Criteo stock shot up Wednesday morning after the French advertising technology company reported revenues of $674 million in the final quarter of 2017, a 19% gain from the same period the year before, and a 27% jump in gross profits for the year. The Q4 revenue numbers came in at the top end of Criteo’s […]
Ericsson remains keen on ad tech. On Wednesday, the Swedish networking and telecom company announced its acquisition of Placecast, a combo data management and demand-side platform (DSP) for location data. Placecast is now part of Emodo, Ericsson’s programmatic mobile ad platform that helps telcos monetize their subscriber data. Emodo is housed within a newly created […]
Deep-link startup Branch earned its Facebook mobile marketing partner (MMP) stripes on Wednesday and launched an attribution tool for paid media called Universal Ads. Branch is the first MMP added to Facebook’s marketing partner program since around 2013. When the company launched in 2014, it focused on deep-linking across owned-and-operated content – for example, tracking clicks […]
FTD Companies, parent company of online floral delivery brands ProFlowers and Interflora, wants to get back to the basics of brand marketing. “Our company, like many brands, has been obsessed with directly attributable, perfectly measured marketing for the last five years,” said Jeff Severts, CMO of FTD Companies, who previously served as CMO of Ulta […]
There’s no love for annoying ads on Chrome this Valentine’s Day. Google will release a new version of its browser on Thursday with a built-in ad blocker. Here’s how it works. Chrome will now block all ads on sites that don’t adhere to the ad quality standards set by the Coalition for Better Ads, an […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. In ad tech, we either spend a lot of time hunting for the next big thing or kvetching about what’s broken in our […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snapocracy Snap is opening its marketing API to all developers. Previously the API was only open to a handful of certified partners, but now brands, agencies and ad tech companies who want to buy on Snapchat can do so without licensing a third party. […]
OTT audiences are prevalent and engaged. But while advertisers are buying, they’re not exactly beating down the doors. Watch any premium long-form show on an internet connection and you’ll see the same irrelevant message played so frequently it’ll haunt your dreams. What gives? The main issue is buyer confusion about how to transact on OTT […]
Paris-based app retargeting platform Adikteev – think Criteo for apps – snagged $12 million in Series B on Tuesday. The company plans to spend it on research and development and on expanding its 100-person headcount with around 40 new engineer hires over the next month. The round, which brings Adikteev’s total funding to $14.2 million since it […]
Adobe has placed a new exec in charge of its advertising cloud. TubeMogul’s longtime CMO and head of strategy, Keith Eadie, now oversees product, engineering and overall go-to-market for Adobe’s media and advertising business. His title is VP and GM of Adobe Advertising Cloud. Meanwhile his predecessor, TubeMogul CEO and founder Brett Wilson, is now […]
“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 Kihn, research vice president at Gartner. A new technology appears, seemingly from the ether, and promises to change our lives. Customer data integration, labeling and storage problems will disappear. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snaplash Snap sales VP Jeff Lucas, formerly Viacom’s ad sales chief, has left the building, Cheddar reports. Snap had a nice stock bounce, too, after it beat Q4 revenue projections, but the company’s next phase of potential growth will largely be in new hands. […]
In an early draft of his prepared remarks at the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting on Monday, Unilever CMO Keith Weed threatened to stop advertising on digital platforms that “do not make a positive contribution to society.” But when he actually took the stage in Palm Desert, Calif., a few hours later, Weed struck a softer […]
There’s no point eating up engineering resources to build technology that can be provided out of the box, Lomit Patel, VP of growth at IMVU, said at the Mobile Growth Summit in San Francisco last week. Although most mobile growth marketers would rather build than buy, nearly every app relies on a constellation of third-party […]
Penske Media, the publisher of WWD, Variety and IndieWire and majority owner of Wenner Media, is doubling down on video across its portfolio. Its formats range from snackable, short-form clips and pre-roll to text-based video and more cinematic, long-form series. Although Penske’s video mix is diversified, monetizing that inventory to its fullest potential can be […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Scott Ferber, founder and CEO at Videology. There is nothing new about advertisers’ desire to measure performance. What is new is the desire to tie digital performance metrics to television. It’s something that we […]
“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 Tom Triscari, co-founder and managing partner at Labmatik. Taking programmatic in-house can make sense for any big-budget marketer that wants to innovate and take control of its programmatic future. However, while […]
Apps lean heavily on Facebook for their paid user acquisition efforts, but they also want more control over how and where their ads run. And Instant Articles? No thanks. When Pixelfederation, a game studio based in Slovakia, tested Instant Articles, the return was nil. “The impressions were almost nonexistent, and all of the impressions we […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Gold Mine Of Information People are watching more television, but less measurably. “We know the audience is there,” GroupM US managing director Ed Gaffney tells Mike Shields for a Business Insider on the chaotic state of TV measurement. “TV is not dying, it’s evolving. […]
It’s IPO day for Cardlytics, the maker of an analytics platform that leverages purchase data sourced directly from bank partners. Cardlytics began trading at about $12, below its target share price of $13-$15, when Nasdaq opened Friday, before climbing modestly to $13 in afternoon trading. Cardlytics aims to raise about $70 million in the offering. […]
If 2017 was the year of brand safety and transparency, 2018 is set to be the year GDPR reshapes programmatic marketing. That’s the sentiment of 28 brand marketers and media directors surveyed by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) trade group for its “Future of Programmatic Media” report published Friday. The brands represented collectively spend […]
Publishers, prepare yourselves for another Facebook organic reach reality check. Starting Monday, Facebook will finally begin measuring organic page reach the same way it measures paid ad reach: based on viewable impressions. This is only a reporting change and unrelated to how organic distribution works on Facebook. Facebook started alerting publishers in early February, but […]
The IAB Tech Lab is tackling the thorny problem of transmitting consent under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. On Friday, the Tech Lab debuted an openRTB feature to convey user consent through the digital supply chain and unveiled plans to launch a GDPR Technical Working Group tasked with helping programmatic advertisers deal with […]
“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 Ming Wu, chief revenue officer at MightyHive. Programmatic has come a long way. The constant refrain heard at industry events over the last year is that all media will be […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ryan Pauley, general manager at Concert and vice president of revenue operations at Vox Media. Certain corners of the advertising world discuss Feb. 15 with the kind of panic you might associate with the […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CPGs Make Data Inroads CPG brands like P&G and Clorox are starting to crack the code on digital spending, according to a report from L2. CPGs are getting smarter about using data-rich channels like search, where they can capture intent. By bidding on cheaper […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Roku is that rare startup that can go up against tech behemoths like Google, Apple and Amazon and win. It has more share in the TV streaming player market than any of those companies individually. Moreover, revenue from advertising and media represents a key part […]
The New York Times is making good on its goal to rev digital subscription revenue, but not at the expense of its other key growth driver: digital advertising. The Times’ total subscription revenue surpassed $1 billion in 2017 as the company added 157,000 net new, digital-only subscriptions in Q4, it announced during its Q4 earnings […]
Publicis Groupe’s massive transformation is starting to pay off – but the business still has a way to go before its new model is complete. The holding company reported earnings on Thursday with organic growth of 2.2%, reaching $3.2 billion for the quarter. Organic growth for all of 2017 was 0.8%, hitting roughly $12 billion. […]
