Data management platform (DMP) Lotame has developed a campaign planning and measurement tool designed for linear TV broadcasters. Local broadcast consortium Pearl TV, which represents more than 200 local broadcast TV stations and network groups including Hearst, Cox Media and E.W. Scripps, is the first to test-drive it. While many advertisers want to buy across […]
Widespread adoption of mobile phones has opened up the opportunity for programmatic advertising in Africa. “The mobile advertising space is still in its infancy in terms of actual numbers, but it has huge potential,” said Anindya Ghose, a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business who has studied the global mobile marketplace. Chinese companies […]
Welcome to episode No. 6 of AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Scott Knoll was named CEO of Integral Ad Science five years ago, when ad verification mostly served to ameliorate brand safety concerns. Then the twin terrors of fraud and viewability came along and recast the programmatic marketplace in terms of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Gray Lists Programmatic “blacklists” may not be very effective. For one thing, they require constant audits to identify sites that cycle domain names. And brands looking for cheap reach and efficiency may not incentivize their agencies and vendors to blacklist. “It’s a position clients knowingly or […]
SintecMedia will acquire Operative for nearly $200 million in a move that will give media companies with linear TV and digital businesses one software system to manage proposals, trafficking and billing. “We are future-proofing [media companies’] businesses by helping them create a single stack for linear and digital,” said Operative CEO Lorne Brown, who will […]
WPP-owned GroupM said Tuesday it will centralize its tech and data expertise worldwide into a unit called [m]Platform. The division will be helmed by Xaxis CEO Brian Gleason with key executives drawn from Xaxis and across GroupM. “The collective mission of [m]Platform revolves around technology, data and expertise,” Gleason told AdExchanger. “The mission is how […]
“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 Nick Gibbons, global head of customer success at ReFUEL4. Facebook once again beat its earnings forecast earlier this month. But the share price dropped by almost 8% after the earnings […]
Reddit spent most of 2015 in a state of turmoil – executive shuffles and users in revolt over policy changes amid concerted and ongoing efforts to cut down on trolling and unsavory content. Reddit’s reputation: not necessarily the most brand-safe environment. That instability led to the return of Steve Huffman as CEO of Reddit last […]
Adobe might have won TubeMogul’s hand in marriage, but there were several other strategic acquirers involved in the courtship. According to a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing dated Nov. 18, TubeMogul’s sales process really began last November. Up until the time Adobe agreed to acquire the DSP in mid-November, 16 entities – including […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Small Victories Ad blocking in Germany has declined roughly 2% since Q3 2015, according to one national digital media trade group. Ad-blocking trends always seem to start in Germany, so it could be a harbinger for other markets. Jack Marshall of The Wall Street Journal explores […]
Programmatic ad spend will grow faster globally than all other buying methods in 2017, according to Zenith’s Programmatic Marketing Forecast, released Monday. Zenith also reported that premium buying models like private marketplaces (PMPs) are taking off as RTB tapers off. Globally, programmatic will account for 64% of digital display spend by 2018, or $64.1 billion. “We […]
Ad networks catch a lot of flak as conduits of bad traffic from shady publishers. “It is true that some bad players intentionally sell fraudulent traffic and that other players are just turning a blind eye,” said Asaf Greiner, CEO and founder of fraud detection company Protected Media. “But there are also others working very […]
As the CMO role has evolved, so too has Epsilon’s selling strategy. “We were trying to sell everything to every customer,” said Stacey Hawes, president of Epsilon’s data practice. “We want to step back and ask, ‘Where does methodical selling make sense, rather than being everything to everyone?’” In September, Epsilon reorganized into six practices […]
EBay Enterprise alumni unite! When paid search and affiliate network Pepperjam and ecommerce platform Magento partnered in early November, it marked the reunification of two companies from eBay’s now-discontinued eBay Enterprise Marketing business. After the spinoff from eBay, Pepperjam and Magento were each reclaimed by their original owners to operate as standalone entities. “I had […]
“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 Todd Van Fleet, managing partner at Van Fleet Capital Strategies. The recent news that Adobe is acquiring video demand-side platform (DSP) TubeMogul may accelerate industry speculation that other marketing cloud […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Quality Control Forget about what constitutes a video view – the real question is how to value it. Moat hopes to add some clarity with its Video Score, which assesses the quality of video views across platforms by considering factors like sound, screen and view time. […]
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Two former Cablevision execs – former COO Kristin Dolan and former media sales President Ben Tatta – are bringing their experience in local TV advertising to the national level. The two formed an audience measurement and analytics firm called 605 earlier this month through an acquisition of Analytics Media Group (AMG), the data and analytics […]
AppNexus has banned right-wing publisher Breitbart from selling on its exchange for violating its policy on hate speech – an order endorsed by CEO Brian O’Kelley, and depending on who you ask, also instigated by him. The ban was first reported by Bloomberg. According to an internal source, at some point last week O’Kelley demanded that his ad quality team […]
Agencies often select a few “preferred partners” instead of dealing with numerous demand-side platforms (DSPs). While agencies, barring a client preference, should choose a DSP that can access the best inventory at the best rates for a given campaign, many buying platforms offer volume-based discounts. And because agencies feel the squeeze on margins, they might […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. Many supply-side platforms (SSPs) herald header bidding as a liberating force, democratizing access to the publisher ad server and opening hitherto inaccessible inventory. Yet this myopic view – that […]
“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 Emily Riley, CEO at Riley Strategic. This Thanksgiving is going to be a weird one for people who work in media and advertising. Most of us live and work in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Breit-banned Conservative media publisher Breitbart was booted from the AppNexus exchange on Tuesday for falling afoul of its hate speech rules. After taking a hard look at the site, notorious for its use of offensive language, AppNexus decided it was in breach of company policy against […]
AT&T now has controlling interest in addressable TV platform Invidi, following an investment the telco giant revealed Monday. The exact amount was undisclosed. Prior investor WPP and Dish Network also participated. Although Invidi will remain independent, AT&T, Dish and WPP have collective ownership. An AT&T spokesperson said the telco sees “opportunity for continued expansion in […]
Ad tech companies flocked to Washington, DC, during the recent election cycle in pursuit of political ad budgets, but many were disappointed. Rocket Fuel was the most aggressive newcomer, adding approximately 15 people to its DC office for political business development beginning last summer. But the company dismissed most of those hires in the week […]
App publishers expect their inventory to fetch a pretty penny during the holiday season as marketers furiously funnel their remaining budget into hardcore user-acquisition efforts. “There’s an enormous amount of volatility during Q4, more than anything because of a desire to get up the charts,” said James Peng, head of mobile and social acquisition at […]
“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 Tony Blankemeyer, startup liaison at 84.51°. I’ve seen startup pitches for everything: new takes on food, digitized shelves, fancy carts, drones for warehousing, robotic chefs, social media management, VR shops, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hitting The Ramp LiveRamp’s acquisitions of Arbor and Circulate got the stamp of approval from Dan Salmon, media and internet analyst at BMO Capital Markets. In a previous investor report, Salmon highlighted those two startups for pursuing LiveRamp’s business, so he applauds Acxiom for “keeping the […]
Oracle is buying domain services provider Dyn. While Oracle didn’t reveal the sale price in its release, former Forbes columnist Dan Primack pegged it at just north of $600 million. Dyn made waves in recent months after it was hit by a massive DDOS attack, which temporarily shut down major websites including Spotify and Twitter […]
“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 Alan Chapell, president at Chapell & Associates. ProPublica’s Julia Angwin broke the news recently that Google has quietly begun to merge personally identifiable information (PII) with the ad-serving data collected […]
