Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Crystal Ballin’ Global ad spend will hit $563 billion this year, according to a Dentsu Aegis Network forecast. Digital ad spend, expected to grow roughly 15% this year to $191 billion, will drive the overall growth. TV advertising, on the other hand, will grow 0.5%. And […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. This week’s podcast guest, Kieley Taylor, will speak at AdExchanger’s upcoming PROGRAMMATIC IO New York conference on October 25-26 on a panel titled “Battle of the Platform APIs.” Social media advertising continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, driven by video, a new generation […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Scott Braley, general manager of advertising platforms at Ooyala. If you’re a brand marketer, would you like to see your ad running alongside nauseating video content? I thought not. My point is one about […]
A new IAB Tech Lab standard will help publishers and platforms make their header bidding container setups as efficient as possible. The lab will accept public comment on the standard through July 28. The lab decided to create a baseline standard because header bidding has started to mature. “We don’t create standards until something has […]
Three years after dissolving its VivaKi trading desk, Publicis Groupe has launched a data-driven center of excellence for its media agencies. The group, called Precision, formed about two years after VivaKi melted down its Audience on Demand trading desk and redistributed its staff to operating agencies. The new centralized group will offer support to programmatic […]
The slang phrase “I’ve got the receipts” has become a way to declare oneself the indisputable winner of an argument. Mobile shopping and analytics companies are learning to love the term as well. As image scanning and recognition software improves and the value of shopper data shoots up, a growing industry is devoted to accessing […]
McAfee uses account-based marketing to reach its target list of 788 companies in the Americas it wants to buy its software. McAfee made the switch to a more targeted B2B marketing approach last year. Because many IT buyers conduct research online before contacting a sales rep toward the end of the research process, the marketing […]
“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 Dan Frank, head of StreamRail Platform at ironSource. The digital advertising world has come a long way in the last couple of years in its mission to fight ad fraud. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Our Better Angels Facebook’s and Google’s seemingly indomitable position in ad tech is chasing VCs out of the category. Crunchbase data shows ad tech VC deals diminishing since 2014 and some “once-bright categories might be has-beens,” Jason Rowley writes at TechCrunch. “The moat just keeps growing […]
Amazon on Monday quietly launched a self-serve platform called Advertiser Audiences, which lets advertisers upload their audience lists and CRM information, enabling tactics like audience matching and lookalike modeling. Advertiser Audiences is similar to solutions Facebook and Google released earlier, though Amazon’s tool has some key differences. The biggest strength, said Wunderman North America Chief […]
Publishers need scale to survive. Fusion Media Group is an example of that strategy in action. The modern Fusion Media Group is about a year and a half in the making. Univision first expanded by buying The Root from The Washington Post, and then a stake in The Onion. In August, it bought Gawker Media […]
Facebook made several overtures to openness on Wednesday with tools designed to give advertisers more control over where and how their ads appear across in-stream video on Facebook, Instant Articles and the Audience Network. “Advertisers want separate controls for inside the news feed environment and outside the news feed environment where ads are more deeply […]
Self-styled gentleman hacker Michael Tiffany is standing down as chief exec of White Ops. On Wednesday, the company announced that Tiffany, who co-founded White Ops in 2013, is transitioning to the president role, where he’ll work more closely with the engineers focusing on product innovation and on evangelizing fraud prevention in the industry. Sandeep Swadia, […]
Broadcast radio is getting a data-driven boost with the help of Nielsen Marketing Cloud. Nielsen announced on Wednesday that broadcast radio network Westwood One will use Nielsen’s data-management platform (DMP) to segment audiences across its broadcast and digital inventory. That makes Nielsen Marketing Cloud the first exclusively audio DMP on the market, said Damian Garbaccio, […]
