“We generally may share information we collect on the site with certain service providers, some of whom may use the information for their own purposes as necessary.” That’s a nearly verbatim quote from a real privacy policy. (Emphases added.) “Vagueness impacts the consumer’s understanding of risk and their willingness to share information,” said Fordham University […]
Six weeks ago, Laura Ipsen – a former Microsoft and Cisco exec – succeeded Kevin Akeroyd as SVP and GM of Oracle Marketing Cloud (OMC). Akeroyd, one of the original architects of the OMC business, had moved on to the CEO role at Cision. Ipsen – formerly an SVP of Oracle’s global industry solutions group […]
“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 Ben Barokas, co-founder and CEO at Sourcepoint. Following Facebook’s announcement last month, ad-blocking software may be rendered ineffective on the social network. With its decision to bypass blocking technology on […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Cimino, advisor and data lead for Prohaska Consulting and Altiscale. Publishers’ and brands’ segment data may flow through their data management platforms (DMP), but since they don’t own the user IDs (the platform […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Bedfellows For Better Ads A flotilla of industry trade groups – the 4As, ANA, Digital Content Next, DMA, World Federation of Advertisers, European Publishers Council, News Media Alliance, BVDW Germany, IAB, IAB Europe and all IAB regional groups – have set up something called the Coalition […]
When Vice needed to diversify its distribution beyond Facebook and YouTube, it didn’t look to other digital platforms. Instead, said CEO Shane Smith, Vice partnered with HBO and hatched plans for a TV network. “We realized we couldn’t be hostage to Facebook and YouTube. We had to go off-platform,” he told WPP head Martin Sorrell […]
Twitter underscored its seriousness about live TV on Wednesday with the debut of an app for the Amazon Fire, Apple TV and Xbox One connected television devices. It also planned to host the first of 10 live-streamed NFL games on Thursday. “We’re resetting expectations around what Twitter is, which is to get news of what’s […]
Let’s be honest: A/B testing is boring, but what about A/B testing on steroids? Vox Media is juicing up its testing with “creative intelligence” released Thursday at the DMEXCO conference in Cologne, Germany. The feature lets it test thousands of ad variants against certain audiences. “It can tell you if a creative is working better […]
“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 Jeremy Fain, co-founder and CEO at Cognitiv. In a time where big holding companies are expecting all buying to go programmatic – Dentsu is the latest – it is more […]
Fans are passionate about their fandoms – and Movie Pilot is capitalizing on that passion. “We’re a pop culture magazine for a mobile and digital age,” said Movie Pilot CEO and co-founder Tobi Bauckhage. Movie Pilot started in 2012 with a fairly traditional publishing model – reporters reporting and editors editing. Now the vast majority of its […]
Quiznos is working to connect the dots between digital ad exposures and store visitation. After emerging from bankruptcy in 2014, Quiznos reduced its brick-and-mortar presence. With fewer stores, each location had to work harder. So Quiznos changed its media mix to support its new retail footprint. Although television used to be a focal point for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Blurred Lines Mic is experimenting aggressively with ways to monetize its video content on Facebook. The millennial-minded news org will intermittently insert a brand’s logo into a Facebook video, while also featuring the brand in the video title, Mike Shields reports for The Wall Street Journal. […]
BuzzFeed set its stake in branded content back when display was king. Today, as publications derive an increasing share of their revenue from branded content, Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown sees that competition creating a market. “More awareness and education in the marketplace creates more opportunity for everyone,” Brown said. “We’re excited about our share […]
Advertising on Facebook and Google is a foregone conclusion for most brands. Hotel booking site Hotels.com does, of course. But it was also looking for an alternative. “There is bias in the walled gardens,” said Helen Cameron-Heslop, senior manager of ecommerce analytics at Expedia’s Hotels.com brand. On Wednesday, Hotels.com announced a year-long partnership with cross-device […]
