This is the second installment in “PII,” a series featuring the talent that makes the wheels turn in our data-driven advertising world. Read the first PII interview with Nazanin Jazayeri. As associate director of social experience and custom product at Publicis’ Mediavest | Spark, Andrew Klein loves discovering new technologies and platforms. That wasn’t how […]
Dentsu has snapped up Accordant, a well-regarded independent programmatic technology and services firm. The acquisition comes on the heels of Dentsu’s roughly $1.5 billion deal to acquire database marketer Merkle. Accordant is among the most recognized independent programmatic services providers in the United States – a group that also includes the Goodway Group and Kepler Group. […]
When Thrillist’s branded video of a fake grandpa weightlifting on Muscle Beach tallied more than 50 million Facebook views in 48 hours, it seemed to validate the pub’s 2015 decision to expand its editorial and sponsored video operations. But Thrillist CoLab, the branded content arm of Thrillist, wanted to test if the viral hit actually […]
Consumers are subscribing to more streaming video-on-demand services these days, but “cord cutting” may not be as rampant as some would lead you to believe. Because cable networks measure audience viewership differently than certain Nielsen metrics, the contrast tends to create an apples-to-oranges scenario when tracking overall viewership. That’s why TV networks defend the claim […]
“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 Julian Baring, general manager, North America, at Adform If you’re looking for growth in digital media, look no further than video and native, where advertisers and tech companies alike are […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Speeding Encouraged Continuing its crusade against slow mobile load times, Facebook will “pre-fetch” the contents of advertisers’ mobile websites. Word of the Google-like initiative was buried at the bottom of a blog post explaining how advertisers can improve their mobile web performance with Facebook’s existing suite […]
It’s video FTW for Opera Mediaworks. Reporting earnings under Opera Software for the final time – the sale of Opera’s consumer-facing browser business is expected to close by the end of September – Opera Mediaworks on Wednesday cited a 23% increase in Q2 revenue year over year to $114.4 million. That number represents the lion’s share of […]
Mux, a video analytics platform created by the co-founders of Zencoder, which sold to video player Brightcove in 2012, has raised $2.8 million in seed funding to give publishers more access to data about their video streams. Mux, which employs 10 people, will use the financing to grow headcount and for product engineering and research […]
The shopping app Ibotta, which gives users cash back for purchases, has streamlined app-to-app buying. Tech from deep-linking vendor Button now allows Ibotta users to make purchases from apps in Button’s network, which includes Hotels.com, Groupon, Jet and Spring. Ibotta hopes to connect commerce apps into an easy-to-use marketplace. While it’s easy to link and […]
“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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of global data strategy and agency lead at Krux. The term “real time” is bandied about in the ad technology space almost as heavily as the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Hogg, UK managing director at Lotame. We think of a hammer as a single-use tool. Swing the hammer hard and pound a nail into place. But turn the hammer around and you’ll see […]
When it comes to doling out rewards, app developers like Hothead Games walk a fine monetization line. “You want to give meaningful rewards without hurting your economy,” said Kenneth Wong, senior monetization manager at Hothead, which makes a number of sports-themed and first-person shooter games for mobile. While advertising is part of Hothead’s monetization mix, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Pre-Roll Take Flight Twitter will expand its pre-roll video ad program to individual content creators, Ad Age’s Garett Sloane reports. Twitter has sold skippable pre-roll ads to top publishers and media companies since 2013. Now it wants to help so-called influencers make money by cutting them […]
“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 Damian Garbaccio, executive vice president at Nielsen Marketing Cloud. We all know that consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies spend a lot on advertising. In the US alone, CPG and consumer […]
Digital ad experts are rising in the political campaign world, but digital’s unique measurement capabilities aren’t coming with them. A big part of the problem is that the nature of voting defies measurement. “On the political side, there’s only one interaction a person takes [i.e., his or her vote], and you don’t know for months […]
The rise of media rebates in the United States has put agencies under a harsh spotlight, thanks in part to the Association of National Advertisers’ June agency transparency report. But relatively little attention has been paid to the role of media sellers in driving the practice. Take Google, for instance. Long before “rebate” became a […]
Despite Amazon’s legacy as a giant digital walled garden, marketers say it’s in the early stages of a major expansion into an ad platform model. Specifically, Amazon is testing ways to tie together its properties to form a more comprehensive, full-funnel offer, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the early products. Amazon didn’t return […]
Because Wix, a website builder competing with Squarespace, doesn’t have a traditional sales force, its marketing needs to go the extra mile. The public company is under pressure to grow profits, so Wix has to make sure marketing investments (pegged at about $150 million this year, according to recent guidance) translate into revenue performance. Wix […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. I’m Lovin’ It Omnicom can add McDonald’s to its list of major account pickups this year, as the fast-food giant ends a 30-year relationship with Publicis Groupe’s Leo Burnett. The five-month McDonald’s review surfaced some controversy, with WPP dropping out of contention due to unheard of […]
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 […]
