Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. At Your Self-Service Fresh off a $20 billion IPO and with Instagram breathing down its neck, Snap needs to make it easy for advertisers to spend. That’s why the messaging app is launching self-serve buying for Snap Ads, the vertical video units that run between users’ […]
When it comes to how buyers perceive the data management platform (DMP) market, it’s Oracle BlueKai’s game to lose, according to a new Advertiser Perceptions report. The research firm’s Programmatic Intelligence Report for Q1 2017 surveyed more than 1,000 decision-makers from agencies, advertisers, publishers and tech providers. Oracle BlueKai led the pack in brand recognition: […]
CPG brands are among the highest-spending advertisers, but are at the mercy of e-commerce and retail companies that own the data. Bazaarvoice, a hosted platform for ecommerce ratings and reviews, is now ramping up a data collection business to provide those insights-impoverished CPG brands with new ways to measure and target consumers. Bazaarvoice doesn’t sell […]
Dr. Martens, the iconic British boot maker popularized in ’80s and ’90s subculture, is adding a new sheen to its customer data strategy. Although each of Dr. Martens’ regional businesses in the UK, Americas, Europe/Africa and Asia is responsible for its own marketing, development and IP, the company’s digital efforts are converging as it eyes […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Patrick Hopf, founder and president at SourceKnowledge. Unless you have a hard conversion point on your website, measuring ad performance can be a tricky game. This is especially true for advertisers who run massive […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Back On The Block A group of computer science academics released a browser extension last week that blocks ads on Facebook and overrides publishers that deflect ad blockers. Facebook obscures its HTML code from ad blockers, but to show users the difference between an ad and […]
More than 4,000 app developers will descend on San Jose, Calif., on April 18 and 19 for Facebook’s F8 conference, where, if you believe the rumor mill, Mark Zuckerberg will regale them with splashy announcements about group chatbots for Messenger and possible hardware offerings from his secretive Building 8 Lab. But at its core, F8 […]
“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 Hagai Tal, CEO at Taptica. At the beginning of last year, ad tech saw a market correction. After several years of overvaluation, investors had finally sobered up. By late 2016, […]
Chocolate eggs are big business for Hershey’s, the company behind Reese’s peanut butter cups and Cadbury eggs. The candymaker generates $550 million in sales of Easter candies, making it the second-biggest holiday after Halloween. The beloved Reese’s Eggs fill up Easter baskets everywhere. But this year, the Easter candy market became more competitive as other […]
On the heels of Google’s ongoing brand safety headache, MediaMath is trying to add a few safety bumpers to the sharp edges of the digital ad ecosystem. The programmatic buying platform took the wraps off a product on Thursday that aims to help advertisers find addressable audiences on brand-safe sites at scale. MediaMath vets a […]
McDonald’s is on a “mass personalization” push to attract more millennials. Even though it markets to national audiences, many of its fast-food restaurants operate as local franchises. Thus, McDonald’s must create content that resonates at a community level in addition to its national assets. To pull off an operation at McDonald’s scale requires unity among […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Martellotti, co-founder at Wholetone Media. The way people understand the programmatic opportunity in the publishing business is beginning to change. Publishers used to hire sales leaders who understood the language of programmatic and […]
Black Angus Steakhouse operates 45 restaurants in six states. And it’s just hired its first chief marketing officer, Liz Geavaras, to bring a fresh approach to the 53-year-old restaurant group’s marketing. Geavaras will dial back Black Angus’ heavy print expenditures, replacing them with digital. She also plans to segment customers and customize messages to address […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Verizon’s Ad Tech Burrito Verizon Oath, consisting of its merged AOL–Yahoo group, may be a formidable contender to the Facebook–Google duopoly. But for now Oath is a messy cocktail of nonintegrated and overlapping ad tech acquisitions within the two legacy companies, reports Yuyu Chen at Digiday. […]
Burger King’s stunt to activate Google’s Home device with a 15-second TV spot is the first deliberate attempt by a brand to tie paid media with voice-activated search, raising questions about how brands should approach advertising on smart home devices. On Wednesday, the quick-serve restaurant ran a commercial in which an employee asks, “Okay, Google, […]
About 18 months ago, data services provider Experian Marketing Services sought a new line of business: agencies. Given Experian’s legacy in marketing data, that seems relatively recent. But Kevin Dean, president and GM of targeting at Experian, has an explanation: “The advent of programmatic and addressability has created an environment where brands are as interested […]
Publishers are learning to love influencer marketing as a way to grow broader advertising and sponsorship deals. “An advertiser might come with a traditional sponsorship package, and to complement that, they want a programmatic component,” said Rachel Parkin, SVP of strategy and sales at digital media company CafeMedia. CafeMedia owns a network of women’s interest […]
“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 Andreas Reiffen, founder and CEO at Crealytics. If marketers are looking to waste their ad dollars, today’s digital ecosystem offers no shortage of options. They can advertise to a user […]
Craft beer has wooed away upscale beer drinkers away from imported beers, including 600-year-old beer brand Hacker-Pschorr. The German beer has been popular among German expats in Chicago and Minneapolis for the past few decades. But with the core demographic aging and dialing down its beer consumption, Hacker-Pschorr needed to look at a younger generation […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Snap And Mortar Snap is helping brick-and-mortar brands measure how well their Snapchat campaigns drive in-store traffic. The new “Snap to Store” metrics product ties foot traffic to media impressions within seven days of a store visit. A marketer can also compare those visits to Snapchat […]
Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Two-year-old startup VideoAmp aims to help marketers unify the planning of their video campaigns across digital, mobile and TV. It’s a gnarly data science problem, as the company’s 25-year-old CEO, Ross McCray, makes clear in the latest episode of AdExchanger Talks. “When you have […]
British broadcasting and telecom giant Sky is building for a future where digital and programmatic TV play on the same court. To do so, Sky, amid a $14.1 billion takeover by Twenty-First Century Fox, is investing in new media opportunities and ramping up on ad tech. To boost its presence on Facebook and YouTube, Sky just acquired […]
“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 Jay Friedman, chief operating officer at Goodway Group. Although 2017 prediction pieces are barely 90 days old, we’re seeing an important development that few, if any, mentioned: We may be […]
Airlines are not known for their great customer service. But while they can’t control the weather, they can do something about their data silos. “We have a lot of data, but the problem is it’s mainly unstructured data sitting in different databases,” said Aurelius Noell, director of ecommerce and commercial IT at VivaAerobus, a low-cost […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Adam Hecht, vice president of monetization at SintecMedia. Facebook’s recent announcement that it will bring demand from its Audience Network to header bidding through partners like Amazon and Sonobi has been touted as good […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Slow Loading Some publishers are pulling back from Facebook’s Instant Articles, Digiday reports. The New York Times, Hearst, Forbes and Quartz gave various reasons for ditching the product (e.g., disappointing ad yield or that it harmed subscriptions). Facebook is trying to win publishers back with call-to-action […]
MDC Partners’ media agency, Assembly, has forged a strategic deal with Fox’s true[X], whose products give consumers options in their video ad breaks. The deal also gives true[X] more access to Assembly’s brand roster, like Hotels.com. Assembly and true[X] extended their partnership after collaborating on engagement-based ads for clients like the anti-tobacco nonprofit Truth. While […]
“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 Rajiv Bhat, senior vice president of data sciences and marketplace at InMobi. When putting together a content strategy, marketers face a big question: What comes first: the data or the […]
“SMB” is not the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of SAP. But the enterprise software giant is actively courting small and medium-sized businesses like Veritas Studio Wines, a two-year-old boutique vino shop tucked away on a side street in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Veritas is plagued by many of […]
