Sponsored content is going programmatic, courtesy of a partnership between native ad company Nativo, and demand-side platform The Trade Desk. GroupM’s native ad division, Plista, will be a key buyer in the new partnership. The deals transact via a private marketplace, but with fixed pricing. Nativo will add in a programmatic guaranteed option later this […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Neil Lustig, CEO at Sailthru. The struggle that publishers are facing when it comes to monetization is so pervasive that many aren’t even bothering to hide the evidence. But it’s not earnings reports, revenues […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AI, Meet Paid Media As part of a deal between Google and Disney, Google’s voice-activated assistant Home slipped a promo for the upcoming “Beauty & The Beast” premiere into its morning recitation (weather forecast, schedule, commute, etc.). Google maintains it’s not an ad, “but it’s definitely […]
Soon after Adblock Plus (ABP) developer Eyeo revealed the publisher, brand and ad tech executives on its Acceptable Ads Committee (AAC) Wednesday, many of those members’ employers swiftly distanced themselves. Dell, Condé Nast and Rocket Fuel are among eight companies with members on the committee. The panel would manage ad policies for Eyeo’s Acceptable Ads […]
Unlike in digital, where marketers can buy across multiple publishers, TV planning is largely limited to a single broadcaster’s inventory. Fox, Turner and Viacom have jointly formed an advanced audience platform called OpenAP, which will roll out to media agencies and advertisers in early April, to try to solve that challenge. While each network has […]
XAd only wants advertisers to get paid if someone actually walks in the door. On Thursday, the location-based mobile ad network said it would allow brands to transact on a cost-per-visit (CPV) basis. Advertisers will be able to make media buys based on foot traffic-related KPIs and only pay for performance. It’s an appealing proposition […]
As a challenger to Shutterfly, the digital photo book startup Chatbooks has sought to carve a niche with millennials and moms since its 2014 launch. The brand’s initial marketing strategy has been mostly organic and word-of-mouth, but last fall it stepped on the paid media gas pedal and bought its first linear TV ad. Since then, Chatbooks has invested […]
“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 Nathan Woodman, senior vice president of strategic development at IPONWEB. There’s a scene in the 2002 Tom Cruise movie, “Minority Report,” that has become legendary in marketing and ad tech […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ads Can Do It! The ad-supported internet is a boon to the US economy. According to an IAB report led by Harvard Business School professor John Deighton, the ad-supported internet drove more than $1 trillion into the US economy last year, more than doubling in the […]
Brian Lesser, CEO of GroupM North America, will speak at Programmatic IO on April 5 in San Francisco. Marketers are under pressure to transform their businesses around digital while keeping costs low, so agencies have to evolve their business models to meet these demands. At GroupM, that evolution has played out with the launch of mPlatform, which […]
Havas Media is going through a brain change thanks to IBM and Watson developer Equals 3. While Havas’s relationship with IBM goes back for decades, it was mostly on the creative side. But Havas Media has over the past year been installing and training a Watson-powered artificial intelligence (AI) solution – in the form 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 Tasso Argyros, co-founder and CEO at ActionIQ. Technology revolutions are messy. I know. I lived through one with my last company, Aster Data. But if you survive a tech revolution, you are […]
Viewability vendors, including Integral Ad Science, DoubleVerify and Moat, are banding together in an uneasy alliance to tackle in-app viewability using open-source software – but the problem is far from solved. “The spirit of the open-source initiative is a good thing,” said Moat CEO Jonah Goodhart. “It’s not comprehensive measurement, though.” Opening The Way In […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jaclyn Stewart, senior director of publisher services at The 614 Group. There is an ongoing contentious relationship between sales and operations in digital publishing that is well documented. In a fast-paced, high-demand and increasingly […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Godzilla Vs. Mothra EMarketer’s latest macro forecast shows Facebook and Google consolidating power and share across mobile, display and search. Facebook’s US ad revenue will surge 32% to $16.3 billion this year, giving it almost 40% of the US display market and stealing share from Google, […]
Rubicon Project founder Frank Addante has stepped down as CEO. Former AdMeld and Millennial Media chief Michael Barrett is Rubicon’s new CEO, effective immediately. Addante will switch to a strategic and advisory role as chairman of Rubicon’s board. Barrett has a history of turning companies around and getting them sold. As CEO of Millennial Media, he took a company […]
On May 10, eBay will part ways with its longtime ad rep firm, Triad Retail Media, which was acquired by Xaxis last October. Recode first reported the separation. EBay will move its ad sales team in-house, claiming this migration will allow it to take more direct ownership of its brand partnerships. “This is much more […]
Along with its eponymous New York stock exchange, Nasdaq Inc. powers more than 80 transactional markets around the world. Now, its blockchain technology powers a startup advertising exchange called the New York Interactive Ad Exchange (NYIAX), which plans eventually to create a market where digital media inventory could be bought and sold like stock on […]
The revenue opportunity around mobile ad spend is too big to ignore, said Dan Rosen, global director of advertising at Spanish telco Telefonica, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in early March. It’s why telcos like Verizon, Telenor, Telstra and SingTel are spending big on ad tech. Telefonica carved out a niche in the mobile […]
The fallout from the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) litigation against smart TV manufacturer Vizio for “unfair and deceptive data-collection” practices didn’t end with its $2.2 million settlement in February. Separately, Vizio is also embroiled in a class-action lawsuit that industry insiders predict is far from over. These allegations stem from claims the smart TV manufacturer […]
“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 Bob Buch, SVP of sales at Rakuten Marketing. Ten years ago, I learned an important lesson about how to treat your core customers when, as Digg’s VP of business development, I […]
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 […]
