Campaign briefs are increasingly filled with demands for advanced creative versioning, forcing agencies into closer collaboration with ad tech providers. It’s one of the reasons why Mindshare partnered with dynamic creative optimization platform Spongecell last fall to support a Mazda Rebels campaign, featuring a series of short films profiling engineers and innovators on the cusp of […]
AdRoll’s B2B data co-op IntentMap, unveiled eight months ago, has expanded its participating partners from 1,000 to 3,000 out of 20,000 overall clients. The prospecting co-op is a pool of shared advertiser data managed by AdRoll’s data science operation. “We think data co-ops will gain momentum over the course of the year,” said AdRoll President […]
It’s been a year since Publicis Groupe forced a big transition of its programmatic operation that many saw as the future of data-driven agency services: It decentralized its seven-year-old trading desk, VivaKi AOD, and reassigned its employees to new jobs within the holding company’s media agencies. Today, its grand experiment is seriously strained by a […]
“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. Have you been following the debate around giving consumers more choices for their set-top cable boxes? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has only […]
“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 Amihai Ulman, founder and chief operating officer at Mass Exchange. I have a confession to make: Before writing this, I couldn’t really say that I, or anyone I know in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Voter Bots In a 2016 presidential year, one big-money opportunity for ad fraudsters will come from digital budgets aimed at Latinos (who disproportionately rely on smartphones over cable or print for political news), writes White Ops political director Mark Schlosser in a column at […]
Public video platforms Tremor Video, TubeMogul and YuMe released Q4 and FY 2015 results over the last week, citing rapid uptick in their respective programmatic (with the exception of YuMe) and cross-screen video businesses. Tremor Video Tremor on Thursday reported revenue of $51.8 million in Q4, which beat its guidance by about $6 million and […]
Among the findings of this week’s programmatic survey from Forrester and the Association of National Advertisers is this alarming nugget: Programmatic adoption could be hindered unless marketers continue to push for transparency – and make progress getting it. “We need to move from awareness and education to policy and action,” said Jim Nail, principal analyst at Forrester, […]
Marketers love data, but there are still ways it can fail them. Marketers need to push themselves and their agencies to be accountable for sales, not false metrics often used as proxies for actual sales, said speakers at the ANA’s Masters of Marketing conference in Orlando, Fla., this week. “My No. 1 goal is to align […]
“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 Scott Tomlin, CEO at Trust Metrics. From Amazon to Uber, the Internet does a great job upending business models. In the publishing world, mommy blogs can compete for ad dollars with […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jay Wright, an executive at Infinitive. Holistic yield management and revenue optimization have been hot topics du jour in digital advertising. Everyone’s talking about them on the sell side, and there’s a sense of […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. See For Yourself The ANA and Forrester’s annual survey shows 31% of marketers increased their in-house programmatic capabilities last year. The study also indicates more granular oversight and guidance of vendors, like updating “blacklists,” purchasing through PMPs and rewriting I/Os to guarantee transparency. Marketers […]
Berlin-based RNTS Media group, which owns a portfolio of mobile technology companies, will acquire Israeli RTB mobile ad exchange Inneractive for an initial payment of $46 million, which could rise to $72 million if Inneractive hits incentivized targets. This is the third in a string of acquisitions RNTS Media and its primary business property, the […]
AT&T has officially entered the programmatic TV fray. The carrier on Thursday revealed the launch of a private marketplace called the Video Inventory Platform (“VIP” for short), which Jason Brown, AT&T AdWorks’ VP of national advertising sales, told AdExchanger was a “data-optimized TV and video planning tool.” The product will be generally available in Q3 […]
“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 Bruce Falck, CEO at Turn. Much has been made recently of the issues and challenges marketers face when they put all their eggs in the Facebook or Google baskets. As Lisa […]
