While major change-management consultancies like Deloitte, Accenture and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have acquired creative and digital design agencies to get closer to the CMO, they’ve haven’t purchased any media-buying agencies. But as these consulting firms move deeper into the digital marketing arena, they’re building media-buying services as well. Here’s how Deloitte, Accenture and PwC are stirring […]
“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 Rajeev Goel, co-founder and CEO at PubMatic. The lifespan of and need for specialized technology providers in the ad tech industry, from sell-side platforms (SSPs) and demand-side platforms (DSPs) to […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by James Brooks, founder and CEO at GlassView. How many people are watching a brand’s video ads? And for how long? Those questions are perennial ones for advertisers, particularly after Google recently agreed to third-party […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Trigger Warning Google’s brand safety backlash leapt the pond Wednesday when telco giants AT&T and Verizon both said they will pull advertising from YouTube and the Google Display Network, according to reports. What’s going on? Some see a classic case of negotiating leverage. While Havas UK […]
As EVP of performance marketing for Interpublic Group’s MRM//McCann, it’s in Subu Desaraju’s purview to crack marketing cloud complexities in client deployments. Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce, IBM and Nielsen all built marketing clouds via acquisition, but with these ongoing investments come challenges around data interoperability and overall efficiency across their stacks. Although a number of platforms […]
NewsCred on Wednesday laid off 10% of its staff as it changes its product offering and adds advisory services to its content marketing software. As part of the reorg, NewsCred hired a president and COO, Charles Hough. “We’ve been selling [brands] content marketing platforms, but they need expert services, and someone to hold their hand […]
“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 Rachael Hadaway, vice president of solutions strategy at 84.51°. I read news articles decrying the failures of big data all the time. They usually begin with how the massive amount […]
Dentsu Aegis Network’s Isobar sits on the blurring continuum between agency and consultancy. Launched in 2000 under the name Roundarch as a joint venture between WPP, Deloitte and BroadVision, Isobar used to compete with the “who’s who list of digital agencies,” said co-CEO Jeff Maling. But when WPP and Deloitte exited the investment and Aegis […]
Demand-side platforms are getting snapped up left and right. But DataXu, one of the remaining indies, is planning to stay that way. And it’s hitching its wagon to the in-housing trend. “There’s a lot of interest in having greater transparency and control over programmatic technology,” said Mike Baker, CEO and co-founder of DataXu, which released […]
Facebook is taking the wraps off its header bidding solution, but it’s relying on partners to build the technology. On Wednesday, Facebook officially tossed its hat into the header bidding ring after a lengthy beta period by opening Audience Network as a demand source for mobile web publishers that work with a short list of […]
When Bonnie Kintzer became the CEO at Trusted Media Brands three years ago, the Reader’s Digest publisher had just emerged from bankruptcy. Kinzter’s mission was to turn the company around and get it growing again. She had worked at Readers Digest before and appreciated that the company had “very strong brands that were absolutely serving […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Walmart Shopping “We’re behind,” said Marc Lore, Walmart head of ecommerce, at Recode’s Code Commerce conference this week. “We need to catch up.” Catching up means loosening the purse strings. In 2017, Lore spearheaded three acquisitions totalling $200 million (and that doesn’t include Walmart’s $3.3 billion […]
Google updated its brand safety controls on Tuesday after a slew of companies pulled advertising spend from YouTube and Google Ad Exchange. In response to the withdrawals, Google promised to develop tools to better police and remove ads from content that attacks people based on their race, gender, religion or “similar categories.” To do so, […]
“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. The conditions created by the new regulatory posture of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under President Donald Trump are ripe for broadband providers to blossom […]
Ad tech has a transparency problem. Some are pointing to blockchain as a possible answer. It’s fairly easy for fraudsters or an ill-intentioned party to weasel their way into a programmatic transaction, said Ken Brook, CEO and co-founder of metaX, a blockchain-based ad tech company that launched into beta on Tuesday. “The supply chain is […]
