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 […]
Tremor Video rebranded Tuesday as Telaria and will trade on the New York Stock Exchange as “TLRA” beginning Sept. 26. The move follows the August sale of its buy-side business to mobile ad tech firm Taptica for $50 million. The company hopes the rebranding will further distinguish Tremor’s sell-side business from the Tremor Video demand-side […]
Despite rising content marketing budgets, the logistics of briefing multiple publishers, approving content and measuring results makes it difficult to scale investments. To help brands and agencies address this logistical pain point, Pressboard designed a platform to automate, standardize and scale sponsored content. The company has helped clients such as GE, Ford, General Mills and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Best Frenemies AppNexus, Rubicon Project and PubMatic have launched a joint open-source initiative called Prebid.org to establish header bidding standards and processes, which will ultimately benefit premium publishers. “We’re starting to see the need for header bidding to go everywhere,” AppNexus product line manager […]
Ritz Crackers is always looking for out-of-the-box ways to connect with its customers. So when NUE Agency, which develops the music strategy behind campaigns for Ritz’s parent company Mondelez, suggested launching a voice-activated cooking show on Amazon Echo, Ritz marketing exec Lauren Sella was all in. “As a brand, we’re about celebrating people getting together and providing inspiration to make […]
Spanish-language broadcaster Univision hopes to offset declines in local TV ad revenue by doubling down on its digital ad business. It was an early adapter of Facebook Watch, Snapchat Discover and Snapchat Live Stories to reach its audience of millennial Hispanics, but Univision is emphasizing multiplatform campaigns to boost digital revenue. (Univision’s digital ad revenue […]
Taste of Home amassed almost 6 million followers on its Facebook pages, where readers actively commented and shared posts – without ever hiring anyone to run audience development. That raw engagement attracted Kari Hodes to join in January as Trusted Media Brands’ (which owns Taste of Home) VP of digital content and audience development. Hodes […]
“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. Startup data companies have to make a very important choice: What kind of company will they be? I see four basic types of data companies, […]
Both Publicis Groupe’s Zenith and WPP’s GroupM have lowered their 2017 ad spend forecasts, due to cost-cutting clients and slow economic growth in global markets. Zenith projects 4% growth for the global ad market by the end of the year, down from its original forecast of 4.2%. GroupM revised its 4.4% forecast down to 3%, […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Joe Hirsch, CEO and co-founder at Yellowhammer Media Group. Brands are probably not surprised by the recent ANA report documenting the common agency practice of favoring their own in-house creative production firms over third […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Edged Out Sprint launched an in-house ad agency to handle digital creative production and ad buying. Bringing those marketing functions in-house will save time and bring efficiencies, but it perhaps most importantly will afford Sprint control over its data. “As the owners of all […]
The publication that shunned banner ads reversed course last week when BuzzFeed added programmatic ads. The decision came down to two factors: increased advertiser demand for programmatic and a better user experience, said Ken Blom, BuzzFeed’s VP of branded distribution, who leads the 30-person team that will handle the programmatic logistics. “We don’t want to […]
Teen apparel brand Hollister is drumming up engagement with game-based ad units that are holding players’ attention for nearly a minute at a time, on average. That’s 30 to 45 seconds longer than the average TV ad, said Vincent Obermeier, president and co-founder of TreSensa, an app monetization platform that helps develop and distribute interactive […]
“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 Mark Roy, founder and chairman at REaD Group. In a little under a year, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force, and for programmatic advertisers, it […]
A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Podcast Debutante Podcast networks pitched their wares to a room full of brands and buyers on Thursday at the IAB’s third annual Podcast Upfront in New York City. Audio networks including NPR, Midroll Media, Panoply, WNYC, HowStuffWorks and iHeartMedia presented their new fall series […]
The rollups continue. Fluent, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cogint (formerly IDI), is combining with BlueFocus International, itself the wholly owned subsidiary of a publicly traded Chinese public relations services company, to create a new entity, name TBD. The deal, announced Thursday, is being shepherded by investment bank Petsky Prunier and will blend performance marketing […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This week on AdExchanger Talks, MoPub honcho Janae Redmond holds forth on changes in the mobile app ecosystem – and how the Twitter-owned exchange has responded to them. For one, the number of apps isn’t growing as fast as it once did, and the publisher […]
Advertisers want measurement that assesses video brand safety. And the latest beneficiary of that need is OpenSlate, a video analytics company that can determine if ads were placed alongside appropriate video content on YouTube. The YouTube measurement partner said Thursday it’s bringing a new brand safety auditing tool for YouTube to market, partnering with independent […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Sarah Wilson, associate media director at DWA Media. TV-connected devices such as Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Google Chromecast are proliferating. Half of US Wi-Fi households now stream over-the-top (OTT) content directly […]
Mindshare launched a service on Thursday designed to let programmatic planners automate targeting, which lets them create lots of segments quickly. The system, called ANNA, is still in beta and uses AppNexus’ demand-side platform (DSP) and a new API from dynamic creative optimization (DCO) platform Jivox. “Physically, you wouldn’t have time to sit in a […]
AppNexus and Index Exchange have the broadest adoption of their adapters and wrappers, according to the first-ever Header Bidding Index – a report from ServerBid, an Adzerk spinoff that builds wrappers for the demand side. Seventy percent of the top 1,000 publishers running programmatic advertising use header bidding, according to the report, which ServerBid created […]
The podcast industry is about to take a bite out of a formerly forbidden fruit when Apple shares its podcast listener data with publishers this fall, and it’s sure to be a hot topic at the IAB’s annual podcast upfront in New York City on Thursday. In June, Apple said it would share aggregated online […]
More than half of bookings at Motel 6 happen on the same day as arrival. That means most of the budget hotel chain’s customers are on the road when they make their decision to stay the night, so the booking experience has to be as frictionless as possible, said Jeff Thomas, director of ecommerce and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Nyet Again In a blog post, Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos said Facebook traced about $100,000 in ad spend back to 470 inauthentic accounts and Pages operated out of Russia that are likely connected to each other. While a majority of the accounts “didn’t […]
The accuracy of Facebook’s reporting is under the microscope again courtesy of Pivotal analyst Brian Wieser and an Australian trade pub called AdNews. In a note to investors on Tuesday, Wieser called attention to Facebook’s claims that it reaches more people than exist within certain age groups, based on US Census data. Wieser was tipped […]
“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 Victor Davidson, US lead at DBi Consulting. One of the most important, and often misunderstood, aspects of a data strategy is the approach to personalization. Recently I was asked what […]
When it comes to anything new in the programmatic space, Intermarkets tends to be an early adopter. Header bidding? Check. Server-side header bidding? Check. Programmatic native? Check. Erik Requidan, VP of sales and programmatic strategy at Intermarkets, which represents right-leaning political publishers such as the Drudge Report, aims to balance all that new tech with […]
Although Roku’s device sales make up 59% of its revenue, the growth of the segment is declining as Google, Amazon, Apple and other competitors push for more market share. However, its platform business, which consists of ads and subscription revenue, has expanded rapidly and now represents 41% of Roku’s total revenue. Advertising accounted for 67% […]
