This is the third in a series of deep dives from AdExchanger on mobile fraud and mobile data quality, including guides to fraud tactics and threat vectors and practical solutions from advertisers in the growth and user acquisition trenches. Read the first story (“2018 Will Be A Year Of Reckoning For Mobile App-Install Fraud“) and […]
“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 Alex Perrin, vice president of programmatic strategy at Viant’s Adelphic. Brands place too high of a priority on impersonal technology versus strategic partnerships that garner access to innovative solutions. Everyone […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Proof Of Permission Facebook is launching tools to police marketers’ use of CRM data on its platform. One tool requires marketers to certify all email addresses used for targeting on Facebook were rightfully obtained, and the other will prevent marketers from sharing Custom Audiences […]
Salesforce’s data management platform (DMP) continues the strong ascent it began last quarter, according to Advertiser Perceptions’ Q4 Programmatic Intelligence report, and has moved closer to catching Oracle. Oracle DMP, despite leading in marketer use and intent, lags behind in the selection factors relevant to marketers. Advertiser Perceptions Chief Strategy Officer Kevin Mannion noted that Oracle inherited […]
YouTube on Monday released a CPM-based pricing model for its skippable video format called TrueView for reach. Read the blog post. This pricing model optimizes not for viewability but for on-target reach – similar to YouTube’s six-second bumper ad format. Previously, TrueView ads were transacted on cost per view, with YouTube charging advertisers once consumers […]
When AMC created a dedicated data sales team, which it revealed last week, it set the stage for AMC to compete more effectively with networks like NBC and Fox. AMC owns the television channels AMC, WE tv, BBC America, IFC and SundanceTV, and its data sales team, called AMCN Agility, will span that national footprint. Spearheaded […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mike Rosen, executive vice president of advanced advertising and platform sales at NBCUniversal Media. Whether you’re planning a vacation or a media buy, we all know the difference between price and value and between […]
“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 Tim Sims, senior vice president of inventory partnerships at The Trade Desk. For all of digital’s promise, some marketers today still execute media buys the way they did in the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The ‘At Any Cost’ Cost Facebook is reeling from internal backlash after a 2016 internal post written by VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth was published Friday by BuzzFeed. The post preaches the platform’s mission to “grow at any cost” and cites some of the ugly […]
Facebook’s announcement Wednesday that it would ban third-party data partners from directly targeting on its platform hit ad buyers hard. Previously, buyers could directly apply third-party data segments to their targeting on Facebook through suppliers like Acxiom, Oracle and Experian to enrich Facebook’s data with offline segments. Now, marketers using segments from third-party data brokers […]
“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 Ben Goldman, chief revenue officer at 180byTwo. Ads.txt adoption is creating ripple effects throughout the media ecosystem. Launched by the Interactive Advertising Bureau as a way to combat fraud caused […]
AppLovin is one of the most well-funded indie ad platforms out there – and it’s growing like a weed. The mobile ad network last year received $841 million in debt financing from Chinese private equity firm Orient Hontai Capital. In 2014, AppLovin raised just $4 million in seed funding. Originally, Orient Hontai had intended to acquire a majority […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Hlavacek, head of global automated monetization at IBM Watson Advertising. Jeremy will speak at AdExchanger’s PROGRAMMATIC I/O conference on April 10-11 at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. If you’ve watched a publisher panel […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snap Crackle Cut Snap on Thursday cut 100 employees, with this downsizing focused on the advertising team. The layoffs are the final step in a restructuring that began late last year, Bloomberg reports. Snap let go 120 engineers earlier this month and about two […]
Accenture Interactive has made a sport of snapping up digital agencies and folding them into its organization, a strategy which has turned it into the largest digital agency group in the world, with revenues north of $4.4 billion. On Thursday, Accenture Interactive revealed it acquired MXM, the digital and CRM agency owned by magazine publisher […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Before Jeremy Fain co-founded Cognitiv in 2015, he worked a long stint at Rubicon Project, where he noticed something off about the bidding algorithms used by different demand-side platforms. “We saw the standard bidding algorithms all over the place,” he says. “That didn’t jibe with […]
LinkedIn made Video for Sponsored Content, video ads which appear as sponsored posts in the feed, generally available on Thursday. It also rolled out video-compatible Company Pages for brands and publishers. Since LinkedIn’s beta launch of sponsored video last October, more than 700 advertisers, including KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, GE and Philips, have signed on. […]
When metasearch travel site Kayak decided to take programmatic in-house in the spring of 2016, it needed to select a group of vendors that could help it buy media both more efficiently and effectively. After settling on DoubleClick Bid Manager for display buying, Kayak realized it didn’t have an automated or transparent way to buy […]
While broadcast TV is still a big awareness driver for supplementary insurance brand Aflac, it’s not planned in a vacuum. “I don’t do one-offs,” said Catherine Hernandez-Blades, chief brand and communications officer for Aflac. “I like to create an overarching strategy, and if something can’t be measured as part of a bigger umbrella strategy, it […]
“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 Shachar Shamir, co-founder at Ranky. Too often, marketing and sales folks work hard to move leads through the sales funnel, only for some of those customers to leave after making […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Over-The-Top Growth TV ad spend will shrink in the US this year by 0.5% to $69.9 billion, according to eMarketer’s updated forecast. TV’s share of US media spend will decrease as a result, from 33.9% in 2017 to 31.6% this year. TV ad spend […]
Facebook is going to stop allowing third-party data providers from offering targeting directly on its platform. The move is a direct reaction to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In the past, advertisers could use a feature called partner categories to supplement the targeting they do on Facebook with data from brokers, such as recent purchases or […]
During the 2016 US presidential election, news publishers experienced an uptick in engagement. The Trump era has kept that engine going. Politico is no exception, where traffic is up more than 30% year over year. That’s one of the reasons why Politico overhauled its website on Tuesday, showing more stories above the fold and optimizing […]
NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke said Facebook faces big repercussions because it breached users’ trust. “The problem is exacerbated by the fact that Facebook’s business model is based on data people don’t [always know] they’re sharing and then selling that data … to a buyer Facebook [doesn’t even] know,” Burke said Tuesday in response to Facebook’s […]
Business Insider’s parent company, Insider Inc., launched its first-ever ad campaign on Wednesday to make sure its ad partners know what the heck it is. The campaign, created with help from Publicis-owned agency Digitas, includes a new corporate website and a media push targeting agencies with display and video ads across trade pubs, Facebook and […]
Oscar Garza, EVP of media activation at Essence, will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO conference on April 10-11 at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. Brands concerned about brand safety, transparency and media budget control are sweetening to the idea of taking programmatic in-house. But marketers often don’t realize there’s a lot more to programmatic than […]
“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. The agency industry has had an identity crisis in recent years in the wake of digital media’s disruption. […]
“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. Since the early days of programmatic, the tire kickers have loudly voiced concerns over its safety and effectiveness. They bemoaned the lack of transparency and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. GDPRebuttle GroupM issued a response Tuesday to a Digiday article about its publisher Data Protection Addendum issued in preparation for GDPR. The agency group denies that the new policy asks publishers to share control of their audience data so GroupM can continue targeting ads […]
