Google’s decision to stop providing DoubleClick (DCM) advertising IDs in its ad server log files beginning May 25 will throw a wrench into multitouch attribution, because it will block marketers’ ability to compare Google campaigns with other ad platforms. Whether this policy change is an existential threat to independent attribution or not, the loss 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 James G. Brooks Jr., founder and CEO at GlassView. Digital marketing for the last few years has focused on wringing every last atom of efficiency out of ad buys. This […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, media director at Caffelli. Between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, the impending murky chaos of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the random data breaches and straight-up malfeasance from any number of companies […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fresh Perspective Oath CEO Tim Armstrong and Unilever CMO Keith Weed are being considered for the top job at WPP Group, Financial Times reports. Armstrong, who ran AOL during its $4.4 billion sale to Verizon and now oversees the combined AOL and Yahoo subsidiary, […]
When Marla Kaplowitz took the helm of the 101-year-old American Association of Advertising Agencies (the 4As) just over a year ago, a scathing report about agency rebates had just dropped from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). “There was an erosion of trust when that happened,” Kaplowitz said. “Everyone was guilty without any sort 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 Chris Peterson, managing partner at R2C Group. Many technologies promise to deliver the holy grail of advertising: the ability to know exactly how advertising is performing and where it’s working […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. Though Facebook has only recently come under fire for fake user profiles on its platform, the problem of fake profile data has long plagued programmatic media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TV Killed The Video Star? Videology, a video ad network that tried to reinvent itself as an advanced TV company, plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, The Wall Street Journal reports. Amobee has offered $45 million for the company’s assets, which likely will […]
The Trade Desk generated $85.7 million in revenue during the first quarter of 2018, a 61% jump from the same period last year, the company disclosed in its earnings report Thursday. Profitability was also up, with net quarterly income reaching $9.1 million, compared to $4.9 million in Q1 2017. The Trade Desk raised its 2018 […]
AdExchanger Talks is a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Google’s top digital marketer, Bob Arnold, is our guest in the podcast studio this week. Many listeners will remember Bob’s early advocacy of programmatic drawn from his time at P&G and Kellogg. “I’m still a dyed-in-the-wool CPG marketer,” he says in this episode. “Marketing is marketing, […]
The global digital advertising market grew 21% to $88 billion in 2017, according to the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report released Thursday and conducted by PwC. But because Facebook and Google account for 90% of that growth, according to Pivotal Research analyst Brian Wieser, others shouldn’t benchmark their own growth rates against the industry average. […]
In the National Football League, the whole team has to know the same playbook for the plays to work. And the same is true for the NFL’s marketing group, which in 2017 began centralizing its audience data to improve team-level marketing and the value of league sponsorships. “We’re building a data co-op, in a sense,” […]
“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 Mike Hans, founder and CEO at Forge Group. In US history class in high school, we learned about the concept of checks and balances. Each branch serves a distinct role […]
Don’t confuse Google’s Waze with its homegrown Maps product. Waze, which Google acquired in 2013, has a much different value prop. “Waze is for drivers,” said Suzie Reider, Waze’s head of ads in North America. “Google Maps is about navigating the physical world.” Waze also has a big community that works collectively to update the […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Philip Inghelbrecht, co-founder and CEO at Tatari. To date, TV has mostly been measured through a baseline and lift model. It is a framework that works well for linear TV, since many people watch the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bespoke Petroleum BP has consolidated its corporate, fuel and castrol marketing business under WPP after an almost year-long review process. The holding company will launch a new unit called Team Energy to provide services for advertising, media, investment, digital, branding, PR and research. Talent […]
As holding companies slump, Accenture Interactive grows. The digital experience agency, a subsidiary of the consulting firm Accenture, grew 35% in 2017 to hit $6.5 billion in revenue, making it the biggest digital agency in the world. It’s acquired 20 digital and design agencies since its launch in 2009 to build up its offering. As […]
Starting Wednesday, the Berlin-based mobile data exchange adsquare will offer refunds on the cost of data if the total delivery for a given campaign doesn’t fall within an advertiser’s declared goals. The guarantee helps build marketer confidence in a world where quality mobile data is in short supply and most of the good stuff lives […]
Advertisers want everything at scale: a niche audience, a brand-safe environment, and beautiful, engaging ads. Atlantic-owned publication Quartz, Vox Media and NBCUniversal’s ad marketplace Concert are partnering to add scale to their respective ad offerings. With the partnership, advertisers can buy in a single deal across Quartz and business-minded publications at Vox Media and NBCUniversal: […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Erik Requidan, vice president of programmatic strategy at Intermarkets. In advertising, we just love the death watch. Publishers often hear rumors like “Desktops are dead!” How many times have we heard the bell toll […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. GDPR Cops Aren’t Ready Even the regulators charged with enforcing GDPR aren’t prepared for it. Seventeen of 24 EU regulators surveyed by Reuters say they don’t have the necessary funding to enforce the law. Watchdogs need more resources, but many EU governments haven’t updated […]
Google on Tuesday revealed two products at Google I/O designed to drive app downloads. The first is the ability to show app content in an ad. The second, for game developers, is called Google Play Instant and gives consumers the ability to try the game in an ad unit before downloading it. Read the blog […]
Drawbridge, one of the last major cross-device indies, is selling its US media business to location data platform Gimbal, shutting down its self-serve ad platform and getting out of the advertising biz, AdExchanger has learned. Drawbridge’s media team and the company’s entire book of managed business is transferring to Gimbal. Both companies declined to share […]
Martin Sorrell may be out as CEO of WPP, but he’s not done as an entrepreneur yet. “I’m going to start again,” he said at the Techonomy conference in New York City on Tuesday. “I’m not going to go into voluntary, or involuntary, retirement.” So what’s the next act? Sorrell didn’t say, but he noted […]
Why would a consumer device giant like Samsung want to get into media sales? It seems implausible and yet that’s what happened, beginning in 2016 when the company quietly bought a Canadian demand-side platform and ad server called AdGear to build its own stack. It makes perfect sense to Tom Fochetta, VP of Samsung’s media […]
“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 Martin Kelly, CEO and co-founder at Infectious Media. A major shift is taking place in our industry, illustrated by Facebook shutting down its Partner Categories offering, which allowed advertisers to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bill Gates On Ad Privacy Regulation poses a striking challenge to online ad sellers, “but I do think the big companies, as regulation comes, will be able to handle it,” says Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in a CNBC interview alongside Warren Buffett. “People don’t […]
Viant’s answer to the marketing data overload problem isn’t a customer data platform – it’s a data lake. “And it’s for advertisers that want to go deeper on analytics,” said Jon Schulz, CMO at the Meredith-owned ad tech platform, which launched its data lake solution out of beta on Monday. Think of the data lake as a […]
Aside from the Trade Desk, which outstrips competitors among agencies, independent DSPs still struggle to differentiate or break out from the pack behind the category killers, Google’s DoubleClick Bid Manager (DBM) and Amazon’s ad platform, in Advertiser Perceptions’ latest demand-side platform benchmark report released Monday. The report, based on a survey of more 700 execs […]
