“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. Nobody cares about pennies. Just ask John Oliver, who famously called for the US to ditch this worthless currency. Yet in today’s digital advertising market, content publishers are […]
“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 Yannick Koger, principal consultant at Infinitive. Right about now, many digital marketing pros wish their campaigns and programs were guaranteed to produce as much magic and happiness as that big […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Peddle Your ‘Wares Microsoft will update its Windows PCs in 2016 to purge any insecure adware code in the system. The move is mostly to kill off those man-in-the-middle ad injections. “Our intent is to keep the user in control of their browsing experience, […]
Advertisers, ad tech companies and publishers pay heed: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released an enforcement policy Tuesday that outlines which forms of native advertising it deems acceptable and which it deems deceptive. A key thread in the guidelines is that the user needs to know if content is an ad before she clicks and/or consumes content. […]
Pinterest made sense for The Grommet right from the start. The Grommet is an ecommerce site where inventors and entrepreneurs can launch and sell their products – everything from the innovative (lunchboxes that unzip into placemats) to the strange, but cool (liquid that can be applied to the fingertips of gloves to make them touchscreen-friendly). In […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a new weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Michael Horn, senior vice president and chief analytics officer at Resonate. In 2016, political ad spending will reach a record high of $11.4 billion, with $1 billion focused on digital media. That’s a nearly 5,000% […]
“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 Jason Morse, vice president of mobile products at Criteo. Consumers spend an enormous amount of time on mobile, particularly with chat and messenger apps, such as Line, WhatsApp and Facebook […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Bezos’ WaPo In the two years that Jeff Bezos has owned the Washington Post, the publisher’s digital traffic has surpassed that of The New York Times and has begun to close on Buzzfeed. The Wall Street Journal delivers the profile treatment. “The narrative around […]
French performance marketing giant Criteo’s promotion of its president and COO Eric Eichmann to CEO, effective Jan. 1, recalls Rocket Fuel’s recent leadership change. Eichmann succeeds JB Rudelle, Criteo’s founder and longtime chief, who will move into an executive chairman role. So why is this happening? Generally speaking, Criteo is worth more than every ad […]
Helm Boots sells $500 boots online and at its retail store in Austin, Texas. The six-year-old company’s attention to construction and design have made regular customers out of celebrities and local influencers, including an architect in Seattle and eye doctor in Oklahoma. After receiving an investment in the business, Helm Boots founder and CEO Joshua […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Matt Brummett, chief operating officer at Answer Media. The word “premium” is bandied about all of the time in digital programmatic circles. Like much of the jargon that populates ad tech, it has been […]
“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 Patrick Tripp, senior product marketing manager at Adobe. It’s easy to see why marketers would be enthusiastic about the ways data can be used to enrich the customer experience for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Leadership Change At Criteo Eric Eichmann, once Criteo’s COO and president, is now its CEO. JB Rudelle, once its CEO and chairman, is now its executive chairman. “This evolution comes at the right time for Criteo”, Rudelle said in a statement. “As we head […]
GroupM’s purchase of The Exchange Lab, a provider of marketing services and technology that connects multiple DSPs, comes at a time when agencies must tackle digital media fragmentation. While GroupM – WPP’s media-buying umbrella – faces walled gardens and siloed platforms, the Exchange Lab has a tool called Proteus, designed to provide a single interface […]
Following two dozen acquisitions in the ad tech world over the past couple years, RBC Capital Markets analyst Rohit Kulkarni predicts ad tech consolidation to continue the pace in 2016. But the portion of the advertising market most of these companies are fighting over represents just 20-25% of the total market. “There is an overarching […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Curran, CEO and co-founder at STAQ. Many publishers work with a wide variety of RTB partners to get as many different demand sources to bid against their inventory as possible. The “waterfall” that many […]
“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 Mike Peralta, CEO at AudienceScience. While many like to believe that advertising is a mystical combination of art and science mastered by a few qualified geniuses, the truth is that […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. TV’s Royal Rumble When streaming services like Netflix and Hulu took off, they were just the dumb pipes for broadcasters (a nice recurring revenue stream beyond TV syndication). But digital players are fueling a huge increase in scripted programming – nearly doubling since 2009 […]
Ad-tech companies shed hundreds of employees from their payrolls in recent weeks. Turn, PubMatic, Collective and Centro all laid off workers, adding to the toll of Rocket Fuel’s large job cuts earlier this year. The cited reasons vary but often boil down to simple survival as ad tech companies position themselves for profitability in a tough market. […]
Christopher Wong is VP of strategy and product management for IBM Commerce Marketing Solutions. He will discuss IBM’s digital marketing strategy at the upcoming Industry Preview 2016 conference in January. The old adage of “If you build it, they will come” has been replaced with newer notions around “empathy mapping” and anticipating customer needs prior […]
Smartwatches will outpace fitness trackers next year while smart things gain traction in the home. Oh yes, and 2016 is the year that mobile browsing will finally surpass desktop, at least on the weekends, according to Adobe’s most recent Digital Trends Index, released Thursday. Weekdays will follow in 2017. “Mobile is what started all of […]
Do Nielsen and alcoholic beverages mix? The two may sound like unlikely companions, but Nielsen has partnered with the creator of a mobile app called OpenBar to roll out a new measurement platform for alcoholic beverage marketing. The platform, Nielsen Bar Moments, will launch in the first quarter of 2016. BARTRENDr, the data analytics company […]
Certain CBS TV properties like Entertainment Tonight (ET) do double duty as digital publishers. ETonline for instance had 93 million video views in November – more than a 400% increase from 2014 – and 26 million monthly unique visitors. It’s now fourth for market share in the entertainment news category, according to comScore. JD Crowley, […]
“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. 2015 was a fantastic year for many data-driven marketers, with data management platforms (DMPs), consultancies and marketers getting something nice under […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. brAIny On the heels of Facebook’s new “Big Sur” ad servers for AI computing and Google’s quantum computing technology for AI and predictive search marketing, IBM has opened access to Watson, its AI engine, via a set of API integrations. These tech power players […]
The native ad specialist TripleLift recently finished testing and hit the market with a cinemagraph format, in which there’s an instant of motion within a static image. The cinemagraph format has existed for years, but its utility as an online advertising vehicle is just starting to permeate from social media platforms to the broader publishing community. […]
Chicago-based ad platform company Centro let go 29 of its 725 employees on Monday, or about 4% of total staff. Unlike other recent layoffs in the ad tech sector – including at Turn, Collective and PubMatic – the cuts were not motivated by a shrinking pool of cash, restless investors or slouching revenue growth. Instead, […]
The Atlantic is in a good spot right now. The publisher had record traffic from September through November and it closed out the month with 31.5 million uniques and 75 million page views, according to its Adobe Analytics data. The growth spurt came from a few key changes. A redesign in the spring made mobile […]
Bauer Xcel Media is a digital latecomer and only began devoting attention to its websites three years ago, but the publisher of J-14, Life & Style and InTouch is operating like a young digital pure-play. Completely separate from its parent organization, which houses the print operation, Bauer Xcel sells 100% programmatically and has quickly embraced platforms, […]
