Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cut To Chase JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is incensed about fin tech startups like Mint, Acorn and Bloom “scraping” his customers’ data to offer financial visualization and advice services. The New York Times fact-checked his warnings to customers about “these start-ups (taking) more of […]
YouTube reaches more 18- to 49-year-olds on mobile alone than any cable network or broadcaster, said Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, during Google’s glitzy Brandcast event Thursday night in New York City. She cited MAGNA Global’s $250 million upfront commitment to Google Preferred as evidence of the shift of brand TV dollars to digital. YouTube […]
The claim that Facebook Instant Articles is about a faster user experience is a red herring. While that may be one goal, the program has a strong business rationale: It extends Facebook’s walled garden and creates a new foothold for its $1 billion Facebook Audience Network ad platform. Instant Articles does not allow third-party monetization. […]
“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 Alex Reinhold, head of solutions at Sociomantic. The trusty second-price auction is a staple of the real-time bidding process. In the programmatic sphere, buyers bid on a publisher’s inventory and, […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Brian Fitzgerald, co-founder and president at Evolve Media. Publishers are about to enter a phase of branded content fatigue from advertisers. In a world where automation is driving programmatic buying and ad units are […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Lesser Way Former Xaxis CEO Brian Lesser recently ascended to a management position with GroupM, which has huge significance for WPP’s overall media buying strategy, Rob Norman told AdExchanger at the World Media Economic Summit on Thursday. “Brian very much has a business design and […]
The money keeps flowing to cross-device, and Drawbridge is the latest beneficiary, picking up $25 million in Series C on Thursday, led by Sequoia Capital. The new round brings Drawbridge’s total funding to $45.5 million since it was founded in 2010. The company will use a portion of its Series C to pursue more licensing […]
The ailing agency-client relationship is so bad that it resembles a married couple who “hasn’t had sex since 1972.” That’s the grim assessment of Debra Giampoli, director of global strategic agency relations at Mondelez. She speaks from experience: Mondelez has sometimes seen its smaller brands neglected by larger agencies that didn’t understand their business needs. […]
Essence co-founder and chief product officer Andrew Shebbeare will discuss fraud, lack of transparency and misaligned incentives in the ad ecosystem at the May 24 CLEAN ADS I/O conference in New York. Andrew Shebbeare says the ad industry is at a tipping point. The acceleration of consumer ad blocking and uncertainty around viewability and fraud […]
Time Inc. on Thursday reported its best quarter in two years: It grew revenue 1%. For a Facebook or Google, those results would be alarmingly bad, but for a traditional media company trying to grow digital revenue as its large print and subscription businesses decline slowly year after year – well, that isn’t so bad. […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bryan Noguchi, senior vice president and media director at R2C Group. How will television improve over the next five years? It’s not a fair question, right? Improve for whom? Audiences? Networks? Advertisers? The reality […]
“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 Mark Robinson, CEO at deltaDNA. The mobile game sector has really been through the wringer. Can you imagine describing the gaming economy to potential investors? You tell them about […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. YuMe’s Potential Programmatic Progress The theme of YuMe’s Q1 2016 earnings call: Wait and see. In previous quarters, the video ad company struggled to grow its programmatic revenue, despite platform investments. Last quarter it showed only $1 million to $2 million. This quarter? No […]
MAGNA Global, the strategic investment arm of Interpublic Group, revealed Wednesday it would shift $250 million from its TV budget into Google Preferred over a three-year period, making it the latest agency to commit big upfront dollars to YouTube. Other agencies, such as WPP, Publicis and Omnicom, have collectively committed “billions” through the Preferred program to […]
After completing his first full quarter as CEO of performance marketing company Criteo, Eric Eichmann seems confident. Criteo had “very strong top-line growth,” Eichmann told AdExchanger ahead of the company’s Q1 earnings call on Wednesday. Revenue was up 41% year-over-year to $162 million at constant currency minus traffic acquisition costs and that performance was consistent across […]
Here’s a scenario that has played out millions of times in recent months: A user clicks a Taboola or Outbrain link to arrive at a content page of marginal quality, such as the ViralWalrus.com slideshow “These 16 Celebs Served Real Jail Time.” When the reader clicks the right arrow button to see the second page […]
If marketing is the creative visionary of a big brand, procurement is its practical, strict counterpart. Marketing wants to spend big on the big idea, and procurement wants to save as much as possible. The two often can’t see eye to eye – and marketing budgets suffer. At the ANA’s Financial Management Conference in Boca […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Emry Downinghall, general manager at StudyBreak Media. Most people who are plugged into header bidding agreed that it was only a matter of time before Google made its play, but I don’t think anyone […]
Mobile marketing automation platform Appboy is on a quest to steal some market share from the CRM incumbents with $20 million in Series C financing led by Battery Ventures. The round, announced Wednesday, brings the New York City-based company’s total funding to $45.5 million since 2011. Appboy plans to use the cash to keep on […]
Video ad platform Videology laid off about 32 staffers – or about 8% of its workforce – in recent months [Update: Videology said they occurred in January], as the company pivots to larger enterprise and linear TV deals. The company has since hired about 25 people and claims the transitional impact to its organization was immaterial. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Vide-0% Visible Measures is now offering what it calls “the first 100% fraud-free video solution.” The selling point is raising eyebrows among a competitive set where incremental fraud is a fact of life. DataXu and TubeMogul, for example, offer fraud-free guarantees in the form […]
Rubicon Project enjoyed a strong first quarter, growing overall advertising revenue by 26% year over year, while its cut of the revenue swelled even more. Non-GAAP net revenue reached $63.6 million, a 71% year-over-year increase. That’s largely because Rubicon Project acquired the DSP Chango a year ago to form its Buyer Cloud, causing take rates […]
“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 Paul Polizzotto, founder and president at CBS EcoMedia. For the advertising industry, the rules of the game are changing fast. Advances in technology are constantly transforming how and when consumers […]
Pinterest’s rumored acqui-hire of deep-linking startup URX is a go. On Tuesday, Pinterest announced that it’s bringing the San Francisco-based URX team into the fold, but not its technology. URX, which started as a deep linking provider before becoming a mobile retargeting platform, will work with its customers to sunset its advertising product. As of […]
Marketers and CFOs are struggling to speak each other’s languages, and agencies are getting drowned out amidst the noise. When a brand’s marketing and finance teams can’t align on a goal, the agency fails to meet client KPIs. Agency responsibilities are either passed off to new players in the space, like tech firms and management […]
The German startup Eyeo GmbH, which owns Adblock Plus (ABP), debuted a partnership Tuesday with Sweden-based micropayments provider Flattr in which ABP users will pay for their online content in a new way. The service, called Flattr Plus, sets a minimum threshold for ABP users to pay each month for content. That monthly fee gets […]
Conversational UI is hot right now, and Playbuzz is hopping aboard the trend with a static content format that’s designed to mimic the layout of an SMS text conversation, including emoji, images and GIFs. Dubbed Convo, the main purpose of the unit is to spice up editorial, improve engagement and generate more time spent. That’s […]
Xaxis is getting its ad tech house in order with the creation of a new role: chief technology officer. Filling those shoes at the WPP programmatic trading desk is Bob Hammond, whose career spans some of the most recent greatest hits in ad tech M&A. Hammond, whose appointment was announced on Tuesday, served as CTO […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Andrea Duggan, vice president of media sales at Gamut, a division of Cox Media Group. In each election cycle, every vote matters. In this particular cycle, where party support has been split between two or more […]
