“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jeff Puzenski, an executive at Infinitive. If you’re looking for tangible signs of convergence, addressable TV is one of the most frequently cited. After all, addressable TV is about using digital data and targeting […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Another Day, Another Data Play Dentsu Aegis is wasting no time with its shiny new agencies, Merkle and Accordant. Carat US CEO Doug Ray will be promoted to president of product and innovation for Dentsu Aegis, where he’ll focus on developing custom data solutions across the […]
Welcome to episode No. 13 of AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Seth Solomons, Wunderman’s CEO for North America, sees huge growth coming for machine learning. “If the agencies don’t see it and embrace it then it’s going to be a pretty disruptive force,”he says in the latest episode of AdExchanger Talks. […]
Direct mail has always performed well for Citibank. But like most advertisers, if the company wants to push more dollars into digital, top brass expects marketing to prove the impact on short-term revenue growth. With digital, it can be technically easier to prove – in near real time – what drove a conversion rather than […]
Bustle has raised $38.5 million in venture capital to create content that speaks to female millennials. And it’s beginning to see its efforts bear fruit. It earned $30 million in 2016, up from just $10 million the year before. But competition for this prized demographic is tough. The space is crowded with other digital startups, […]
“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 Michael Hemsey, president of 500friends (a Merkle company). The rise of artificial intelligence and its voice interface will force brands to scramble if they are to become the default recommendation […]
The Association of National Advertisers voted “transparency” as 2016’s marketing word of the year. Although this year is still young, “crap” is shaping up to be 2017’s word. “The reason why so much of digital marketing doesn’t work is because it’s basically crap optimized on crap,” Rishad Tobaccowala, strategy and growth officer at Publicis, said […]
Last year, the New York Daily News created a new advertising product to give clients a simple way to tap into the benefits of its data management platform (DMP). When clients opt in to the product, dubbed AdLift, the Daily News uses insights from the DMP to target and optimize their campaigns. Six months after […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Finding Their Voice Amazon is refining its ad partners program for Alexa developers. The ecommerce giant has Epsilon, Mindshare, Razorfish and AKQA on board as recommended agency vendors for brands hoping to tap Alexa users. The brand and commerce use cases are limited for now, […]
ComScore disclosed Monday evening that it’s been delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange, effective Wednesday, after failing to meet another accounting deadline. ComScore has struggled with an internal audit mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission since February 2016, when the digital measurement firm first notified the agency that it would miss a filing deadline […]
The sea change at the Federal Trade Commission continues. On Tuesday, Jessica Rich, the FTC’s director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, exited the commission after 26 years of service. Rich led the bureau since 2013, when she was appointed by then-FTC Chair Edith Ramirez. The announcement comes on the heels of Ramirez’s planned departure […]
Revenue from Omnicom’s trading desk Accuen grew $33 million in Q4 and $86 million over the full year in 2016, the company said in its Q4 earnings call on Tuesday. Q4 marked the highest incremental growth Accuen saw all year. In the two preceding years, Accuen’s contribution to Omnicom’s overall revenue fluctuated between $20 million and […]
Ascential plc, which owns the Cannes Lions advertising festival, revealed Tuesdsay that it has agreed to acquire MediaLink. The acquisition price depends on MediaLink’s performance from 2017 through 2019, and is capped at $207 million, though the companies expect the final consideration will be closer to $121 million. Read the release. MediaLink’s unaudited revenue in […]
Digital captured 72 cents of every new ad dollar in 2016, compared with TV’s 21 cents, according to GroupM’s Interaction report. In 2017, the report estimated, the ratio will be 77:17. But as digital becomes ubiquitous, so do concerns around data and compliance in a totally connected world. 2016 “was an alarming year for the […]
BBDO isn’t known as a data-driven shop. But the Omnicom-owned creative agency is working hard to change that perception. There’s a certain “muscle memory” among clients who view their creative agency as separate from their digital agency or the people they work with on measurement, said BBDO vet Crystal Rix, who was promoted to chief strategy […]
