Facebook doesn’t want umpteen degrees of separation between its LiveRail exchange and the stable of publishers who use it to monetize, and the company is taking swift action to cull intermediaries. In an email obtained by AdExchanger, Facebook says it will terminate publisher services for an undisclosed number of customers (namely third-party resellers of desktop […]
IBM’s agreement to acquire The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web properties – including WSI, weather.com, Weather Underground and The Weather Company brand, but not The Weather Channel – is likely more about data assets and less about a grand entrance into the media world. Read the release. IBM was mum on its long-term strategy, saying through a spokesperson that […]
If a turnaround story is going to fly, it’s got to take off at some point. But Prashant Fuloria, Yahoo’s SVP of advertising products, is preaching patience. “The reality is that this is a multiyear transformation, and our long-term trajectory will not be defined by a single quarter,” Fuloria said. Speaking of quarters, the results […]
Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS) wants to build the most comprehensive set of shopper data out there, and it appears right on course. The company has expanded its shopper data set by 30%, fueled mostly by a new data partnership with Walgreens, NCS revealed to AdExchanger Wednesday. This means Nielsen Catalina now has access to shopper […]
Content sequencing is going omnichannel. OneSpot, whose tech sequences content across paid media, unveiled an expansion of its Content Sequencing platform Wednesday that brings the capabilities to owned media as well. Launch partner Delta Faucet implemented OneSpot OnSite, designed for brands’ owned sites, last month on its “Inspired Living” section. Located beneath articles about home […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Madhura Sengupta, director of ad product technology at Edmunds.com Programmatic yield management can easily become a nightmare for publishers. We’ve all tested dozens of demand sources, including ad networks and exchanges, such as DoubleClick […]
“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. It has been said that we usually fail not because of the lack of a solution, but because we set out to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Weather Nears Sale To IBM IBM is near a deal to acquire digital and data assets of The Weather Company, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. “IBM is particularly interested in Weather Co.’s forecasting group, WSI. That division houses technology and […]
Mobile now makes up more than a quarter of Rubicon Project’s revenue, according to the company’s Q3 earnings report Tuesday. Twenty-six percent of revenue comes from mobile, and 74% from desktop. That’s up from 22% last quarter and single digits in years past. President Greg Raifman called that channel growth the “tip of the iceberg.” […]
Twitter’s stock took a tumble after trading closed on Tuesday. The reason, as ever? Stalled monthly active users (MAUs). Total MAU growth in Q3 grew a scant 11% year over year to 320 million, an increase of just 4 million users over last quarter. Wall Street was not impressed. Analysts had been expecting at least […]
Millennials are experts at ignoring what they don’t care about – regardless of ad blockers. “Millennials don’t necessarily follow the rules of marketing,” said Kathryn Minshew, CEO and founder of millennial-centric career and job site The Muse, speaking at eMarketer’s Attention event in New York City on Tuesday. “They don’t look where you want them to […]
Oracle Marketing Cloud kicked off its OpenWorld conference this week with three platform features meant to reach customers across channels, improve email targeting using Datalogix and manage content marketing workflow and scheduling. “We’re making easier for clients to operate in a cross-channel way, and we’re doing it practically, as opposed to theoretically,” said Alexander Hooshmand, […]
Hear that? It’s the sound of political advertisers starting to open their wallets wide. Around $1 billion is expected to be spent on digital media during the 2016 presidential election, according to Borrell Associates, and Pandora is looking to attract some of those dollars with the release of souped-up political targeting segments. The music discovery […]
Turns out the best way to reach the IT department and C-suite executives online is to put a video on Yelp just before their lunch hour. Konica Minolta Business Solutions, an office technology and services company, traditionally reached its B2B audience at conferences, through print advertising in industry magazines or by sponsoring events like the […]
News Corp.’s acquisition of video ad platform Unruly last month is already bearing fruit. Unruly has rolled out a new in-article video format priced on cost-per-completed-view (CPCV). Out of News Corp.’s roster of publications, MarketWatch, The Sun and News.com.au in the UK and Australia will be first to deploy the format. Unruly will also sell the format directly to […]
“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 Haight, an executive at Infinitive. In the digital advertising business, time is always of the essence. We offer real-time auctions and immediate placements and track impressions in microseconds. The […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Techtonics Ad Age’s Kate Kaye covers recently accelerated efforts by telcos to monetize the vast mobile audience data they’re sitting on. Verizon, Sprint, Telefonica and other carriers are licensing those data sets for use on platforms run by SAP, IBM, HP and AirSage, among […]
Want to track across devices? Then you’re going to have to enter the walled gardens of Google and Facebook. But the open ecosystem is working hard – and working together – to catch up. It’s in this spirit that MarketShare launched Monday a “Consortium for Cross-Device Measurement,” which for now includes Drawbridge, Crosswise, Tapad and […]
Analytics on Sina Weibo used to be fairly rudimentary – number of friends, number of followers, basic engagement metrics and the like. “The previous version wasn’t that good,” admitted Bryan Cheng, VP of commercial products and platforms at Weibo, commonly described as a sort of Twitter/Facebook mashup. “The point is to provide more actionable data.” […]
DISH Network is subscribing to the programmatic playbook, enabling greater automation and data application for buyers bidding on addressable TV spots. The satellite pay-TV provider, representing 8 million addressable households nationwide, on Monday debuted a programmatic marketplace and supply-side platform running on IPONWEB. Its initial demand partners are Rocket Fuel, TubeMogul and DataXu. After an […]
General Motors’ Cadillac might be a nostalgic brand, but it’s trying to become more relevant to the modern car buyer. The brand is facing an ongoing sales slump as buyers steer toward the German luxury automakers like BMW and Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz. “We will not out-German the Germans,” said Uwe Ellinghaus, Cadillac’s chief marketing officer who, […]
“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 Alan Chapell, president at Chapell & Associates. The rules around the merger of personally identifiable information (PII) with ad-serving data are perhaps the most oft-referenced privacy rules in ad tech. […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Vitaly Pecherskiy, co-founder and chief operating officer at StackAdapt Today’s online video advertising comes in all shapes and sizes, varying widely from platform to platform. But no matter how it’s packaged, one thing’s for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Only Room For ONE AOL has long positioned itself as the open alternative to Facebook or Google, but that’s changed to some extent since the company’s acquisition by Verizon in May. In trying to explain what made AOL so valuable to the telco (all […]
Mobile apps are way faster than the mobile web, and that’s a serious problem for publishers. “I work really hard to make the mobile web load as quickly as possible, but it still takes about five seconds,” said Free Reyes, the co-founder, editor and COO of movie site GeekTyrant. Fifty-five percent of its traffic comes […]
App developer Guy Tal isn’t interested in cold calls from mobile service providers he isn’t familiar with who want him to test their software development kit (SDK). “I get approached by companies through email and at conferences all the time and, to be honest, I really can’t be bothered,” said Tal, CEO and founder […]
“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 Jennifer Pelino, vice president of omnichannel media at 84.51°. More than ever, marketers have the ability to truly act upon their defined objectives but they are surrounded by big data […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Ari Paparo, CEO at Beeswax. This is the Year of Header Bidding. OK, maybe it’s actually the Year of Ad Blocking, but header bidding is the second most talked-about topic in advertising, especially among […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Laissez Faire The coming tsunami of political spending has the ad tech world salivating, but it isn’t all positive. Ana Radelat writes for Ad Age that both users and buyers could face a “political crowd out” in 2016. With so many candidates (not to […]
