“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, an independent media and advertising consultant. I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of reach recently. My background is mostly mid-sized to large ad and media agencies, so reach has largely […]
Googling For Shoppers By the end of September, Google will have integrated Walmart into its Google Express shopping service for voice-activated home speakers and Google Assistant-enabled devices. Google Express offers free, one- to three-day delivery for retail partners – including Target, Costco, Stop & Shop and Walgreens – for orders over a store-set minimum (typically […]
If a new ad tech partner generates $50,000 in revenue for a publisher, is it safe to assume that gross revenue will increase by the same amount? Publishers that unify their analytics and rigorously test those partners increasingly are finding that the answer is no. “There is no such thing as purely incremental revenue,” said […]
WPP cut its growth outlook from 2% to between flat growth and 1% during its Q2 2017 earnings call on Wednesday as clients, particularly CPGs, squeeze their marketing budgets. WPP pegged 2017 growth at 3% at the beginning of the year and reduced it to 2% in Q1. “The key factors here were the trifecta […]
DoubleVerify said Wednesday that private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in the company. AdExchanger reported in July that DoubleVerify was exploring a sale that would have valued the company in the $350 million range. The exact size of the Providence stake was not disclosed in the deal announcement, but The […]
Oppenheimer & Co. managing director and senior analyst Jason Helfstein will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC I/O New York conference on Oct. 25-26 in a presentation titled “Programmatic Wall Street.” Wall Street is changing how it looks at ad tech. The Trade Desk went public, and its consistent overperformance has made it the darling of investors who had sworn […]
Panoply, a podcast network owned by the Slate Group, hopes to attract big brands with the promise of audience-based buying. The podcast network teamed up with Nielsen in July to launch Megaphone Targeted Marketplace (MTM), an exchange that allows marketers to buy podcast inventory across audiences rather than individual episodes. Audience-based buying is nascent in […]
“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 Milen Mahadevan, chief operating officer at 84.51°. As the explosion of data grows, many are consumed with questions of data quality, connectedness and infrastructure, not to mention what to do […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Head of Steam The acquisition of Krux appears to be paying off for enterprise cloud giant Salesforce. The company’s Marketing Cloud–now on a $1 billion run rate for 2017–turned in Q2 revenue of $317 million, a 36% increase over Q2 2016. The acquisitions of […]
LinkedIn is rolling out native video, which will allow users to record and upload video directly to the platform, the company said Tuesday, after a beta test that began earlier this year. The tool will gradually be available to all individual LinkedIn members over the next few weeks. LinkedIn expects to make the tool available […]
Every vendor in the supply chain takes its cut before a CPM goes to work, and that includes a fee for brand safety protection. It’s a small price to pay, said John Montgomery, global EVP of brand safety at GroupM, running somewhere between two and 10 cents per thousand impressions for brand safety protection when […]
“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 Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. Such is the state of the tech industry today that companies are trying to solve nearly every problem with the blockchain. Advertising technology is not […]
Media agencies know how to find the right person at the right time, thanks to the growth of programmatic. But they’re still trying to pin down how to send the right message. “You want the media to recognize where they were, but you also want to recognize where they were in the conversation,” said Zimm […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Killing The Messengers More brands are disinclined to buy ads against news content. A string of automotive murders, including one fatality when a right-wing activist struck liberal counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., has auto advertisers hesitant to appear next to any news coverage. “There’s a […]
Although the Video Player Ad-Serving Interface (VPAID) was meant to create better measurement in online video, it’s not that compatible with mobile video or OTT. “Everyone wants to measure [viewability] and they’re giving us VPAID tags, but VPAID doesn’t work in all environments,” said Soo Jin Oh, VP of client strategy for Cox Media’s digital […]
Publishers paying to promote content on social platforms need to determine the return on their ad spend, just like marketers. The sites Tickld, Clipd and Knowable, part of the “Pulse” division at publishing company Gateway Blend, rely on social platforms to distribute content. Gateway Blend used to optimize the ad campaigns for Pulse content with […]
For the independent demand-side platform (DSP) market, it is the best of times, it is the worst of times. On the one hand, it’s unlikely any new scaled DSPs will enter the market. The costs to build a competitive platform – nine digits off the bat and another eight digits per year in operational costs […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Laura Joukovski, senior vice president of media and analytics at TechStyle Fashion Group. Many claim TV advertising is dead, or at least dying. As digital alternatives emerge for advertisers and content consumption patterns shift from […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Cord And Discord Millennials may abandon old-school TV, but there’s a healthy appetite for social video beyond 90-second clips and recipe run-throughs. In its first month, NBC’s “Stay Tuned,” a twice-daily news program on Snapchat, has been seen by 29 million people and passed […]
Demand-side platform (DSP) DataXu hired former 4As exec Peter Kosmala as its VP of platform solutions, the company said Friday. With Kosmala, who started in late July and will report to chief revenue officer Ed Montes, DataXu hopes to grow its self-serve business with agencies. “This is about forging even stronger relationships with a channel […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. “B2B always kind of follows B2C, whether it’s the use of video, social media or commerce,” Dun & Bradstreet CEO Bob Carrigan says in the latest episode of AdExchanger Talks. “And programmatic is moving aggressively now into the B2B space.” The problem: It’s hard for […]
It’s still unclear how 360-degree video or virtual reality will affect media and advertising long-term since many brands and networks are still in the experimental stage. But CNN and Volvo hope to up the ante during next Monday’s solar eclipse. The news broadcaster and automaker collaborated on four pieces of branded content that will live-stream […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ameet Shah, senior director of global technology, publisher and data strategy at Prohaska Consulting. Marketers and publishers want access to more quality data to scale beyond their respective first-party data, yet they often overlook […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Right Touch Why do marketers still rely on last-click attribution to measure purchases? Well, because multitouch attribution is hard. Buyers have trouble bringing together the data they get from multiple demand-side platforms, which often have duplicative insights. And walled gardens leave huge gaps […]
WPP’s media-buying unit GroupM on Thursday unveiled its own global viewability standard for display and video ads on social media feeds. Display ads must be 100% in view for one second before a user scrolls past to count as viewable. Video ads still have to be 100% in view, but can be initiated as autoplay […]
Facebook is giving advertisers a bit more control over how they buy in-stream video ads within the news feed, through Audience Network and on Watch, its newly launched video tab. In the past, advertisers that wanted to purchase in-stream placements delivered into ad breaks were required to run them in the news feed. Starting Thursday, […]
The LGBTQ dating app Grindr’s 3 million daily users spend almost an hour per day on the platform, according to the company. But some advertisers steer clear of dating traffic due to concerns of brand safety. And Grindr’s audience includes subscribers who pay for ad-free experiences. So Grindr branched out by creating lifestyle publication Into, […]
After years of investing in brand-building tactics on TV, RetailMeNot, which was acquired for $630 million by payment processor Harland Clarke and went private in April, is moving its working media budget into digital video. That’s not to say RetailMeNot is entirely abandoning TV, since the broadcast medium drives brand lift during periods when there […]
“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 Mike Kelly, CEO at Kelly Newman Ventures. In 2016, non-tech companies bought more tech companies than ever before. According to Bloomberg, 682 technology firms were purchased by companies in an industry […]