Xaxis, WPP’s programmatic media company, is a bit of lightning rod in the advertising industry for a few well-documented reasons. However, it’s undeniable that the ad net/trading desk/tech shop combo invests a lot into its own data, partnerships and technologies. Consider, for instance, the $25 million it put into its proprietary data management platform Turbine […]
When Apple baked tvOS into its fourth-generation set-top box, the next-gen operating system also opened the floodgates to third-party apps. It was a pivotal moment for app and game developers, who could for the first time tap into Apple’s emerging TV ecosystem via a new software development kit (SDK). And for large and mid-tier publishers, the new […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Pub Crawl Some publishers that have embraced Facebook Instant Articles are now feeling the sting of higher costs associated with measuring their audiences there. Ad Age reporter Jeremy Barr describes how Facebook shunts pubs to its measurement partner comScore, which then charges media companies […]
Publicis.Sapient acquired Salesforce Gold partner Vertiba on Wednesday to expand its ability to build and deploy Salesforce marketing cloud solutions. Publicis.Sapient did not disclose the terms of the acquisition or Vertiba’s employee headcount. Founded in 2010, Vertiba is a consultancy specializing in installation of Salesforce’s cloud solutions. Publicis.Sapient inherits Vertiba’s know-how on applying Salesforce’s tools […]
If you hail from the northeastern United States, you’re probably accustomed to the slightly bitter bite of broccoli rabe common in many Italian dishes. It’s the population beyond New York and other big cities – as well as health-conscious millennials – to whom Salinas, Calif., grower Andy Boy wanted to appeal. But Andy Boy had […]
Merkle on Wednesday revealed its purchase of UK-based Comet Global Consulting, a provider of CRM and marketing solutions. It did not disclose terms. This acquisition marks the third and largest for Merkle within nine months, growing its European employee base to more than 500. The deal comes at the end of Merkle’s five-year global growth […]
Evolve Media co-founder and President Brian Fitzgerald has been in digital media since the dot-com era. He’s bought and sold companies and lived through boom and bust cycles. As the industry continues to evolve – with waves of investment in digital media companies and ad tech consolidation – Fitzgerald is taking action. In the past […]
“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 Omer Kaplan, co-founder and CMO at ironSource. Performance advertisers looking to acquire users for their apps traditionally considered cost per install (CPI) their key metric. But as both brand and performance […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Wanted: Instant Sponsor Posts Lucia Moses of Digiday rounds up guinea pig publishers’ experiences with Facebook Instant Articles before the platform’s upcoming public rollout. The publishers, who have experimented with Instant Articles to varying degrees, have seen better audience engagement due to faster load […]
Call it the holistic grail: the ability to connect advertising, ecommerce activity and in-store buying with a single measurement. No one’s filled that gap yet, but a bunch of companies are taking incremental steps. Earlier this month the location analytics shop Placed added a product for attributing in-store lift to its suite. Then last week […]
Have you ever wondered why presidential candidates only “suspend” their campaigns, even when they’re dropping out? It isn’t pride, it’s just good business. When the candidate is gone, the campaign’s valuable tech and data assets remain. Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign, for instance, ended suddenly and in considerable debt, which it helped pay down by selling or renting its proprietary data. Mark […]
Marketers on LinkedIn have long been able to target titles like “VP of engineering” for sponsored updates and inMails. On Tuesday, LinkedIn rolled out account targeting, allowing marketers to target actual companies in their campaigns, up to 30,000 of them at a time. Wait, LinkedIn couldn’t target by company before? “This has been one of the […]
Canadian video ad platform SourceKnowledge has closed $1.5 million in mezzanine financing from BDC Capital that it will use for product development and building out its West Coast operations. The Montreal-based company, which was founded in 2009, is profitable and was largely bootstrapped until now, so it wished to remain modest by taking a mezzanine […]
“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 Mayur Gupta, senior vice president and head of digital at Healthgrades. In a digital world where the process of innovation has become a commodity, driverless smart cars, personal drones […]
