Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Moar Ratings After months of delay, Nielsen this week is finally set to roll out its total content ratings (TCR) metric, which promises to measure video consumption and ad impact across linear and digital platforms. TCR will debut Wednesday with a “limited commercial release,” Jessica Hogue, […]
Marla Kaplowitz, named president and CEO of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As) on Friday, has made mending fences with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) a top priority. Addressing the rift between the two organizations – and, more broadly, between marketers and agencies themselves – over agency transparency has “got to happen this […]
Alain Portmann and Oscar Garza will speak about last click attribution at Programmatic IO on April 5 in San Francisco. Last-click attribution may never die. Although digital multitouch attribution (MTA) pioneers like Visual IQ, Google’s Adometry and AOL’s Convertro hit the market more than a decade ago, last-click remains the prevailing measurement model. Big brands and network agencies still tend […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Scott Braley, general manager of advertising platforms at Ooyala. If you’re in the business of selling advertising or otherwise monetizing inventory, you’ve got to follow the money. So it’s hard to argue that the increasingly popular […]
TrustX GM and President David Kohl was sitting in the front row with a big smile on his face when P&G Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard laid into the digital supply chain at the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting last month. For the past year, Kohl has been working on a project housed within Digital Context […]
Integrated sales teams are in vogue. Print sellers usually handle digital these days, and IO-focused digital sellers pitch in on programmatic. But Forbes, which integrated its sales team in 2009, switched back to separate lanes for separate mediums at the beginning of this year. “All of this was motivated by what we were seeing when […]
“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 Vejay G. Lalla, a partner in the advertising, marketing and promotions group at Davis & Gilbert. In 2017, we are seeing an explosion of online marketers engaging in cross-device targeting, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New Sheriff The 4As has named former MEC North American CEO Marla Kaplowitz as its new prez, Ad Age reports. Kaplowitz will replace longtime President and CEO Nancy Hill in June. Kaplowitz inherits ongoing calamities like the ANA’s probe into agency transparency and metrics disputes with […]
The other shoe has dropped: Newly minted Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai on Friday moved to block the implementation of the ISP privacy rules passed under former Commissioner Tom Wheeler. Pai was acting on a request by trade groups to stay the rule rollout, which was scheduled to take effect March 2. “All […]
ComScore had a rough go of it in 2016, with fierce competition from Nielsen and other media validation companies, culminating in its delisting from the Nasdaq this month. But CEO Gian Fulgoni also expressed disappointment with the performance of comScore’s digital ad measurement tool, Validated Campaign Essentials (vCE), during a corporate update on Friday. Though […]
“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 Steven Rosenblatt, president at Foursquare. Consolidation: It’s something that no industry is immune to but that many benefit from. For marketers and advertisers still learning how to leverage location intelligence, […]
The Israeli startup Shine is rebranding to Rainbow as it abandons its ad-blocking roots in favor of ad-targeting and verification services, the company revealed Friday. “We have been really trying to identify a path forward and the commercialization opportunities for the base technology,” said CRO James Collier, who joined the company last July. Shine (ahem, […]
Dash Labs lets users transform their regular car into a smart car. The app interfaces with a dongle, sold separately, that plugs into a port beneath the steering wheel and connects via Bluetooth. But driver data isn’t something marketers commonly use, so company CEO and co-founder Jamyn Edis is on a mission to prove that […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ken Van Every, senior business development manager, publisher relations, DataXu. The ad tech ecosystem is diluted with a massively inflated pool of low-quality impressions from bogus sites with little to no proprietary content or services. […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Leaky PMPs Publisher data leakage is alive and well in 2017, AppNexus CEO Brian O’Kelley would like to remind you. In a blog post, he details four ways publishers are giving away their audience data. The really interesting one has to do with private marketplaces. Suppose, […]
Welcome to episode No. 15 of AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. When a large amount of marketer business migrated between agencies in 2015 and 2016, Omnicom Group was the prime beneficiary. The holding company led all of its peers in the total value of its creative and media business wins in 2016, […]
“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 Arthur Hainline, director of analytics at Bidtellect. Real-time bidding’s emergence promised a lot of efficiencies and advancements in digital advertising, one of which was to establish fair prices for advertising […]
Gracenote on Thursday rolled out its first update under new owner Nielsen, which bought it for $560 million in December. The offering is an entertainment database that combines its video, music and sports metadata offerings. The company is betting metadata will play a larger part in media monetization. Gracenote tags the programming content it tracks […]
Pandora’s audio ads are about to get personal. The streaming giant partnered with UK-based dynamic audio creative vendor A Million Ads on Thursday to bring tailored creative and sequential messaging to audio ads in-stream. The capability will launch this year in beta, but Pandora did not state specifically when. Pandora will leverage A Million Ads’ […]
Snapchat is settling into ad tech, and so are its partners. Video production and editing startup VidMob, one of five Creative API partners that Snapchat announced in late January, launched a self-serve platform on Thursday that lets advertisers and publishers create, manage and buy Snap Ads within a single interface. The platform combines Snapchat’s recently released […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Phil Schraeder, president and chief operating officer at GumGum. 2016 was expected to be the year of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). For the first half of the year, every technology, publishing […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. UnScripted “In a few years, people will talk about JavaScript in the same negative connotation that the market talks about ‘cookies,’” wrote Timothy Whitfield, GroupM’s director of technical operations, in a LinkedIn note. JavaScript, like Flash before it, may be transitioning from a core digital ad […]
Another independent demand-side platform (DSP) has found its big enterprise home. Amobee, a digital marketing firm owned by Singaporean telco Singtel, has agreed to buy Turn at a $310 million value. Read the release. Stakeholders expect the acquisition to close within 45 days. Amobee, known for its mobile capabilities, had worked with numerous buying platforms before, said […]
Rubicon Project has slashed its senior ranks, and the casualties include longtime president Greg Raifman. Is a sale to private equity next? Raifman and six other executives have been shown the door, according to two 8-Ks filed late Tuesday. Most of the departing executives had joined to build Rubicon’s buy-side business, which it’s now steering […]
The internet is ravenous for food content, illustrated by the rise of food bloggers, “hands-and-pans” videos, Tastemade and Extra Crispy, a bespoke food publication from Time Inc. Food52’s strategy isn’t to go broad, as many of its competitors do, but deep. It serves up content for food nerds and obsessives who are hungry for vegan […]
Criteo closed 2016 on a high note. FY 2016 revenue was up 37% to $730 million, excluding traffic acquisition costs. Criteo’s cash flow for the fiscal year also increased 16% to $159 million. The company credits two new products – Predictive Search and Criteo Sponsored Products (formerly Hooklogic, which Criteo acquired for $250 million in […]
Getting ad-blocking users to change their tune and opt into ads isn’t impossible. In fact, for Dennis Publishing, it has worked as much as 57% of the time. The UK-based publisher of The Week, Carbuyer.co.uk, Alphr.com and other sites conducted a six-month test of Sourcepoint’s Dialogue tech, which allows publishers to send different messages to […]
Nielsen Catalina Solutions’ (NCS) original value prop focused on connecting media consumption with in-store sales for CPG brands. But in the past two years, NCS has moved beyond attribution and into building programmatic audience segments. Programmatic targeting is already almost 25% of NCS’ business, with a revenue goal this year between $20 million and $25 […]
Bad ads have their run of the internet. Twenty-eight percent of ads fail at least one of five key quality issues that slow down web pages and detract from the user experience, according to Ad Lightning. Ad Lightning, which helps publishers find and report bad ads, analyzed 605,000 pieces of ad creative across 60 websites […]
