During Bleacher Report’s flashy NewFront late last week, CEO Dave Finocchio made the following pitch to advertisers: “Use us to maintain your relevancy all year long.” Millennials, he added, aren’t watching three- to four-hour live sports broadcasts anymore and big tentpole commercials alone won’t cut it. Whereas previous generations got their news and information from […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. School Of Programmatic As marketers take programmatic in-house, they’re calling on vendors for training. Google, Adobe and Quantcast are all investing in educational programs to help marketers understand programmatic buying, reports Yuyu Chen for Digiday. Adobe, which helped MGM Resorts International bring programmatic in-house [AdExchanger coverage], […]
Sinclair Broadcasting’s planned acquisition of Tribune Media Co. for $3.9 billion is expected to change the face of the addressable TV market and significantly expand the way local and national TV inventory are bought together. In addition to Tribune’s 42 local stations in 33 markets, many of which are big Fox and CW affiliates, Sinclair […]
Snap reported earnings for the first time on Wednesday, and based on the results, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg must be feeling pretty smug. Snap reported Q1 revenue of $150 million, a 286% increase from this time last year but below the expected $158 million. Net losses totaled $2.2 billion. Daily active users (DAUs) for the […]
Facebook’s making it harder for fly-by-night publishers to monetize low-value websites. On Wednesday, Facebook said it’s starting to use artificial intelligence to lay down the law on links that shunt users to websites with too many ads, as well as ads of a “disruptive, malicious and shocking” nature. Frowned-upon ad types include excessively disruptive units […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. NBCUniversal’s upfront event at Radio City Music Hall next Monday will kick off a month of negotiations between media buyers and networks. And NBCU is the biggest seller in the upfront. Basically, if ad deals were family meals, this would be Thanksgiving dinner. But […]
Time Inc. had a lousy Q1 as print revenue plunged 21% and the company struggled with a sales reorganization. Total advertising revenue declined 8% to $360 million. The stock declined 14% in the wake of the earnings, putting its share price well below the $18 a share three different buyers offered. The bright spot is […]
Every year competition goes up for the limited number of medical residencies in the United States. But that’s nothing compared to marketers’ intensifying race to reach those doctors in the field. While HIPAA’s data privacy regulations have slowed the adoption of programmatic and data-driven marketing around advertising to consumers, companies can still target medical professionals, […]
“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 Adam Solomon, vice president of product at PebblePost. If a marketer tells you he has mastered summing up total campaign conversion rates across all channels, I have a bridge to […]
Everyone knows the Aflac duck. “We’re lucky in the respect that the Aflac duck can stand alone and people automatically know it’s Aflac,” said Gail Galuppo, SVP and CMO for Aflac. “The Aflac duck, to me, is as iconic as the Target bull’s-eye and the Nike swoosh.” But the insurance brand needed to reinforce its […]
Agencies want to take advantage of location data, but roadblocks still stand in the way. For Mobext, the mobile arm of Havas Media Group, fragmentation and quality-control issues top the list. “A lot of companies have hopped on the bandwagon in the location space, and that’s created a lot of clutter in the offerings available […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Fact: Nearly every advertiser wants video and there isn’t enough supply to go around. In light of that, why are publishers struggling to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mission Possible WPP’s Possible has acqui-hired Marketplace Ignition, a consulting firm that helps clients like Hallmark Cards develop ecommerce strategies specifically for Amazon. As Amazon becomes an increasingly dominating force in advertising, CPG marketers want to capitalize on the platform rather than fight its growth. “In […]
Faithful followers of Rocket Fuel’s saga will recall that the company hoped to get cash-flow positive in 2016 and return to growth sometime in 2017. While CEO Randy Wootton declined to tell AdExchanger when exactly he expected that to happen, Rocket Fuel is banking on three things to bring it back: growth in its platform […]
The customer review platform Podium on Tuesday announced it had raised a $32 million Series A round on Tuesday to support product development for emerging channels and new marketing applications of customer response data. The round for the Utah-based software-as-service startup was led by Accel Partners and includes Google Ventures, Summit Partners and Y Combinator. […]
