“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Kane, founder at Jounce Media. AppNexus CEO Brian O’Kelly recently published an authoritative breakdown of the multiple routes by which publishers unintentionally leak data into the hands of bad actors. In the post, […]
What works better for publishers: Snapchat or Instagram Stories? Both platforms are quickly gaining ground as ways for publishers to distribute their content to wider audiences. Snapchat made its public offering Thursday, and Instagram Stories launched last year with a competitive, video-focused offering. While each platform claims more than 150 million daily users, Snapchat and […]
Away from the dancing robots, Power Rangers-themed VR experiences, self-driving race cars and the buzzing of drones, deals do get done at Mobile World Congress. That’s why French location-based dating app Happn came to Barcelona for the show. “We’re here to have discussions, to gather insights, to see what our competitors are doing, to find […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Snap, Crackle, Pop Snap Inc. shares closed above $24 after its public market debut, but skepticism is in the air. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and Google, Snap doesn’t have a concrete story to tell about its business plans post-IPO, writes Peter Kafka of Recode, likening its strategy […]
Speaking Thursday at the ANA Media Conference, Procter & Gamble Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard was pleased that Facebook and Google had agreed to independent MRC audits, but he emphasized that the audits are only the first steps toward improving the media supply chain. “It’s not enough to accept [audit pledges] until the audits are […]
NBC is putting its money where its mouth is. The broadcaster on Thursday revealed it would commit to sell $1 billion in targeted media based on audience guarantees in time for the 2017-2018 upfront. Although that figure only represents about 17% of the estimated $6 billion NBC transacted through advance commitments last year, it’s […]
GroupM digital agency Essence on Thursday launched a data strategy unit, its latest shift in an ongoing reorg around audience-based planning and buying. To lead the new unit, Essence has tapped Jon Taylor, previously VP of operations and audience insights at Dun & Bradstreet. The data strategy team will guide clients through platform selection and […]
Roku generated nearly $400 million in 2016 revenue, mostly from standard hardware sales around its devices. But $100 million of its revenue was attributed to Roku’s media licensing and advertising businesses, which are expected to be its biggest growth drivers. The real MVP of Roku’s media and licensing segment may be the set-top box manufacturer’s […]
Snap Inc. is expected to go public on Thursday, leaving many to wonder how the most anticipated tech IPO since Facebook will be treated by investors on Wall Street. While Snap described itself as a camera company during its roadshow, investors know that its success hinges on its ability to monetize successfully as an ad […]
“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. If you’ve been through an IPO before, you know how delicate the initial pricing is. If it’s too high, the stock doesn’t get […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Snap Audit Facebook and YouTube recently caved to advertiser demands that they submit to an MRC audit. Now Snapchat is “under pressure from ad buyers to follow suit,” writes Mike Shields at The Wall Street Journal. “We have clients that will walk away from sites that […]
Google revealed Tuesday that it would introduce a $35-per-month, ad-supported streaming service called YouTube TV, but will it take off with content owners and advertisers? Google has a good chance of success if it gets enough subscriptions to rival traditional pay TV networks plagued by cord-cutting, sources say. But that shouldn’t be a tall order […]
Ericsson is about to enter an unexpected space: ad tech. The Swedish networking giant is testing a mobile ads platform to aggregate anonymized deterministic data from across telecom operators to power targeted advertising. Ericsson declined to say whether it’s building the platform itself, licensing it or buying an ad tech company to power its nascent […]
The Dentsu Aegis Network is testing a cross-screen measurement system developed by video platform YuMe, released Wednesday, which maps connected TV (CTV) IDs to Nielsen panels. The system gives TV planners access to audience measurement based on demographic breakouts across multiple app publishers through a partnership with Nielsen. Dentsu’s digital video investment team wants a […]
“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 Kim Harris Busdieker, director of customer communications at 84.51°. We live in a world of handmade this and small-batch that. Organic, grass-fed, cage-free candy bars, anyone? It is pretty clear […]
Although Verizon’s appetite for ad tech was the main driver behind its acquisition of AOL, it’s content that really sweetened the deal. “Our content is a differentiator for Verizon amidst all of the other telcos,” AOL CMO Allie Kline told AdExchanger. But there’s a lot knocking around under the AOL umbrella – everything from ad tech […]
The New York Times has added a new sales channel for its video inventory: programmatic. At the beginning of February, the Times opened its video inventory for the first time to programmatic buyers. Those buyers can access desktop and mobile web ad space, with mobile in-app to come. The move was in response to requests […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Allison Mezzafonte, senior vice president of operations at Bauer Xcel Media. I recently had the uneasy feeling that history was repeating itself. In 2007, publishers lamented the insidious connection between paid and organic search […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Bye Buy Side Rubicon CEO Frank Addante points to the company’s 2015 acquisition of Chango as a cause for some of its current woes. “The Chango acquisition didn’t work out the way we wanted it to,” he says in a MediaPost interview. “With desktop display, we […]
PebblePost on Tuesday announced a $15 million Series B funding round to expand its programmatic direct mail offering. RRE Ventures joins as the startup’s lead investor. PebblePost takes in CRM data and tags a brand’s website, matching visitors to home addresses in its own database and against third-party onboarders. Seventy percent of site traffic can […]
Spanish-language broadcaster Univision’s media sales arm has been busy the past six months. In addition to packaging Univision Digital inventory more holistically with sister portfolio properties like The Root, Fusion and The Onion, Univision has tweaked its programmatic stack on the back end. That overhaul is one of the agenda items for Dave Katz, who joined Univision […]
This post is not sponsored. Thirty-seven percent of publishers fail to properly label their sponsored content to comply with the FTC enforcement policy issued in December 2015, according to MediaRadar. The ad sales intelligence firm scanned sponsored content ads from 12,000 brands over the course of 2016. The numbers may look bad, but they actually […]
Millennials in search of a side gig read The Penny Hoarder to find ways to make extra money and save. The site earned $20.8 million last year by focusing on native, affiliate marketing. It earns 95% of its revenue from affiliate and performance campaigns, and less than 5% from display advertising. And it expects to […]
Fragmentation is to the buy side what agita is to a stomach: upsetting. “Data is perhaps the most important asset we have as an advertising agency,” said Mauricio Sabogal, global CEO of WPP’s Kinetic Worldwide, during the Modern Marketing Summit at the Mobile World Congress on Monday in Barcelona. “There are too many companies managing […]
“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 Whitney Powell, media director at DWA Media. Viewability is a common problem all advertisers share: If an ad is never seen, it can never drive impact. Viewability should be a no-brainer […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Moar Ratings After months of delay, Nielsen this week is finally set to roll out its total content ratings (TCR) metric, which promises to measure video consumption and ad impact across linear and digital platforms. TCR will debut Wednesday with a “limited commercial release,” Jessica Hogue, […]
Marla Kaplowitz, named president and CEO of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As) on Friday, has made mending fences with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) a top priority. Addressing the rift between the two organizations – and, more broadly, between marketers and agencies themselves – over agency transparency has “got to happen this […]
Alain Portmann and Oscar Garza will speak about last click attribution at Programmatic IO on April 5 in San Francisco. Last-click attribution may never die. Although digital multitouch attribution (MTA) pioneers like Visual IQ, Google’s Adometry and AOL’s Convertro hit the market more than a decade ago, last-click remains the prevailing measurement model. Big brands and network agencies still tend […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Scott Braley, general manager of advertising platforms at Ooyala. If you’re in the business of selling advertising or otherwise monetizing inventory, you’ve got to follow the money. So it’s hard to argue that the increasingly popular […]
