Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon’s Convergence Amazon plans to charge up to $2.8 million for ad packages surrounding the 10 Thursday night NFL games it will stream live this year, Reuters reports. According to unnamed sources, “Buyers also get to run ads on Amazon.com throughout the football season, which […]
“There are three big issues: technological disruption, zero-based budgeting (ZBB) and activist investors,” WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell told AdExchanger at the Cannes Lions festival. “The first involves continuous experimentation,” he said, and WPP has certainly walked the talk on that front. Under Sorrell’s leadership, the company has invested in tech far more aggressively than […]
“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 Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. For years, Apple’s Safari browser has endeavored to prevent advertising technology companies from tracking user web browsing behavior via cookies. And for years, ad tech […]
Adobe is looking to get schooled on AI and data science. While many technology giants foster relationships with academics by offering them lucrative part-time consultancy positions. Adobe is pursuing a different tack: dishing out $50,000 no-strings-attached grants to professors and doctoral students working on projects of joint interest. “What academia provides is more the advanced […]
The best-laid plans of app developers are often belied by the actions of actual users. When Guy Tal, CEO of Bel Media Group, an Israeli app publisher with around 100 gaming, social and utility applications, soft-launched Tinder-like Android dating app WeMeet, he and his team assumed users would be easily attracted to the service because […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Joe Hirsch, CEO at YellowHammer Media Group. The IAB Labs’ “ads.txt” initiative is one of several recently proposed solutions to minimize digital advertising fraud. Participating sellers, including supply-side platforms and publishers, would place a […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Au Revoir, Pre-Roll Accenture Interactive is getting into programmatic video – but not in the pre-roll way. In Cannes on Thursday, the agency division of Accenture launched a new ad unit that will programmatically overlay product placements on streaming video content. That could look like, for […]
Despite the tech company takeover of Cannes, the ad industry’s current infatuation – artificial intelligence – confined its appearances to panels and presentations. But a few AI aspirations (“deployments” is too strong a word in many cases) are worth calling out. Tencent The Chinese maker of the popular WeChat application has a machine learning agenda […]
Microsoft is looking to claim itself a spot beside the top dogs competing on the video and cloud front. It says data is the differentiator. “Unlike other providers who use your data to sell groceries or other services that compete [with your business], your data belongs to you,” Martin Wahl, principal program manager for Microsoft, […]
“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 Kerry Bianchi, CEO at Collective. After an open season on shady ad industry practices, resolving transparency problems has moved to the top of the agenda for many concerned brand clients […]
The public comment period for ads.txt, the initiative by IAB Tech Lab to cut down on domain-spoofed traffic, is now over. But are marketers, their agencies and DSPs ready to adopt? Yes and no. To be fair, it’s still quite early. Publishers are actively creating ads.txt files and DSPs are scanning them. The IAB Tech […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Mediaocean is boring – in a good way. The 50-year-old marketing workflow and billing provider offers a relatively mundane set of marketing and advertising enablement tools. Its customer base is stable, its revenue predictable. In a few years, God willing, the rest of the […]
For Snap, there are benefits to being a latecomer to ad tech. The app, which entered the programmatic playing field last year when it launched APIs and self-serve tools that allow marketers to place automated buys on its platform, is avoiding many mistakes made by a predecessor that it’s often compared to: Facebook. “Snap has been […]
Newsy started life as a desktop play. But now the digital video network, purchased by the E.W. Scripps Company in 2013, derives most of its traffic from over-the-top (OTT) devices as buyers begin to warm up to the channel. Marketers are increasingly willing to invest in OTT not just as a testing ground but as […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Trust Funding Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will drop tech vendors that run applications for the company on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leading web hosting and data storage service, thereby prodding them to use Microsoft’s Azure instead. “It shouldn’t be a big surprise that there are cases […]
Twitter’s ad tech fortunes haven’t been great. Most recently, it took its 479-million-dollar acquisition TellApart for a long walk behind the barn. However, Twitter isn’t giving up on ad tech, at least not as an investor, said co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey at a Wednesday panel hosted by Omnicom’s OMD in Cannes. “We’re definitely not […]
The in-housing trend continues to reshape agency and ad tech relationships. CPG giant Unilever announced on Wednesday that along with WPP it will invest $15 million in mobile creative management platform Celtra. The move aligns with Unilever CMO Keith Weed’s rather blunt approach to marketing strategy. “Get out of marketing if you’re not going to […]
Yahoo’s new parent, Oath, will have to make do without one of the acquired company’s key ad platform executives. BrightRoll CEO Tod Sacerdoti is exiting the video demand-side platform and exchange he founded in 2006, according to a source with knowledge of the company. Yahoo bought BrightRoll for $640 million in 2014. An unconfirmed number […]
Marketers know they need to wise up on cross-channel identity and attribution technology. But it’s hard to know how to approach the vendor landscape when it feels like the entire LUMAscape is blowing up your inbox every morning. “’Barbarians at the gate’ is an apt analogy – sometimes, that’s how it feels,” said Simon Shulman, […]
Leo Burnett, one of the most iconic advertising agencies in the game, is evolving the way it thinks about creative. “I’ve been focused on infusing technology, data and analytics to make creative more relevant, personalized and effective,” said Andrew Swinand, CEO at Leo Burnett. For Swinand, who spent time on the media side as president […]
Amazon’s Transparent Ad Marketplace (TAM) is the new kid on the block. But like with most of its endeavors, Amazon is readying itself to disrupt the existing paradigm. With TAM, Amazon is angling to take market share away from client-side header bidding wrapper Prebid and Google’s year-old exchange bidding product, which just entered open beta. […]
Spice manufacturer McCormick’s online ads draw in consumers with recipes that include unexpected but on-trend pairings, like a Greek yogurt taco dip. But creating many versions of online ads ran up costs with its creative agency. “We would get very targeted with our media campaigns, and we wanted our creative messaging to follow suit,” said […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is by Jon Burke, advertising lead at Automattic. Snapchat is the latest major publisher to go public with its brand safety partnerships. Prior to that, Facebook revealed that it would hire 3,000 new workers to focus on […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon’s Magic Wardrobe Amazon is ramping up the retail fashion arm of its Prime business in a big way. Subscribers will be able to order from three to 15 articles of clothing, try them on, send items back and only pay for ones they keep. It’s […]
James Hercher contributed to this article. Comcast Advanced Advertising Group said Tuesday in Cannes that it will formally launch a blockchain-powered tool in 2018 to help companies share their data with each other. The Blockchain Insights Platform is meant to ease the often clunky and nerve-wracking process of data sharing. Because of these challenges, companies […]
Google AMP, Facebook Instant Articles, Snapchat: It’s enough to make a publisher’s head spin. With so many third-party distribution points, publishers need to be in constant test-and-learn mode. Yet too many fall into a trap of leaning too heavily on platforms – or not enough. When it comes to succeeding with platform distribution, half the […]
It’s never a surprise to hear a high-end digital publisher lampoon the chaotic digital ad environment, but a sharp invective delivered yesterday by Mark Thompson, CEO of The New York Times, went beyond the usual sniping. “The world of digital advertising is a nightmarish joke,” he said during a panel hosted by Omnicom Group agency […]
“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 Marc Guldimann, CEO at Parsec Media. A few months ago, I was asked to share a surprising or counterintuitive perspective I held on the digital ad landscape. So, I uncorked […]
Traditional web analytics tell advertisers if someone converted, but don’t always provide the context for why. A new breed of analytics solutions, such as ContentSquare and Qubit, hope to break free of these confines by combining data and machine learning to improve personalization. And retailers are among their earliest adopters. French beauty and skin care […]
