Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Safe At Any Speed? In separate media interviews, Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler pushes two narratives: (1) The problem of ads running next to hate speech is tiny (“very very very small numbers,” Schindler tells Recode), and (2) Google has the tech to fix it. […]
Stick a fork in the Federal Communication Commission’s Obama-era privacy rules. As promised, President Trump signed a bill Monday to repeal the ISP privacy regulation passed last year under former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. The repeal follows Republican-led Senate and House votes to kill the regs in late March. The rules would have required broadband […]
Michael Bologna and Jamie Power – both leaders from GroupM’s advanced television-buying unit Modi Media – have left the media agency and founded an addressable TV media-buying startup called one2one Media. One2one is owned by Cross MediaWorks, a consortium of media and advertising companies. One2one matches advertiser first- and third-party data to multichannel video programming […]
“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 Greg Herbst, vice president of programmatic data solutions at Bombora. Despite the growth of data-driven marketing, it’s actually becoming more challenging and costly for advertisers to identify, track and accurately […]
Roku will offer audience guarantees this upfront season, joining big networks like NBC with similar programs. Several agencies, including Horizon Media and Hill Holliday’s media spinoff, Trilia, are beta testing Roku’s audience guarantees. Roku’s offering is based on the set-top box maker’s existing integration to Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings, which helped buyers determine their waste […]
IPONWEB might have made its name building ad tech for other vendors, but it’s increasingly hoping to directly service agencies, brands and publishers. An expanding 35% of IPONWEB’s business comes directly from media buyers and owners, and in late February, the company brought on Rubicon Project and Spotify vet Jana Jakovljevic to build out its […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Patrick Hanavan, co-founder and chief client officer at Extreme Reach. Snapchat became the darling du jour of the media and advertising world after its recent IPO. While I’m not yet convinced it’s the TV […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Better Safe Than Sorry Omnicom has implemented new brand safety checks to vet YouTube videos for hateful content. The tool uses automated scanning and human oversight to score and whitelist content on the platform. Like WPP, which last week announced a YouTube brand safety deal with […]
The “last-look” advantage Google’s ad server gave to Google’s ad exchange so bothered publishers and exchanges that it gave rise to header bidding. As of this week, that advantage is no more, AdExchanger has learned. Google just reworked its auction so it no longer favors itself in the allocation of bids. A support document this […]
Apple’s big iOS update last year created large amounts of new media inventory, which the company is monetizing through a big ad deal with NBCUniversal and direct relationships with publishers. Now the mobile platform giant is opening the gates to outside measurement of its ad impressions, AdExchanger has learned. Through its sales agreement with NBCUniversal, Apple […]
T.O by Lipton, Unilever’s Keurig-like tea brewer in France, was struggling to turn analytics from its ecommerce platform into actionable insights. “With [tools like] Google Analytics, I could know what consumers were doing, but I had difficulty knowing why they were dropping off or why they weren’t buying our machines,” said Mathieu Bernard, ecommerce lead […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ashley Swartz, co-founder and CEO of Furious Corp. Despite being the fastest-growing advertising medium, digital video remains a seriously difficult business for premium publishers. The costs of producing premium content remain high, it’s a […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Chasing Safety In addition to pulling its ads from YouTube, as many big brands have done in recent days, JPMorgan Chase also culled the number of sites where it runs ads from 400,000 to just 5,000, The New York Times reports. According to CMO Kristin Lemkau, […]
Both Publicis Groupe’s Zenith and IPG’s Magna attribute growth in online advertising to programmatic targeting and data in their global ad spend forecasts released this week. That momentum will help digital ad spend overtake TV this year for the first time. Magna pegged overall ad spend at $187 billion this year, a 3.7% increase over […]
Welcome to episode No. 20 of AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. For marketers considering bringing programmatic advertising in-house, Jounce Media founder Chris Kane has a word of advice: Break the process into steps. “There are a lot of ad tech companies that are selling the dream to marketers that you’re going […]
