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 […]
“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 Alan Chapell, president at Chapell & Associates. Apple’s soon-to-be released iOS 11 is generating some fairly significant anxiety in ad tech circles due to how Apple’s Safari browser will treat […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ads.txt Progress Over at Ad Ops Insider, Ben Kneen analyzes Ads.txt adoption by publishers and finds that while uptake of the fraud-fighting technology remains low, it’s growing rapidly. To get his data, Kneen used an Ads.txt crawler developed by Neal Richter, who helped develop […]
“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 Pete Kluge, group manager, product marketing, at Adobe Advertising Cloud. Digital marketers live in a bubble. All too often, we fixate on the newest shiny toy or fall down the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Casie Attardi Jordan, director of professional services at MoPub, a Twitter company. Casie will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on Oct. 25-26. While adoption of header bidding has gained traction on desktop, the static […]
John DeVine, Oath’s newly minted CRO, faces a steep challenge in integrating Yahoo and AOL’s sales organizations. “Priority one is cultural alignment and making sure we have clarity on who our clients are and where we’ll win in the marketplace,” DeVine told AdExchanger. “We’re going through the process now to bring the two sales teams […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. What Might Have Been The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green takes a walk down ad tech memory lane in an interview with Martin Kihn, Gartner’s VP of research. Read it. Before starting The Trade Desk, Green worked for AdECN, an ad exchange acquired by […]
Six ad industry trade groups have called for Apple to rethink an upcoming change to Safari that will unilaterally block some first-party cookies. Apple’s Safari browser started blocking third-party cookies by default earlier this summer with the release of its Intelligent Tracking Prevention, a machine learning-based feature that discourages cross-site user tracking. But an extension […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. SafeGraph launched this year with $16 million in funding from more than 100 investors, and a very driven founder in former LiveRamp CEO Auren Hoffman. On the podcast this week, Hoffman talks about his trajectory and his new company’s pure focus on providing accurate location […]
Axel Springer joined the Coalition for Better Ads on Wednesday partially because it didn’t want Google, a member of the coalition, to have an outsize say in what counted as a better ad experience. Despite being a dominant European publisher, Axel Springer is worried about US platforms like Google dictating industry standards or positioning to […]
Thunder, a creative distribution platform, acquired creative AI and analytics company Adacus on Thursday, adding the ability to test, target and measure dynamic creative campaigns. “Before this acquisition, our success was measured on creative production efficiencies: Are we producing more ads cheaper and faster?” said Victor Wong, CEO of Thunder. “[Adacus] puts us more in […]
Personalization is a top agenda item for most brands, but data management technology still leaves something to be desired. Machine learning could provide the answer, said Kabir Shahani, CEO and co-founder of Amperity, a Seattle-based startup that came out of stealth on Thursday. Since raising $9 million in Series A in February, Amperity has been […]
With addressable TV predicted to grow 65.8% this year to reach $1.26 billion in ad spend, local TV providers will be among the channel’s biggest beneficiaries. For instance, Videa, Cox Media Group’s TV ad platform, expects its 190 local addressable TV station partners to more than double within the next six months. On the flip […]
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will become law next May, is stressing out the marketing industry. “I have a feeling that people are just scared,” Acxiom’s European privacy officer, Sachiko Scheuing, told AdExchanger at Dmexco in Cologne, Germany. That fear may be preventing many advertisers from speaking up in the debate over […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Ma Bell Speaks AT&T hasn’t gotten regulatory approval for its Time Warner takeover, but it’s not waiting on a green light to hit the gas. The telco recently poached GroupM leader Brian Lesser for its nascent ad platform and is growing the number of […]
US cable TV networks are being strangled by cut cords. Research firm eMarketer lowered its US TV ad spend forecast for 2017 by $1 billion on Wednesday, citing “faster-than-expected growth in cord cutting” as the main contributor to the decline. US TV ad spend will still grow, the firm predicted – but by just 0.5% […]
In a blog post Wednesday, Facebook’s VP of global marketing solutions, Carolyn Everson, acknowledged that some marketers are “feeling uneasy” about viewability, online ad metrics and brand safety. She outlined updates meant to address that discomfort. First, Facebook intends to give advertisers more control over where their ads are running by tightening guidelines on the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Drew Bradstock, senior vice president of product at Index Exchange. People-based marketing, in which publisher and advertiser first-party data is employed to target users across devices, is hotly debated as the new standard for […]
WPP CEO Martin Sorrell called out Twitter’s revenue potential – along with the social platform’s positioning amid Google and Facebook’s ad dominance – in an interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey onstage at Dmexco in Germany on Wednesday. “Twitter does not seem to have achieved the prominence Twitter [and the industry] would want,” Sorrell said. […]
Slideshows have been hurt by growing demand for viewable inventory, as readers rarely scroll down and often click to the next slide before ads load. Topix, which buys traffic to slideshows that rack up tons of page views, was affected by this shift. Four months ago, the site’s viewability hovered around 40%, so programmatic buyers […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Lost In Translation Publishers have been “quietly observing shifts in upstream partner behaviour as vendors go about their ‘testing’” of first-price auction dynamics, writes The Guardian’s programmatic director, Daniel Spears, in a LinkedIn post. Advertisers and publishers are the two pillars of the digital […]
Marketers, forget virtual reality (VR) for now. VR and augmented reality (AR) often get lumped together, but AR is the consumer-facing technology that’s taking center stage. At a special event on Tuesday, Apple unveiled an assortment of new hardware and software, including iPhone 8, souped-up Apple TV, the next generation of Apple Watch and a […]
The IAB Tech Lab wants to change its OpenRTB 3.0 programmatic auction standard so that it authenticates basic details of the transaction, like the identity of the seller. The current OpenRTB standard assumes buyers and sellers honestly identify themselves and their intentions – but some shady players took advantage of that honor system. One problem […]
“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 Kim Brown, founder and CEO at Centrally Human. We all know data is an integral ingredient in today’s digital marketing and performance-based world. Yet with so many data options and […]
