV Scrapper Roku has maintained a leading position in the streaming device market in spite of heated competition from Google’s Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, according to eMarketer data. And that’s despite Roku’s shift from pure hardware sales to a business model […]
Anyone hoping for an intense grilling of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his testimony Tuesday before European politicians in Brussels can keep on waiting. Zuckerberg trotted out familiar talking points and was sheltered from the intensity and awkward eye contact of real interrogation by a strange format, in which members of the EU Parliament asked […]
Google soon expects to join the IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework, which transmits consent across the ad tech ecosystem to serve data-driven ads under GDPR. Google said it will join once it has resolved technical and policy details so parts of its ad tech can operate with the framework. “We absolutely want to be […]
More brands are bringing the strategic functions of programmatic buying in-house, relegating their agencies to specialized roles. Sixty-five percent of brands are either completely or partially buying programmatic media in-house, according to a white paper released Tuesday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) Data Center of Excellence. The white paper surveyed marketers at 119 US […]
Shopper marketing, a longtime favorite of CPGs typically used for in-store signage or to get products on eye-level shelves, is undergoing a massive transformation thanks to the spread of ecommerce and online shops. Of the $178 billion marketers spend annually on in-store marketing, $55 billion could shift from traditional retail trade marketing to online ads, […]
“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 Lindsey Harju, co-founder at Blinc Digital Group. Many in the marketing and ad tech worlds believe we’ve evolved as a society into superior beings, and in many ways, that is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rewinding Videology Videology, once the agency world’s preferred solution for online video, declared bankruptcy earlier this month after a tough few years. Digiday recounts how in the early days of digital video, Videology’s ad network model offered TV buyers an easy and scaled way […]
Adobe said Monday it will buy the ecommerce platform Magento for $1.68 billion. Magento’s 2017 revenue was $150 million, and the deal is expected to close by the end of August. Ecommerce has long been a big hole in Adobe’s tech, even as competitors spent heavily to acquire Magento’s competitors. SAP has owned hybris since […]
Nicolle Pangis, a former C-suite exec at WPP GroupM’s Xaxis and [m]Platform, has been appointed CEO and president of NCC Media. She will start May 29. NCC is a national cable sales group owned by Comcast, Charter and Cox Communications. In April, NCC started a division led by Comcast’s advanced ads division that will focus […]
IPG Mediabrands is the latest agency network to bust silos to offer clients integrated solutions. The company said Wednesday it folded mobile agency Ansible and social agency Society into search agency Reprise. The combined agencies unified under the Reprise brand because it had the broadest footprint, with 60 offices in 40-plus markets, said Tim Ringel […]
Verizon’s Oath wants advertisers to know that although it shuttered its programmatic TV offering OneTV, its addressable TV business based on Fios households – which launched in late 2016 – is here to stay. Verizon knows that for addressable inventory, it’s later to the game than Dish network as well as AT&T and its DirecTV […]
“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Amy Loesch, vice president of digital marketing at RetailMeNot. Multitouch attribution can be intimidating for some marketers. Where does one start and how can brands get executive buy-in? More than half (57%) of marketers surveyed in […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Sarah Wilson, associate media director at DWA Media. By 2021, 1 million minutes of video content will move over the internet every second, according to Cisco. That’s 17,000 hours of video – every single second. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Story Time Advertising is coming to Facebook Stories, a sleeper hit on the Facebook platform that draws 150 million daily active users. Ads will be 15- to 20-second videos that users can skip and are for now limited to branding initiatives, TechCrunch reports. Click-throughs […]
Acxiom intends to sell its marketing solutions division before moving to a potential sale of LiveRamp, because it believes selling them separately will drive more shareholder value, said sources close to the company. Interest in Acxiom and LiveRamp in particular heated up in March, after Salesforce bought the middleware tech company MuleSoft for $6.5 billion, […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Frost Prioleau is a longtime digital ad entrepreneur, having founded and sold two companies over the span of 13 years. The first was Personifi, a behavioral ad targeter acquired by Collective Media in 2008, followed by Simpli.fi, a programmatic platform for local advertisers. This week on […]
This is the latest installment in “PII,” a series featuring the talent that makes the wheels turn in our data-driven advertising world. Kim Perell learned at a young age that it’s OK to fail. “Failure is a great opportunity to learn,” she said. “I saw my parents fail [when I was] growing up. It was more […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jaclyn Stewart, senior director of strategy at The 614 Group. Many publishers today are wrestling with whether they should decouple their data from their impressions. Do they want to help advertisers understand their audiences […]
“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 Alexei Chemenda, chief revenue officer for apps and managing director, US, at Adikteev. Most marketers use return on ad spend (ROAS) as the benchmark for their retargeting campaigns. The problem […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Onboarder Offloaded? Acxiom is shopping LiveRamp, a linchpin of data-driven advertising, Mike Shields reports for Business Insider. LiveRamp, the strongest player in the data-onboarder category, would have many suitors, with marketing tech giants like Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce and IBM likely to make a bid. […]
Just because someone doesn’t have a smartphone doesn’t mean she doesn’t need shampoo. But reaching her with the right message on mobile is a knotty challenge, as P&G Indonesia learned while developing a media plan to promote the launch of a new anti-dandruff shampoo from Pantene. Indonesia is a nation comprised of thousands of islands […]