The demand-side platform (DSP) category underwent expected consolidation in the past year, with The Trade Desk’s IPO and formerly independent players like TubeMogul, Turn and Adelphic gobbled up by Adobe, Singtel and Time Inc., respectively. But just because the DSP space has matured doesn’t mean it can’t surprise you. This year, that surprise comes from […]
Intuit CMO Lucas Watson wants to give the financial services software company more name recognition among the Googles, Facebooks and Apples of the world. And he’s well positioned to do so, considering he last served as Google’s VP of global brand solutions and innovations before he joined Intuit last July. “As we start to stitch […]
Exchanges, including Rubicon Project, charge publishers a fee for providing access to their ad inventory. But many publishers don’t realize that most supply-side platforms also charge a fee to buyers. That lack of transparency so incensed The Guardian that it sued Rubicon Project on Tuesday to recover undisclosed buyer fees, as Business Insider first reported […]
Mobile attribution player Kochava souped up its anti-fraud offering on Thursday with a consolidated suite of reports, including access to a global blacklist that updates itself. The dashboard helps advertisers visualize what’s happening with their traffic in real time, with views into things like abnormally high click-to-install ratios, ad stacking clicks and questionable IP addresses. […]
“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 Zimm Zimmerman, vice president of personalization at Merkle. Yes, it is still marketing. At its core, marketing is still focused on the fundamentals, including brand reinforcement, a compelling offer, incredible […]
Affiliate marketing is old news, but not for newspapers. Most startup and legacy lifestyle publishers, such as Refinery29 or Condé Nast, and digital-first news companies have had affiliate networks quietly churning out reliable, incremental revenue streams. Now some newspapers, built on crumbling subscription and print advertising pillars, are starting to come around to the idea. […]
Music and entertainment duo Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter are on an ambitious mission to reach 300 million video views each month. The sister publications have collectively crossed the 210 million monthly mark, thanks to a growth initiative dubbed “Project 300,” which centers on video of all varieties, said John Amato, president of The Hollywood […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Monitoring Preferred GroupM hopes to quell brands’ YouTube panic by partnering with OpenSlate, which analyzes individual YouTube videos and scores them for quality and brand safety. The solution is exclusively available to GroupM agencies and will open YouTube ads to third-party measurement for the first time, […]
Discovery Communications wants to prove out the value of its digital properties – both the ones they own and the ones where they’ve invested. “How do we create [intellectual property] on every device, not just linear?” said Discovery CEO and president David Zaslav during the media company’s Tuesday upfront. “As a cable channel, it’s all […]
Location-based shopping app Retale will now offer advertisers a warranty: foot traffic or your money back – at least in the form of a media makegood. As of Tuesday, Retale will start doling out performance guarantees against its ability to drive in-store traffic within specific time parameters. “We don’t talk to anybody anymore that doesn’t say they […]
Media agency employees sitting for Facebook’s Blueprint certification exam may have flashbacks of their experiences taking the SATs. The exam, which certifies agency employees on every Facebook native ad product within its Ads Manager, Business Manager and Power Editor tools, is a multiple-hour affair that requires weeks of prep. Test-takers must roll up their sleeves […]
As advertisers yank spend from YouTube and Google Display Network due to brand safety concerns, premium publishers see an opportunity. These pubs have long complained that audience-based buying devalues the context they provide – context they claim ensures brand safety. “Marketers are recognizing in a blunt force way the difference between a platform and publisher,” […]
Centro has updated its platform so media planners can manage direct-sold campaigns and programmatic ones in one place. The company combined its DSP SiteScout, acquired in 2013, with its workflow automation software for I/O-based buys. It was part of a three-year, $25 million platform update that began after the SiteScout purchase. “When we reset our […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Bannister, co-founder and executive vice president at CafeMedia. Just as buyers are now grasping how header bidding impacts their programmatic buying approach, publishers have already moved on to the next big thing: server-side […]