Over the past two years, Target has activated its first-party data so that agencies and its vendor partners – brands that sell products in Target’s stores – could use it to inform media buys. Target’s data is applied through a product platform called Guest Access overseen by Kristi Argyilan, Target’s SVP of media, guest engagement […]
Hootsuite aims to prove it’s not just your average social media management dashboard. The company – which was founded in 2008, the heyday of companies seeking to tame the social fire hose – revealed Tuesday it had acquired AdEspresso, a Facebook and Instagram ads platform, for an undisclosed amount. Hootsuite will roll out an enterprise […]
TripleLift is throwing its hat into the server-side header bidding ring. On Tuesday, it rolled out its wrapper, Apex, which lets publishers bring in demand for their in-feed native ad placements. TripleLift will run a first-price auction among all participating partners, a shift from the OpenRTB spec of a second-price auction that could result in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Friends Of The Court Tech heavyweights like Apple, Facebook and Google aren’t the only ones raising their voices against President Trump’s immigration restrictions. Ad tech companies Rocket Fuel, AdRoll, AppNexus and Turn are also named in an amicus brief to the Washington Appeals Court case holding […]
Five minutes after National Geographic aired its 60-second Super Bowl commercial teasing its new scripted series “Genius,” Apple News users got alerts for a Nat Geo article about Einstein’s love affair with his violin, Lina. The feature also had “Genius” trailers and the post-halftime Super Bowl spot – in which Einstein, depicted by Geoffrey Rush, […]
Television viewing data is sensitive. And because consumers don’t expect such data to be collected, smart-TV manufacturer Vizio was penalized for doing so without an opt-in. Vizio paid the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) $2.2 million to settle charges over its data collection practices on Monday. The settlement requires that Vizio delete its old data and […]
“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 Tom Kershaw, chief product and engineering officer at Rubicon Project. In the next three years, nearly 700 million new consumers will access the internet for the very first time, according […]
Sizmek CEO Neil Nguyen will leave the company in the wake of the company’s $122 million private equity buyout by Vector Capital last year. The company’s board named former Xaxis global COO Mark Grether executive chairman, but has not identified a replacement CEO. Nguyen will stay on until the end of April to ensure a smooth […]
Whereas Facebook seems to have outgrown its app developer platform, Parse, Twitter more likely shut down its dev toolkit Fabric in a bid to slim down and focus on its future survival. In January, Twitter sold Fabric to Google and Facebook officially pulled its support of Parse one year after announcing its intention to do […]
In his second week as Marketo’s CEO, Steve Lucas walked away from his first board meeting with a mandate from investors to hire 50 developers, add 100 more salespeople and to “go fast.” Marketo’s first order of business was to re-engineer its marketing automation software from the ground up – a continuing overhaul that includes […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Disputing The Undisputed Champ Looking back on a tumultuous NFL season – with painfully low ratings out of the gate followed by anxious excuses and an unexceptional late-season bounceback – all that’s clear is that the broadcast industry’s faith is shaken. “The argument that live events, […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Fritz Brumder, CEO at Brandlive. In 1981, Schlitz Beer conducted the first live taste tests during Super Bowl XV. Thirty-eight years later, this old-fashioned approach to television marketing is making a comeback with Snickers’ […]
IPG Mediabrands has rolled content-creation arm Mediabrands Publishing into social media agency Society. Thursday’s merger will tie content creation closer to distribution and targeting across platforms. “You can’t just push content organically anymore,” said Rob Bernstein, managing director at Society. “You need two bookends: smart targeting and really good messaging. It’s not about taking a […]
Andrew Bruckner, VP of equity research at RBC Capital Markets, will share the Wall Street POV on programmatic at Programmatic IO on April 5 in San Francisco. There’s room in the digital advertising ecosystem for more than just the duopoly. “I do see an opportunity outside of Facebook and Google,” said Andrew Bruckner, VP of […]
“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 Welby Chen, chief business officer at Inneractive. Despite reports of a slowing economy, digital ad spend in China is predicted by eMarketer to double from $40.42 billion last year to more than […]
