“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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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cue That Apple TV What exactly are Apple’s long-term plans for its TV product? To say that Eddy Cue, the company’s SVP of internet software and services, reveals all to the Hollywood Reporter would be an overstatement – but he does reveal some. Cue describes Apple […]
The European Union’s antitrust commission on Thursday added two formal charges to Google’s ever-growing pile of regulatory burdens. The first charge substantiates a previous objection claiming Google favors its own comparison shopping service in search results. “It means consumers may not see the most relevant results to their search queries,” wrote European Commissioner for Competition […]
Advertisers’ concerns around viewability and fraud are slowing down spend on digital advertising, said Daryl Simm, chairman and CEO of Omnicom Media Group during the holding company’s Q2 2016 earnings call on Thursday morning. “While [advertisers] are continuing to grow their digital budgets, there is a tap at the brakes in that space as some […]
Google’s programmatic video revenues are growing fast, thanks in part to its decision to turn on exchange-based monetization of YouTube’s TrueView ad formats. Just how fast they’re growing can be seen in figures obtained by AdExchanger as well as in data released by Google directly. Google claims programmatic buying on YouTube via its demand-side platform, […]
Designer fashion retailer Monton is trying on messenger bots for size. On Thursday, the brand, which targets the trendy millennial aged 25 to 30, exited beta on a product discovery tool that allows Facebook Messenger users to chat with the brand and scroll through recommendations based on previously selected items. The images link directly to […]
Early Wednesday morning, a week after the initial US launch of Pokémon Go, a small milling crowd formed outside Barney Greengrass, an iconic Upper West Side Jewish deli and a “PokéStop” – a real-world location anchored in the augmented reality game interface. It’s not unusual for queues to form for bagels and smoked fish, but […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by John Douglas, director of product strategy at Sizmek. As the biggest walled gardens on the web, Google and Facebook have become enormously successful. A walled garden in this context is an ad-supported platform 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 Craig Dempster, EVP, Agency Group Leader, Merkle. With the celebrity sightings, gourmet food and entertainment and rosé wine flowing, it’s easy to understand why many see events like Cannes Lions […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Holdout Unlike other news heavyweights such as CNN, Buzzfeed, WaPo and The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal is keeping Facebook at arm’s length. The WSJ has no deal to produce live video content and publishes only tech coverage to Instant Articles. Raju Narisetti, […]
Reynolds Consumer Products signed a 2-year deal with Meredith, under which the food- and home-focused publisher will develop upper-funnel and lower-funnel content for Reynolds’ brands, including Reynolds Wrap and Hefty. Upper-funnel content will feature tips for entertaining or cooking designed to inspire or drive awareness, said Meredith SVP Marc Rothschild. The publisher’s 2015 acquisition of […]
Augmented reality seems to have hit its mainstream stride with the runaway popularity of Pokémon Go, and users are having a blast – but location-based marketers are also getting pretty stoked. “This is like the best high-profile marketing campaign for location intelligence that anyone could ask for,” said Foursquare president Steven Rosenblatt. For those living under […]
Once, E.W. Scripps was a newspaper company. Now it’s a digital media, broadcast TV, over-the-top (OTT) and podcasting company. Along the way, it shed its newspapers, which are now part of Journal Communications, and its cable channels, spun off in 2008 into Scripps Networks Interactive. It also has been acquisitive. E.W. Scripps expanded into podcasting […]
Social listening data is often used only to influence social campaigns. Siloes within agencies can keep it from informing media campaigns in other channels. IPG Mediabrands, for instance, has multiple media buying agencies, including a search and social unit called Reprise Media as well as its trading desk, Cadreon. Reprise and Cadreon made a good […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. FTC Hammers The WB The FTC has brought the hammer down on Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, as the company settled charges that it engaged in deceptive practices. As per the FTC’s complaint, Warner Bros., through ad agency Plaid Social Labs, contracted a roster of influencers to […]
Google debuted a number of shopping and travel ad products on Tuesday, including dynamic price alerts for flights based on Google search queries. But first, YouTube. When Google rolled out TrueView for shopping last spring on YouTube, it claimed the units generated three times the revenue of standard TrueView video ads – and the volume […]
“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 Christopher Reid, founder at Sortable. The digital advertising industry is at war with itself. And none of the major players – users, publishers, ad tech vendors or advertisers – are […]
Cadent, a media network and data platform for pay TV providers, has rolled out a TV targeting tool that taps into TiVo’s data sets. Available initially as a managed service, the product is Cadent’s first since its acquisition last August of addressable and video on-demand ad platform BlackArrow. GroupM’s advanced TV specialist Modi Media is the first […]
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 […]
