Agencies are straining to recruit and retain data-driven talent. Prospects with a strong background in statistical analysis and data mining – the second most popular skill on LinkedIn as of January – aren’t necessarily looking to work at a media agency. And it’s hard for agencies to retain employees due to a business culture that […]
“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 Vijay Chittoor, CEO at Blueshift. Innovations in programmatic advertising have transformed online media buying, making the process more automated, targeted and measurable. Now programmatic is poised to revolutionize customer relationship […]
If AppNexus Chief Economist Gabriel Weintraub could go back in time to the beginning of real-time bidding (RTB), he would have designed a different type of auction. “Because you are targeting so finely, you are creating thin markets. So the question is, how do you create rules that alleviate that issue, especially from the publisher […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Alex Bornyakov, CEO at VertaMedia. Pinterest is the latest social media giant to embrace video, but as it pins its fortunes on the format, can it succeed where others have failed? While Pinterest has […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Back To Basics After a scorching hot upfront period, Standard Media Index (SMI) notes the scatter market seems to have plateaued, writes Anthony Crupi at Ad Age. Case in point: The broadcast scatter market was down 10.5% YoY in June. Don’t read too much into it, […]
This is the first installment in “PII,” a series featuring the talent that makes the wheels turn in our data-driven advertising world. Nazanin Jazayeri is a translator. As director of advanced analytics at Mindshare, she’s part of a team that bridges product developers, media planners and buyers by interpreting the massive streams of data that […]
The Knot’s audience is engaged – literally. Eight out of 10 couples in the US – around 12 million monthly uniques – visit the wedding planning site for advice while getting ready for the big day. But The Knot has transformed itself over the last three years from an online publication to what Mike Steib, CEO and president […]
“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 Nitzberg, chief growth officer at ThinkVine. Japanese organization expert Marie Kondo advises a few simple steps to get a home in order. First, tackle the home in “categories,” such […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Emry DowningHall, vice president of advertising at Chegg. I receive a deluge of pitches from advertising networks, exchanges, supply-side platforms and every other ad tech acronym that aims to help publishers monetize their inventory. […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Privacy Barbed Wire Bloomberg reports Apple is developing a video-sharing social network akin to Snapchat. With Apple’s knowledge of your contacts and its built-in camera, it has a powerful use case. But the project has to survive a rigorous overview by a “a team inside Apple […]
Facebook just showed up to the header bidding party. Facebook confirmed it’s “exploring header bidding with a small set of publishers.” Those partners may include USA Today and Hearst, according to The Information, which was first to report the news. For Facebook, the move could mark a significant expansion of its Audience Network platform, expanding […]
The FCC may be softening its stance around its highly contested proposal to let all set-top boxes freely access cable content. Set-top box and OTT device manufacturers love the idea because they’d be able to tap into all sorts of heavily gated cable content. Multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) don’t, since it would undermine their […]
Western ad tech companies looking for an exit only have a handful of choices. They can IPO like The Trade Desk (not likely), get acquired like Yahoo (slightly more likely), sell to private equity like Marketo or Mediaocean (only an interim solution) or, as is now becoming the trend, find a Chinese consortium with an […]
“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 Paul Longhenry, senior vice president of strategy, corporate and business development at Tapjoy. For the last 20 years, advertising technology has fueled development of the free internet and mobile services on […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryce Clemmer, co-founder and CEO at Vadio. As soon as the opening ceremonies at the Summer Olympics started a few weeks ago, a chorus of angry voices emerged on social media. In an age […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Double Standard Google will punish mobile sites that allow intrusive interstitial advertising, but it apparently won’t hold mobile apps to the same standard, writes Lara O’Reilly for Business Insider. She points out Google’s AdMob still offers a mobile interstitial unit. It’s not that interstitials are less […]
Xaxis, despite scrutiny of its principal-based buying methods in the ANA’s June report, will grow at a forecasted rate of 25% year over year, WPP said on an investor call Wednesday. Based on the holding company’s H1 earnings report, neither WPP nor Xaxis have yet taken a major hit from the ANA’s findings. Advertising and […]
Upscale Las Vegas hotel Aria Resort & Casino wanted to draw a clearer correlation between viewability and video completions, two metrics sometimes at odds for advertisers. And as mobile video became more substantive in its media mix, it also needed to crack the creative demands of smaller screen sizes. When Aria set out two years […]
When publishing content via social media, the biggest hits don’t always follow conventional wisdom. One of Scripps Networks Interactive’s most popular videos on social media featured best practices for storing fresh vegetables, according to Vikki Neil, the company’s SVP and GM of digital. Counterintuitively, the video performed much better on its HGTV channel than on […]
These are the TV brands you know – Sony, Samsung, LG. But the browser inside their hardware comes courtesy of a third party. And Opera TV, the purveyor of said software, is starting to dip its toe into more consumer-facing fare. “We shipped 42 million devices with our software last year and we’re nearly at the […]
Auto shopping publisher Edmunds built an agency-like service designed to help auto dealers reach in-market car buyers on Facebook and Instagram. Car dealers set a budget and campaign parameters and an Edmunds sales rep enters the details into a Salesforce CRM system. That information gets sent to Facebook via API and the campaign goes live […]
“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 Todd Van Fleet, managing partner at Van Fleet Capital Strategies. Greek philosopher Heraclitus is credited with the observation that life’s only constant is change. Those in the digital media world […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Hits Unmute Facebook is testing autoplay video ads with sound on, Mashable reported after Australian users first started seeing (and, uhh, hearing) the spots on Tuesday. Half of the test is more of an active prompt for sound than true autoplay audio, as a user […]
Although the Rio Olympics broke its own record for reserved ad dollars set during the London Games in 2012, broadcast is losing its iron grip on live sports media. Ratings for NBC across a portfolio of Comcast-owned properties (like MSNBC, CNBC, USA Network, Golf Channel, Telemundo and the NBC smart-TV app channel) were down compared […]
Consumer packaged goods companies are going direct-to-consumer, spurred by a desire for greater data governance and less reliance on third-party retailers. As a result, the principles behind shopper marketing, which traditionally centers on in-store promotions, are blurring with brand marketing, which focuses on building brand affinity. “We’ve seen shopper marketing move from this singular approach […]
Entrepreneur and investor Peter Pham knows teens, and the term “native advertising,” like, totally makes him roll his eyes. “I’m sick of hearing the word ‘native’ because nothing I’ve seen in the market is actually native to the experience,” said Pham, co-founder of Science, a tech incubator with a knack for getting startups off the […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Theresa Mueller, director of political and advocacy at Rubicon Project. The 2016 presidential election marks what is expected to be the largest digital election in history, but with the flood of more than 1 billion dollars […]
“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 Hagai Shechter, CEO at Fraudlogix. Transparency seems to be the mantra for ad fraud verification vendors and the value they’re bringing to the industry. However, marketers rarely ask for – […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Video Push Spotify wants to be more than an audio platform. The company pushed into video in May with 12 original series around music, and plans to spend big to expand in categories like animation and comedy, reports Sahil Patel at Digiday. But it’s tough to […]
