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Complementing Comcast’s massive cable footprint is a 750-person technology solutions group, comprised mostly of engineers who build video products for publishers and advertisers. “We’re mostly focusing on video technology solutions that help customers improve how their video operations run,” said Barry Tishgart, VP of Comcast Technology Solutions, a division of Comcast Cable. Projects include powering video-on-demand […]

“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 Martin Kihn, research vice president at Gartner. In a recent AdExchanger Talks podcast, Nate Woodman of IPONWEB surfaced the specter of what we might call the brand-gorithm: a proprietary algorithm […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Shadow Of Facebook Snapchat’s user growth was up just 3% last quarter, compared with 14% the quarter prior. If Snap can’t engage users through hardware (i.e., its Spectacles product), it had better come up with a software product Facebook can’t steal, according to Nabil Elsheshai, senior […]

Some tech providers are looking to phone numbers as the cookie killer – but privacy and user reticence are potential roadblocks. Digits, however, are a tantalizingly sticky bridge between online and offline, said Guy Weismantel, EVP and CMO of call analytics company Marchex. “It’s extremely hard to prove ROI when someone goes offline and you lose […]

“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 Matt Levin, CEO at Donut Media. Ask a venture capitalist how to build a great technology company and they’ll likely tell you to hire great engineers. Ask them how to […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bettina Hein, founder and CEO at Pixability. This will be the year the cable TV bundle dies a sudden death. I know, the “TV is dying” cry has echoed time and again. But as […]

Erica Schmidt, managing director of North America for Cadreon, will speak about the state of programmatic and advanced TV at Programmatic IO on April 5 in San Francisco. The times, they are a-changing for traditional TV planners. Advertisers and agencies increasingly expect to buy TV, over-the-top (OTT) and mobile on a converged basis. And many want to […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. CPGiants The world’s largest food manufacturers are trying to swallow each other whole. After reportedly making a bid for Mondelez late last year, Kraft-Heinz offered $143 billion for CPG giant Unilever on Friday (which is roughly Unilever’s market cap, though, oddly, Kraft-Heinz is the smaller company). […]

When Bloomberg writes a story about a public company or commodity, it’s bringing market information dynamically into the adjacent ad. Bloomberg is packaging up this programmatic creative as a new ad unit, which it’s calling DataLock. Bank of Montreal and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group this quarter agreed to be the first advertisers to use it. DataLock is designed to reduce […]

Are some marketers approaching cross-device backward? Tom Laband, CEO and co-founder of mobile data marketplace adsquare, thinks so. “We see many advertisers start with cookie-derived data and bridge that to mobile IDs using cross-device vendors – and to me, that doesn’t make sense,” Laband said Thursday at a company event in New York City. Device IDs, […]

TV viewership is fragmenting faster than the advertising industry’s ability to adapt to it all. And advertisers bracing for the 2017 upfront season aren’t entirely satisfied with the big measurement companies. Consider Nielsen’s delayed Total Content Ratings product and comScore’s accounting snafu and anticipated delisting. “People are in dispute about what the measurement process should be,” […]

“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 Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. The steady march from desktop to mobile has been an incontrovertible truth over the past several years. While it is obvious that mobile is the […]

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Other Arbitrage The ad network model may have evolved, but sell-side arbitrage is still rampant. Some supply-side platforms (SSPs) still resell inventory and misstate which publishers they represent, Digiday reports. Buyers don’t know which SSPs their publisher partners are working with, so it’s difficult for […]

The Trade Desk broke the $1 billion mark in gross ad spend on its platform in 2016, generating $75 million in net profit, the company disclosed Thursday afternoon in its fourth quarter earnings report. The demand-side platform (DSP) touted the growth of its omnichannel offerings. In 2016, display ad campaigns made up less than half […]

Welcome to episode No. 14 of AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. In the latest episode of AdExchanger Talks, mParticle CEO Michael Katz talks about the vision behind mParticle, a three-year-old startup that consolidates data feeds in the fragmented app ecosystem. He describes it as an “API of APIs.” That vision can […]

Acquisitions and more mature integrations led Oracle, Adobe and Salesforce to separate sharply from their peers in Gartner’s third Digital Marketing Hub Magic Quadrant, released late Wednesday. Of course, it’s questionable whether ad tech vendors, such as DataXu or Cxense, really qualify as “peers,” but Gartner has had a unique, if controversial, way of assessing […]

DigitasLBi had started to grow beyond its core purpose: to be the data and insights shop within the Publicis.Sapient family. When global CEO Luke Taylor stepped down two weeks ago, Nigel Vaz, CEO of Publicis.Sapient in AMEA and APAC, also became global President of DigitasLBi. As president, Vaz will have oversight of DigitasLBi’s brand strategy and positioning, […]

Time Inc. is bullish on digital, even as its print business deflates. The company – which has lately been the object of acquisitive interest from Meredith and other suitors – expects $600 million in digital revenue next year. “We see a path to $1 billion over [our strategic] plan,” said CEO Rich Battista during Time’s […]

As the demand for digital video increases, publishers like Bonnier Corp. are turning to automation to beef up their inventory. With more than 35 special-interest titles, including Field & Stream, Popular Science and Outdoor Life, Bonnier’s editors spend a lot of time on video creation. Even so, “when it comes to a lot of our […]

“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 Jay Friedman, chief operating officer at Goodway Group. One thing consistently mentioned at conferences by marketers and agencies is the need for simplicity and standardization – “Just tell us what to […]

Product placements aren’t new, but with the rise of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services – and a reduction in cable networks’ commercial loads – branded TV content is primed to take off. That said, it’s hard to credit a sale of a bucket of KFC chicken to Jimmy Kimmel peddling it on his late-night show, so one company […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic Times The New York Times is doubling down on programmatic in international markets as part of its goal of doubling digital revenue by 2020. The Times hired programmatic chiefs in London and Singapore, Digiday reports. It’s also pitching European advertisers on video and data opportunities […]

Simulmedia has sweetened its targeting capabilities for TV buyers. Through a strategic deal with consumer market research and retail analytics firm IRI, revealed Wednesday, marketers can now target their linear TV ads based on predictive purchase segments called IRI ProScores. These segments determine consumers’ likelihood to purchase based on different propensities. This is the first […]

Ghostery has decided not to have its cake and eat it too. On Wednesday, the company announced that it’s been acquired in an all-cash deal by Cliqz, a German privacy-focused browser that plans to use the ad-tracker tool to help expand its user base. The companies did not disclose a deal price. Hubert Burda Media, […]

Turner’s revenue analytics team wasn’t always quickly able to answer questions like whether the presidential inauguration affected advertising revenue. The publisher couldn’t collate data more than weekly or monthly because it worked with more than a dozen programmatic partners, each with their own user interfaces, which supplied ads across Turner’s multiple sites – from CNN […]

  Billboards are lighting up with the promise of programmatic. Out-of-home (OOH) is projected to grow almost 12% in spend by 2020 – faster than any other traditional media – thanks to opportunities in digital, according to the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. Digital OOH accounted for $2.7 billion in ad spend in the US […]

The ad tech ecosystem keeps Jessica Rich up at night. “The current models just aren’t working,” said Rich, who until recently sat on the front lines of advertising regulation and enforcement as director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. Rich resigned her post last week after a 26-year career at the commission […]

“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 Carla Holtze, CEO and co-founder at Parrable. I spent some time over the holidays with an old friend who used to work in the music business back the 1970s and […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Curran, CEO and co-founder at STAQ. Advertisers have amassed huge first-party audiences in their data management platforms (DMP) and through third-party data partners integrated with their media-buying technologies. This has allowed advertisers to […]