Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. A Fiduciary Truce? “Doctors and lawyers are prohibited from using clients’ information for their own interests, so why aren’t Google and Facebook?” asks a pair of law professors in an essay for The Atlantic. The legal concept of a fiduciary, where one party holds a legal […]
TapFwd, a mobile data marketplace founded by two LiveRamp vets, raised a $3 million seed round led by Partech Ventures. TapFwd matches online and offline data sets to mobile device IDs and then sells these data sets to help advertisers target campaigns. The rough analogy is “a BlueKai built from the ground up for mobile,” […]
French performance marketing company Criteo will acquire HookLogic, a retail exchange, ad server and attribution company focused squarely on retailers. The deal, a $250 million all-cash transaction, gives Criteo a brand new set of customers – including CPG advertisers like Clorox and Kraft. HookLogic’s performance marketing exchange enables these consumer brand manufacturers to bid on sponsored product […]
Welcome to episode no. 2 of AdExchanger Talks, a new podcast 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. What are the trends in video consumption across traditional TV and digital channels? Ask Lynda Clarizio, Nielsen’s President of US […]
Samsung is quietly briefing agencies and media partners about an addressable TV ad product that uses smart-TV data to target ads across linear broadcasts, according to AdExchanger sources. Samsung’s scale includes 20 million Samsung smart TVs in the US and 50 million globally, and sources say the electronics manufacturer is beginning to activate and monetize […]
Since Merkle began in the ’70s as a database marketing agency, its purview has expanded to include creative services, CRM and search and programmatic ad buying. It’s been an active year for the agency, which has 3,400 people across 21 offices in the US, Europe and Asia. Formerly one of the biggest independent agencies in […]
“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 Tim Jenkins, CEO at 4INFO. Before taking a single step onto a showroom floor, 95% of car shoppers have already decided which car they plan to test-drive. Reports show most […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Joseph Lavan, vice president of data and insights at Netmining. We are officially in election crunch time. In the weeks leading up to the first presidential debate and in the days after, campaign rhetoric has ramped […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. There’s An App For That Wanna know the dirty secret about that flashlight app or liquor-delivery app or weather app or neighborhood coupon app or new ridesharing app or whatever app you downloaded? “Making money off otherwise unnecessary location tracking may be the main reason that […]
Salesforce has shifted back into gear on ad tech M&A after a three-year quiet period. The company will snap up data management platform Krux in a move that could bring its marketing stack into closer parity with its archrival Oracle. The acquisition’s price tag is $700 million, a number that will put smiles on the faces […]
Carat has a leg up on holding companies scrambling to integrate siloed teams. As part of Dentsu Aegis Network, the media agency operates on a shared profit-and-loss (P&L) statement by country across the network. That allows it to pull in specialist media capabilities to better serve its clients, without those teams competing financially. “This idea […]
Are the Chinese buyers that have been feasting on Western ad tech companies just starting on their appetizers? Eastern buyouts marked the biggest shift in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the ad tech space this past quarter, said Terry Kawaja, CEO of Luma Partners, which released its Q3 M&A report on Friday. “What’s been […]
Private ad tech companies are going public, public ad tech companies are coming off the market, private equity is getting acquisitive – and it’s all part of the natural order and an overdue market correction. Time to put a fork in the now timeworn “ad tech is dead” narrative. “We’ve always been bullish on this space […]
The experienced sales team at Rodale, the publisher behind Men’s Health, Prevention and Runner’s World, sells most of its print and digital ad inventory direct. “They fluctuate between 70% and 100% sell-through,” said Diego Sanchez, executive director of digital programmatic and strategic partnerships, who leads a team of five. Due to the high level of […]
“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 Nathan Woodman, general manager of demand solutions at IPONWEB. During World War II, Allied bomber planes faced a critical design problem. They were slow, lumbering and constantly shot down. The […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Trey Titone, head of product at Beachfront Media. Restrictions for autoplay and inline video have been lifted with the release of iOS 10 and Chrome 53 for Android. These moves open up a huge […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. With Great Data … … Comes great responsibility. When Acxiom acquired LiveRamp in 2014, it became a core data aggregator and onboarder in the digital marketing space. Since then, LiveRamp has driven major revenue for Acxiom, and investors are taking note. Several have boosted their shares […]
MDC Partners’ trading desk Varick Media has witnessed an exodus of numerous senior executives on the road to a new organizational hierarchy, first laid out in 2014. Many have recently left the trading desk – or transferred to sister agencies – as the holding company centralized Varick’s operations (and moves to offices housing the agency Assembly by the […]
“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 Franchi, co-founder at Undertone. It seems that every single year for the past 10, someone has been playing the funeral march for the ad tech industry. Venture capitalists have […]
At Allstate, the experience comes before the advertising. “You need to create value before you can market against that value – you can’t go out of sequence,” said Allstate CMO Sanjay Gupta. That’s especially true on mobile, which now accounts for 30-40% of Allstate’s online traffic. Allstate is responding to consumer behavior in kind with a […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Bob & Goliath The ANA is wagging its finger at Facebook after the social platform’s recent measurement mishap [AdExchanger coverage]. CEO Bob Liodice released a statement on Thursday calling for the Media Ratings Council to audit Facebook’s metrics. “With more than $6 billion of marketers’ media […]
With Omar Tawakol departing as head of Oracle Data Cloud, Eric Roza, who served as the unit’s co-SVP after Oracle acquired his company Datalogix, will become GM. Roza had previously focused on Data Cloud’s go-to-market strategy and will now oversee product, engineering, operations and data science. But he’s also shepherding Data Cloud through a philosophical […]
By Kelly Liyakasa and Alison Weissbrot Agencies are becoming more consultative. Consultants are buying creative agencies. And systems integrators are dabbling in client strategy. “Everyone talks about online vs. offline media or creative vs. media, but when a marketer wants to change the consumer journey, we’re talking new operating models and governance,” said Glen Hartman, […]
There’s nothing sexier than measurement. Well, that’s not true. But it was certainly a hot topic during Advertising Week. Google made cross-device announcements, Nielsen waxed poetic about the future of measurement, Facebook got reprimanded by the industry for mistakenly exaggerating its average view times for video and Tapad rolled out a new time-based metric. The […]
Every time a page loads, so do dozens of scripts that allow programmatic players to sync their identifiers with each other, slowing the load and causing audience loss. To solve the multiple identifier challenge, DigiTrust is bringing together a nonprofit co-op of platforms and publishers to create a single ID for demand-side platforms (DSPs), supply-side […]
ProSieben, one of Germany’s biggest broadcasters, is expanding its programmatic TV footprint in a market that’s both vibrant and uniquely challenging. Because Germany is so decentralized – it is characterized by numerous regions but lacks a local TV presence – broadcasters wield more control over their end inventory. As a result, they’re typically able to […]
“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 Jennifer Pelino, vice president of omnichannel media at 84.51°. As marketing and technology converge, marketers must practice due diligence and push for greater quality control in the audience data they […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. On The Up AppNexus raised $31 million in a round led by News Corp and Yahoo Japan, Business Insider reports. WPP’s investment is thought to have come with minimum spend guarantees, though there’s no confirmation the same is true for News Corp. Unruly, a video ad […]
Google will expand its free marketing measurement software by adding an A/B testing product (Google Optimize), a data reporting and dashboard-creation tool (Google Data Studio) and new machine learning capabilities for Google Analytics. These products will be available in an open beta starting next month. “The ultimate goal is to provide a kind of analyst […]
