Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. News Weak Newsweek Media Group, the once-venerable US publisher, is losing advertising technology partners and advertisers amid scathing reports of online ad fraud and a crackdown from the Manhattan District Attorney. AppNexus, SpotX and Teads have each ended their relationships with Newsweek and subsidiary […]
The IAB Europe GDPR working group has released for public comment its framework for transmitting user consent data up the supply chain, from publishers to technology companies and marketers. The final version is scheduled to come out mid-April. Read the tech specs. The framework provides standards so that publishers can provide transparency into their data […]
Ever since AT&T hired GroupM honcho Brian Lesser last August to lead its new advertising and analytics business, he’s been on a hiring spree. And many of the recruits share one thing in common: They’ve earned their programmatic stripes in some capacity. Time will tell how the AT&T Advertising & Analytics division will develop should […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Jay Friedman, our podcast guest this week, came up with the concept for a recent AdExchanger comic depicting a marketer running on a “brand safety” treadmill while scarfing down “cheap CPM” cupcakes. The point: You can’t have it both ways. In this week’s episode, Friedman […]
“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. Metadata is necessary to wield identity with the same accuracy as the triopoly – Facebook, Google and Amazon. The triopoly has great metadata […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Will Luttrell, founder and CEO at Amino Payments. This time last year, the digital advertising industry was stinging from a few harsh slaps on the wrist from prominent brand marketers at the IAB Annual […]
Verizon Connect, the telco’s telematics business unit that helps companies keep track of their truck fleets, has been around for almost a decade. But after acquiring two smaller companies in 2016, it was time to relaunch its brand and its value prop. On Tuesday, it launched a digital campaign that targets automakers and businesses that […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Blurred Lines Do publishers need to have distinct programmatic and non-programmatic ad sales teams? The New York Times thinks those days have passed, and it has disbanded or absorbed its programmatic team, Digiday reports. The move was part of a larger reorg in December […]
“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 Auren Hoffman, CEO at SafeGraph. If you are going to start a new company or grow an existing one in the marketing technology world, you need to first place a […]
The cross-device identity company Drawbridge abandoned its advertising business in the EU and is trying to reconcile its data business with GDPR regulations beginning in May. Drawbridge founder and CEO Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan confirmed the company’s reversals in Europe in an email to AdExchanger. Drawbridge will transition its EU partner services to the company’s New York […]
Can hyper-localized marketing really drive interaction and sales? For made-to-measure men’s suit brand Indochino and healthy foods manufacturer Daiya Foods, the answer seems to be yes. Indochino gained fame as an online suit service, wherein consumers would send their measurements to Indochino via a web portal and have a custom suit made. But in recent […]
Brevity is the soul of content – and advertising – at Axios. The tech, news and politics site, founded by former Politico execs a little over a year ago, was built on the premise that people are bombarded by info and find it nearly impossible to keep up. “Less than 5% of people who click on a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cut Through The Noise Fox Networks wants to trim two minutes per hour from its TV ad time by 2020. That’s a deep cut, considering that in 2017, broadcasters averaged over 13 minutes of ads per hour, according to Nielsen. To stave off a […]
Penske Media, the publisher of WWD, Variety and new majority owner in Wenner Media, acquired multiplatform women’s lifestyle publisher and events company SheKnows Media, the company revealed Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. SheKnows, which claims to reach 79 million uniques per month across its flagship property, StyleCaster, HelloFlo and BlogHer sites, also […]
When the outdoor recreation retailer REI closed its shops for Black Friday, the biggest sales day of the year for many stores, it was testing brand appeal against strong short-term revenue, as well as its out-of-home (OOH) media and data services. REI has grown its OOH media from nothing two to three years ago to […]
Third-party cookies get stale. On Tuesday, ad tech startup Rockerbox launched a solution after a five-month beta to help advertisers freshen up their prospecting data based on a user’s last 60 minutes of browsing activity. A marketing platform centered on recency gets advertisers closer to the moment of intent, said Rockerbox CEO and co-founder Ron […]
On May 25th, when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect, media agencies will be subject to a new set of laws around targeting European consumers. The GDPR, which makes it illegal for businesses to use EU citizens’ data without proper basis or consent, will limit media agencies’ ability to target […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Passing Review Google’s Zagat saga came to an end on Monday when the tech giant agreed to sell the restaurant reviewer to startup restaurant guide The Infatuation, reports The New York Times. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Google bought Zagat for $150 million […]
This is the second 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 […]
Sinclair Broadcasting, the largest owner of television stations across the nation, is letting local advertisers buy connected TV in a much more targeted way alongside linear and digital. The broadcaster is teaming up with the connected TV DMP and measurement system Tru Optik to power advanced audience targeting across Sinclair’s owned-and-operated inventory, as well as […]
“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 advertising campaigns have been bucketed in two groups: They are either direct-response (DR) or branding campaigns. The general opinion is that campaigns must exclusively belong […]
“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. Spurred by the groundbreaking ANA K2 report, marketers spent the latter half of 2016 and much of 2017 talking about transparency. We went from pushing […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Omnipresent The dispersal of location data across the digital ad ecosystem exposes the industry to legal liability and backlash should it ever face a breach, Christopher Mims writes for The Wall Street Journal. Most consumers aren’t aware that even if they opt out of […]
Publishers are rethinking their Facebook strategies in the wake of LittleThings’ sudden shutdown on Tuesday. While LittleThings is the first pub to fall victim to Facebook’s news feed algorithm change, it is likely not the last. Many pubs play Whac-A-Mole with the news feed, optimizing article and video content to fit the whims of a fickle Facebook […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a recurring feature that tracks developments in politics and digital advertising. Today’s column is written by Jordan Lieberman, politics and public affairs lead at Audience Partners. Happy election season, everyone. I’ve got good news and bad news. The bad news is that many of those who enter the political advertising space right […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. Marketers who measure website traffic, online sales, app installs or even offline sales all take a fundamentally similar approach to attribution. For each conversion event, they capture a […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. “Less Doing More” In a speech at the ANA Media Conference, Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard shared new details on Procter & Gamble’s ongoing marketing revamp, which involved significant spending cuts with “several big players” by 20% to 50%. “We took more control, and […]
Despite a slight uptick in CPG volumes in Q4 2017, WPP CEO Martin Sorrell still predicts cyclical budget cutting from the sector due to pressure from activist investors and zero-based budgeting (ZBB). “What we see in packaged goods, certainly, is a continued caution,” he said on WPP’s Q4 and FY 2017 earnings call Thursday. “I […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Our guest this week is Kerry Bianchi, president and CEO of Visto, formerly Collective. Bianchi has overseen a major transition of the company since taking the helm from founder Joe Apprendi one year ago. That transition includes a sale of the legacy managed services business. […]
