Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Snap Judgment In a post on Stratechery, Ben Thompson dubs Snap’s product and advertising road map “the Gingerbread Man strategy,” since its only defensible position is to run, run, run as fast you can (aka constantly invest in new consumer and advertiser products). The problem? Cost. […]
News Corp. is shifting allegiance from Rubicon Project to AppNexus. News Corp. offloaded its entire 8% investment in Rubicon Project, or 3.9 million shares, according to an SEC filing on Friday. Last September, News Corp. invested $10 million in AppNexus. It also signed a master services agreement, enabling its publications to switch over to AppNexus […]
Fraud follows the money, but it also picks the low-hanging fruit. Although Methbot was a fairly sophisticated operation, fraudsters are generally lazy, said Augustine Fou, a cybersecurity expert and independent ad fraud researcher. “The general principle is that bots are not going to work harder than they need to,” Fou said. “If they can get […]
Quotient, which originated as the consumer-facing Coupons.com in the late ’90s, is pushing deeper into programmatic media. The company has launched the Quotient Media Exchange (QMX), a digital media platform that lets CPG and retailer advertisers target ads across Quotient’s publisher network, including Coupons.com, Facebook and other third-party retail partner sites. Another day, another programmatic […]
Martin Kihn, Research VP at Gartner, will speak about the state of mar tech and ad tech at Programmatic IO on April 5 in San Francisco. Ad tech and mar tech may not converge after all. Two years ago, Gartner analyst Marty Kihn predicted that owned media (mar tech) and paid media (ad tech) technologies would come […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Randy Cooke, vice president of programmatic TV at SpotX. Disruption is a norm of the modern world, a predicate of evolution that exists within every industry. Just a century ago, Henry Ford quipped that if […]
“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 Arther Wu, senior director of monetization and business operations at Cheetah Mobile. Napoleon Bonaparte once wrote: “War is 90% information.” When it comes to business competition, the figure might be […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. FCC You Later Ajit Pai, newly appointed chairman of the FCC, pushed back on the idea that he opposes a free and open internet, telling Reuters “the only question is what regulatory framework best secures that.” President Obama’s administration reclassified broadband providers like Comcast and AT&T […]
Facebook will be audited by the Media Rating Council. (Pause for dramatic effect.) The company said Friday in a blog post that it plans to commit to an independent audit by the MRC in order to verify the accuracy of the measurement it delivers to its ad partners. Facebook had reportedly started talking to the […]
On its Q4 and full-year 2016 earnings call on Friday, IPG said it will invest in data and analytics for its global media management unit, Mediabrands, rather than bolting on an acquired solution. “We believe [Mediabrands] will become the data stack and platform that will service all of our clients,” said CEO Michael Roth. Roth […]
Since iCrossing entered the market as a search agency in 1998, digital spend has expanded to social, display and mobile, all of which are table stakes. As a result, iCrossing expanded into a full-service agency, eventually getting acquired by Hearst in 2010. Since then, it’s snagged AOR accounts for clients like Bayer, Church and Dwight and […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, founder and CEO at Rebel AI. Although White Ops estimated that Methbot siphoned $3 million to $5 million per day from advertisers, fraud where domains are falsified carry a hidden price tag […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. No TCR? NBD Nielsen isn’t sweating the delay of its Total Content Ratings (TCR) rollout. During the company’s investor call Thursday, CEO Mitch Barns attributed the hold-up to client lags. [Read the release.] “The measurement itself is solid and is working as intended,” he said. “The […]
There’s a new top cop on the advertising regulation beat. Attorney Thomas Pahl will fill Jessica Rich’s shoes as acting director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. Acting FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen named Pahl to his new post on Wednesday, the day after it was announced Rich would be stepping down. Pahl […]
Publicis will write down its digital arm, Publicis.Sapient, by roughly $1.5 billion – almost half of its initial valuation – the company told investors during its earnings call Thursday. Sapient, for which Publicis paid $3.7 billion in 2014 to expand its digital assets, has become a drag on the overall business. While Sapient grew 7% […]
Ad revenue was down year over year for Donald Trump’s favorite communication channel. Twitter’s ad revenue for Q4 slumped to $638 million from $641 million in 2015, although ad revenue was up from $616 million in the third quarter. A year-on-year ad revenue loss is a major problem, considering mobile advertising revenue comprises 89% of […]
Veteran Tremor Video CEO Bill Day has resigned, effective immediately, and will serve as a special adviser to the company through June. Paul Caine, the non-executive board chairman for Tremor since 2014 and former Bloomberg Media CRO, will step in as interim CEO and lead the search for a permanent replacement, the company said Thursday. […]
Traditional magazine companies believe they have weathered the storm of disruption over their business. They’re now ready to look ahead and use their subscription data to drive results for advertisers. “I think the businesses that got disrupted first are in a good position,” David Carey, president of Hearst Magazines, said Wednesday during a panel at […]
Former Right Media President Christine Hunsicker founded apparel company Gwynnie Bee in 2012 because she wanted to move to an industry that hadn’t yet been disrupted by data and technology. Gwynnie Bee, which lets women wearing sizes 10-32 rent and return apparel, required efficient data use to run a balanced marketplace with supply and demand […]
If programmatic advertising has reduced readers to commodities, then Topix wants to be the ultimate trader. The site focuses on slideshows, the best way to get readers to cycle through multiple page views and earn more revenue per user. Topix’s most successful slideshow in 2016 earned $400,000. But getting that $400,000 required buying about $200,000 […]
Marriott International isn’t joking around when it says that mobile it its sweet spot. The hotel chain’s app is responsible for around $1.7 billion in annual gross bookings. But the app – a revamped version hit the App Store on Tuesday – is more than just a booking tool, said George Corbin, Marriott International’s SVP of […]
“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 […]
