“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Bannister, co-founder and executive vice president at CafeMedia. Just as buyers are now grasping how header bidding impacts their programmatic buying approach, publishers have already moved on to the next big thing: server-side […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publisher Plaintiff The Guardian is suing Rubicon Project for not disclosing fees it charged advertisers on programmatic buys, Lara O’Reilly reports for Business Insider. While The Guardian takes its claim to High Court with hopes of a refund in the “single-digit millions,” Rubicon maintains the fees […]
The Republican-led House voted Tuesday to kill the Federal Communication Commission’s ISP privacy rules. All it needs now is the president’s signature, and that is all but assured. The White House issued a statement earlier in the day to say that President Trump strongly supports repealing the rules. Ad trade orgs rejoice. The House’s decision […]
While live sports events like March Madness are TV’s bulwark, money is sloshing into digital and mobile and fraudsters are looking to score. “This is the rule of thumb: Where there’s money, there’s a motive,” said Patrick Murray, VP of product at fraud-detection and analytics company DataVisor. But certain events or times of the year […]
Since the 2016 election, liberal organizations like the ACLU, Center for American Progress (CAP) and Planned Parenthood have been sprinting like they’re on hot coals, smashing online donation precedents, flooding congressional phone lines and marshaling nationwide protests. But does that energy translate into gains for the Democratic Party’s data and digital media ecosystem? During a national […]
Dish’s streaming TV service, Sling TV, which reportedly topped 1 million subscribers last fall, is now focused on monetizing its audience cross-platform. Connecting the pipes for programmatic monetization across Sling TV, Dish and Dish Anywhere didn’t happen overnight, but Adam Lowy, GM of advanced TV, said years of work are paying off. Dish has been “quietly […]
More than 1,700 publishers belong to the Local Media Consortium (LMC), and not all of them are experts on programmatic. The organization, which operates a local news ad exchange and negotiates technology deals for its members, counts massive publishing groups like Scripps, McClatchy and Tronc as its members, along with single papers like The Seattle […]
“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 Terry Chen, product manager, Adobe Analytics Cloud. I recently overheard a few co-workers debating the merits of online dating apps. One was particularly enthusiastic about the demographic and geographic filters […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Thumb On The Scale Digital media has a scale problem. Only a handful of publishers, including BuzzFeed, Vice, Vox, Refinery29, Huffington Post and Bleacher Report, have done $100 million or more per year, which Digiday calls “the arbitrary mark of a ‘scaled’ media company.” With limited […]
By now, Google’s brand safety issue has been covered across a broad spectrum of media outlets, ranging from The Washington Post to Recode to (naturally) AdExchanger. Below we bring you the latest in the fast-moving story. Back Story. In February and March, The Times of London described how advertisers found their brands placed next to […]
Spotify revealed Monday it had acquired content recommendation engine MightyTV to further personalize its ad delivery capabilities. Read the release. MightyTV founder and CEO Brian Adams will join Spotify as VP of technology. His eight employees will also join, and MightyTV will cease to exist as its own brand. Spotify declined to share the terms […]
Twitter has its work cut out. Stalling user growth and a rocky Q4 for ad revenue, which was down slightly year over year, present a particular sort of pickle: the need to buckle down on its key value prop. “People come to Twitter to see what’s happening in the world,” said Jean-Philippe Maheu, VP of […]
While Nordstrom’s digital subsidiaries include Trunk Club, HauteLook, Nordstrom.com and NordstromRack.com, the retailer is trying to align around the concept of “one Nordstrom.” Initially, each property had its own data stash, which kept Nordstrom from doing cross-device targeting and comprehensive attribution. “We also didn’t have a good way to connect our online data to our […]
Targeting a running watch to a broad group like “runners” on Facebook doesn’t cut it anymore. Bold Worldwide, a social media agency with a roster of sports-focused clients, advocates that its brands – including running and cycling watch Polar – massively increase the amount of content they create. With more versions of ads, they can […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jordan Decker, associate director of video investment and Horizon Advanced at Horizon Media. Consumers have been loud and clear about how the traditional cable bundle model does not serve their needs, which has fueled […]
“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 Mark Smith, president at Kitewheel. Marketers’ essential need to reach consumers with the right messages along their journeys has stayed the same, but the amount of solutions available to them […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Subscrips On Deck Twitter’s TweetDeck analytics and management service is sending out feelers about a paid subscription. “A subscription business could offer Twitter a vital new revenue stream at a time when its advertising revenue has been in decline,” writes The Verge. It’s not an unprecedented […]
It seems crazy that a marketer at Match Group, which reported $295 million in dating-service revenue in the fourth quarter of 2016 alone, would spend half a day each week downloading and collating CSV files. But that’s just the way it’s been, said James Peng, head of mobile and social acquisition at Tinder and OKCupid […]
Ad-supported brand-unsafe content is on the rise. DoubleVerify, which validates tens of billions of advertiser impressions per month, has blocked 8 million ads from appearing on content pages classified as hate speech – up threefold since January. And according to keyword targeting tech platform Grapeshot, the amount of terrorism-related content it sees flowing through its systems […]
“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. One thing the human brain is conditioned to do is take shortcuts in making assessments and decisions. Without this, we’d be stuck in […]
Welcome to episode No. 19 of AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Since its acquisition by GroupM in 2015, digital agency Essence has played a “quasi-ambassadorial role” between GroupM and its client Google, Essence co-founder and Chief Product Officer Andrew Shebbeare says in the latest episode of AdExchanger Talks. “We’re trying to […]
Digital agencies aren’t shrugging off management consultancies as competition anymore. Some are even promoting their consulting chops as they compete in an increasingly crowded market. “Until this year, traditional agencies had their heads in the sand about the threat management consultancies were bringing to the market,” said Jay Wilson, director at Gartner and author of […]
Cadreon’s global president Arun Kumar has become IPG Mediabrands’ first-ever chief data and marketing technology officer. In addition to overseeing all data, technology and analytics assets within Mediabrands, he will still head up Cadreon. Among Kumar’s top priorities is scaling IPG Mediabrands’ data stack across the unit and IPG at large. “We’ve gotten pretty good […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ameet Shah, senior director of global technology, publisher and data strategy at Prohaska Consulting. Buyers (advertisers) and sellers (publishers) are crucially aware of the importance of data. But too often, departments develop siloed data […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Getting To The Next Level WeChat owner Tencent is gaining ground against Facebook. Monthly active users (MAUs) grew 28% year over year to 889 million, the holding company said during its earnings report this week. In contrast, Facebook MAUs grew 17% in 2016 to 1.86 billion. […]
The US Senate on Thursday voted down Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations that would have required internet service providers to get users to consent to be targeted by advertisers. The law would have required the providers (ISPs) to get explicit consent from users before allowing advertisers to buy or target against web browsing histories, geolocation, […]
Until late 2016, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group had partnered with an agency to manage most of its programmatic and data capabilities. But like many marketers, the beverage brand sees value in making media its own remit. “It made more sense to pull that in-house so we’d have more transparency into how everything was working, what […]
Indie programmatic agency Anagram is indie no more. On Thursday, programmatic ad firm Digilant acqui-hired the five-person team behind Anagram in a bid to beef up its custom programmatic ad solutions. “Providing custom solutions is not just about technology,” said Digilant global CEO Alan Osetek. “Technology is only as good as the people who use […]
The UK boycott of YouTube and the Google Display Network jumped the pond Wednesday when AT&T, Verizon and Johnson & Johnson joined the ever-growing pile-on of advertisers suspending their ad spend over brand safety concerns. But the issue at the heart of this developing scandal – ads appearing next to extremist and offensive content – […]
