“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 Daniel Meehan, CEO at PadSquad. You can’t monetize poor creative. Yet so many content creators, brands and publishers simply “turn on” advertising with an automated ad tech solution and check […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Essentials Can Jet.com, acquired by Walmart for $3.3 billion, save the retail giant’s ecommerce operation and, by extension, make it competitive with Amazon? Bloomberg News outlines Jet CEO Marc Lore’s attempt to do just that by putting together a plan to branch out and sell […]
8 p.m. Katy Perry. That’s all. 7:40 p.m. Google Preferred FTW Google Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl claimed Google Preferred (translation: Google’s top tier videos) has tripled its number of advertisers. Kyncl credited YouTube for turning publishers like BuzzFeed, Vice and AwesomenessTV into “daily destinations of can’t-miss programming.” Consumers watch over 1 billion of hours […]
Seven years after first embracing programmatic buying at scale through its secretive Project Hawkeye initiative, Procter & Gamble is saying goodbye to long-time ad tech partner AudienceScience. In its place the company will install Neustar as its data management platform alongside an assortment of demand-side platforms, including The Trade Desk. Ad Age first reported the […]
Seven independent ad tech companies debuted a programmatic consortium on Thursday that pools their supply- and demand-side cookie IDs into one shared identity asset. The consortium is helmed by AppNexus, MediaMath and LiveRamp, which provides the data matching. Other launch partners include Index Exchange, Rocket Fuel, LiveIntent and OpenX. And it’s a shot across the […]
All marketers want to personalize their messaging, but not every marketer can do it, especially without the resources to dictate who gets what message and when. That was one of the issues faced by GE-owned ServiceMax before it beta tested Demandbase’s Site Optimization tool. ServiceMax develops field service software for clients as diverse as Siemens, […]
AppNexus wants in on connected TV ad budgets. The ad tech company has doubled down on the infrastructure to support connected TV buying and selling by integrating the forecasting from its Yieldex acquisition with its video ad server. It also has added support for newer connected TV ad formats and long-form content. These developments should […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ed Kim, vice president of product and strategy at Nielsen Catalina Solutions. The silos are coming down between digital, mobile and TV, in all its different formats. Although the industry continues to splinter, the […]
“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 Shebbeare, co-founder and chief product officer at Essence. Let’s get this out of the way: I’m biased. I set up an agency 12 years ago, and I still work […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hulu’s Nod To Netflix Hulu snuck in a hat tip to Netflix during its NewFronts presentation at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. “We have more than than 47 million monthly users and 32 million are watching ad-supported content,” said Hulu’s SVP of ad sales, Peter Naylor. […]
Rubicon Project posted another quarter of significant declines as new CEO Michael Barrett attempts to turn around the business. Revenue declined 34% YoY to $46 million in the first quarter. Advertising spend declined 23%, to $191.5 million. Though the revenue slightly beat expectations, the stock slid a few percentage points in after-hours trading. Take rates […]
Facebook is still growing. The company reported on Wednesday that monthly active users are now 1.9 billion, up 17% year-over year – roughly one-fourth of the world’s population – while daily active usage saw an 18% YoY uptick to 1.3 billion. Mobile revenue, as always, is the majority of overall revenue at 85%, up from […]
Criteo welcomed Twitter’s revelation last week that it would stop investing in its retargeting platform TellApart due to direct-response headwinds. Criteo’s CEO said these changes could help its own business. “TellApart was a strong competitor for us in the US, so it was good news for us that they’re winding down that business, and [it] […]
Nearly five years ago, Quartz publisher Jay Lauf set out to create “the business news brand of our century.” Lauf sees Quartz well on its way to reaching that goal. At launch, the company aimed to provide readers with a mobile, social-focused alternative to current high-quality business news sites. Most, like The Economist, required a […]
When a public company is having performance issues, it needs an excuse. For Twitter, TellApart is shaping up to be that boogeyman. After barely a mention of TellApart on its earnings calls for several quarters, last week Twitter CFO and COO Anthony Noto implied that the remarketing platform will hurt revenue through the rest 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 Kate O’Loughlin, senior vice president of media business at Tapad. More than ever, advertisers, agencies and ad tech vendors are trying to find the best way to amplify the efforts […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Agency Henhouse There’s growing disquiet among ad agencies about exposure to the consultants who audit their media practices, according to Ad Age. Companies like Accenture and Deloitte argue their media auditing and digital agency groups are separate and the information is firewalled. But still: “This […]
Maker Studios, the YouTube multichannel network (MCN) it acquired for more than $500 million in 2014, has been absorbed into Disney’s larger digital portfolio. After months of layoffs at the struggling MCN, Disney revealed at its NewFronts presentation on Tuesday that it would roll Maker’s remaining creators and influencers into the Disney Digital Network, a […]
Twitter’s first-ever NewFronts pitch to advertisers: We’re like TV for millennials. But do people really want to tune in to Twitter to watch long-form live-streaming content? Bloomberg, which announced an expanded live-streaming deal with Twitter on Monday, is betting on the fact that consumers are ready. “When we see millions of people go to Twitter […]
As brands flee the open marketplace, publishers like The New York Times are positioned to scoop up their programmatic spend. The Times’ programmatic strategy has long catered to marketers who value its context. It views programmatic as a way to transact, not a way to secure inventory inexpensively. And more marketers want to use its […]
IAC-owned About.com is losing its web 1.0 moniker and rebranding as Dotdash. Dotdash is the umbrella brand behind About.com’s slew of new vertical sites, which includes properties like personal finance-focused The Balance, as well as the health and fitness site, Verywell. Neil Vogel claimed that the vertical reinvention last year is paying dividends. Verywell, for […]
“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 Dillon Roulet, founder and CEO at Syndic8. Advertising without an audience sounds like an oxymoron, but it’s a reality that’s destined to take hold sooner, rather than later. When programmatic […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Viewable Snaps Snapchat has tapped Moat to provide advertisers with a viewability score for Snap ads, the vertical video units that run between Stories and on the Discover news service. While Snap has not said it will submit to an MRC audit, Moat is audited, so […]
OpenSlate, a video analytics platform which provided YouTube brand safety ratings long before YouTube’s most recent brand safety crisis, has raised $7 million from North Base Media to fund product development and international expansion. The company has raised about $15 million in total. OpenSlate is also deepening its talent pool by hiring longtime Triad Retail Media […]
“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 Nico Neumann, senior research analyst for programmatic strategy and analytics at the University of South Australia. Following many critical expert comments and scandals in 2016, the transparency debate finally seems to […]
America’s most data-driven retailers and product manufacturers increasingly use mobile channels to drive shoppers to a store. Take the big kahuna. Walmart two weeks ago began offering discounts for products selected online and then picked up at a store. Walmart clears the margin on those discounts because the retailer can push products through its stores […]
Header bidding has been great for nToggle. The startup uses machine learning to shape the bidstream for buying platforms. Instead of looking at every potential impression, nToggle filters out ones it thinks the DSP is unlikely to bid on, reducing the amount of queries by an average of 90%. Fewer queries to look at translates […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jay Prasad, chief strategy officer at VideoAmp. Since the debut of the NewFronts several years ago, media channels have proliferated, new content formats have bloomed and we use technology to consume content anywhere. Thus, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Merger Recommendation Taboola and Outbrain, the two largest content recommendation companies, are closing in on a merger, according to Israeli news outlet Calcalist. The synergies make sense (the companies are direct competitors with non-duplicate customers) and the merger would create an undisputed heavyweight in the category. […]
