American Express on Tuesday launched a data-driven business division called Amex Advance. Along with it Amex is debuting a data platform designed to let marketers run custom audience segmentation and predictive modeling against Amex’s own first-party data. Amex Advance lets marketers and merchant partners use American Express’ database of deidentified cardholders to extrapolate insights about […]
Do ads for STD self-testing kits count as sexual content? If medical and recreational marijuana use is legal in California, why can’t a cannabis advertiser geotarget Californians over the age of 21 on the large social platforms? These are the gray areas that certain categories of advertisers have to navigate on a daily basis, and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. In The Feed Facebook’s ability to put a short product video in front of hundreds or thousands of potential buyers has made it indispensable to CPG and ecommerce startups. For those advertisers, Facebook and Instagram “are the stuff of fantasy – grand bazaars on […]
Salesforce is partnering with Google for an integration that will enable sales, marketing and advertising data to flow between the Analytics 360 Suite and Salesforce’s Marketing and Sales clouds. Read the Google blog post. The integration of 360 and Salesforce’s Marketing and Sales clouds will be available in the first half of 2018 at no […]
Nestle Canada is exercising more control over its programmatic and first-party data practices, said Melissa Savage, the food and drink company’s programmatic activation manager in the country. But unlike within an ad agency holding company, which tries to centralize programmatic knowledge, brand transformation must occur regionally. Take the company’s plan to ramp up native video […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lauren Wiener, CEO at Tremor Video DSP. Mary Meeker, have we got a new gap for you. Audiences are moving away from traditional television in droves. They are breaking up with their cable companies […]
SAP acquired Gigya for $350 million in September for its consumer identity management solution. The deal, which just closed, will help SAP extend its cross-platform identifier – the SAP Hybris Profile – to new channels like over-the-top TV and social. It also gives SAP more clout to help companies manage their opt-ins amid looming privacy […]
A number of ad tech-backed coalitions consolidating cookie pools have bubbled up this year to stave off Google, Facebook and Amazon running away with the market with their own scaled identity assets. And trends like Safari’s ITP cookie restrictions shift the advantage further toward the walled gardens with daily active users. AdExchanger looked at a […]
“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 Adam Heimlich, senior vice president and managing director of HX at Horizon Media. Digital display advertising is effective. It works a lot like TV advertising, lifting awareness a little bit across […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snapped Up Snap has acquired Metamarkets. The social platform previously acquired ad vendors Flite and Placed, but Metamarkets will be its biggest step into programmatic. “It could represent an opportunity to Snap to present itself as an analytics dashboard across a number of other […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Scott Meyer, founder of Evidon and president of digital governance at Crownpeak. Concerns around online data collection and how that data fuels the ad economy are hardly new. It’s been nearly a decade since […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This week’s podcast guest has a way of showing up during pivotal moments in internet history. He was president of AOL Media Networks from 2004 to 2007 during the first ad platform build-out there. Later he was brought on as CEO of The Weather Channel […]
The complexity of programmatic and the media supply chain can stump even the most sophisticated marketer. So, in September, Bayer hired Josh Palau to the new role of VP of digital and omnichannel marketing to figure out how to connect consumer touchpoints in a fragmented world. His remit is to figure out how Bayer can […]
Gaps in Pandora’s ad tech stack slowed growth in the last quarter, CEO Roger Lynch said Thursday in his first earnings call since taking the helm. “One consistent theme I’ve heard from advertisers is that we don’t have all of the features they need to easily transact with us,” he said. “This is starting to have material impact on our revenue.” Revenue […]
“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 Jay Friedman, chief operating officer at Goodway Group. In the early 2010s, a few assumptions seemed undeniable for media buyers. They believed programmatic was growing rapidly with user-level targeting, for example, providing […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Matter Of Time The Justice Department is prepping for potential litigation in case the government isn’t able to agree on a settlement for the $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T, sources tell The Wall Street Journal. Shares of both companies are […]
Rubicon Project eliminated its buy-side fees Wednesday. “This ties directly to the commitment I made when I joined the company earlier this year to normalize our pricing and bring a higher level of transparency to everything we do,” CEO Michael Barrett said in a blog post released just prior to Rubicon’s Q3 earnings Thursday. Removing […]
The ad server SpotX and ad verification company DoubleVerify have flagged a new type of fraud they’re calling “verification stripping.” DoubleVerify says the new method may be responsible for up to 10% of ad fraud spikes it identifies. Verification stripping happens when fraudsters hinder the transmission of network calls between the ad server and measurement […]
“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 Mollie Parker, director of analytics and tech ops at DWA Media. When an agency and client first start working together, it’s crucial to get on the same page before a campaign […]
When Snap acquired location-based data company Placed over the summer, agencies got excited about the prospect of intermingling the data sets – but that won’t be happening anytime soon. Placed will not share any advertiser or partner data with Snap, Placed CEO and founder David Shim told AdExchanger. “Keeping the data set separate is important if […]
The ad buyers who will be hurt by the adoption of Ads.txt aren’t giving up without a fight. Publishers are being deluged with emails from “agencies” and “digital marketing solutions” companies threatening to stop buying inventory unless they’re added to the Ads.txt file. The New York Times, Wenner Media, Intermarkets and LittleThings all confirmed to […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mike Baker, co-founder and CEO at dataxu. In early 2017, Procter & Gamble’s chief brand officer, Marc Pritchard, set the advertising industry on fire, launching a “brand-safety revolt.” In a speech at the IAB’s Annual […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. TAM Jam Programmatic advertising will make up 83% of US display dollars by 2019, according to an updated programmatic spend forecast from eMarketer. By 2019, more than $45.7 billion will be transacted programmatically. Almost 80% of that spend will flow through private marketplaces and […]
A stark juxtaposition: At the same time Facebook’s general counsel was getting grilled by members of Congress in Washington, DC, on Wednesday about how the platform was abused by Russian election meddlers, Facebook beat revenue expectations for the third quarter. Ad revenue was up 49% YoY, from $6.8 billion to just over $10 billion. Mobile […]
The tech titans have testified about Russian election meddling. And after two days and multiple hours of questioning by members of Congress aimed at top lawyers from Facebook, Twitter and Google on Tuesday and Wednesday, it’s clear that Russian operatives continue to spread propaganda and sow social discontent using social media platforms and that said […]
There’s a storm cloud darkening Criteo’s sunny Q3 earnings (33% YoY growth ex-TAC to $234 million), in the form of Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) feature, which went into effect Sept. 19. [More AdExchanger coverage.] ITP cost Criteo a little less than $1 million in Q3, but that number is expected to grow as iOS 11 […]
With high demand and short supply of pre-roll video ads, many publishers are creating more video content that can be monetized with pre-roll ads. But not Bleacher Report. “Pre-roll is not the future of online advertising,” said Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Marketing Officer Howard Mittman, who joined the sports publication from Condé Nast in […]
Safari may represent a relatively low share of browser traffic, but Apple browser’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) could have an outsized effect if it redefines which technology companies can access cookie data. ITP, a cross-site tracking restriction feature with the new iOS 11, builds on Apple’s pre-existing rejection of third-party cookies with a machine-learning-based algorithm […]
Device manufacturer Lenovo wants its advertising to start contextually relevant conversations with its consumers, rather than blast them with one-way messages about its brand. “Sometimes, brands go wrong [by] looking at digital media in very a traditional way, like spending TV media online or taking ads and looking for display space,” said David Roman, chief […]
