Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. More Media Mega-Mergers? Nearly a decade after their split, CBS and Viacom might be getting back together. According to Reuters, the CBS board has discussed the possibility of reuniting with Viacom, a union that would bring CBS’ broadcast properties together with Nickelodeon, MTV and […]
Alphabet posted revenues of $32.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2017, up 24% compared to the same period last year. The earnings showed a spike in traffic acquisition costs [TAC] as Google paid more to publishers in its Google Network Members’ properties revenue segment. The segment also includes revenue from Google’s DoubleClick Bid Manager, […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. The rollup of magazine media continues apace. Meredith’s acquisition of Time Inc, and Hearst’s buyout of Rodale have reduced much of the sector to just a few large companies. But the competitive set has if anything grown to include tech, digital publishers and “commerce + […]
“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 O’Grady, CEO at Nielsen Catalina Solutions. Attention. Human-viewable. Audience. Fraud-free. Sales. Over the past year, media companies and data providers have worked together to offer secondary media guarantees based […]
Three magazine media vets on Thursday launched Full Time Travel, a media brand catering to 30-40-year-old upscale consumers. Think of it like TheSkimm, but for travel content. The founders – Nick Van Sicklen, former digital VP at Time Inc., Matt Carroll from Modern Luxury and Gabby Blitz Rosen from Travel + Leisure and Food & […]
Advertisers want to market using the type of rich data provided by walled gardens – but that’s not possible on the open web. So the major holding companies have each developed data platforms to meet their clients’ needs. The question is: What’s the difference between their offerings? Publicis Groupe’s Spine, IPG’s AMP, WPP’s mPlatform, Dentsu […]
National Geographic may be rooted in traditional media, but these days it’s all about cross-channel. Last year, Nat Geo doubled down on digital extensions through platforms such as Apple News to support the launch of “Genius,” its new scripted TV series that depicts the life of Albert Einstein. Nat Geo, which began 130 years ago […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Off The Grid When Facebook announced it would downplay news and promote friend and family posts in the news feed, it cautioned investors that engagement metrics could slip. But engagement may have been falling before then, reports Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier. Nielsen and comScore said […]
Meredith closed its acquisition of Time Inc. Wednesday to create a media company with 174 million digital US unique visitors – not far behind Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. Meredith will triple its digital revenue by acquiring Time Inc., with projected digital revenue this year of $700 million. Digital will contribute 30% to overall […]
Pandora said Wednesday it would shift resources and savings by investing in ad tech. The music streaming platform, which has fallen behind competitors in developing programmatic advertising solutions for buyers, said it will redeploy staff to build ad tech and mar tech and expand into non-music content. Pandora declined to comment further. Read the release. […]
Traffic is down at Facebook. It’s a new look for the platform, which has done almost nothing but grow quarter over quarter and year over year. Changes to Facebook’s news feed algorithm deprioritizing viral video in Q4 reduced time spent on the platform by around 50 million hours a day. Daily active users in the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. The average page load on an ad-supported website includes 172 network requests just for advertising, according to recent research. That’s 172 opportunities for a publisher’s audience […]
“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 Ray Kingman, CEO at Semcasting. Old models die hard. For more than a decade, attribution meant crediting the last click. But in an increasingly personalized and multichannel world, last-click has […]
Last year, Group Nine Media, a holding company that owns publications including NowThis and Thrillist, created 23 360-degree videos on Facebook for the VR headset Samsung Gear 360, racking up 161 million views in five months. It was the most popular brand campaign on Facebook in 2017. But will Group Nine be able to replicate […]
Kiehl’s, a high-end cosmetics brand and the country’s third-oldest retailer, has traditionally prioritized experiential branding over broadcast or online ad reach. While that preference isn’t changing, Kiehl’s is becoming a more digital, data-driven business. The brand started running programmatic campaigns in late 2016, and previously did little to no online media buying, said Julia Mavrodin, […]
Cross-device provider Tapad is offloading its media business with Brand Networks, a social marketing tech firm that serves large retail brands and enterprise clients. The deal, announced Tuesday, is structured like a partnership rather than an acquisition, said Tapad CEO Sigvart Voss Eriksen. Tapad’s managed media and creative teams will join Brand Networks to help […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Casting For Data In December, Apple began providing podcast producers with iOS listener metrics – the number of people who stayed for a full program and when listeners dropped out. Some observers at the time were concerned podcasters would rue the day they asked […]
The Federal Trade Commission will soon be populated by a completely fresh crop of appointees with no holdovers from the previous administration. It’s an irregular situation. But what it means for advertisers and for the commission’s future direction is still unclear. President Trump finally sent his nominations for four commissioners out of five to the […]
“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 Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. Let’s start with a disclaimer: I’m no expert in GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). If I were, I’d be billing by the hour for my […]
Dentsu Aegis Network has spent the past year furiously integrating with publishers so advertisers can target consumers using PII-based identifiers. These identifiers let Dentsu clients target more precisely, consolidate reach and frequency management around a single ID and optimize marketing spend. Advertisers get the benefits of walled gardens without the wall. The program, known as […]
This is the first 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 second story (“Mobile Data Has A Quality Control Problem“) and the third (“Anatomy Of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Rob’s-Eye View Rob Norman, who retired as GroupM chief digital officer last November, spoke with The New York Times about his expectations for media and advertising in the next decade. Despite the hype and the reality of duopoly dominance, Norman isn’t betting against an […]
Rich-media ad server Flashtalking has merged with the dynamic creative optimization (DCO) specialist Spongecell. Terms of the deal, announced Monday, were not disclosed. As a combined entity, the two companies should gain more dominance in the US and internationally. Flashtalking is based in the United Kingdom, and works with blue chip brand clients like Lowe’s, […]
Albertsons has unleashed shopper data from its network of 2,300 stores to help CPG advertisers determine whether their digital ad spend drove sales. When the grocery chain, whose numerous brands include Safeway, launched Albertsons Performance Media last week, it joined retailers like Target, Kroger and Walmart, which have each invested in building an audience activation […]
Paris-based ecommerce analytics platform ContentSquare has raised a $42 million Series B round from a series of investors including US VC firm Canaan and Highland Europe. ContentSquare previously had raised $20 million, bringing it to a total of $62 million after this round. The company will use the financing to support research and development of […]
“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. I realize I’m late to the game with the year-ahead predictions, but this year the annual ad tech soothsaying has hit a nerve. The slow […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Dominique Netto, head of client services at [m]PLATFORM – GroupM. After the brand-safety sagas of 2017, Alphabet appears to be using some of that $27.7 billion Q3 revenue to further develop brand safety across YouTube. There […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Swiss Cheddar Of the $50 billion or so WPP spent on media in the past year, about $5 billion went to Google and $2 billion to Facebook, according to CEO Martin Sorrell, speaking to Fox Business Network at the World Economic Forum in Davos, […]
“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. For many, the news has not brought much joy in the last year; it seems to have brought more controversy than ever before. That’s created […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. The mobile app space remains a silo, thanks to the unique logic of installs and post-install engagement. But that will inevitably change as cross-device identity and omnichannel measurement take hold. Our guest on the podcast this week, Tune CEO Peter Hamilton, positioned his company early […]
