Apester, a self-described digital storytelling platform, rounded out its Series A on Tuesday with $12 million, bringing its total funding to $17 million. The fresh infusion, which came after an initial $5 million round in July, was led by Blumberg Capital, with participation from Mangrove Capital, Wellborn Ventures and several others. The cash is earmarked for […]
Frankly’s content management system (CMS) and its “managed programmatic” ad selling service help more than 200 local TV news stations with their digital presence. As consumption shifts from desktop to mobile, the company is positioning itself to help these local TV stations make the transition too. But Frankly itself was under transition a year ago, […]
“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 Raju Malhotra, senior vice president of of products at Conversant. Apple’s big news a few weeks ago was its small news. That is, the smaller screen size of its upcoming […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Evan Krauss, vice president of publisher development, Americas, at PubMatic. Over the past half-century, media has played an increasingly significant role in the country’s presidential elections. In the 1960 election between John F. Kennedy and Richard […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Sum Of Its Parts As of Monday, the deadline for would-be Yahoo acquirers, Verizon stands out from the pack of suitors, according to anonymous sources at The Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile Comcast and Alphabet have withdrawn. Yahoo may be uniquely valuable to Verizon, as […]
Updated with statement from Amazon. Amazon’s forthcoming $8.99-a-month subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service offers strong new competition to Netflix and Hulu. Will it include advertising as well? Not at first, but there is an internal debate at Amazon around the proper role of ads in its video offering. According to one source with knowledge of Amazon’s […]
Indie data management platform Lotame has remained relatively quiet since the acquisition of cross-device tool AdMobius in 2014. Because Lotame rode out the wave of DMP consolidation between 2013 to 2014 (Oracle acquired BlueKai, Neustar snapped up Aggregate Knowledge and Rocket Fuel bought [x+1]), Lotame CEO Andy Monfried claims his company has one key advantage […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Matt Nitzberg, chief growth officer at ThinkVine. For the first time outside a recession, traditional television ad sales are expected to decline this year, according to the Interpublic Group’s Magna Global. In the US, […]
“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 Eric Berry, CEO at TripleLift. The chasm between effective media buying strategies for TV and digital are often so large that one might be excused for forgetting both are simply […]
Consumers across the globe find advertising too frequent and irrelevant, and the younger ones are more aware of ad blocking, according to an Accenture Digital Consumer study released Monday. More than 80% of the 28,000 people surveyed in 28 countries thought they saw too many ads. Seventy-three percent of those aged 14-17 know about ad […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Boots On The Ground “The sooner we as an industry admit that Facebook and Google and Apple and Snapchat are running the tables on media innovation — mobile and video innovation — the sooner we’ll do something about it,” writes Cory Bergman, who runs […]
More than a quarter of programmatic decisions are made by agencies for their advertisers – up from 20% since September. The revelation was presented by Mark Mahaney, managing director at RBC Capital Markets, at AdExchanger’s PROGRAMMATIC I.O conference in San Francisco on Thursday. The figures, which surprised Mahaney, show agencies make 27% of those decisions […]
The irony of digital marketing is that it has to justify itself because it can justify itself. If Michelle Weiskittel, manager of digital marketing at Albertsons Safeway, wants to get the budget to do her job, she must demonstrate as clear a connection as possible between online campaigns and actual sales. Print doesn’t carry that […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Samantha Price, director of ad products at The Weather Company, an IBM Business. I was recently asked if a recovered impression honored the user’s choice not to see an ad. It’s an interesting question, […]
“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 Maor Sadra, managing director at AppLift. There’s been a lot of prattle about the potential of header bidding. Some have even called it waterfalling by a different name, and that […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Currency Conversion NBCU is the latest TV network to offer “guarantees” based on data gathered outside traditional Nielsen ratings for the 2016-17 upfront market. The network will use its Audience Targeting Platform to layer advertisers’ first-party data with NBCU viewership data and third-party research […]
With Oracle’s acquisition of Israeli cross-device vendor Crosswise on Thursday, the number of independent cross-device vendors is getting thin on the ground. Although Oracle declined to comment or disclose details around the transaction, The Times of Israel reported a deal price in the neighborhood of $50 million, citing a source with knowledge of the matter. […]
Why did Google “democratize” dynamic allocation within its ad server on Wednesday to include external demand? Google addressed its rapid response to the rise of header bidding for broader exchange and publisher partners Thursday – and other developments – at AdExchanger’s PROGRAMMATIC.IO in San Francisco. “I find it interesting that this is the fastest time-to-market […]
Ten years ago Axel Springer was a classic print publisher. About 1% of its revenue came from digital. These days, digital revenue tops 70%. It’s been part of what Axel Springer US president Jens Müffelmann calls “a radical transformation” for the German publisher and it was triggered by an unlikely source – circular advertising, long the […]
If there’s one thing that ticks off Jim Kiszka, Kellogg’s senior manager of digital media, it’s paying extra for viewable impressions. “I absolutely resent the fact I have to pay more for viewability,” Kiszka said Wednesday at AdExchanger’s PROGRAMMATIC.IO show in San Francisco. “I wish I could have a refund for the last 10 years […]
MDC’s media buying arm, Varick Media Management, unveiled a dynamic creative solution called Pictor on Thursday, an HTML5 ad builder that uses audience and campaign data to adjust the ad unit creative in real time. Pictor adds a programmatic messaging element to Alveo, Varick’s proprietary tech stack launched in October. “The big missing piece for […]
Agency holding group Interpublic Group is recruiting for at least five new Advanced TV positions for its trading desk and tech unit Cadreon. Cadreon, which employs about 500 globally and 300 in the US, attributes the hiring moves to recent advances by networks like NBCUniversal and Fox to automate digital video, display and now linear TV […]
“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 Leah van Zelm, vice president at Merkle. Those in the people-based marketing business know that customer journey mapping “quick guides” abound. But beware: Their overly simplistic nature can lead marketers […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Please Mr. Regulator US advertisers are asking the FCC to ease up on the privacy gas pedal. Their key trade org, the ANA, wants more time to evaluate a rule from the agency requiring ISPs to get the OK from customers before sharing personal […]
You know how sometimes you just want to watch a movie without having to log in and scan the catalogs of every streaming video portal? Enter MightyTV, which came out of beta on Wednesday. The startup, from Admeld founder and former CTO Brian Adams, is a free discovery app for iOS that allows users to […]
Retargeting, a word long associated with the cookie-based world of direct-response display advertising, is getting a refresh. With the explosion of mobile and subsequent deterioration of cookie matches, marketers are demanding upper-funnel features that go well beyond conversion and tracking pixels. “What we’re seeing across our portfolio with clients like Nike, for example, is they’re […]
In a major change to its Double Click for Publishers ad server, Google will bring in the real-time bids of a publisher’s outside exchange partners to its dynamic allocation product. The feature addresses a key problem that led to the rise of header bidding, essentially doing away with Google’s previous policy where it only allowed […]
LUMA Capital Partners, the newly minted venture capital arm of LUMA Partners (per an SEC filing earlier this year), announced Wednesday its first public investment with the ecommerce performance marketer HookLogic. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. HookLogic, which positions search and display ads within a network of retail sites, is only six months […]
Among all the pros and cons of adding header bidding, one challenge is often not addressed: getting buy-in from senior sales leadership. The idea of programmatic competing against direct-sold impressions can be difficult to swallow. But local news site Philly.com, the digital presence of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, received that buy-in from […]
