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 […]
This is the third installment in “PII,” a series featuring the talent that makes the wheels turn in our data-driven advertising world. Read previous interviews with Nazanin Jazayeri and Andrew Klein. Data is a vehicle for great storytelling, according to Ella Chinitz, group vice president of data science at Razorfish. “[It’s about] deriving insights out of […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sponsored content disclosures on the mind. A complete lack of disclosure led to an FTC settlement with Lord & Taylor in March after the brand enlisted bloggers to post images to Instagram promoting one of its dresses. As FTC senior attorney Robin Spector told AdExchanger at the time, “What we are […]
“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 Jason Rothman, general manager, mobile and social, at SteelHouse. WhatsApp last month announced its plan to share data with Facebook, opening its doors to the marketing and advertising worlds. The […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Simmer Down Now Enough with the Apple alarmism, Chris Pedigo of Digital Content Next says in a rebuttal to an AdExchanger column by Alan Chapell. And no, he’s not talking about the headphone jack. Pedigo writes that Chapell’s piece unnecessarily raised fears about Apple’s expanded Limit […]
The digital takeover of global ad spend ain’t here yet, according to Carat’s global ad forecast. “Not to discount digital by any stretch of the imagination, but we’ve seen somewhat of a resurgence of what’s going on with linear TV,” said Andy Donchin, chief investment officer at Dentsu Aegis Network, which owns Carat. Some advertisers […]
Every retailer that isn’t Amazon is thinking about how not to get crushed by Amazon. “Amazon is taking over retail,” said Oliver Chen, managing director and senior equity research analyst at Cowen and Co., speaking at AdExchanger’s Omni.Digital conference in Chicago on Thursday. Based on its recent research, Cowen is betting that by 2017 Amazon […]
When Jason Wagenheim joined Fusion in May as its head of revenue, the Univision-owned pub was regrouping after a tumultuous year. ABC had handled ad sales until the joint venture with Univision split in April. In addition to the partner’s exit, Fusion dealt last year with reports of dismal traffic numbers. But Fusion has steadily […]
Breather, a startup that lets people book work spaces on demand, spends all of its digital ad budget on Google and Facebook – 65% and 35%, respectively – because Google and Facebook work. But figuring out why they work – and what effect they have on revenue per user, lifetime value and the overall customer journey – is another […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim McGinty, senior director of content marketing at IDG. Brands churn out massive volumes of content in hopes that it resonates with their customers. At the same time, customer expectations are higher than ever […]
“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 Margie Chiu, senior vice president, customer strategy group, at Merkle. This truly is an incredible time to be a marketer. The reality of what media and channel technology can do […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hungry Cloud Google will acquire API management provider Apigee for $625 million. Apigee comes to Google with a list of enterprise clients (Walgreens, AT&T, Burberry and Live Nation among them) and helps their developer APIs talk to each other and collaborate on digital business functions. The […]
Marketing platform SessionM raised $35 million in a strategic growth round led by new investor General Atlantic, with support from fellow newcomer Salesforce Ventures. The Series D raise, announced Thursday, brings SessionM’s total financing to $73.5 million. SessionM is a cloud-based system that blends data points from traditional channels like loyalty platforms and email with […]
In the past two weeks, the European Union has further expanded the scope of its regulatory powers and revealed more zealous plans to influence competition between digital properties. In late August, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) released net neutrality guidelines, which become law in 2018, that forbid practices like “fast lanes” […]
Data management platform Krux is joining the header-bidding fray. Krux built a header bidder because it wants marketers to buy both data and media in one place. Header bidding is the best mechanism to facilitate that transaction. By rolling out the tech, Krux adds a media-buying capability to Krux Link, the data exchange bazaar it’s […]
LinkedIn has finally launched a feature that has been available to marketers on Facebook for three-plus years. The site rolled out conversion tracking for sponsored content and text ads on Thursday after a serious overhaul of its tech infrastructure. At its most basic level, the feature lets marketers determine if a user converted after clicking or viewing […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Chris Peterson, managing partner at R2C Group. For the last 50 years, brand advertising has focused on building awareness, while direct response used its power to increase sales. But in a TV marketplace where […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Battle Of The Box FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler rattled content owners and advertisers when he revealed an initial proposal to “free” the set-top box from cable’s control. Wheeler listened to a counterproposal from content producers [AdExchanger coverage] that would restrict set-top boxes but would have cable […]
Podcasting is officially on the radar of media buyers. The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) second annual Podcast Upfront in New York City – held Wednesday with twice as many presenters and attendees as last year’s inaugural event – underscored the growth in the sector. Yet measurement beyond the download metric still poses a major challenge […]
“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 Alan Chapell, president at Chapell & Associates. The arms race between consumers and advertisers goes back as far as I can remember. The battle rages on with the myriad of […]
Business Insider’s sales team sells everything from programmatic to sponsored content and sponsorships. “One meeting will be focused on content creation, tentpole sponsorships and really big executions with lots of creative services layered in,” said CRO Pete Spande. “The next conversation might be about how their DMP [data management platform] connects to our DMP, and […]
The Trade Desk expects a valuation between $550 million and $600 million, according to an amended S-1 filed Tuesday. The company will make 4.6 million shares available on the market, with an anticipated share price between $14 and $16. At the high end, it hopes to raise $85.9 million, compared to $86.3 million in its […]
Apple’s Limit Ad Tracking (LAT) feature is about to have a few more limits in iOS 10. Although Apple has allowed users to opt out of seeing interest-based advertising since iOS 6, vendors and advertisers could still use device IDs for functions like frequency capping, attribution, debugging and fraud detection. No longer. In iOS 10, […]
About.com grew up during the big portal-publisher era that included Yahoo, MSN and AOL. Similar to those other Web 1.0 properties, About.com, too, was acquired – for nearly $300 million in 2012 by IAC – and forced to reinvent in the platform age of Facebook. After a complete site redesign two years ago, About.com is […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Sean Cullen, executive vice president of product and technology at Fluent. Email marketing was critical for campaign fundraising and voter engagement during the 2012 presidential election. The Obama campaign reportedly acquired more than 13 million unique […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Back To Basics The Washington Post will use Google’s Progressive Web Apps (PWA) technology to speed up mobile website loading, Jack Marshall reports for The Wall Street Journal. Seventy percent of the Post’s traffic comes from mobile devices, and 63% percent of overall traffic comes from […]
“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 Nicole Ferry, partner and executive director of strategy at Sullivan. Earlier this summer, the SEC approved Investors Exchange (IEX) to become a public stock exchange, putting the pro-transparency startup squarely […]
There are lots of private marketplaces for mobile inventory out there. On Tuesday, Adsquare launched a PMP for mobile data. Supply-side players like PubMatic, Rubicon Project and Adform already allow buyers to bid on inventory in a private deal. “We’re enabling data owners to decide who can make use of their data,” said Adsquare CEO […]
Dynamic ad insertion is technically easier on over-the-top (OTT) apps, but it’s less prevalent, at least at scale, in live TV and video on demand (VOD). To help answer that call, Adobe has enhanced its Primetime solution to enable dynamic ad insertion for live, linear TV streams. The solution already supports VOD and OTT devices. […]
