Wine brand Josh Cellars doesn’t have a taste for traditional media. “We made a choice to stay away from broadcast TV and cable, at least for now,” said Renato Reyes, CMO of Josh Cellars’ parent company, Deutsch Family Wine and Spirits, whose portfolio also includes more household names. Deutsch is the US distributor of Yellow […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. First Price, So Nice Next month, Rubicon Project will begin offering two flavors of first-price auctions, CTO Tom Kershaw shared in a blog post Monday. The exchange will select the winner of an auction on a first-price basis. From there, buyers will have two […]
It’s a transformational time for Cannes Lions. After industry leaders this year criticized the festival for becoming too bloated, the company announced a set of changes last month to streamline the event and bring the focus back to creativity. Last Friday, Chairman Terry Savage stepped down after leading the festival for more than three decades. […]
“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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. The upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will increase risk for sharing data. The era of every platform getting willy-nilly access to first-party […]
We Are Unlimited, the integrated agency Omnicom launched to service the McDonald’s account earlier this year, has hired former iCrossing President Mark Mulhern as its new CEO. In an interview, Mulhern said he was attracted by the opportunity to test a new agency model. “The future of our industry is based on specialisms coming back […]
By Alison Weissbrot, Sarah Sluis and Kelly Liyakasa Programmatic has transformed the role of the media agency. When programmatic was new, trading desks formed within agencies and holding companies to incubate expertise. As the buying method matured and the trading desk business model came under scrutiny, clients demanded that talent be integrated with their […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris Peterson, managing partner at R2C Group. I’ve sat through at least a dozen TV ad tech presentations that promise pretty much the same thing: the complete transformation of customer targeting for TV advertising. While […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Abracadabra, Apple Shazam Competition among music streaming platforms – already a cutthroat category – will heat up even more with Apple’s acquisition of ad-supported music recognition app Shazam. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch sources peg it below Shazam’s $1 billion […]
Creative often gets neglected by app publishers gunning for installs – but it’s one of the most important aspects of any app-install campaign, said Artur Grigorjan, head of growth marketing at Russian game studio Playrix. “By this point, most advertisers have enough expertise when it comes to buying,” Grigorjan said. “Now they’re transitioning to the next […]
Since 2011, ecommerce startup BarkBox has been delivering boxes of toys and treats to dogs and their owners. The six-year-old subscription service has half a million subscribers, became profitable in Q1 and is projected to reach $150 million in revenue for 2017. In August, BarkBox brought on Bank of America marketing vet Jay Livingston as […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Erik Matlick, founder and CEO at Bombora. The data cooperative has emerged as a strategic weapon for publishers in the battle for online ad dollars against the Facebook and Google duopoly. In data co-ops, […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Bon Voyage Criteo is selling some of its travel marketing technology and accounts to Koddi, a startup that specializes in travel metasearch bidding. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Criteo will retain some travel industry retargeting accounts, including major clients like Expedia, reports industry […]
Parents, media companies and brands are struggling to adapt to a sea change in how kids consume content. Children have migrated away from traditional entertainment channels like Nick Jr. in droves, embracing new platforms – mostly YouTube and mobile games. But digital environments are fraught. YouTube has been criticized for a rise in disturbing videos […]
Nexstar Media Group revealed on Thursday its intent to acquire mobile video platform LKQD for $90 million. The all-cash transaction is accretive and subject to certain terms, including LKQD maintaining a $10 million minimum cash balance. LKQD’s payment is also contingent upon its performance under Nexstar for the next two years. The deal is expected […]
Publishers are getting ensnared in the filters used by many advertisers to combat the YouTube brand safety crisis. Earlier this year, many brands found their ads running next to offensive content on the video platform, prompting marketers and their agencies to enlist third-party monitoring. Now publishers as a whole are feeling the effects. The filters […]
Data is changing the way movies are marketed. Studios like Open Road Films are taking a more targeted approach to marketing, moving from broad-based buys – such as people aged 18 to 49 with a propensity for “dramas” – to more granular segmentation. “When finding audiences for a particular film, it used to be really […]
Radio giant iHeartMedia has had a big first year as a producer and distributor of podcasts – and it’s ready to go deeper into on-demand audio in 2018. Since launching a dedicated podcast section in January, podcast listening has grown 60% on the iHeartRadio app. iHeartMedia is the second-largest podcast network ranked by measurement firm […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sly As A FireFox Verizon’s Oath is in a legal dispute with Mozilla in response to the browser operator’s surprise decision to break its contract and revert to Google as the default search provider for Firefox. Marissa Mayer struck the original deal in 2014 […]
That teens have no attention span is a fallacy. Just ask Wattpad, a platform where people can write and share stories that they’ve written and solicit feedback from their community. The storytelling platform boasts a community of 60 million monthly active users, mainly teens, young adults and millennials under 30, who spend more than 15 […]
Both the adoption of Ads.txt and commercialization of blockchain solutions have the IAB optimistic about the prospects for Ads.cert, a follow-up to Ads.txt that uses cryptographic security measures to authenticate inventory. While Ads.txt helps authorize inventory sources, it doesn’t solve the authentication problem, said Neal Richter, CTO of Rakuten Marketing and co-chair of the IAB’s […]
If understanding a customer’s long-term value were easy, every marketer would do it. But measuring LTV (long-term or lifetime value, referred to in some circles as customer lifetime value or CLV) is extremely tough. Brands must be able to identify and track customers over time, and they must work for companies that care about retaining […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ian Hewetson, vice president of client services at Eyereturn Marketing. Forget this summer’s solar eclipse. We’re witnessing something far more unusual right now: the universal endorsement of a single system in the ad tech […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Malware Blues ProPublica found dozens of politically charged ads on Facebook that inject malware into consumers’ computers. The ads come with provocative headlines about hot-button political issues and targeted Facebook users likely to click based on political ideologies. Some ads caused computers to freeze […]
“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Belinda J. Smith, global director of media activation at Electronic Arts. The promise of programmatic is oft-repeated as “right person, right place, right time.” And while this is likely the goal of all advertising, we typically […]
Growth Catalyst Partners (GCP), a mid-market private equity a private investment firm, and PSP Capital, backed by former US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, have acquired a majority stake in mobile video ad platform Beachfront Media. The companies declined to disclose the deal terms. As a result of the transaction, Beachfront co-founder and CEO Frank […]
Unlikely insights into consumer behavior can help move the needle, and location data is a rich source of unlikely insights. On Tuesday, UK-based location data company Blis released an analytics tool in beta called Smart Trends that blends point-of-interest (POI) data and offline movement data to draw conclusions about how people interact with physical locations […]
What if your media agency made your creative agency obsolete? Spark Foundry, which formed this year when Publicis Media retired the Mediavest Spark brand, is blurring the line between media and creative to give its clients a better chance of success. With the rise of sponsored content and social media, it makes sense for media and […]
Want to tap News Corp.’s first-party data to target ads across all of its properties? As of Tuesday, you can, thanks to the release of News IQ, which is a managed service (for now) ad platform owned and operated by News Corp. News IQ unifies inventory from publications as varied as The Wall Street Journal, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Fixing Procurement Recent industry meltdowns around brand safety, fraud and agency rebates have put “extra pressure … on the relationship between marketing and procurement,” Marketing Week writes in a new primer on overcoming tensions between the two departments. Marketers often bristle as their procurement […]
