Twenty-First Century Fox revealed on Friday a preliminary bid to buy out the rest of British pay TV provider and telco Sky for $13.51 per share for a total of about $14.1 billion. Fox already owns a 39.1% stake in the company. In 2010, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. attempted to take over Sky (called British […]
The internet of things will be a top enforcement priority for the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission in 2017 – especially in the wake of the recent distributed-denial-of-service attacks against Dyn. Dyn, which provides online infrastructure and domain services, was the victim of a DDOS onslaught that temporarily shut down major websites like Spotify, […]
“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 Hannu Verkasalo, founder and CEO at Verto Analytics. In October, Google’s webmaster trends analyst said that the company would soon implement major changes to its search engine. The search giant […]
Everyone needs bleach. That’s why brands like Clorox have a lot of repeat buyers. The question is: How do you build support for a social cause when you’re selling bleach? Clorox already does a lot of TV and pre-roll advertising, but this week it tested its first 360-degree educational video focusing on 18-34-year-olds. The socially […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Rachel Parkin, senior vice president of strategy and sales at CafeMedia. Two years ago, I saw the future of programmatic not as a budget channel, but rather a conduit through which all media changed […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Target’s Targeted Supply Target is putting together programmatic campaigns for brands it carries in-store by leveraging its in-house DMP in combination with DSP partners. It’s retail “audience extension” of the sort Amazon and Walmart have also dabbled in. According to Brent Rosso, VP of digital media […]
The Federal Trade Commission is watching smart TVs. An FTC workshop on Wednesday in Washington, DC, laid out consumer privacy concerns around smart-TV tracking and sought to clarify how the ad industry is using the data that’s being collected. “Consumers expect some level of data collection when they use their computer,” said Jessica Rich, director […]
“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 Andrew Pancer, chief operating officer at Dstillery. The robots have arrived, quipped a very recent Newsweek article, and they are “coming to take your jobs, your homes, your children.” Should you be […]
Facebook’s app-install ads got a little face-lift Thursday with the launch of dynamic ads for mobile app installs. The ads, available through the Facebook Audience Network, let advertisers target users with dynamic app-install ads based on their recent product browsing history. Facebook first started testing the ads last summer along with an app event optimization […]
Not all network agencies are beholden to their holding company trading desks. Dentsu-owned 360i, for one, “has never spent a dime with Amnet,” said Chairman Bryan Wiener. Rather, it buys all media – roughly $1.5 billion worth – in-house. And programmatic, he said, should be integrated into 360i’s “overall offering.” 360i originally focused on search […]
Independent media and entertainment agency Media Storm is deepening its client workbench. Media Storm specializes in helping network, cable and studio clients such as Starz and CMT increase audience tune-in. Now the agency is broadening its scope to new verticals. “We’re really starting to use what we learned from the entertainment and media space and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. It’s About Trust Facebook’s measurement errors caused little direct damage, but some are wondering about the veracity of more crucial measures, Tim Peterson reports for Marketing Land. Take, for instance, Facebook’s store visits metric. “It’s a metric that [digital agency] Blitz considers when recommending large Facebook […]
A year ago Pinterest was in the process of winding down its sales and marketing services for all but two partner categories: retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG). But after a year spent working on ad tech product releases – like a CRM match program and an expansion of interest-based targeting – it’s throttling up […]
Pandora will launch in-stream programmatic audio ads later next year, although no timeline has been specified. “We’re really excited about where programmatic goes in 2017,” Pandora Chief Revenue Officer John Trimble told AdExchanger on Tuesday at a company-hosted event in New York City. “We’ve built a really strong business on the mobile side. We’re looking […]
Glu Mobile wants users who will stick around for the long term. “In the past, a game company could put out a game every month, just throw stuff out there and see what stuck,” said Glu CRO Chris Akhavan. “But now, consumers only have so many apps they actually use regularly, and we’re all fighting […]
MeUndies discovered a new sales channel on Black Friday: Facebook Live. The underwear company ran a late-afternoon, two-hour event on Nov. 25 complete with a DJ and dance contests. As more people joined, MeUndies unlocked larger and larger discounts. The Live event attracted 13,300 viewers. Those users tallied 5,998 engagements. The Facebook Live audience opened […]
“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. Marketers love innovation. They love breakthrough design and taking creative risks. They love emerging channels and experimental formats. CFOs do not. CFOs love efficient deployment of capital. They […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Verizon Hangs On At a Business Insider conference on Monday, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said he is “cautiously optimistic” that Verizon’s Yahoo acquisition will go through (although at a discount of up to $1 billion off the deal’s $4.8 billion price tag, per earlier reports). 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 Jay Friedman, chief operating officer at Goodway Group. It’s generally thought that second-price auctions are better at extracting maximum bids from buyers than first-price auctions. The auction mechanics of eBay, the […]
Traditional video metrics aren’t really cutting it for advertisers, especially on mobile. Moat is making the attempt with its Video Score metric released in late November. Predicated on the notion that not every viewable impression is created equal, the metric aims to help properly measure digital video exposures across platforms by looking at how much […]
Video ad platform Innovid will integrate with marketing clouds from IBM, Adobe and Oracle, the companies said Tuesday, allowing video and TV planners to use CRM data to inform video ads served by Innovid. Conversely, those marketing cloud customers can apply intent data from their mobile, desktop and OTT video campaigns to their broader marketing […]
Purch, which first implemented header bidding three years ago, has moved on. The portfolio of product review and tech sites turned off most of its header bidders last month and moved to server-to-server integrations with the same partners. Industrywide, server-to-server is considered a logical next step after header bidding. Amazon is moving server-to-server, and Google’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Forecasting The Future Global ad spend will grow 4.4% in 2017 to reach $566 billion, according to Zenith’s ad spend forecast, released on Monday. Zenith agrees with GroupM and Magna that 2017 is the year digital will surpass TV ad spend globally. Display will grow 13% […]
Beacons started out as a solution in search of a problem. And now some beacon providers are companies in search of a home. On Monday, mobile ad platform The Mobile Majority acquired geolocation beacon company Gimbal, a spinoff of Qualcomm. In June, location data company Verve Mobile bought beacon provider Roximity almost exactly one year […]
After a brief hiatus from television, Birchbox is reinvesting in the medium for a multiplatform holiday campaign. Birchbox, which sends beauty products to its subscribers every month, is using a 30-second TV spot and digital assets to message not just beauty-obsessed women, but also more casual makeup users or men who want gift ideas. Amanda […]
Both WPP’s GroupM and IPG’s Magna pinpoint 2017 as the year digital ad spend finally surpasses linear TV, according to forecasts each media-buying unit released Monday. Magna noted that digital grew 17% globally this year to $178 billion, contributing $23 billion to the total $26 billion growth in ad spend this year. GroupM predicts that digital will […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, senior vice president and media director at R2C Group. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I spend a lot of time these days looking for silver linings in every […]
“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 Richard Eisert, partner at Davis & Gilbert. If a brand hands off advertising and marketing tasks to an online network, can it also hand off legal liability? The recent actions […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Get In The Game Nike has historically distributed through retail channels, but by 2020 it hopes to double its $8 billion direct-to-consumer business, relying heavily on digital channels. “As shopping shifts online, Nike is moving to lessen its reliance on retailers,” writes The Wall Street Journal. […]