Nielsen Catalina Solutions is teaming up with Facebook on a cross-media measurement product that aims to analyze how the combination of digital and TV drive incremental sales lift for CPG advertisers. “The biggest ask from all advertisers has been to help them with comparability,” said Fred Leach, director of marketing science at Facebook, Nielsen Catalina’s […]
The Netherlands-based telco Altice will acquire Teads in a cash deal that values the outstream video ad tech firm at $307 million, the companies confirmed Tuesday morning. It’s the latest in a string of acquisitions for Altice. Earlier this month, the company bought the US programmatic platform Audience Partners for an undisclosed sum, and last year it closed […]
Kellogg’s has teamed up with Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS), Moat and Yahoo’s BrightRoll to measure how factors in video advertising like “time in view” and “audibility” affect purchases. For each set of exposures Kellogg’s bought using BrightRoll, Moat provided metrics around player size, time spent and whether the video’s sound was on or off. Nielsen […]
Adobe has rolled out an Advertising Cloud, a merger between its Adobe Media Optimizer products and the acquisition of video DSP TubeMogul, the company revealed Tuesday at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas. Adobe Media Optimizer previously was housed under the Adobe Marketing Cloud and consisted mostly of search, dynamic creative and somewhat limited display […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. You Had One Job Google has been punished in the UK for ignoring brand adjacency issues, but should agencies shoulder more of the blame? Stratechery’s Ben Thompson argues agencies’ reliance on Google and Facebook to handle the logistics of ad targeting have caused them to fall […]
Foursquare debuted a foot-traffic measurement tool called Foursquare Analytics on Monday. Foursquare Analytics, which uses opted-in users to measure in-store traffic, began in private beta last year with brands like TGI Fridays, Equinox and Taco Bell. Brands that pay a monthly subscription fee to use the SaaS product. TGI Fridays matches customers from its CRM […]
“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 Stephen Taylor, senior vice president of enterprise solutions at Sojern. Google set its eyes on the travel industry a while ago. Travel is one of its top ad revenue sources. […]
Frontier Airlines is on a quest to facilitate direct customer relationships. To do that, it’s turned to Qubit to build a personalization engine from scratch. While site personalization and cross-channel communications used to be more of a “nice to have” for brands, it’s now table stakes for airlines like Frontier. “For a lot of customers, […]
When Norwegian telco Telenor acquired cross-device vendor Tapad in February 2016, it seemed comparable to Verizon buying AOL. One year later however, Telenor is using Tapad’s tech to drive sales and customer acquisition for its own products, rather than making its data available on the open exchange. Tapad also continues to operate as a standalone […]
by Allison Schiff, Alison Weissbrot, Sarah Sluis, James Hercher, Kelly Liyakasa and Ryan Joe Programmatic advertising comes in many flavors. A handful of brands load up to take their buying fully in-house. Many give their agency partners carte blanche. Other brands take ownership of the tech contracts and segmentation, while letting their agencies pull the […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bill Wise, CEO at Mediaocean. TV’s digital moment has arrived. Within the very week in which Netflix and Amazon scored Oscar wins, YouTube announced YouTube TV, its planned subscription service bringing major network content […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lines In The Sand The ANA has demanded walled gardens – specifically Amazon, Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Instagram – open their platforms to third-party audits. Google and Facebook have agreed to such audits, though the industry “would appreciate both companies keeping the marketing community […]
Concerns over ads appearing next to extremist YouTube content has led Havas UK, The Guardian, L’Oréal and the UK government to pull advertising spend from YouTube and Google Display Network. The UK government’s interest in stamping out extremist videos has been brewing for some time. According to a February article in The Times, the UK […]
Welcome to episode No. 18 of AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. “Failing” never felt so good. The New York Times is riding a wave of goodwill from loyal readers in the early months of the Trump presidency. Rising subscriptions and audience engagement have created momentum as the company strives to grow […]
When Merkle launched as a CRM and performance media agency in 1988, its strong data repository and direct-response focus set it apart from other media agencies. As marketing went increasingly digital, Merkle’s strong data foundation laid the groundwork for a natural evolution into programmatic buying, turning it into a competitor for digital and media agencies. […]
