Kelly Liyakasa contributed. What a month for Facebook’s ad business. Late Thursday and early Friday, Facebook signaled plans to serve more ads to nonusers on its Facebook Audience Network (FAN). The company also moved to shutter two other ad tech components: its LiveRail exchange (parts of which had already been sunsetted) and its Facebook Exchange […]
If the comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission in response to its broadband privacy proposal are any indication, consumers feel a deep mistrust of the online ad industry. As Rick from Arizona declared: “There’s already too much theft of my personal information from internet advertising, etc. and it must be STOPPED.” The public comment […]
Optimizing a programmatic ad stack today involves constant manual adjustments. More demand? Move floor prices up. Less demand? Dial them back down. It’s pesky work for ad ops teams. “We want to mediate that mess for publishers,” said Sortable founder and CEO Chris Reid. Sortable boosts a publisher’s revenue by deciding which price floors, ad […]
“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 Tod Sacerdoti, vice president of display and video ad products at Yahoo. Ad fraud in video and display is nothing new – it’s an issue that has plagued the industry […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Doug Llewellyn, chief operating officer at Purch. Digital publishers are worried about how publishing platforms meant to speed up mobile load times, such as Google’s AMP, Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple’s News, will impact […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Shine On The European mobile carrier Three will begin testing the network-level ad blocking deal it signed with the Israeli company Shine three months ago [AdExchanger coverage]. It’s going to be a key test of Shine’s technology, which gives the telco control over web and in-app […]
Advertisers don’t have a strong enough grip on the technological ecosystem to make informed buying decisions, agreed leaders of several leading ad organizations at AdExchanger’s Clean Ads IO conference. Panelists from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s) and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) got on stage in New […]
GroupM’s 25-person advanced TV team, Modi Media, is investing three times the amount it did in connected TV this year over last, driven mostly by exploding consumer demand and growth in media availability. To support its growing investment, Modi will use interactive video ad server Innovid to aggregate audience and measure ad views across 25 […]
“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 Tom Triscari, CEO of Labmatik. Growth in ad blocking has been the topic du jour in the advertising trade press and it is rightly fueling fears across marketers and publishers alike. […]
Impressions don’t impress – “Attention is the key, not just being on the screen,” said Moat CEO and co-founder Jonah Goodhart at an event Wednesday about time-based metrics hosted by Parsec (formerly Sled Mobile). That’s part of why advertisers buy TV – it’s a viewable playground for branding. But viewability, after all, is just a baseline for just […]
Google is cracking open the gates on its AdWords demand. Its giant pool of search buyers will be able to dip into other exchanges when they need to find a user for retargeting campaigns. The move was buried in a blog post about mobile innovation Tuesday. The change makes Google far more open, benefiting buyers, […]
While still in its infancy, CafeMedia’s three-month-old platform for millennial women, Revelist, is already exploring opportunities for further monetization. Now at 1 million monthly unique visitors and 76 million video views, the publisher, which embeds “body positivity” into all content across multiple verticals like beauty, entertainment, news and politics, has attracted large advertisers like P&G […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. No90 Verizon’s ad-supported mobile streaming service Go90 is overhyped in the media and isn’t seeing significant traction, said Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam at a JP Morgan telco event this week. “We believe Go90 will be hard-pressed to mount a meaningful challenge to mobile video and social […]
Ari Bluman, a highly-regarded digital media exec whose passion was only rivaled by his bluntness, has passed away after a long fight with cancer. He was 44. To those who knew him, Bluman was a “man of conviction” who “lived his beliefs” and practiced “radical candor” in order to “improve the industry he loved and […]
The long-rumored demise of Facebook’s desktop FBX will finally arrive. The social media giant will shut off its desktop retargeting tool Nov. 1. Partners buying through the FBX API will have to use a different one, said Matt Idema, Facebook’s VP of product monetization. Current partners include AppNexus, Criteo, AdRoll and MediaMath, among others. “FBX […]
Jed Hartman, the CRO of the Washington Post, knows that a focus on user experience can also conflict with a publisher’s ability to drive revenue “Our owner Jeff Bezos focuses relentlessly on the consumer,” Hartman said during a publisher panel at AdExchanger’s Clean Ads conference on Tuesday. “It’s UX-first, which is a challenge for me […]
The dander was up at AdExchanger’s Clean Ads IO in New York on Tuesday as the CEOs of two ad blockers engaged in a contentious debate with two prominent adversaries about the rock-and-hard-place situation publishers presently find themselves in. “It might be ironic that an ad blocker can really play a very important role in […]
“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 Gil Resh, co-founder and chief product officer at Stands. Advertisers throw away a lot of money every year. Fraud is responsible for the largest share of the waste in the […]
One Kings Lane, the home furnishings and décor e-tailer, puts a lot of time and money into its blog. With home tours of celebrities and tips from professional designers, the content evokes luxe shelter magazines. Plus, there are shoppable links within each post. While the content team used to promote the posts, the rise of […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Evan Burns, CEO at Odyssey. Engaging audiences with relevant content hinges on how publishers and platforms harness countless diverse viewpoints globally. This approach is essential in a climate where confidence in the media has […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Badvertising Report “Video ads on programmatic exchanges – where there is less transparency – have Invalid Traffic (IVT) rates 4.5x direct buys,” according to comScore’s Q1 2016 advertising report. ComScore also finds about half of all ads “don’t have the opportunity to be seen.” The stat […]
Instagram announced Tuesday that it’s opening up its advertising Partner Program to a new category of member: media buyers. The program today is comprised of a set of about 50 vendors certified for Instagram’s ad tech, content marketing and community management services. Bringing media buying services into the fold is the natural next move for Instagram […]
In a nod to mobile’s growing importance for advertisers and its own bottom line, Google on Tuesday unveiled AdWords updates and local ad formats to help marketers execute mobile-focused ad campaigns. Advertisers can now connect more widely with Google Maps users and give consumers more information in their text ads. Google also gave manufacturers access to […]
A new Snapchat campaign from 20th Century Fox for “X-Men: Apocalypse” will drive awareness and ticket sales for the movie’s Friday premier. Snapchat has run plenty of branding-oriented campaigns, but this new effort is one of very few forays that include a direct-response component (in the form of a Fandango e-commerce call to action), a […]
It’s hard to scroll through Facebook without encountering some short-form video from NowThis (like Donald Trump “awkwardly sort of apologizing” to Fox News host Megyn Kelly) in your news feed, and the socially distributed media company wants it that way. Founded four years ago by BuzzFeed and HuffPo execs Ken Lerer and Eric Hippeau, NowThis […]
The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday that formalized its opposition to the FCC’s proposed set-top box rules. Under the proposed rules, companies such as Google and TiVo who manufacture their own set-top boxes could access content from multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) without having to […]
TV or digital? Birchbox is still making up its mind. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, of course, but the online beauty retailer has decided to press pause on its TV advertising efforts while it tests out the effectiveness of a targeted social-first brand campaign. “We turned off TV in February to make sure that we […]
“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. Control and security over customer data, especially personally identifiable information (PII), is a hot-button issue among advertising tech and marketing tech companies due to the […]
“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. Perhaps you have heard the news – there is an election this year. Whether it’s from your Facebook feed being flooded with the hottest of hot […]
