Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Racing The Clock Platforms are apparently behind schedule to answer Marc Pritchard’s rallying call for third-party measurement accreditation by the year’s end. Among all major players, including Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pinterest and Snap, only Google has begun MRC audits. Audits take about three months to complete, […]
“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 Mitchel, senior director of programmatic solutions at MaxPoint. The New Year was sobering for many reasons, not the least of which were reports of physical retailers closing store locations. […]
Brand advertising is becoming a necessary ingredient for B2B success. While US telco CenturyLink sees two-thirds of revenue come from B2B services, consumer-oriented strategies like a national TV campaign and sports sponsorships are taking a larger share of CenturyLink’s budgets, said CMO Bill Hurley. Consumer branding increasingly “lays the foundation” for effective B2B sales, Hurley […]
The Economist collects plenty of data, but until recently each type, including browsing or subscriber data, could only be analyzed in a vacuum. That meant The Economist didn’t know the types of content viewed by its most loyal subscribers and couldn’t identify the behavior of readers at risk of dropping their subscriptions. For advertising, those […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris Peterson, managing partner at R2C Group. There’s no doubt that TV media planning, buying and measurement will be disrupted by the smart application of technology and data. There is a clear opportunity, given that […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Strong Silent Type “With little fanfare, Amazon Video Ads rolled out this week to advertisers working with the Amazon Media Group,” reports Laurie Sullivan at MediaPost. The ads are mobile, outstream and autoplay, and they meet IAB and MRC viewability standards. Amazon’s habitual silence means […]
Welcome to episode No. 17 of AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Ari Paparo is a unique figure in digital advertising. One of the legions who came up through DoubleClick, he later held senior roles at Google, AppNexus, Nielsen (he is a patent holder on Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings product) and Bazaarvoice […]
The Williams-Sonoma home decor brand West Elm is piloting a new retargeting model that personalizes video ads to its known customers. “Traditionally, we haven’t done any TV advertising, which involves a lot of fuzzy math, at all,” said Luke Chatelaine, VP of innovation for West Elm, at Beet.tv and Eyeview’s TV leadership summit on Thursday. “We […]
This is the third of three stories in a mini-series on how artificial intelligence is affecting the work that agencies do. Read the previous stories about Xaxis and Publicis.Sapient. After years of double-digit growth, global lingerie brand Cosabella suddenly lost momentum in 2016. “We decided we needed to cut ties [with our agency] and change something […]
“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 Chris Martellotti, co-founder at Wholetone Media. In recent months, the data management platform (DMP) has taken center stage as both publishers and marketers look to propel their organizations forward. Part […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Eric Picard, vice president of advertising product management at Pandora. The first seven years of the programmatic revolution were driven by three major efforts. It began with the creation and propagation of the massive […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Carrier Pot o’ Gold Telcos in Europe and the US are looking for ways to spin their data into marketing gold. “Though carriers are in testing mode, the burgeoning telco data sector and millions of dollars in recent startup funding signals a near future in which […]
Data-driven advertising requires good data. But lots of bad data and questionable data practices can harm a marketing campaign. Marketers need to know when to use their own data, and when to rely on partners. They need to understand the trade-offs between cost, accuracy and scale. They need to know where their data came from, […]
Consumer packaged goods brands like Campbell’s Soup are the epitome of content and commerce. The company ladles up recipes and cooking tips through an online community, app and email newsletter called Campbell’s Kitchen. But socially distributed content increasingly is its main ingredient for success. To boost content engagement across its owned-and-operated site and social channels, […]
About three years ago, the paid TV channel AMC, known for shows like “The Walking Dead,” “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad,” realized it needed a B2C strategy. President Charlie Collier hired a business intelligence guru from Disney ABC named Vitaly Tsivin to head up a similar organization. As AMC’s SVP of business intelligence, Tsivin built a data […]
[pullquote][/pullquote]Coca-Cola’s global senior digital director has a refreshing point of view on the divide between creative and media: There is no divide. “Creative is media,” said Mariano Bosaz, whose job is to coordinate digital marketing efforts across markets and set the tone for Coke’s digital strategy. Thinking of creative and media in silos harks back […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris Dobson, CEO at The Exchange Lab. The evolution in how we consume video content has been well documented, and we know it intrinsically from our own habits. This development has been driven by […]
“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 Brian Andersen, partner at LUMA Partners. There have been numerous articles published about the convergence of ad tech and mar tech, and whether it’s happening or not. As I presented […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. From Audit To Agent Accenture Interactive, the consulting giant’s digital services group, now has more than 13,000 employees. The company made a push at Mobile World Congress and increasingly comes up against the holding companies, reports Digiday’s Shareen Pathak. WPP CEO Martin Sorrell and other agency […]
Forward-thinking marketing organizations want to integrate digital and OTT media plans with upfront sponsorships and commitments. But doing so isn’t always black and white. Citi, for instance, integrates addressable TV planners with those who focus on traditional upfront commitments or digital video. “Instead of looking just at TV, we’re going to ask more of our […]
“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 Joshua Lowcock, executive vice president and chief digital officer at UM Worldwide. Despite what you may have been led to believe, the real problem facing the digital industry is not […]
Sean Moriarty wears a marketing hat half the time and a publisher hat the other half. He joined Demand Media in 2014 as its CEO and has since grown the company’s commerce business to more than half of its revenue. Moriarty also led Demand Media’s rebranding to Leaf Group in November to move it away […]
This is the second of three stories in a mini-series on how artificial intelligence is affecting the work that agencies do. The next installment will publish on Friday. Read the first story about Xaxis. As marketer interest in artificial Intelligence (AI) grows, Publicis.Sapient sees opportunity to provide guidance. It has a dedicated unit that provides AI-related advice […]
The move to one-to-one advertising requires a tech and data overhaul that’s immensely challenging – even when marketers have clear goals and executive buy-in. Marketers from Nordstrom, Sears and Lowe’s articulated their ongoing transformations on Tuesday during panel discussions at LiveRamp’s annual RampUp conference in San Francisco. Sears Chief Digital and Marketing Analytics Officer Kerem […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ramped LiveRamp is using the occasion of its RampUp conference to unveil some marquee onboarding partners, with an emphasis on TV and audio media. The Acxiom-owned company paired with Simulmedia, SambaTV and Spotify to help brands match their customer files against new audiences on those platforms. […]
Hotel and travel brands are looking to pour more performance dollars into Facebook. For years, hotel operators have used the social platform as a source of online check-ins, reviews and customer service responses, but “the next step was taking it to advertising,” said Chris Georgas, digital marketing manager for Fairmont Hotels. After debuting its Dynamic […]
Outstream video is one way publishers can bypass the pre-roll shortage, but the format doesn’t always fly for pubs with heavy ad-blocking audiences. Ziff Davis, the publisher of tech, gaming and lifestyle properties like PCMag, IGN and AskMen, found that certain titles – IGN audiences in particular, which amasses a cult following among gamers – […]
Facebook is again tackling cross-device measurement and attribution. Although its Atlas product struggled as an ad server in the marketplace, Atlas could successfully use Facebook IDs to measure across devices and help marketers assess campaign performance. Now Facebook is making those features available to marketers through its Business Manager, in a tool dubbed Advanced Measurement. […]
In the months leading up to and following the US presidential election, publishers with right-wing and occasionally extremist views, such as Breitbart and InfoWars, have joined stalwarts like the Drudge Report and Newsmax on the Republican right. In spite of their growing audiences, monetization can be tough for these challengers. Some brands have stayed away, […]
