Like many companies, outdoor lifestyle brand Columbia Sportswear was no stranger to using 15- and 30-second YouTube videos as a complement to TV. Because consumers weren’t necessarily going to YouTube for “conversion-based” content like product reviews, Columbia experimented with 360-degree video to make its content more immersive. Columbia sent its production crew out with US […]
Accenture’s digital services group Accenture Interactive “never set out to disrupt the agency relationship,” said Bob Barr, its managing director and global B2B commerce lead, but that’s pretty much what’s happening. “Just from a digital perspective, we’re a [roughly $7] billion agency,” Barr said. “When I tell that to people, they just stop and go, ‘Huh. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic Spotify Spotify is opening a new programmatic sales channel via partnerships with Rubicon Project, AppNexus and The Trade Desk. Ad Age reports that the rollout follows a tepid embrace of exchange selling that involves fixed-price auctions on audio-only platforms – and transacted via insertion orders. […]
When China released its first set of digital ad regulations two weeks ago, the impact on search was heavily discussed – and understandably so, since it impacted Chinese market leaders like Baidu and Alibaba. “But hidden among (the new regulations) is language that would seem to all but ban ad blocking,” wrote Adblock Plus (ABP) […]
Sprinklr, a company that helps large enterprises like McDonald’s and Microsoft manage their social media presences, raised $105 million on Wednesday, valuing the company at about $1.8 billion. Singapore-based investment firm Temasek led the round, which marks Sprinklr’s first major fund-raise from APAC investors. The Series F round brings Sprinklr’s funding total to $239 million. […]
Google launched a customer call center measurement and attribution solution on Wednesday alongside new research on call-based marketing. The product uses a unique identifier placed on Google’s search ads with tap-to-call functionality to tie inbound calls to an AdWords campaign. If the user goes to the company site instead and ends up making a call […]
Nielsen has entered into an open marriage with three viewability providers. The company will now support Integral Ad Science, Moat and DoubleVerify within its digital audience measurement solution, Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings. Although it had a preexisting relationship with Integral Ad Science since 2012, clients have requested support for alternative providers that fit their preferences. […]
Deterministic data from set-top boxes is changing how linear TV is bought and valued. Like the Nielsen ratings panel, set-top box data connects to a physical address and household. But unlike Nielsen’s 40,000 families – which provide a “truth set” for TV viewership – set-top boxes reach millions of households, allowing marketers to overlay […]
“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 Kim Harris Busdieker, director of customer communications at 84.51°. Spending more and getting less for it is the reality facing manufacturers and retailers today. Sale signs, shelf tags and other […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Scott Gatz, CEO and founder at Q.Digital. Dear ad tech community, Medium-sized publishers deliver campaigns that are as complicated as those delivered by larger networks, but we need to do so with a much […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic By IBM Despite an overall gloomy second quarter, IBM told investors its “strategic imperatives,” which include cloud computing, advertising, data analytics and its Watson AI platform, grew 12% this year to hit $8.3 billion. That’s 38% of overall revenue. IBM is fighting hard to make […]
Google wants to improve the mobile ad experience, which is too slow and reliant on desktop ad formats. Its solution? AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) ads and the expansion of programmatic native, both of which Google VP Paul Muret introduced Tuesday at the company’s DoubleClick Leadership Summit. “Winning starts with creating an amazing user experience that […]
Political ad dollars, even more so than brand budgets, have conglomerated around a handful of major players. Of the more than $1 billion analysts predict candidates and super PACs will spend online this election, “half will go to Facebook and Google, Pandora – those are the big ones – and Twitter,” said Jordan Lieberman, politics […]
Kiip is having its moment. The mobile rewards platform announced its $12 million Series C on Tuesday, bringing its total funding to $32 million. Led by new investor North Atlantic Capital with participation from US Cellular (also a new investor) and existing investors Verizon Ventures, Relay Ventures, HWVP and True Ventures, the cash is destined to […]
Retargeting can be more complicated for auto advertisers than for their counterparts in consumer packaged goods or retail. “In the old days, retargeting campaigns gave us a giant boost to our [digital] KPIs,” said Tom Maxmølris, marketing operations manager for Ford Denmark. But that was because Ford Denmark focused on “click to act” campaigns, which strengthened […]
“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 Andrew Carlson, senior vice president of experience design at DigitasLBi. Advertising agencies have always been on the forefront of creativity and engagement, innovating new ways for brands and customers to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Pro Forma As with its Q1 2016 report in April, Yahoo’s second-quarter earnings on Monday were dwarfed by the magnitude of its upcoming sale. The only real question to answer now is which suitor gets to seal the deal. The final bids for Yahoo’s core business […]
Advertisers are willing to pay a “substantial premium” on nonmobile video ads, according to a ZenithOptimedia video ad spend forecast issued Monday. Despite the fact that more consumers watch video on their mobile devices, video ad spend hasn’t grown with quite the same gusto. “Mobile is the dominant platform for consumption, but it won’t become the […]
Deals fall through all the time. But the failed acquisition of Opera’s ad business could be a signal that China’s western buying spree is liable to hit a few regulatory snags. In February, a consortium of Chinese companies, which comprises mobile game maker Kunlun and security software provider Qihoo, announced its intention to buy up all of […]
The Association of National Advertisers’ crusade for greater agency transparency entered phase two on Monday, when marketing analytics firm Ebiquity and its subsidiary, FirmDecisions, released an anticipated set of guidelines for advertisers on how to maintain transparent relationships with their agencies. The overarching message: Agencies may have crossed a few lines, but the onus is […]
App users that don’t convert or engage in some way are not healthy for a developer’s bottom line. On Monday, Facebook rolled out a product to help publishers attract users that are most likely to keep using an app after they download it. Facebook also expanded dynamic product ads and its full-screen mobile ad unit, […]
“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 Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. The mobile web does not monetize particularly well for publishers. User data, bandwidth and screen size constraints make it inevitable. The harsh reality that mobile […]
“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. When the IAB launched VAST 4.0 in January, the impact of its sophisticated and streamlined technology protocols on the video advertising industry was forecast to be tremendous. VAST, an […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Sleeping Giant Verizon’s AOL acquisition had a strong strategic rationale in light of the telco’s vast data set. What about AT&T, which has a similarly huge market cap and potential ad platform value? AT&T doesn’t share Verizon’s approach – data-sciencing its mobile subscriber data for […]
Less card. More connected commerce. That’s Mastercard’s new mantra as it paves the way for payments in an IoT environment. While IoT commerce might mean consumers buy en masse from their connected fridge one day, Mastercard is starting from a more tangible place, helping brands like JetBlue test bookings in chat apps like Facebook Messenger. […]
The “one-size-fits-all marketing epitomized by the TV upfronts is out of step with the way people consume media in the market today,” said GE CMO Linda Boff at the second annual AppFronts hosted by General Electric on Thursday in New York City. The event invited 13 apps to pitch themselves to marketers. Even though people […]
Former Turn head Bill Demas took the reins of Shopkick in June to “blitz scale” the company’s growth. More than 20 million consumers have downloaded the 7-year-old app, which rewards them for walking into stores, scanning items and buying products. Marketers use Shopkick to incentivize store visits and purchases. “In the commerce world, we were […]
“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 Maciej Zawadziński, CEO at Clearcode. Agency-client trust has never been more tenuous. The Association of National Advertisers’ recent report on transparency highlights a range of problems, such as publisher kickbacks, […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Hadrien Bouchrara, solution architect, Facebook Audience Network. Native advertising isn’t just the wave of the future – native is creating real business value for marketers all over the world at this moment. But many […]
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