“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 Ray Kingman, CEO at Semcasting. Whether you’re watching television or listening to the radio, you’re bound to catch an ad soliciting participants for a clinical trial. These trials can’t take […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New Media Bauer Media Group will launch a digital offshoot of Empire magazine in the US. Bauer has grown profitable by reviving European print magazines through its digital subsidiary, Bauer Xcel Media. Because Bauer is launching these properties for the first time not only on digital […]
Weather data is hot right now. Location-based mobile ad network xAd has acquired WeatherBug, the companies said Tuesday. WeatherBug operates a live weather website and app with more than 20 million unique users, as well as a network of more than 10,000 private automated weather stations across the country. It’s a page out of IBM’s […]
Google is sticking with the script of “openness” in its publisher roadmap, citing a flurry of product updates designed to maximize publisher revenue, access to inventory and the user experience on mobile. There is an uptick in publishers, including USA Today Network, The New York Times and Time Inc., that are structuring direct deals programmatically, Google […]
GroupM is refocusing investments around addressable and data-driven media. WPP’s media investment management arm will be split into two pillars, Media Investment and Platform Solutions, the company said Monday. The Media Investment arm will refocus GroupM’s investment strategies around data and platforms, while the new Platform Solutions division will centralize and scale GroupM technology used […]
Drawbridge is letting brands get their hands dirty with cross-device data. On Monday, the cross-device company launched self-serve functionality that lets ad buyers see how their buying choices affect what sort of identity graph they get on the other side. The goal is to give advertisers more control so “they can really see how this […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Andreas Schroeter, co-founder and chief operating officer at wywy. TV’s ad budgets are under pressure to shift toward digital buys. Yet even Facebook can’t provide TV’s unmatched reach and recently admitted video ad measurement […]
“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 Alain Portmann, partner and head of strategy and insights at House of Kaizen. McDonald’s decision to appoint Omnicom to its US creative account, on the basis of a pay-per-performance component, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google’s Balancing Act Google wants an ad-supported internet that doesn’t drive people crazy. Back in September it helped launch the Coalition for Better Ads with major platforms and publishers, and it decided not to build an ad blocker into Chrome – in contrast to browsers Opera […]
Facebook will disable targeting based on ethnicity for credit, housing and employment advertisers. ProPublica first reported the development. The move, announced Friday in a blog post by Erin Egan, Facebook’s VP of US public policy and chief privacy officer, follows criticism from policymakers about the legality of “ethnic affinity marketing,” which Facebook introduced two years […]
Some publishers are raking in the traffic courtesy of Apple News, but not everyone on the buy side is impressed. “I want to be able to upload my own audience, match it to theirs and know what’s running where so I can customize the ad,” said Angelina Eng, VP of media platforms and operations at […]
Investing Media Solutions (IMS), exclusively represents the advertising for 375 long-tail and mid-tail publications that offer financial advice. As the financial network looks to the future, it’s adding first-party data and more compelling ad formats to maintain stride with its sophisticated financial advertisers. IMS helps financial advertisers like Vanguard, Fidelity and Schwab, and brands like […]
Adobe’s $540 million acquisition of TubeMogul this week was a bet on more automation and addressability in TV. In addition, the deal gives Adobe Marketing Cloud – which is known for its strength in site analytics and creative – the ability to do more cross-screen media execution. TubeMogul has shown consistent growth quarter after quarter, following […]
Mobile web notifications are blurring the line between apps and the mobile browser. For publishers without apps, mobile web push is a way to interact with people in an app-like fashion. And publishers with an app can use web push to communicate with users even if they haven’t downloaded it. According to numbers released by […]
“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 Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO at Segment. Despite the rise of data-driven marketing, I would argue the future of marketing is still very much creative – albeit deeply engineering-enabled. Effectively […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Greg Mason, CEO at Purch. The New York Times made its own headlines when it recently acquired Wirecutter, the five-year-old online product review site, for an estimated $30 million. For one of the world’s […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Reporting For Duty The Trade Desk reported earnings for the first time yesterday, showing an 84% year-over-year increase in revenue this quarter with $53 million. It’s a good number, but percentage growth is a figure that will naturally decline and which doesn’t overawe Wall St. “They’ve […]
“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 Ned Blaine, performance strategy manager at Turn. When Christmas Tree Shops opened in the ’50s, the Massachusetts-based store sold Christmas merchandise in the months of July and August. It played […]
Adobe will acquire the video demand-side platform TubeMogul for $540 million in debt and cash, the companies said Thursday. [Here’s the deal release.] The deal gives Adobe a sophisticated DSP capability for the first time. Though Adobe had display and search-buying capabilities via the Efficient Frontier acquisition (now Media Optimizer), Adobe has never been lauded […]
Pandora launched the Harmonic Audio Network on Thursday, in partnership with streaming platforms TuneIn and AccuRadio, to offer advertisers mass reach on premium inventory across digital audio platforms. The network will sell exclusive in-stream audio inventory from its own as well as partner platforms. Both TuneIn and AccuRadio will commit roughly 95% to 98% of […]
Kantar Media, long considered a rival to Nielsen’s mainstay TV measurement business internationally, is restructuring the way it goes to market. Although Kantar Media previously operated as one of 12 distinct brands within the Kantar Group, sometimes there was a lack of visibility between different brands. “We’ve had a very strange organizational structure,” admits Andy Brown, chairman and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Trumped On a day when many in the primarily blue-state ad sector found themselves reeling over Donald Trump’s presidential upset, the ANA detailed what it sees as the upside. Its blog post declared a Republican win could alleviate the sector’s tax burden, remake the Supreme Court […]
After an uncharacteristically quaky second quarter that led TubeMogul to lower its guidance amid mobile measurability challenges, market dynamics may be on the upswing. TubeMogul’s total Q3 revenue reached $56.1 million, up 21% year over year, despite a slow ramp-up in mobile video demand due to what the company claimed was a lack of comprehensive […]
Zach Rodgers contributed. Twitter’s Adam Bain is moving on. Bain was the long-running Twitter executive who rose from head of sales to chief operating officer over the course of his six years with the company. In announcing his departure via Twitter, Bain wrote, “We took the company from $0 to Billions faster than almost anyone’s […]
“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 John Yang, vice president of platform services at Bidtellect. Once deemed a fleeting trend, viewability now has a place in almost every digital advertising campaign, regardless of device, format or […]
Welcome to episode No. 5 of AdExchanger Talks, a podcast from the AdExchanger editorial team on data-driven marketing. Let us know if you like it, and please subscribe via your preferred channel. Use the player below to listen now. Omnicom Group’s leadership credits the company’s analytics arm, Annalect, with helping it capture a bunch of new business in […]
LinkedIn is going all-in on automation – promising to activate all display ads programmatically starting in 2017. In the meantime, it is expanding the number of native ad units that are available in a self-serve capacity. While advertisers could previously buy Sponsored Updates and text ads via LinkedIn’s self-serve campaign manager, they now can buy […]
360i – the digital agency recently recognized by the Forrester Wave – prides itself on its ability to adapt to rapid changes in technology. “Marketers need agencies that are adaptable, but still retain the fundamentals,” CEO Sarah Hofstetter said. Forrester singled out 360i’s strong data chops, its ability to facilitate collaboration rather than competition between […]
The programmatic salesperson only came into existence about five years ago. What started out as an outsider position in the sales organization has become more mainstream as programmatic adoption increases. But the very people holding programmatic sales roles are already predicting its extinction, as the role gets absorbed into the entire sales process. “In three […]
