Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. HyphCycle “I like big bots and I cannot lie.” Or so some vendors imply when they release data that raises marketer fears about digital ad fraud. Demand-side platform Adform is the latest to expose a fraud operation, as covered by The Wall Street Journal, […]
The US Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against AT&T has thrown a wrench into the $108 billion planned merger between the telco and Time Warner. The complaint, filed late Monday, alleged the merger could “hinder [AT&T’s] rivals by forcing them to pay hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner’s networks.” The filing […]
“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 Michael Wilhite, senior vice president of data strategy at 84.51°. Measuring the effectiveness of digital advertising depends less on absolute performance and more on the benchmark. Current standards suggest that the […]
The question-and-answer site Quora considers itself a unique hybrid of search and social. Since neither of those platforms open themselves up to programmatic demand, Quora decided it wouldn’t go that route either. Quora’s ads platform officially went live in May with 300 advertisers on board, who could only purchase ads through Quora’s Facebook-like self-serve ad […]
B2B buyers are doing more of their product research online – and that was becoming a problem for security software provider McAfee. “We could grow the business when we had a seat at the table with our install base,” said Lisa Matherly, VP of content marketing at McAfee. “But when potential customers were conducting their research […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Vertical Disintegration The Justice Department is suing to block AT&T’s $85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner on the grounds that the combined television content and distribution assets violate antitrust law. Bloomberg was first to report the story. Blocking the AT&T-Time Warner merger would have […]
Agencies are dying? Don’t tell that to Rob Norman, chief digital officer and veteran of WPP’s GroupM, who said Monday he will step down from his full-time role to become a part-time adviser for the company. But even if agencies aren’t having a near-death experience, they should behave like they are, Norman said: “If you […]
Programmatic trading is coming to traditional channels such as TV, radio and OOH sooner than you might think, according to according to Zenith’s third Programmatic Marketing Forecast, released Monday. Zenith predicts programmatic buying techniques used widely in digital display increasingly will bleed into more traditional media channels. The Publicis-owned agency reckons that advertisers will spend […]
Google is opening up an API to stop fraudsters from stealing credit for app installs, and mobile measurement and attribution platform Tune is an early adopter. The API, which was fully integrated into Tune’s platform Monday, enables Google to share data with partners about the exact time an app install is initiated in the Play […]
For large CPG brands like Conagra that typically generate the most awareness through mass reach, hyperpersonalized video creative hasn’t always been their top consideration. But that is changing. “We’re seeing more personalized creative and ad versioning from CPG brands [that] might not own any data from the consumer up until the actual purchase point, because […]
New York Life is in the insurance business – but the brand also has to protect itself. Marketers today have several metrics to juggle in their digital buys: Fraud, viewability and context top the list. But it’s not enough to monitor these metrics; brands need to take action. Natan Cohen, New York Life’s corporate VP of […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Joan FitzGerald, an independent consultant. In our entertainment-overloaded, attention-starved digital age, every teacher knows they need to balance the long and thoughtful with the short and punchy, or else they’ll lose the attention of […]
“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 Ashley Herzog, vice president of product at Visto. Like a good mass transit system, interconnectivity is the key differentiator for advertising technology these days. But for any brand embarking on a self-serve […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Adbnb Airbnb has acquired ad tech startup AdBasis, which bills itself as a “controlled testing environment and analytics tool for companies to conduct A/B and multivariate tests on search, display & mobile ads.” But Airbnb doesn’t offer ad inventory. What gives? Ingrid Lunden at […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. In the mid-’90s, Marita Scarfi was working as an accountant but wanted in on nascent the internet economy. After a period of networking, she landed at digital agency Organic, where over the course of 17 years she rose from controller to CEO. After a stop […]
Will Dmexco become a no-go? Late last week, the organizers of the Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference (Dmexco) in Germany abruptly severed ties with the show’s two co-founders, Christian Muche and Frank Schneider, sparking concerns over Dmexco’s future. Reports alleged that Dmexco’s organizer and the event’s trademark holders had parted ways with Muche and Schneider’s consulting […]
As holding companies distribute programmatic knowledge to their operating agencies, trading desks are repositioning to stay relevant to clients. Xaxis, GroupM’s trading desk that pioneered the model of selling media to clients at a mark-up on a guaranteed CPM, will now buy for clients on guaranteed metrics that impact business performance, such as viewability and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Allison Mezzafonte, executive vice president at Bauer Xcel Media. Media companies took notice when venture-backed sites such as Vox and BuzzFeed plunged tens of millions of dollars into their content management systems. With cool […]
“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 Oren Harnevo, CEO and co-founder at Eyeview. Last year, I was one of about 50 judges for a prestigious advertising award and one of the few without a creative or […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Value Re-Stored It’s been a long time since industry analysts expressed optimism about the fate of big-box retailers, but a ray of light just crept in. Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Home Depot each topped earnings estimates and demonstrated strong year-over-year growth. “Together, these results […]
A legal challenge by the Department of Justice to the $85 billion merger of AT&T and Time Warner appears increasingly likely. And comments Thursday by DOJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim signaled a more stringent approach to antitrust enforcement than American businesses have seen in decades. The question now: Could the DOJ’s position mean curtains for […]
Facebook is gearing up to grab automotive advertising budget with dynamic and lead ads for auto brands, both released on Thursday. Dynamic ads for auto, like Facebook’s other dynamic ad products for ecommerce and travel, allow advertisers –auto manufacturers and car dealerships, in this case – to retarget auto intenders and create lookalike audiences for […]
There’s no point in targeting people with app-install ads if they’ve already downloaded the app. But that’s exactly what SeatGeek found itself doing. In the mobile app world, audience suppression often requires extensive manual work. Although Facebook – a huge beneficiary of mobile media dollars – makes audience suppression easy, newer platforms like Snapchat don’t […]
Nearly 20-year-old photo-sharing brand Shutterfly “probably shouldn’t have made it” in a modern mobile world – and that’s the company’s CMO talking. But despite competing with Apple, Google and Facebook, and needing to match new consumer behavior, Shutterfly’s revenue is up. The early “web 1.0 ecommerce company,” as chief marketing exec John Boris referred to 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 Dylan Collins, CEO at SuperAwesome. The European digital ad market is bracing itself for May, when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable. Advertisers and brands are scrambling to […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Mark Zagorski, CEO at Telaria. Hear him speak at the upcoming Industry Preview conference, January 17-18 in NYC. Sure, over-the-top (OTT) subscription content is all the rage. It’s buzzy, still new and the market […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Procter & Gambling Activist investor Nelson Peltz of Trian Fund Management won a recount vote for a board seat at Procter & Gamble. P&G previously reported that Peltz lost by a narrow margin, but that now appears to be wrong. The news will come […]
Activist investor Nelson Peltz of Trian Fund Management won a recount vote for a board seat at Procter & Gamble. In the wake of the early October vote, the initial vote count had Peltz down by a narrow margin, but that now appears to be wrong. In a statement shared with AdExchanger late Wednesday, the […]
The rise of digital advertising has been tough on local news. Not only have legacy operations, like local newspapers, struggled to survive in the era of Craigslist, Google and Facebook, digital ones haven’t found it easy to gain a perch. Most recently, the owner of Gothamist and DNAinfo shut down the sites in early November […]
