“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Ted Dhanik, CEO at engage:BDR. With video consumption up, advertisers are following the eyeballs. eMarketer estimates that US digital video ad spend reached $7.8 billion in 2015, a 33.8% year-over-year increase representing 13.3% of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. At Your Service Silicon Valley investor Darren Herman penned a Medium post on how ad and marketing tech startups should approach the market. Valuations are coming down, the biggest competitors aren’t IPOing and seed-round funding is getting harder to find, so what’s a startup […]
Following a brutal 2015 for publicly traded ad platform companies (at least those not named Facebook or Alphabet), the first month of 2016 was, well, not much better. That is until Wednesday, when Criteo reported Q4 revenue growth of 55%, to $407 million (362 million euros). Additionally, the company crossed two symbolic milestones, hitting $1 […]
The one thing that investors really want from Twitter – for it to grow its monthly active users – is seemingly something that the platform can’t deliver. Twitter reported on Wednesday that revenue for Q4 2015 was up 48% year over year, hitting $710 million – with ad revenue comprising $641 million of that number […]
Despite the explosion of consumers watching 100 million hours of video every day on Facebook, marketers want more ways to make an impact in a video environment rife with muted autoplay. Consequently, Facebook on Wednesday released automated captioning for autoplay video and a complete integration to third-party measurement provider Moat and rolled out globally a […]
Twitter’s giving its reverse chronological timeline an algorithmic tweak. Rather than automatically seeing the most recent tweets first and then moving backward in time as they scroll, starting Wednesday users will see a curated lineup of roughly one dozen tweets at the top of their timeline culled from the accounts they follow. To determine which […]
Allison Schiff contributed. The fat lady hasn’t sung, but it appears likely that a group of Chinese companies will acquire Opera and its lucrative mobile advertising business. Oslo-based Opera told investors Wednesday that it had received a buyout offer of $1.2 billion led by investment fund Golden Brick Silk Road, along with security software player […]
“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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. If you think about the companies with perhaps the least amount of consumer data, you may automatically think about consumer packaged […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Paul Bannister, co-founder and executive vice president at CafeMedia. With all of the talk of header bidding and now header bidding wrappers, it’s clear that most publishers are moving forward in this space in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hold Co Crows During Omnicom’s Q4 earnings call Tuesday, CEO John Wren credited the company’s Annalect analytics division with helping it win P&G’s media buying business last quarter. ”We now have data and analytic experts, or marketing scientists, as we call them, embedded in […]
Performance marketing agency Merkle’s acquisition Tuesday of London-based data marketing agency DBG for undisclosed terms marks another step toward international growth, specifically in the UK. While DBG offers similar capabilities as Merkle around marketing databases, campaign management, data platforms and CDI, it gives Merkle key insight into UK data knowledge, platforms and technology. “A big […]
Google is upping its defenses against ad fraud to take on three malware families. The offenders include Bedep, plus two previously unknown entities internally code-named Beetal and Changthangi, which are named for goat species. Read the blog post. Google has developed a filter – now available for advertisers using DoubleClick Bid Manager (DBM) and Google Display […]
Viacom sales chief Jeff Lucas’s affinity for Snapchat dates back a year, to when the broadcast network first explored distribution opportunities with the popular video-messaging app. Now the two have set up a multiyear content and advertising agreement, which gives Viacom’s sales teams the right to monetize Snapchat US-based ad inventory. In turn, Snapchat gets […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Peter Pasi, vice president of political sales at Collective. Borrell Associates predicts candidates will spend $1 billion on political digital advertising ahead of the 2016 election. While that’s only a fraction of the total advertising picture, […]
In an age of banner blindness, nearly every publisher has added a sponsored content offering. Meanwhile, programmatic native is replacing banners and boxes. The programmatic native bucket, which includes Outbrain, TripleLift, Sharethrough, Taboola and Yahoo Gemini, features advertising in the form of article snippets, which look similar to sponsored content teasers. Sponsored content, by contrast, […]
If you take the headlines at face value, Google and Facebook are killing it – dwarfing all others in terms of revenue and scale – and there’s not much reason for other publishers to get out of bed in the morning. But there’s a more nuanced story going on. Certainly, Facebook and Google have become the […]
“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 Maxwell Knight, vice president of marketing science services at Turn. In the automotive industry, branding and direct-response campaigns are almost always divided into national and regional tiers. While this makes […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. B2B Dream: Still Alive According to marketing product chief Russell Glass, claims of the demise of LinkedIn’s ad tech road map have been greatly exaggerated. Turns out company CEO Jeff Weiner created a misunderstanding when he told investors last week the company would shutter […]
Somewhere between Drake’s turn for T-Mobile, Mountain Dew’s “Puppy Monkey Baby” and Anthony Hopkins shilling for TurboTax.com, another brand scored: CBS, the exclusive network partner for Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 game. Overnight ratings data from Nielsen indicated Sunday’s matchup was the second highest-rated Super Bowl in metered markets in the game’s history, while cross-device streaming […]
Say you’re an advertiser plunking down $5 million for 30 seconds of prime Super Bowl ad time. You’re going to want to make sure that campaign drives some sort of action online. But between Facebook, Google and Twitter, how do you choose what to use? According to a report released Monday, Google’s attribution engine, Adometry, […]
“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 Tom Flanagan, director of strategic partnerships at DataXu. The digital advertising industry has long been shouting about the importance of applying first-party data to targeted digital advertising. Although some may […]
Is dynamic ad insertion finally coming to podcasting? New audience measurement guidelines released Thursday by a collection of public radio companies address one of the big concerns advertisers have with the medium – thereby paving the way for new methods of selling and placing ads. “Up until recently, whenever we put an ad into the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon’s Big Game The commerce brand that transformed retail without much advertising at all has embraced a decidedly old-school ad format: the 30-second Super Bowl spot. Amazon spent about $5 million to drive awareness of Echo, its voice-controlled personal assistant, in a placement expected […]
Krux opened its business-to-business data-sharing marketplace, named Link, on Thursday with the goal of building an open exchange for media and marketer first-party data. The product has been in development for 18 months and live in beta with some clients for almost a year, according to Krux chief solutions officer and Link general manager Michael […]
“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. I worked in San Francisco for a few days the other week and was amazed to see street closures, insanely disruptive out-of-home (OOH) […]
It may not be master over how its software is used, but that isn’t stopping Google from ruling its Play store with an iron first. It appears that some ad-blocking apps are not welcome. Taking a page out of Apple’s playbook, Samsung on Sunday rolled out support for content blocking within the default browser that […]
Just because an ad is “in-view,” that doesn’t mean it’s effective. On the contrary, time spent is often a better indicator of ad effectiveness than percentage of pixels in-view on a page. That’s according to a new viewability study from Interpublic Group (IPG) and measurement firm Integral Ad Science. The report, “Putting Science Behind The […]
“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 PubNation. Ad ops has traditionally focused on one metric: revenue. Revenue is the ad ops’ North Star, the guiding light, the arbiter of decisions. It’s how publishers evaluate, prioritize and […]
“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 Ephraim (Jeff) Bander, president and chief revenue officer at Sticky. Randall Rothenberg’s evangelical speech at IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting conference ignited fresh introspection into the role that digital advertising plays […]
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