Evolve Media co-founder and President Brian Fitzgerald has been in digital media since the dot-com era. He’s bought and sold companies and lived through boom and bust cycles. As the industry continues to evolve – with waves of investment in digital media companies and ad tech consolidation – Fitzgerald is taking action. In the past […]
“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 by Omer Kaplan, co-founder and CMO at ironSource. Performance advertisers looking to acquire users for their apps traditionally considered cost per install (CPI) their key metric. But as both brand and performance […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Wanted: Instant Sponsor Posts Lucia Moses of Digiday rounds up guinea pig publishers’ experiences with Facebook Instant Articles before the platform’s upcoming public rollout. The publishers, who have experimented with Instant Articles to varying degrees, have seen better audience engagement due to faster load […]
Call it the holistic grail: the ability to connect advertising, ecommerce activity and in-store buying with a single measurement. No one’s filled that gap yet, but a bunch of companies are taking incremental steps. Earlier this month the location analytics shop Placed added a product for attributing in-store lift to its suite. Then last week […]
Have you ever wondered why presidential candidates only “suspend” their campaigns, even when they’re dropping out? It isn’t pride, it’s just good business. When the candidate is gone, the campaign’s valuable tech and data assets remain. Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign, for instance, ended suddenly and in considerable debt, which it helped pay down by selling or renting its proprietary data. Mark […]
Marketers on LinkedIn have long been able to target titles like “VP of engineering” for sponsored updates and inMails. On Tuesday, LinkedIn rolled out account targeting, allowing marketers to target actual companies in their campaigns, up to 30,000 of them at a time. Wait, LinkedIn couldn’t target by company before? “This has been one of the […]
Canadian video ad platform SourceKnowledge has closed $1.5 million in mezzanine financing from BDC Capital that it will use for product development and building out its West Coast operations. The Montreal-based company, which was founded in 2009, is profitable and was largely bootstrapped until now, so it wished to remain modest by taking a mezzanine […]
“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 Mayur Gupta, senior vice president and head of digital at Healthgrades. In a digital world where the process of innovation has become a commodity, driverless smart cars, personal drones […]
The Association of National Advertisers and the 4As might be mending fences, but transparency – or the lack thereof – is still an issue. It’s why programmatic agency Anagram decided to start setting its clients up with their own direct platform contracts, rather than stepping in as the middleman. Anagram founder Adam Cahill calls it “radical […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Billboards Have Eyes Billboards are nice, but it’s hard to get granular metrics around a sign in the street. Aiming to change that, iHeartMedia subsidiary Clear Channel Outdoor Americas unveiled a program called RADAR that uses location data from PlaceIQ, Placed and AT&T […]
Back in 2008, before the likes of “Serial,” award-winning public radio producer Nate DiMeo was sharing little-known pearls of American history in his podcast, “The Memory Palace.” The show, in which DiMeo narrates forgotten moments to a curated selection of music, has maintained a loyal, mid-sized audience for the past eight years. But despite donations […]
That day when data rewrites all TV business rules is not far off, said Joan Gillman, EVP and COO for Time Warner Cable’s media services. A cultural shift is already underway at sales houses as cable companies pitch TV 2.0 products to advertiser clients. Traditionally, buyers only got historic measurements and reporting for campaigns 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 by Dave Hanley, principal at Deloitte Digital. When businesses think about personalized marketing, they dream of true one-to-one marketing – where unique messages and content are delivered to specific customers at the […]
It’s been a busy 10 months since AdExchanger published its inaugural Marketer’s Guide to Cross-Device Identity. Since then the market has seen significant developments, including technology evolution, merger activity and shots across the bow from government regulators. Below, we pick up where we left off with an important update to our overview of the […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital. Programmatic has long promised to make interactions between publishers and buyers more scalable and efficient, but over the years the opposite has occurred. Now the landscape […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MDC Surges Struggling holding company MDC Partners is showing signs of life in the wake of its hire of Silicon Valley vet Scott Kauffman last summer. MDC posted $117 million in net new business wins in 2015, following a decade of net losses, according […]
Video platform TubeMogul sees itself as a bastion for brand advertisers and, beginning in April, it’s putting its money where its mouth is. The company will roll out a Non-Human Traffic Credit Program, an automatic make good on all video impressions it buys on the open exchange that have been identified as fake or fraudulent. In […]
When Adam Warburton – head of mobile at British foreign currency exchange company Travelex – came to Barcelona for last year’s Mobile World Congress, his mission was to comb the exhibition halls and find a marketing technology partner. At the time, Warburton had just started at Travelex after a two-and-a-half-year stint as a mobile manager […]
Facebook’s Atlas ad server promises to deliver marketers a superior way to measure campaigns compared to DoubleClick, which commands the lion’s share of the market. But measurement is just one part of ad serving. And in the one and a half years since Atlas was rushed to market, marketers and agencies that have tested Atlas […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jamie Molnar, senior manager of mobile client solutions at The Weather Company, an IBM Business. Precise and accurate location data is invaluable. It provides a wealth of information on consumers based on their real-world […]
“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 Nick Illobre, director of enterprise media solutions at Merkle. As we think about the evolution of programmatic media buying, we can all reminisce about having to explain what “programmatic” was […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Who Pays The Piper? Adblock Plus wants to shed some light on the monetization policies for its controversial Acceptable Ads initiative. Operations manager Ben Williams penned a blog post acknowledging the communication breakdown. “Because we discuss it so frequently, we often forget that you […]
Facebook on Thursday formally unveiled Canvas, its new full-screen mobile ad unit that offers creatives the real estate they’ve been craving in the news feed. But the richer mobile ads will not be constrained for long to what the company internally refers to as the “big blue app.” At a Facebook press event Thursday, execs […]
“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 Eyal Pfeifel, co-founder and chief technical officer at Imperson. As today’s primary interaction medium, messaging opens the door to new forms of marketing that are more engaging and adapted to […]
Devices and hardware will come and go. “Which is why the future is absolutely about mobility,” said Lisa Donohue, CEO of Publicis Groupe’s Starcom. “Mobility and understanding a consumer’s movements, the decisions they make and why they make them.” It’s a philosophy Starcom applies to “new establishment” clients like Airbnb and to more “classic” brands […]
For Honda and other automotive advertisers, TV tentpole events such as the Super Bowl are their main drivers of brand awareness. But mobile has increasingly emerged as a priority in test budgets since performance-based strategies can affect sales, too, and auto manufacturers want additional ways to remarket to users who, for example, are nearing the end […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lorne Brown, CEO at Operative. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard high-level publishers and advertising executives bring up the huge promise of programmatic TV. In theory, programmatic TV buying allows advertisers […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Taking A Stand “Trying to use and get benefit of the Times’ journalism without making any contribution to how it’s paid is not good,” said New York Times CEO Mark Thompson in a speech about ad blocking Tuesday. “Everything we do should be worth […]
In areas where other companies are growing fast – mobile, social and video – Rocket Fuel is actually losing market share, according to its fourth-quarter earnings report released Wednesday. Rocket Fuel reported $46.9 million in revenue from mobile, social and video channels in the last quarter of 2015, an 18% year-over-year decline. In comparison, Rocket […]