Demand for connected TV inventory has skyrocketed this year due to more cable MVPDs turning on the programmatic pipes and the ongoing emergence of streaming offerings. “We’ve seen a huge number of CTV inventory requests coming through,” said Adam Lowy, the director of advanced TV and digital sales for Dish and Sling TV. That onslaught […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. I Wish I Could Quit YouTube So much for the boycott. Most of the advertisers that paused their YouTube spend due to brand safety concerns have now paused their moral outrage and are back on the platform, according to Axios. Read more. Google exec Allan Thygesen […]
Verizon completed its $4.5 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s search, email and digital media assets on Tuesday, almost a year after announcing its intent to buy the first-wave internet giant. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s embattled CEO since 2012, is leaving the company. Just because Verizon has cleared the first and most fundamental hurdle in creating Oath, the […]
Microsoft is beta testing a feature on its Bing search engine called Custom Audiences. It is designed to improve targeting by letting advertisers upload first-party files like CRM, purchase history and subscription data. If advertisers want to participate in the beta test, which has been underway for several months, advertisers must upload their data via […]
Like the packaged products he helps market, Omnicom Media Group Chief Research Officer Jonathan Steuer wishes data segments disclosed their ingredients on the side of the label. “You really have to dig to figure out what’s in [a segment] right now,” Steuer said Monday at the Advertising Research Foundation’s Audience Measurement Summit in Jersey City. […]
“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 Wong, CEO at Thunder. Many years ago, customer relationship management (CRM) platforms solidified their position as the systems of record for customer interactions and introduced the concept of data-driven […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. A Score To Settle ComScore dug into the media consumption habits of 870 households that consist of true cord-cutters – people who dropped a subscription for cable or satellite TV – as well as for a larger set of households with both linear and OTT subscriptions. […]
After years of will they/won’t they, MoPub is finally going to take better advantage of Twitter data. The mobile exchange, acquired by Twitter in 2013, is testing so-called audience packages in the form of audience segments powered by proprietary data coming from Twitter. The product is in alpha with a select set of partners. “The Twitter […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tyler Pietz, principal at Two Rock Consulting. In wake of a recent series of highly publicized ad tech scandals, a gaggle of leading industry figures has wondered aloud if brands might be better served […]
“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 Ric Elert, president at Conversant. If the last month is any indication, the future of demand-side platforms (DSPs) is less than inspiring. Reports show that header bidding may be testing the […]
Last year, Activision Blizzard – a video game developer responsible for major franchises like “Overwatch,” “Call of Duty” and “World of Warcraft” – acquired professional competitive gaming network Major League Gaming (MLG). MLG owned competitive e-sports leagues associated with Activision’s “Call of Duty” games. And Activision had its own e-sports league for the “Overwatch” franchise. […]
Advertisers buying on the open marketplace often sacrifice viewability, quality and transparency for cheaper prices and scale. But as more buyers decline to make that concession, the pendulum is swinging toward curated publisher lists. And many DSPs now offer to shoulder the burden of setting up private marketplace deals for their clients. Recently Centro, which […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Worth A Thousand Words As digital media gets more visual, image-based content has been endowed with new data and targeting features. Packaged-food brand Ripple Foods partnered with image recognition vendor GumGum to target ads against photos on a site. “People are used to scrolling and consuming […]
“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 Jarno Vanto, chief privacy officer at Unacast. After some false starts, location-based marketing is finally hitting its stride. Researcher BIA/Kelsey projects the segment will grow from $12.4 billion in 2016 […]
Apple’s announcement on Monday that its Safari desktop browser would block third-party tracking information by default worries the ad tech industry – even though Safari represents less than 5% of paid search clicks, according to data from performance marketing agency Merkle. But not everyone is alarmed. The change is likely just another stepping stone in […]
Kelly Liyakasa contributed The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become law in May 2018. Think it won’t affect you? Think again. “This kind of legislation impacts every company in the world,” said Acxiom CEO Scott Howe. “Very few companies aren’t collecting or utilizing information to improve their decision making.” But how the […]
