Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Data-Driven Content Condé Nast is opening a new group, Spire, which will match the pub’s 1 trillion unique monthly data points with purchase insights from 1010data, owned by an affiliate of Advance Publications, Condé Nast’s parent company. The data will be used to inform audience segments […]
Overall ad spend will enjoy its strongest growth in six years – 5.4%, reaching $480 billion this year – largely driven by double-digit gains in digital media. The fast-growing sector shows no sign of a slowdown: The interplay of programmatic, online video, social media and mobile will drive digital ad spend growth through 2018, according to […]
Facebook, which recently took the wraps off a tool that lets advertisers link location-aware ads to store visits, may have more than 1.5 billion users, but scale isn’t the only prerequisite for cracking offline attribution. “My question for Facebook would be: Do they know the spatial outlines of every McDonald’s in America?” said Duncan McCall, […]
The 2016 Summer Olympics are an opportunity for leading media brands to flex their programmatic muscles around a live marquee event. For some, it’s the first time they’re doing anything like this. Condé Nast, for example, launched a set of programmatic offers earlier this year. “Content packages around these kinds of events or moments was […]
“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 Kathy Leake, CEO at Qualia. There’s a race in our industry to be “right” about the state of cross-device data science. Instead, we should be the smartest about how we’ve not […]
For Vancouver, Canada-based Indochino, a purveyor of made-to-measure suits and apparel, omnichannel retail is an ongoing journey. Most retailers begin with brick and mortar and expand into ecommerce. Indochino took the opposite approach. Similar to Warby Parker, the company combines online customization with offline service. Customers pre-select lining, fabric and lapels online. After assessing a […]
“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 Rik van der Kooi, corporate vice president, Microsoft Search Advertising. We are entering a new era of digital transformation, one that will profoundly change how we interact with technology. People […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Rare Bird Many analysts see a Twitter deal looming after a brutal year on the market (with shares dropping from the mid-thirties to about $16 today). The New York Times reports those rumors intensifying in the wake of Microsoft’s LinkedIn acquisition. But there aren’t many natural […]
“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. Maybe you rolled your eyes when you heard that some Instagram users were protesting the platform’s decision to change its algorithm so that it surfaces […]
P&G’s programmatic buying platform AudienceScience has a new CEO. Company Chairman Bill Gossman will assume the role, effective immediately, and former head Mike Peralta will become chief strategy officer. AudienceScience also made two other executive hires: David De Simone, who will serve as COO, and Patrick Reilly, its VP of enterprise sales. “We’ve gotten to […]
“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 Riordan, director of special operations at TubeMogul. In March 2011, a major earthquake in Japan triggered a tsunami that led to a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, […]
For the buy side, the only fair way to measure mobile ad impressions is when they’ve actually rendered on a device. Otherwise, advertisers might be getting taken for a ride by publishers using different methods of counting, said Richy Glassberg, CEO of Medialets, a mobile ad platform and mobile ad server that’s been under WPP […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Celia Wu, managing director of publisher services at The 614 Group. It’s Friday at 7 p.m., right before the Memorial Day weekend. Who’s left in the office? Most likely, it’s someone from the ad […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Growth Tax Some of the leading tech, media and commerce startups to IPO – Zendesk, Twitter, Etsy, Square, Coupons.com and Zulilly, for a start – took big venture capital rounds to get there. But did that money go to any actual use? The Information reports […]
Looks like Samsung has joined the TV race for ad tech. The electronics manufacturer has confirmed its acquisition of AdGear, a Canadian demand-side platform and ad server with roots in agency-serving tools. “Samsung has acquired Quebec-based AdGear Technologies Inc., a leading digital advertising technology company that provides software and services to media agencies, publishers and […]
Microsoft and LinkedIn both have advertising businesses. But Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn wasn’t about advertising. At least, that’s not the main reason. “It’s less about ad tech and more about mar tech,” said William Furlong, a former Bizo executive and current adviser and consultant. Forrester VP and principal analyst Melissa Parrish agreed. While […]
Jay Stevens has joined Adform as chief revenue officer. The company created the role because it needed someone to manage the business and control country-specific P&Ls as Adform expands geographically into new markets. He started Monday. Stevens made the switch to the decade-old ad tech company, founded in Denmark, a few months after departing Rubicon […]
Agency buyers believe Snapchat’s partner program, which allows third parties to buy inventory, will help the messaging service migrate from a bespoke buy to a more central part of a media plan. “If you look at the scale and daily time spent, especially among millennials, you have to consider Snapchat a core reach vehicle,” said […]
Performance Horizon revealed Wednesday it has raised $15.4 million in Series C funding. The partner marketing platform helps large global corporations manage all their affiliate relationships in one place. The company plans to use the funds to double its workforce from 120 to 240 over the next year. Sixty percent of the new hires will […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Tal Chalozin, co-founder and chief technology officer at Innovid. It’s no secret that Facebook has put a major focus on video as a key part of its strategy, with significant investments in 360, virtual […]
“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 Michael Oiknine, co-founder and CEO at Apsalar. In the long-running NBC police procedural “Law & Order: SVU,” Detectives Benson and Stabler focused on three things when solving murders: means, motive […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Over The Wall It looks like Chinese companies will continue gobbling up US ad tech firms (see: Smaato and Opera). China faces heavy competition in its domestic market, where internet traffic is shared among power players with closed APIs like Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba and Qihoo 360. […]
The British mobile carrier Three Group on Wednesday began a 24-hour trial of the network-level ad-blocking blueprint it’s been working on since earlier this year. Three deploys its ad blocking through a partnership with the Israeli startup Shine, which installs ad-block tech on telco networks and facilitates new opt-in advertising arrangements between mobile providers and […]
With TV upfront negotiations underway, digital tactics are wielding more influence as networks court buyers with cross-platform guarantees and enhanced data products. “You can still invest client dollars in proven media, but upfronts are now about online video partnerships you can make long-term investments in,” said Maureen Bosetti, the chief investment officer for Interpublic Group’s […]
Investopedia launched in the dot-com era as an online dictionary of investment terms. Its financial audience attracted advertisers, and the glossary format drove traffic from Google searches. But times have changed. Investopedia needed to conquer social, which has supplanted search as a dominant traffic driver for many publishers. And reaching investors at the beginning of […]
As of Wednesday, there’s a new lord of the manor at AOL Platforms. Tim Mahlman, formerly president of publisher platforms at AOL, has been promoted to president of AOL Platforms, effectively filling the shoes left empty upon Bob Lord’s departure to IBM in April – but with one big difference. “It’s the first time AOL appointed […]
AppNexus and Taboola have connected with each other to enable buyers to purchase Taboola’s native placements programmatically. Eighty-five AppNexus buyers have already used this connection to buy on Taboola. The integration represents a step forward for programmatic native just as another huge native pool of supply disappeared: FBX, which will shut down in November. Taboola CEO Adam Singolda […]
“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, co-founder and managing partner at Labmatik. In light of the ANA’s Media Transparency Initiative Report, marketing leaders are considering how to cut through all the industry-level information and understand […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook’s Proof Obsession Facebook is adding new ways for businesses to link their ads to offline conversions. The most interesting is an integration with Square that could bring a boatload of SMB transactional data into the Facebook “matching” ecosystem. Facebook also will use location data to […]
