Private equity firm Vector Capital has agreed to acquire ad tech company Sizmek. “Vector will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Sizmek common stock for $3.90 per share in an all-cash tender offer,” according to a release, which values the company at $122 million. Notably, Sizmek’s market cap, just prior to the acquisition announcement, […]
MasterCard is partnering with location data company PlaceIQ to help retailers and merchants connect what people buy to where people go. The relationship, unveiled Wednesday, “paints a much richer picture than location or transaction insights can provide by themselves,” said Shubhra Srivastava, VP of media solutions at MasterCard. “Location data complements transaction-based insights and provides […]
Podcast platform Art19 has taken a step to address the targeting and measurement problem standing between advertisers and a ripe audience of podcast listeners. The company’s platform hosts and distributes podcasts while letting advertisers better target and monetize their audiences through an API integration and an ad server. It launched with hundreds of shows from […]
WPP-owned ad network-slash-tech shop Xaxis has its first-ever Latin America CEO. Lucas Mentasti was promoted from the unit’s Latin America managing director to its chief. It’s a big step up from where he started in 2013, moving from Publicis-owned Starcom to head up Xaxis’ Latin America business. At that time, “head up” meant doing everything, […]
Mike Finnegan will speak at AdExchanger’s Omni.Digital conference in Chicago on September 8. Live Nation is coining a new term to describe how it’s enabling data-driven marketing for festival advertisers: festech. Festivalgoers register their RFID [radio frequency identification] wristbands via email or Facebook and use them for entry and payment. They can also tap their bands at advertisers’ […]
“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 Prohaska, principal and CEO at Prohaska Consulting. There have been many successful Trojan horse plans executed in digital media over the years. I’m talking about the Greeks-in-Troy kind, not […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Playing Broker People in ad tech don’t know a lot about Google’s exchange bidding in dynamic allocation (EBDA) product, which was pre-announced earlier this year in a bid to slow the stampede to header bidding. [AdExchanger coverage] But what they DO know, they don’t like, writes […]
Rubicon Project CEO Frank Addante told investors on Tuesday that the company was slow to recognize the importance of header bidding to its publisher customers. As a result, desktop managed revenue declined 2% in Q2. That unexpected drop led Rubicon to lower its revenue guidance for the year. Rubicon’s FastLane header bidding product did not enter the […]
Rocket Fuel’s attempt to turn its business from an ad net to a growing software provider continues. The success of that effort may boil down to its chances with three holding companies. The company’s Q2 2016 net revenues fell 7% year over year to $66 million, it reported Tuesday, and GAAP revenue declined 3% YoY. […]
Marketers are warming to social platforms as repositories of video inventory. Sixty-five percent of marketer respondents to a recent survey say social companies rank Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat among their “most important partners” when executing digital video campaigns. That’s significantly more than the 55% who called out video platforms like YouTube and Vevo. Meanwhile 24% […]
While Ted Cruz’s suspended campaign committee endures to manage assets like fundraiser lists and voter profiles, it has no intention of contributing anything but the bare minimum of its valuable data to the RNC and its voter-file vendor, the Data Trust, said sources with knowledge of the Cruz committee’s plans. The Cruz committee is not […]
Zype, a startup which seeks to power publishers’ video delivery pipes, has raised $2 million in seed funding following an initial raise of $1.6 million last October. Think of it as a “lightweight” competitor to more legacy cloud video distribution platforms like Ooyala and Brightcove. Zype provides app publishing, monetization and analytics tools and a content […]
Mary Hennen will speak at AdExchanger’s Omni.Digital conference in Chicago on September 8. At home design retailer The Tile Shop, “The very foundation of everything we’ve done is understand who our customers are, and who they’re not,” said Mary Hennen, VP of marketing and ecommerce. Minneapolis-based The Tile Shop has 117 locations in 31 states, and first-party data is […]
Many in the US digital media industry have cherished hope of a day in court against ad blockers. It’s a movement that began with a series of IAB summits last summer and which today is slipping along the spectrum from possibility to fantasy. A year ago, the most likely legal route focused on copyright infringement. […]
Malicious bots are getting more sophisticated and bot blocking companies are raising more cash – the arms race is in full swing. One such company, Distil Networks, announced $21 million in Series C funding on Tuesday as part of its bid to keep combating what CEO Rami Essaid called “a growing problem.” The round, led 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 Tom Laband, co-founder and CEO at adsquare. Marketers urgently need to make digital advertising more relevant – particularly on mobile devices where consumers expect, even demand, a more personal touch. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Forecast GroupM lowered its 2016 global ad spend projection from 4.5% to 4.0% growth due to slowdowns in China and Brazil, according to its “This Year, Next Year” ad spend forecast for 2016-2017. China’s economy is reaching a “new normal” with lower but sustainable growth, […]
French video supply-side platform Teads has raised 43 million euros in debt financing – about $48 million – to continue pushing its outstream video ad formats. The financing came from several sources, including French multinational bank BNPP, Bank of China and HSBC. The company has raised $70 million in combined VC and debt, according 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 Martin Delaney, co-founder and chief operating officer at Yavli. Right now, there’s a war of code taking place between software engineers and hackers that will influence future industry decision-making. On […]
One year ago, eBay put its enterprise marketing assets up for sale, and its commerce platform Magento was taken private again. Now Magento is making an acquisition of its own. The company revealed on Monday it had acquired RJMetrics, a Philadelphia-based advanced analytics startup. Financial terms of the deal were not announced, but RJ Metrics […]
Youth smoking stands at a record low of 7%. The rate was more than triple that number when Truth Initiative, the nonprofit aimed at stopping teens from taking up smoking, was founded in 2000 with money from the US’s settlement with tobacco companies. The nonprofit was among the first to use data in the way that […]
Although Opera Mediaworks is no longer packing its bags and moving to China, newly minted CEO Will Kassoy is still bullish on the opportunity there. “China is a huge market for advertising,” said Kassoy, who took the reins from former company chief Mahi de Silva in December after roughly two years as CMO. Kassoy joined […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ariel Napchi, founder and CEO at HIRO Media. Programmatic advertising was supposed to create an environment in which a viewer is only exposed to relevant ads, a premise TV never succeeded in fulfilling. The […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Welcome To The Games Move over Snapchat. NBC will expand its Olympics broadcast rights to Facebook, which will publish up to 20 exclusive highlights and a two-minute daily recap across its platform in the US, Kurt Wagner of Recode reports. NBC won’t allow social platforms 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 John Lee, executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Merkle. The rise of programmatic over the past five years has moved the media industry forward in a big way. […]
When Spotify partnered with AppNexus, The Trade Desk and Rubicon Project to execute private marketplace (PMP) deals on mobile audio inventory last week, it became the first digital audio company to open its audio inventory to programmatic exchanges. To recap: Rubicon Project will be Spotify’s SSP partner, The Trade Desk its DSP partner and AppNexus […]
Behind every piece of PopSugar viral content, there’s data. The lifestyle pub’s recipe and video for Fruity Pebbles No-Bake Cheesecake has attracted 9.4 million video views and 238,000 shares on Facebook since it went live in June. Landing on the winning recipe required sifting through audience insights and constant tweaking so it would resonate with […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Pete Longo, CEO of US Media at IDG Communications. It’s a data-driven world, and digital ad buyers still rely on the legacy notion that “scale” is necessary to harness as many eyeballs and as much […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New Neustar Neustar is setting its marketing business free. During its Q2 earnings call Thursday, Neustar elaborated on its plan to split its two key businesses: information services and marketing services [AdExchanger coverage]. Marketing services is growing like a weed, up 56% to $63.9 million in […]
