Sell-side platform PubMatic has dismissed more than 100 employees, AdExchanger has confirmed. The layoffs, affecting 20% of the company’s global staff, follow an 8% reduction in October. The combined cuts have reduced PubMatic’s workforce from 600 to about 450. Additionally the company lost two key leaders on the publisher and demand side: Evan Adlman, VP of publisher […]
Consumers don’t want to see repurposed 30-second TV spots in their social feeds, which is why a number of brands and their agencies are investing in content tailored for Instagram. In September, Instagram’s 400 million users began seeing more ads as the image-centric platform turned on 30-second video ads, as well as landscape ads, which […]
When it comes to driving traffic for publishers, Facebook is king. Publishers receive 90% of their traffic from the social network, according to social analytics firm SimpleReach. But what about Pinterest? While the site crossed 100 million monthly active users (MAUs) this year, that’s a fraction of Facebook’s 1.5 billion MAUs, and trails behind Instagram’s […]
Square may be a unicorn – but it’s got its eye on the little guy. “We’re leveling the playing field,” said Kevin Burke, former Visa CMO and now head of acquisition at Square, which completed its long-awaited IPO in mid-November. “We’re helping small businesses close the loop.” Integrating online and offline has long been the […]
“AdExchanger Politics” is a new weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Mitch Dunn, senior vice president at Empower MediaMarketing. Facebook as marketers know it is about to change, and we have super PACs to thank. Due to the increasing prominence of super PACs, political fundraising is […]
“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 Dwight Ringdahl, senior vice president of technology at RhythmOne. The digital advertising industry is trying to clean up its act, waging a war against fraud on multiple fronts. Efforts […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. P&G Earthquake Largest US advertiser Procter & Gamble has finalized its first media-spending shift in almost 20 years, and it’s a doozy. Omnicom has taken over the majority of P&G’s budget (with Carat swiping a third and the incumbent, Starcom MediaVest, retaining some brands). […]
For the first time outside of a recession, linear TV ad spend has stopped growing, according to global ad revenue updates by MAGNA Global and ZenithOptimedia, both released Monday. While national TV ad sales grew .3% to $42 billion in 2015, MAGNA predicted it will decrease by .3% in 2016. ZenithOptimedia’s Advertising Expenditures Forecast also […]
“If I didn’t work for the Guardian, I would block ads,” said Guardian US CEO Eamonn Store. He’s fed up with the poor-quality ads that slip through on the Guardian and other trusted sites. As an avid reader of the Guardian, he sees ads for loan sharks and other unsavory ventures slip through frequently, leading […]
“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 by Matt Naeger, executive vice president of strategy and analytics for Merkle’s Digital Agency Group. Yes, I am saying that it is what they deliver that matters, and that delivering it – […]
“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. Back in 2004, I got into a discussion with a client about the meaning of click-through rate (CTR) as a digital display metric. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. In A Moment, Maybe Twitter is asking top dollar from sponsors on its new Moments channel, which is a curated capsule of tweets, videos, photos and media surrounding a live event or news item, Digiday reports. It’s had some early adopters, including Starbucks, REI […]
“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 Bryan Gernert, CEO at Resonate. Over the past decade, digital marketers have relied on quantity-based measurement as a proxy for campaign performance. The volume of impressions, clicks and likes signifies […]
If you’re a large brand and you want 10 million guaranteed impressions, you’re not going to find it in episodic TV – yet. Adobe and Videology, through new over-the-top video ad sales and the yield management system Adobe Primetime TV Media Management, hope to solve this problem. The solution was released Tuesday during Videonuze’s programmatic […]
Buenos Aires-based game studio Etermax is a rare creature in the app development world. “We don’t focus on user acquisition,” said CEO and founder Maximo Cavazzani. It’s quite a statement considering that Etermax is the developer responsible for quiz app Trivia Crack, which was the most downloaded app in the App Store in late 2014. […]
For most brands, the holiday season is a discount deluge. Not so much for high-end sports and eyewear maker Oakley. “We’re not a highly promotional brand,” said Krysta Brown, the company’s director of online marketing. Oakley might participate in seasonal promotions so long as they’re “brand right” and don’t undermine its messaging around premium, high-quality […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Hlavacek, vice president for programmatic at The Weather Company. Talk to some premium digital publishers these days and you will likely get a heavy dose of fear and loathing. You’ll hear how the business […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Blocking’s Lost Boys A team from Nieman Labs finds the growth of digital media makes it tough to measure the size of the ad blocking problem. Jim Coudal, CEO of the ad network The Deck, says that “if someone is using an adblocker, […]
The emergence of data-enabled TV targeting is altering the agency buying structure. In 2014, WPP’s GroupM launched Modi Media, a unit that would become the poster child for so-called “advanced” TV ad buying. But it’s not the only agency group to build an offering geared to the fragmenting milieu of TV advertising. Others, such as […]
Turn is going through a restructuring and has laid off 57 of its roughly 400 employees, said company CEO Bruce Falck, who was appointed to the role in September. “We did a pretty big restructuring of client services and sales,” he explained. “We merged the team, so it’s true that’s a larger chunk. But we’re […]
In 2014, American Express boldly declared in an RFP to ad tech vendors that it wanted to programmatically transact 100% of its then $128.5 million display budget. Though the statement was later clarified to be more of an aspiration than a brand-wide target, the financial services giant was one of several large brands exerting greater control over exchange-based buys at […]
“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 Lempner, a customer intelligence practice executive at Infinitive. Maybe it’s a sign of the maturation of digital marketing or just the reality setting in, but there is emerging buzz […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo’s Future Suitors In the wake of yesterday’s WSJ report that Yahoo’s board will consider selling off its core business (ad-supported digital media), the big question is, who would buy it? SoftBank, Time Inc., News Corp. and IAC are all floated as possible bidders […]
The ecommerce marketing software firm Bluecore on Wednesday announced a $21 million Series B funding round led by Georgian Partners. The company’s terms or valuation were not disclosed, nor were they disclosed during a $6 million Series A in January. Despite the recent round, Bluecore co-founder and CEO Fayez Mohamood told AdExchanger that “it got […]
For the past three years, Ancestry has used content to drive sales, writing and promoting blog posts like “Do You Have Royal Blood?” to encourage people to buy its product. This strategy goes against conventional wisdom, in which banners are typically meant for driving sales and content to drive awareness. “Every piece [of content] we […]
AskMen is firmly in the pro-platform camp among publishers. The men’s website, born during the dot-com boom, now looks to platforms, not SEO, as a way to gain audience and increase recognition. The king of those platforms is Facebook, where video posts earn the publisher millions of views. AskMen, which is owned by Ziff Davis, […]
Digital marketing firm Impact Radius scooped up ClearSaleing, the attribution component of eBay Enterprise, which was spun off from eBay in November. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Impact Radius CEO Per Pettersen told AdExchanger that he targeted ClearSaleing because “[t]hey have some very innovative technological approaches to cross-device and consumer journey tracking.” Pettersen […]
When it comes to mobile ad fraud, everything old is new again. “All the bad stuff we saw happen in web 1.0 in terms of trying to trick users is coming back with mobile,” said Alex Calic, CRO of The Media Trust, a company focused on ad verification and malware detection. That’s certainly the case […]
“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 Assaf Suprasky, CEO at myThings. As it becomes ever more challenging to find, retain and monetize users, app developers are fighting an uphill battle. The statistics make for grim reading: […]
