About one year ago, GroupM quietly introduced a new structure designed to consolidate its real-time ad buying capabilities across programmatic, social, search and mobile. Called Connect, the new group appeared to be the WPP-owned media agency network’s answer to the growing need for programmatic decentralization of programmatic buying. We have seen that decentralization play out across […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by James Shears, general manager of advanced TV at The Trade Desk. At this year’s Golden Globe Awards, actor Gael Garcia Bernal was at a loss for words. He’d just won best actor in 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 Carla Holtze, CEO and co-founder of Parrable. What does personally identifiable really mean? For as long as I can remember, personally identifiable information (PII) basically meant email address, telephone number […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mountains And Molehills YouTube remains the only digital platform stealing significant TV budgets, but its budgets are still just an insignificant fraction of overall TV, Mike Shields writes for The Wall Street Journal. Advertisers are wary of digital video prices (YouTube CPMs run between […]
Will Google’s grand plans for TV, evidenced by its launch of DoubleClick Dynamic Ad Insertion on Wednesday, be successful? Google’s move into dynamic ad serving across live, linear and on-demand programming marks a critical shift in the search giant’s strategy, which some industry insiders say was necessary to meet future business objectives. “Google will not […]
Acorns is an app that allows users to invest spare change left over from daily purchases in the stock market. Now it’s making an investment of its own with the creation of a digital magazine called Grow aimed at millennials. “We’re looking to satisfy a hunger our users have for financial content,” said Jeff Cruttenden, […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Christian Baesler, president at Bauer Xcel Media. There are a few trends that matter a lot when publishers consider their content strategy for the future. First, nearly two-thirds of digital media time spent in […]
“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 Alastair Boyle, global client partner and head of strategy at Essence. You might be surprised to hear these words in the same sentence, but compassion has been a core concept […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Working On It Publishers on Google AMP are pleased with faster page loads, but their ads are lagging behind. Google pre-loads cached content, storing it temporarily and serving the ads through DoubleClick. If Google started pre-caching ads the way it does for articles, it […]
In the first quarter of 2016, Alphabet reported total advertising revenues of $18 billion, representing a 16% increase from the same period last year, though slightly below analyst expectations. Google CFO Ruth Porat, speaking on the company’s quarterly conference call after trading on Thursday, attributed the growth to the company’s mobile search business. Today’s earnings […]
US online ad revenue hit $59.6 billion in 2015 – $10 billion more than in 2014 (a 20.4% YoY increase), according to the IAB 2015 Internet Advertising Revenue report conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Innovation in areas like mobile drove the industry’s consistent high growth, according to David Silverman, a partner at PwC. Nonmobile digital advertising […]
In an unusual partnership between agency and onboarder, DigitasLBi has teamed up with LiveRamp to sharpen and speed up the segmentation capabilities of its advanced analytics platform to drive more targeted campaigns. DigitasLBi said Thursday that it will leverage LiveRamp’s data connectivity services on IDIOM, its advanced analytics platform – still in the process of […]
There are a lot of bidder tools in the market, so when Beeswax came out of beta last Thursday with a solution it calls “bidder-as-a-service” – with Foursquare as its flagship client – its focus was on customizability and price. “With Beeswax we can write our own algorithm for bidding,” said Peter Krasniqi, Foursquare’s VP […]
The wave of acquisitions in digital media is almost always driven by the need for scale. Access to millennial audiences often plays a role as well. Both of these challenges played a role in the marriage of humor sites Cheezburger and eBaum’s World, which are uniting under the umbrella of Literally Media. A private group […]
Matt McGowan, head of strategy for Google’s America’s ad agency business, has jumped to UK-based email automation platform Adestra, where he will serve as president, effective immediately. McGowan spent two and a half years at Google, where he supported sales to big brand and agency buyers. During his tenure, Google made major inroads into brand […]
Dutch cross-device data vendor Screen6 has been flying under the radar and avoided the Nielsen verification route like its well-known competition. Last year, Tapad (recently acquired by Norwegian telco Telenor) and Drawbridge had the accuracy of their device graphs evaluated by Nielsen, coming in at 91.2% and 97.3%, respectively. Screen6 CEO and co-founder David de […]
“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 Barbara Connors, director of brand media, 84.51°. There is no denying the profound impact that personalization is having on the media landscape. There is, however, another pivotal impact of the […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Rany Ng, director of product management for video advertising at DoubleClick by Google. Addressable advertising has been a topic of much discussion at this year’s NAB Show. The ability to show different ads to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad-Block Ripples A report from Oriel, a publisher ad-block solutions firm, found ad blocking can impact a wider swath of the Internet than commonly suspected. The report says Ryanair and British Airways may lose customers because the terms and conditions box can be blocked, […]
“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 Gerard Keating, executive vice president of products at DataXu. Adobe has announced a new cross-device co-op data initiative that serves as an ambitious counter to Google and Facebook’s now infamous […]
With additional reporting by Allison Schiff. Scrap cat videos. Google wants a piece of the $70 billion linear TV ad pie – of which $300 million-plus and growing is addressable. As such, the tech giant unveiled a bunch of TV-related products and updates Wednesday at the National Association of Broadcasters meeting in Las Vegas. Announcements […]
Account-based marketing, or the ability for a B2B marketer to target a cross-section of companies, has been around for a while, but the techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated. LinkedIn recently launched company targeting on its platform, and Demandbase, which has had an account-based marketing solution in-market for several years, extended the tool to the Oracle Marketing […]
Almost every game developer uses rewarded video to monetize because it’s lucrative – but there’s also a lot not to like about it. “A 30-second video ad just isn’t that engaging, and there’s no reason for users not to put their phone down when the video’s playing and just wait for it to end,” said Tayber […]
While publishers combatting the rise of ad blocking can select from a growing number of vendors who address the issue, many of the available solutions are largely the same. One group of offerings is designed to change user behavior. There are generally four methods: asking users to turn off ad blockers, blocking content when ad […]
Publisher network and ad tech firm Sovrn bought UK-based viewability company OnScroll Wednesday for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock. Sovrn plans to deploy the technology across the 80,000 publishers in its network, according to CEO Walter Knapp. OnScroll creates highly viewable ad units for publishers by analyzing user behavior patterns. So if a […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Chris Cummings, CEO at Curiosity Media. The industry is abuzz about Google’s recent announcement that it will integrate competing ad exchanges into DoubleClick for Publishers’ (DFP) dynamic allocation. A faster, more scalable alternative to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. RMX Buys Yahoo? Former Yahoo execs Bill Wise and Ross Levinsohn have joined forces with two equity firms – Bain Capital and Vista Equity Partners – to submit a bid for Yahoo, Kara Swisher reports. Once upon a time, Wise came to Yahoo through […]
Yahoo reported earnings on Tuesday. Details are below – but that’s hardly what people care about now. The real question is: Who’s going to buy it? Verizon’s the clear frontrunner, but there also a few upstarts. One such is a joint investment group that includes big names like former Yahoo interim CEO Ross Levinsohn and […]
Programmatic revenues from Omnicom’s trading desk, Accuen, grew $25 million YoY, the holding company noted Tuesday during its Q1 2016 earnings call. Notably, Accuen’s performance since 2014 has reliably shown YoY revenue growth of between $20 million and $40 million. Q1 2016 – $25M Q4 2015 – $45M Q3 2015 – $25M Q2 2015 – […]
