In spite of the upheaval from Brexit, Time Inc. acquired Collective’s UK ad network business for an undisclosed sum on Tuesday. Unlike Collective’s US ad network business, the UK business’ bottom and top lines are growing, said CEO Joe Apprendi. Focused on brand advertisers, the UK business provides creative services and ad formats that differentiated […]
Marketing a major motion picture is a complex affair for all stakeholders involved, including the studio’s internal teams, media agencies and relationships with filmmakers and talent. And studios like Warner Bros. Pictures have to think well beyond the movie’s run in the theater. “You want to capture all the data around what people are talking […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Joseph Lavan, vice president of data and insights at Netmining. Walking into a store knowing what you want to buy and then having a sales rep pitch you on the exact product you’ve already decided on […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ya-Who? After months of negotiations, Yahoo still may not sell its core business. At least that’s the prediction of SunTrust analyst Robert Peck: “We think it is quite possible that bid prices could actually have declined during the past month. … At some price level, the […]
Congress is starting to pay attention to ad fraud – and it’s looking to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for answers. To be precise, Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) drafted a letter to the FTC on Monday calling for the commission to take a closer look at the negative economic impact of digital […]
Now available on your mobile device: all the crummy, spammy experiences you’ve come to expect from desktop. Shady affiliate marketing tactics are a particular annoyance for publishers and users alike, especially forced redirects that unexpectedly shunt users to an app store, either by way of an intrusive popup or a mobile webpage overstuffed with display […]
As fraudsters get smarter, anti-fraud players must evolve to put up a worthy fight. To scale its fraud detection capabilities, viewability and verification measurement vendor Integral Ad Science (IAS) has acquired bot detection company Swarm. Terms of the deal, which was announced Friday, were not disclosed. “Fraud is not going away, it’s getting more sophisticated,” […]
When building a content-commerce brand, content comes first. More readers will lead to more shoppers, according to home decor brand Domino. The company has appointed Nathan Coyle, an EVP at Refinery29, as its CEO to supercharge Domino’s online audience growth. “The belief amongst the board was that among our three channels – the print publication, […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, senior vice president and media director at R2C Group. In the late 1990s, when the internet was still relatively new, the “content is king” mantra was an overwhelming omnipresence that eventually fell […]
“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 Hannu Verkasalo, founder and CEO at Verto Analytics. Over the past decade, one of the most important success metrics for brands and marketers has been the size of their audience […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Whipping Into Shape China issued its first set of regulations to define online advertising as “email ads, paid-search results and embedded links, images and videos ‘with the purpose of promoting goods or services,’” writes Alyssa Abkowitz of The Wall Street Journal. “Before this, there was no […]
Google’s acquisition of cloud video platform Anvato late Thursday gives the search giant serious skin in server-side ad stitching. While Anvato provides video editing and file encoding tools, it also ensures content and dynamically inserted ads are delivered properly. So if a broadcaster wishes to stream content simultaneously to Roku, Amazon Fire and iOS and […]
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has no trouble getting people interested in March Madness, when the fans are rabid. It’s the rest of the year that poses a challenge. “The hardest thing is that we have a brand everyone wants to be a part of – but only at the end,” said Chris Dion, the […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Curran, CEO and founder at STAQ. When I heard about the “cable wars” of the major investment banks in order to minimize latency, I completely understood. They wanted to make their fiber-cable connection […]
“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 Seph Zdarko, director of data, modeling, partnerships and attribution initiatives at Quantcast. The Oxford English Dictionary and Google tell us that the word “fraud” has Latin origin. Cheating people through criminal deception […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Microbot Bots are hot and Microsoft wants to feel that warm glow – its wretched experience with foul-mouthed Tay notwithstanding. The Verge notes the growing complexity of the bot ecosystem might soon beget a call for standards. Microsoft, though preaching openness, wants to be on top […]
For many in the native space, the always-on-the-horizon prospect of the Promised Land has been a hard sell to other digital stakeholders. And though the industry has grown at a rapid clip, there’s still deep confusion over questions as basic and crucial as “What is native?” Native is “a broad term that lacks definition,” said […]
Through a growing number of API partnerships, car service companies like Uber and Lyft are broadening their reach across the app ecosystem. “With the proliferation of companies in the rideshare space, we’ve [seen] huge demand for people to want to move around,” said Vishay Nihalani, senior product manager at Lyft. “It’s like a basic human need at this point.” […]
“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 Noah Jessop, head of data at Liquid. A “wildcatter” is oil slang for someone who drills speculative oil wells, oftentimes in areas not known to be oil fields. This term […]
Mediaocean has acquired Invision, a software company that helps broadcasters and major media companies manage sales workflow. The financial terms of the deal, announced Thursday, were undisclosed and Mediaocean expects to add 100-plus employees as a result of the transaction. This deal represents Mediaocean’s first serious foray into sell-side tools, since it had previously focused […]
Satellite TV provider Dish Network is exploring more ways to match marketers’ first-party data with its own window into TV viewership following the launch of its programmatic exchange last fall. Dish already offered access to 82 segments, like age, sex, income and a plethora of propensities, such as the likelihood of a household to watch […]
Advertisers are waking up to the popularity of podcasts among their consumers. PodWave, the first programmatic marketplace created exclusively for podcast advertisers, was launched Wednesday by digital audio vendor AdsWizz and National Public Media (NPM), National Public Radio’s sponsorship sales arm. Despite the growing popularity of podcasts in recent years (Edison Research said in January […]
“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 Robin Opie, vice president of data science at Oracle Data Cloud. Digital marketing offers a seemingly limitless number of different measurement metrics to evaluate campaigns. Some are confusing and worthless, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Sticking Around Snapchat is moving away from being an “ephemeral app” to one that saves and stores. A new feature called Moments will allow users to save old snaps in-app to send to friends or repost in the future, the company announced in a blog post. […]
The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) on Tuesday issued an impassioned rejection of the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) proposed change to online privacy and data security regulations. Wednesday is the final day of the public comment period before the FCC deliberates on the policy, which would force marketers to ask for permission to track consumers’ […]
Nancy Hill, who served nine years as president and CEO of the agency trade group the 4A’s, will step down next year, the group said Wednesday. Read the release. The 4A’s board of directors, led by Horizon Media head honcho Bill Koenigsberg, will search for her replacement and “ensure a smooth transition” by June 2017. Hill wrote […]
While the VC well has runneth dry for many of the middlemen of ad tech, the cash is still flowing for companies focused on the cross-device space, mar tech, artificial intelligence and mobile marketing automation. Flowing with caveats, however. “It’s not that capital has dried up, but rather that investors are being more deliberate in […]
When brands think about video advertising, sequential retargeting isn’t always top of mind. But multinational rental-car company Sixt, in its bid to capture more share in the US market (it has 50 stations across the US, after opening its first in Florida in 2011), is test-driving Facebook video coupled with expanded Custom Audiences to improve […]
Hearst doesn’t view itself a media company, but rather as a technology company. “We have been making a concerted effort to transform from a media company that used great technology to a technology company,” said Allen Duan, Hearst’s head of corporate technology. Hearst’s technology team builds tech for a world where content is distributed on […]
