Adobe said Thursday it had integrated Adobe Analytics into its Audience Manager data management platform (DMP). The integration makes it easier for marketers to combine first- and third-party data sets to deliver consistent messaging, and marketers can pull execution data back into their reporting tools for a better view of their customers. “Over the last […]
Starting Thursday, Facebook will let advertisers retarget based on what people do in the real world. “Reporting on the impact of ads is great, but other companies provide something similar,” said Gabriel Francis, global product marketing lead for the offline sales group at Facebook. “We’re letting people actually do something with those reports.” Google’s offline […]
Demand-side platform The Trade Desk wants a bigger slice of TV ad budgets. The company on Thursday rolled out a connected TV targeting and attribution tool designed to extend digital buying capabilities like retargeting and audience matching into the over-the-top environment. According to CEO Jeff Green, connected TV inventory available through The Trade Desk increased […]
ViralGains, a video advertising platform, raised $13.5 million in a Series B funding round, the company said Thursday. The funding includes $10 million in equity investment from First Analysis and Origin Ventures and $3.5 million in debt funding from Square 1 Bank. ViralGains, which serves sequential video ads to consumers, will invest the funds into […]
Chinese tourists spent $35 billion dollars in the US in 2016. WeChat parent company Tencent rolled out a suite of advertising tools on Thursday to help US brands reach that spendthrift audience both in China and abroad. The scale of Tencent’s audience is staggering. WeChat alone has 963 million monthly active users, nearly three times […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Daniel Gulick, insights engineer at TVSquared. The 1979 hit song “Video Killed the Radio Star” focused on the passing of time, when “stars” created through radio programming were replaced by a new era 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 Ramsey McGrory, chief revenue officer at Mediaocean. In February 2013, I developed a simple data framework to demystify the data landscape and explain why technology and media companies were building […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Swing And A Miss Amazon came under fire Tuesday for a “technical glitch” that inadvertently delivered baby gift registry alerts to men and non-pregnant women alike, resulting in a light-hearted tweet storm from customers. One read: “Amazon just informed me that someone has purchased […]
Facebook updated its targeting policies on Wednesday in the wake of the racist and anti-Semitic ad targeting scandal, first reported by ProPublica. COO Sheryl Sandberg clarified Facebook’s position in a post and laid out its three-pronged approach to running a tighter ship. Following the exposé and attendant public backlash, Facebook disabled the self-reported targeting fields […]
Women’s fashion brand Johnny Was wanted to do influencer marketing, but paying an Instagram star or blogger to wear its clothes didn’t feel right for the brand. “What we’re looking for is authenticity,” said Rob Trauber, CEO of Johnny Was. “There are very few people we would pay to influence our products because it’s not […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Erik Requidan, vice president of programmatic strategy at Intermarkets. As marketers and agencies become more selective about inventory and demanding of transparency, publishers need to respond in a way that makes sense not just […]
“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. We’ve looked at marketing clouds from both sides now, up and down – and still, somehow, it’s their illusions that we recall. Do […]
The Body Shop is tapping into mobile wallet as more than just a way to pay. The cosmetics and skin care retailer will use mobile wallet to raise awareness and generate engagement for a campaign launched Wednesday as part of an effort to lobby the United Nations against product testing on animals. The brand hopes […]
When fans visit the newly built Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, they immediately face an entranceway deliberately stacked with visuals: a giant falcon statue, a halo-shaped video scoreboard and a view of the city skyline. The first thing many do is take a photo and blast it across social media. And as they do, stadium staff […]
Volkswagen wanted to be a more efficient and data-driven advertiser, but felt it lacked an objective partner to help it optimize media investments. “Our management was a little bit uncomfortable with our media agency managing metrics that would tell them we needed more TV, radio or whatever,” said David Galbraith, GM of brand management and […]
