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 […]
“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 Martin Kihn, research vice president at Gartner. More than a century ago, two titans emerged from the wreckage of the railroad wars. The prickly Jay Gould ran the Union Pacific, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Bots Are Here At its F8 Conference on Tuesday, Facebook said it would let developers create chatbots for Messenger. The resurgence of bots, according to Mike Isaac of The New York Times, comes from consumer wariness downloading individual apps from different companies. But, […]
“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 David Dowhan, president at TruSignal. Today, most trackable human behavior occurs online in a digital context. Much of this data may be the raw material used in an attribution model. […]
When Reuters reported last month that the Koch brothers’ organization, Freedom Partners, would sit out the remainder of the primary, the reason given was a worry that “spending millions of dollars attacking Trump would be money wasted, since they had not yet seen any attack on Trump stick.” Political insiders now expect a change in […]
Apple and Google own the app economy – and that makes distribution and discovery pretty tricky for the average app developer. “These companies … are monopolizing this ecosystem,” said Chris Cunningham, newly minted CRO of beacon and proximity data aggregation company Unacast, speaking at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Mobile Marketplace event on Monday in New York […]
Randy Wootton will speak about advertiser perceptions on April 14 at AdExchanger’s PROGRAMMATIC.IO conference in San Francisco. The past couple of years have been a tumultuous adolescence for ad tech, and perhaps no single company embodies the growing pains as neatly as Rocket Fuel, with its near-solo public spotlight, its dispute over margin transparency and the rough […]
Nielsen predominantly partnered with big marketing clouds à la Adobe to date – until now. The measurement giant on Tuesday rolled out the Nielsen Marketing Cloud, which is is the company’s first major attempt to unify various homegrown and acquired assets into a single platform for media owners and advertisers. A number of food and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic Adviser For Hire DigitasLBi Chief Media Officer Baba Shetty will leave his role to start his own research and advisory firm, Invisible Science. The company will be a subscription-based membership service that helps clients sift through the more than 3,500 vendors in today’s […]
When Omnicom Media Group on Friday launched Hearts & Science, its third agency network alongside OMD and PHD, it chose Annalect founder and CEO Scott Hagedorn to lead the effort. The development comes four months after Omnicom grabbed the majority of Procter & Gamble’s $2 billion media account from Publicis Groupe’s Starcom Mediavest. Part of P&G’s […]
MediaMath is in the midst of replacing its single product architecture with a new sales and engineering org that’s built around enterprise software and services. The company gradually began reorganizing a year ago, first by refocusing the engineering team around specific products. Last fall it implemented an enterprise account structure within the sales team, which […]
Mobile game publisher I Got Games (IGG) – which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on paid acquisition – was noticing its user retention tank. The culprit? App-install fraud. IGG has 18 million monthly active users evenly distributed across the world, with roughly 40% coming from the Americas, 30% from Europe and 30% from Asia […]
“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 Brian Foster, senior vice president of information services at Neustar. The notion of an “always-on” consumer has triggered a lot of interest and attention in cross-device identity. If you’re a […]
At Amazon Media Group (AMG), sometimes the objective isn’t to sell advertisers more ads. AMG has a lesser-known service – ecommerce marketing – where it might evaluate a partner’s broader retail health and the roles contextual elements (e.g., Amazon product detail pages), third-party placements or product availability play in the path to conversion. “You can’t […]
Egmont, which operates more than a dozen publications in Europe, only started investing in digital advertising a couple of years ago. As the print business continued to decline, its Swedish operation decided to focus on fast-moving digital. By extension, that meant going all-in with programmatic. To kick it off, Lars Näslund joined in August as […]
Digital audio inventory is increasingly available for programmatic purchase. But while audio publishers see value in the audience-based buying and granular targeting that programmatic offers, they are wary of dumping their inventory into an open exchange. And advertisers aren’t really sure how programmatic audio fits into their paid media mix. Here’s the landscape: iHeartRadio inventory […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Amihai Ulman, founder and chief operating officer at Mass Exchange. This year will be a great one for digital media trading. Digital media trading has jumped the shark and landed safely. Transparency will increase, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Eek-osystem John Geraci, former director of new digital products at The New York Times, recalls his time at the newspaper as a “resounding failure,” though not “a complete failure.” In a Harvard Business Review article, Geraci credits the Times for bringing in “entrepreneurial employees” […]
“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 Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. I went to the doctor’s office the other day and she complained to me, “You know, the problem with human anatomy is all the complexity. […]
Live-streamed video is hitting its stride. Both Twitter, which inked a 10-game streaming deal with the NFL, as well as Facebook, which gave consumers access to an expanded Facebook Live tab this week, want in on the action. And on Thursday, Al Roker Entertainment, the production company owned by longtime NBC Today co-host and weatherman […]
When YP Canada quietly acquired programmatic mobile ad platform JUICE Mobile for $35 million on March 17, its main concern was to assuage any potential investor concerns that the directory and listings behemoth wouldn’t be able to make its debt payments. YP Canada was $1.7 billion in debt and teetering on the brink of bankruptcy […]
1-800-Flowers.com announced on Friday that it will deploy IBM Commerce on Cloud to begin integrating its supply chain from inventory to fulfillment and delivery. “The IBM Cloud will reduce complexity, provide the proper focus and enhance the ability to provide wonderful services to the customer,” said the CIO of 1-800-Flowers, Arnie Leap. The tech-savvy retailer […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Danny Khatib, co-founder, president and chief operating officer at Livingly Media. Here’s the problem: Most display ads are technically obscene. It’s very common for a single ad creative to include several large assets with […]