“Managing the Data” is a column about customer and audience data strategy written by longtime AdExchanger contributor Chris O’Hara. Gartner’s Marty Kihn recently made an argument that ad tech and mar tech would not come together, contrary to what he had predicted a few years ago. When Marty speaks about ad tech, people listen. Like […]
Pearle Vision was having an identity crisis. Over the years, the eyewear chain cycled through around a dozen different positionings, from wholesome and family-friendly to early 2000s-era ads featuring a naughty librarian. “What happened was what happens to many brands as the marketplace changes – there is this urge to change with it,” said Pearle Vision […]
European broadcaster RTL Group is creating a unified auction where direct video deals must bid to compete with programmatic video buys. And to do so, it’s changing how it incentivizes the sales team to focus less on the size of the deals and more on the true value of the inventory. Because RTL Group puts […]
While consumers typically don’t convert after their first contact with a brand, many marketers measure as if they do. But specialty retailer Cariloha, which sells bamboo-based apparel and accessories both online and in 50 stores, is taking a different approach. Rather than assigning 100% of the credit for a conversion to the last ad a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Stick To Your Guns Perhaps the most enduring difference between Snapchat and Facebook, which has been replicating the younger company’s features at warp speed, is Snap’s disinterest in ubiquity. Higher-ups rejected an internal proposal to make a “lightweight version,” as other social and video-streaming apps have […]
Despite the wide rollout of its Premium subscription product in April, Pandora is still betting on ads for revenue. Now that Premium has hit the market, Pandora can refocus its efforts and resources on launching new ad products, including programmatic audio, in the back half of the year, said CEO and founder Tim Westergren on […]
Whisper, an app that lets its anonymous users post what’s on their mind, is still going strong after five years – even after other secret-sharing social apps like Yik Yak have closed shop. One reason for its longevity is that it is making money through programmatic advertising. Demand partners include Google, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, OpenX […]
When it comes to location-based based data, targeting is the low-hanging fruit. The ripe opportunities center on using location to enhance behavioral profiles and connect online ad exposure with real-world activities. Easier said than done, however. Advertisers and agencies are interested, but the technology is still developing and there’s a fair amount of BS flying […]
Retailers like Miles Kimball usually focus on two tried-and-true digital advertising tactics to drive purchases. Bottom-of-funnel retargeting is efficient, but requires a visitor to go to the brand’s website. Top-of-funnel user acquisition marketing brings in new customers, but often at a high cost. The home decor and gift catalog, one of a half-dozen catalogs owned […]
“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 James G. Brooks, founder and CEO at GlassView. Programmatic advertising started with the premise that advertisers were unnecessarily limiting themselves. As MediaMath founder Joe Zawadzki explained, “At the time, it […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Michael Greene, vice president of product strategy at AudienceScience. Despite delays and more than a bit of methodological controversy, Nielsen finally released its Total Content Ratings metric in February. The spirit of bringing GRP-style measurement […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Standard Oil The five biggest publicly traded companies in the world are Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. Why? Data. It’s why Tesla, which turns driver data into self-driving AI, is worth as much as GM despite selling 25,000 vehicles in the past quarter to GM’s […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Once upon a time, The Washington Post took a conservative approach to digital platforms like Facebook. Then Jeff Bezos bought the paper and everything changed. The latest episode of AdExchanger Talks brings you an in-depth discussion with Jarrod Dicker, WaPo’s head of commercial product […]
Gamblers from all around the world will unite in prayer Saturday, as the Kentucky Derby kicks off and the hopes for a big payout will be either answered or not. And Ian Williams, VP of marketing for TwinSpires, has placed his own bet on the European marketing automation platform Emarsys. TwinSpires is the official betting […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jaan Janes, senior vice president of market development at Yieldbot. The new law President Trump recently signed that rolls back many broadband consumer privacy protections has profound implications for consumers. But there’s another group […]