The latest fire at Facebook has been lit by Russia, which allegedly bought ads to destabilize the US, and the fallout might force Facebook to change the way it does business. “If Facebook really wants to respond to the public outcry, it’s going to have to leave money on the table,” said David Carroll, a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Go Fetch Uber is suing Dentsu-owned mobile agency Fetch for breach of contract, fraud and negligence for misreporting its mobile ad campaigns, failing to prevent fraud and not returning rebates to the client. Ouch. According to The Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the suit, […]
Facebook’s decision to disable segments around self-reported user information, including employers, won’t significantly change the amount of spend the platform gets from B2B marketers, according to numerous agency sources. Facebook disabled targeting around self-reported segments after ProPublica revealed Thursday that advertisers can target users with anti-Semitic and derogatory terms. The ban includes employer and education […]
Charles Stryker, CEO of Venture Development Center (VDC), died Sunday following an accident. A mover and shaker in the field of data-driven marketing, Stryker founded and led legacy database marketing companies like Trinet in the 1970s and Naviant in the 1990s and early aughts. Dr. Stryker founded VDC in the ’90s, and the center soon […]
“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 Sebastiaan Moesman, CEO at Improve Digital. A lot has happened in the last year, and the programmatic industry is at a turning point: It must educate, control, check and adapt, […]
Mindshare Chief Data Officer Rolf Olsen and Oleg Korenfeld, EVP of ad tech and platforms at Spark Foundry, will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on Oct. 25-26 in a presentation titled “Data Accuracy and the DMP.” Partnering with a data management platform doesn’t count as a data strategy, said Rolf Olsen, […]
Zefr, a contextual targeting software platform for YouTube, has appointed Toby Byrne as president. Byrne, the former president of ad sales for Fox Networks Group, including its broadcast, sports and cable networks, vacated his post last September. During that time, there was a heavy transition in top sales talent at several linear TV networks as […]
To be a modern broadcaster, CNN believes it has to distribute content everywhere and be a launch partner when platforms like Snapchat Discover, Apple News and Facebook Messenger roll out publisher products. In the past two years, CNN has added roughly 20 platforms to its distribution list and, in the past year, it spent $20 […]
Before Tinder, Plenty of Fish and OKCupid – even before the advent of the mobile ecosystem – there was eHarmony. Since 2000, the dating site has tried to help the world’s lonely hearts find their one true love. Grant Langston, appointed CEO about a year ago, has been with the company since the beginning. Langston’s […]
Remember that consortium led by LiveRamp, MediaMath and AppNexus to develop a cookie-based identifier that could be used consistently across the open exchange? While live tests are still set for October, ad tech vendors are hesitant to buy in due to LiveRamp’s exclusive role as a cross-device option. MediaMath is already out, said John Slocum, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Finding Religion Vox Media is opening the door wide to programmatic ad buyers. While the pub, which owns Recode and SB Nation, sold some banner ads programmatically, it’s now throwing its so-called Concert ads into the mix. Concert offers high-impact messaging across Vox properties […]
The IAB Tech Lab launched a blockchain working group on Monday to explore how the digital ledger technology can benefit the advertising industry. Read the blog post. Richard Bush, chief product and tech officer at NYIAX, and Michael Palmer, mPlatform’s global director of product, co-chair the group – which is looking for members to join […]
Demographic targeting and behavioral targeting have both been around since internet advertising’s early days, but big CPG brands now say behavioral targeting drives the biggest results online. Instead of trying to hit in-target demos, they’re looking for more creative ways to connect with consumers based on purchase history or interests. At Dmexco, Johnson & Johnson CMO […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Anne Schelle, managing director of the Pearl TV business alliance. As media systems continue to evolve, over-the-air TV broadcasters have been planning an enhancement to digital TV that will greatly improve visibility for advertisers. […]
WPP’s stock is down. And the company’s longstanding chief, Martin Sorrell, isn’t sure if the holding company can do anything about the factors putting pressure on its business. “I don’t know whether anything is within our control or not,” Sorrell said. “Some people say it’s the rise of the digital giants. No. Some people say […]
