Omnicom Media Group (OMG) appointed Jonathan Steuer as its chief research officer in May because the worlds of data-driven advertising and traditional TV buying were quickly coming together. Steuer, who spent five years previously at TiVo, clearly understands both worlds. As such, OMG’s syndicated and investment research teams both report to him. “Historically, there’s research […]
At 110 years old, Xerox is the epitome of a legacy B2B business. But as Xerox prepares to spin off its $7 billion business process services arm into a standalone company called Conduent in January, it is borrowing more B2C tactics as it seeks to differentiate both of its brands. “We’re doing a lot of […]
“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 Wayne Blodwell, founder and CEO at The Programmatic Advisory. One of the interesting trends we will see continue over the coming years is how more advertisers will take ownership of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. GeoSnap Snapchat will refine its location-based targeting and geofilters with Foursquare data. The location analytics provider (this ain’t your grandfather’s Foursquare) will power Snapchat geofilters with data about where ads were served, the company wrote in a Medium post. Snapchat had location targeting for geofilters before, […]
Agencies across WPP’s network will gain access Spotify’s audience insights for better targeting across creative and media. The multiyear partnership between Spotify and WPP’s Data Alliance, announced Tuesday, will grant WPP access to anonymized and aggregated data from Spotify’s 100 million listeners across 60 countries. “The data we have from Spotify will resonate across WPP,” […]
Mindbodygreen is making a credible run at the content-and-commerce model. The health and wellness publisher, which sees around 10 million unique visitors a month, eschews traditional advertising in favor of a combination of content and commerce, “with community in the middle,” said CEO and founder Jason Wachob. Mindbodygreen has 5,000 contributors, some of whom are […]
As many have pointed out, Donald Trump won the presidency while spending a fraction of what Hillary Clinton did on ads and technology. But his campaign had a more concrete paid media strategy than some may have realized. The Trump campaign worked with Cambridge Analytica on polling, digital media and data. The company’s head of […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Jordan Lieberman, politics and public affairs lead at Audience Partners. One year ago, AdExchanger published an article focusing on the number of digital vendors moving into the political and public affairs market. The pivotal quote: “The […]
“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 Ray Kingman, CEO at Semcasting. Whether you’re watching television or listening to the radio, you’re bound to catch an ad soliciting participants for a clinical trial. These trials can’t take […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New Media Bauer Media Group will launch a digital offshoot of Empire magazine in the US. Bauer has grown profitable by reviving European print magazines through its digital subsidiary, Bauer Xcel Media. Because Bauer is launching these properties for the first time not only on digital […]
Weather data is hot right now. Location-based mobile ad network xAd has acquired WeatherBug, the companies said Tuesday. WeatherBug operates a live weather website and app with more than 20 million unique users, as well as a network of more than 10,000 private automated weather stations across the country. It’s a page out of IBM’s […]
Google is sticking with the script of “openness” in its publisher roadmap, citing a flurry of product updates designed to maximize publisher revenue, access to inventory and the user experience on mobile. There is an uptick in publishers, including USA Today Network, The New York Times and Time Inc., that are structuring direct deals programmatically, Google […]
GroupM is refocusing investments around addressable and data-driven media. WPP’s media investment management arm will be split into two pillars, Media Investment and Platform Solutions, the company said Monday. The Media Investment arm will refocus GroupM’s investment strategies around data and platforms, while the new Platform Solutions division will centralize and scale GroupM technology used […]
Drawbridge is letting brands get their hands dirty with cross-device data. On Monday, the cross-device company launched self-serve functionality that lets ad buyers see how their buying choices affect what sort of identity graph they get on the other side. The goal is to give advertisers more control so “they can really see how this […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Andreas Schroeter, co-founder and chief operating officer at wywy. TV’s ad budgets are under pressure to shift toward digital buys. Yet even Facebook can’t provide TV’s unmatched reach and recently admitted video ad measurement […]
“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 Alain Portmann, partner and head of strategy and insights at House of Kaizen. McDonald’s decision to appoint Omnicom to its US creative account, on the basis of a pay-per-performance component, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google’s Balancing Act Google wants an ad-supported internet that doesn’t drive people crazy. Back in September it helped launch the Coalition for Better Ads with major platforms and publishers, and it decided not to build an ad blocker into Chrome – in contrast to browsers Opera […]
Facebook will disable targeting based on ethnicity for credit, housing and employment advertisers. ProPublica first reported the development. The move, announced Friday in a blog post by Erin Egan, Facebook’s VP of US public policy and chief privacy officer, follows criticism from policymakers about the legality of “ethnic affinity marketing,” which Facebook introduced two years […]
Some publishers are raking in the traffic courtesy of Apple News, but not everyone on the buy side is impressed. “I want to be able to upload my own audience, match it to theirs and know what’s running where so I can customize the ad,” said Angelina Eng, VP of media platforms and operations at […]
Investing Media Solutions (IMS), exclusively represents the advertising for 375 long-tail and mid-tail publications that offer financial advice. As the financial network looks to the future, it’s adding first-party data and more compelling ad formats to maintain stride with its sophisticated financial advertisers. IMS helps financial advertisers like Vanguard, Fidelity and Schwab, and brands like […]
Adobe’s $540 million acquisition of TubeMogul this week was a bet on more automation and addressability in TV. In addition, the deal gives Adobe Marketing Cloud – which is known for its strength in site analytics and creative – the ability to do more cross-screen media execution. TubeMogul has shown consistent growth quarter after quarter, following […]
Mobile web notifications are blurring the line between apps and the mobile browser. For publishers without apps, mobile web push is a way to interact with people in an app-like fashion. And publishers with an app can use web push to communicate with users even if they haven’t downloaded it. According to numbers released by […]
“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 Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO at Segment. Despite the rise of data-driven marketing, I would argue the future of marketing is still very much creative – albeit deeply engineering-enabled. Effectively […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Greg Mason, CEO at Purch. The New York Times made its own headlines when it recently acquired Wirecutter, the five-year-old online product review site, for an estimated $30 million. For one of the world’s […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Reporting For Duty The Trade Desk reported earnings for the first time yesterday, showing an 84% year-over-year increase in revenue this quarter with $53 million. It’s a good number, but percentage growth is a figure that will naturally decline and which doesn’t overawe Wall St. “They’ve […]
“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 Ned Blaine, performance strategy manager at Turn. When Christmas Tree Shops opened in the ’50s, the Massachusetts-based store sold Christmas merchandise in the months of July and August. It played […]
Adobe will acquire the video demand-side platform TubeMogul for $540 million in debt and cash, the companies said Thursday. [Here’s the deal release.] The deal gives Adobe a sophisticated DSP capability for the first time. Though Adobe had display and search-buying capabilities via the Efficient Frontier acquisition (now Media Optimizer), Adobe has never been lauded […]
Pandora launched the Harmonic Audio Network on Thursday, in partnership with streaming platforms TuneIn and AccuRadio, to offer advertisers mass reach on premium inventory across digital audio platforms. The network will sell exclusive in-stream audio inventory from its own as well as partner platforms. Both TuneIn and AccuRadio will commit roughly 95% to 98% of […]
Kantar Media, long considered a rival to Nielsen’s mainstay TV measurement business internationally, is restructuring the way it goes to market. Although Kantar Media previously operated as one of 12 distinct brands within the Kantar Group, sometimes there was a lack of visibility between different brands. “We’ve had a very strange organizational structure,” admits Andy Brown, chairman and […]