Google has severed its relationship with ComboTag, the Israeli startup that sourced buyers for Adblock Plus’ recently launched Acceptable Ads Platform. “We were just as surprised as you were and certainly don’t want to be in a business relationship that [supports this],” Google’s SVP of ads and commerce, Sridhar Ramaswamy, told reporters at DMEXCO 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 Auren Hoffman, CEO at SafeGraph. We are going to see a bunch of classic ad tech firms get funded by Chinese money in the next two years. This will result […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Crawl, Walk, Run Snapchat didn’t want to be “creepy” about its targeting tactics, but advertisers wanted more relevancy on the platform. So the messaging company is rolling out three new ad targeting products, reports Mike Shields of The Wall Street Journal. The first, Snap Audience Match, […]
Every year, voter-targeting firms sell audience segments based on trending issues. “We look into our crystal ball and think about what’s going to be big come November,” said Andrew Drechsler, CRO at the liberal data firm HaystaqDNA. And this year, everybody’s crystal ball is showing the same thing: voters who are willing to split or […]
Glispa keeps scooping up companies. On Tuesday, the Berlin-based mobile ad platform plunked down an undisclosed sum to buy native mobile ad exchange Avocarrot, its third acquisition in less than two years. Glispa bought MoneyTap, a Russian mobile mediation platform, in March, followed by the acquisition of Brazilian mobile performance agency Mobils a couple of […]
The fast-moving space of sponsored content has already gone through three different metrics. First, brands paid a CPM to show article snippets. Now cost per view dominates. When Medium launched its sponsored content program in April, it took the currency one step further. It charges for “total time read” (TTR), a metric that bets that […]
Germany-based Adblock Plus (ABP) on Tuesday debuted its beta supply-side platform (SSP) offering, called the Acceptable Ads Platform. It marks the company’s first move into an ad tech space it typically criticizes. “We’ve always called the Acceptable Ads initiative an ongoing experiment,” ABP ops manager Ben Williams told AdExchanger. “We’ve improved it over time, surveying […]
AccuWeather knew the CPMs it garnered from advertisers varied widely, a reflection of today’s programmatic audience-buying tactics. Like most publishers, the company relied mostly on intuition to match high CPMs to reader behaviors. One reason AccuWeather had limited insight was because its data was disconnected. DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP), its advertising platform, analyzed ad revenue. […]
There are walled gardens, and then there’s Arbor. The startup, which raised a $6.5 million round on Tuesday, bills itself as a marketplace for people-based data. Think of it as a supply-side platform mated with a co-op for deterministic data. The bulk of the round, led by Canaan Partners with participation from First Round Capital, […]
“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 Bob Buch, SVP of social at Rakuten Marketing. I recently hosted a roundtable dinner series with more than 30 marketing leaders at some of the world’s most prominent retail and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mistaken Identity Identity graphs are a necessary part of the cross-channel marketing future, but what about data quality? “Not enough focus is on if the data is correct,” OMD managing director Julie Fleischer told Ad Age’s George Slefo at AdExchanger’s Omni.Digital conference last week. “And if […]
Mobile has been reshaping the way advertisers spend on digital, but the pace is picking up significantly, setting the stage for desktop ad spend to contract even faster than legacy channels. As advertisers shift spend to mobile, desktop advertising will shrink faster than newspapers and magazines, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecast, released on Monday. […]
Eight trade associations, including the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab, the 4As and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), have teamed up to develop cross-platform standards for video ad delivery. Their goal, according to Alanna Gombert, SVP of technology and ad operations for the IAB and GM of the IAB Tech Lab, is to […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Joan FitzGerald, vice president of product management and business development at TiVo. The data-driven, highly targeted, programmatic audience buying that has been the hallmark of digital advertising is now sparking a revolution in how […]
On the heels of raising $47 million last month, Teads has acquired the interactive video platform Brainient to further expand its video ad operation in the US, Europe and Asia. Although London-based Brainient is strongest in the UK, France and Nordic markets, its US ambitions made Teads a logical buyer. Terms of the deal were […]
