AOL Platforms moved five video formats out of beta on Thursday, an update to the pre-roll format that dominates video advertising. The interactive video ads will run across AOL properties such as The Huffington Post, TechCrunch and AOL.com, and publisher partner video content, via AOL’s video content service, AOL On. The ads are available programmatically […]
Alliance Data Systems CEO Ed Heffernan isn’t thrilled with data marketing unit Epsilon’s 5% top-line performance, he said during Alliance Data’s Q2 earnings call Thursday. “That isn’t an acceptable long-term number,” he said, adding he thinks its potential is 7% or 8%. Getting to that potential will require double-digit growth in Epsilon’s tech offering – […]
Sometimes it takes a few bad dates before you find the one. So it would seem to be with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who after some less than ideal pairings with sales execs may have found her perfect match in Lisa Utzschneider. Just nine months after her initial hire as head of sales for Yahoo […]
Twitter is looking to capitalize on the when and the where by connecting advertisers with audiences interested in specific events. The rather prosaically dubbed “event targeting” tool, announced Thursday, is separate from Project Lighting, Twitter’s reported upcoming dive into live event curation. But clearly the two are philosophically linked. With event targeting, advertisers will be […]
What leads users to install an app is important, but what happens after the install is critical. That’s one of the main reasons behind attribution company TUNE’s purchase of real-time analytics and messaging startup Artisan Mobile, announced Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Rumors about the buyout were first circulated by VentureBeat on July […]
In-app fraud is turning into another expensive headache for advertisers. According to research released Thursday by fraud detection firm Forensiq, programmatic in-app ad fraud was responsible for roughly $776 million worth of wasted budget in 2014, a number Forensiq projects will crack the $1 billion mark this year. That might seem like a relative drop […]
“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. The global mobile advertising market will hit two significant milestones in 2016, according to eMarketer: It will surpass $100 billion […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Ethan Van Auken, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. Hello! I’m Ethan Van Auken, a freshly minted analyst here at AdExchanger Research. I’m thrilled to be a part of the power-to-the-people, consumer-centric shift in marketing philosophy that’s taking hold […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic Vs. Viewability? A study by ad verifier Meetrics suggests that programmatic buying is exacerbating the viewability problem. The research found Germany and France have higher viewability rates than the UK or US, where programmatic has been adopted more rapidly. In the UK, 45% […]
From 2007 to 2013 ad-block downloads grew steadily to about 50 million users. In 2013, that number more than doubled, and is on pace to do the same this year. The result has been an influx of startups meant to help advertisers address a problem that in two years has gone from low-level annoyance to […]
AwesomenessTV, which was purchased by DreamWorks Animation in 2013 for $33 million, is racing to reach teen audiences and capture more brand dollars in the Gen-Z gold rush. Those born in the mid ’90s-early 2000s, that is. With more than 2 million followers and 1 billion video views per month, AwesomenessTV is generally regarded as […]
Questions remain about Interpublic Group despite the strong second-quarter revenues reported Wednesday. On a call with investors, IPG chief executive Michael Roth spun the rash of media reviews – which some have nicknamed “pitchapalooza” – in a positive light, positioning the wave of media agency jump balls as an opportunity to win business. But any […]
It’s high time for publishers to start transacting on time. That’s the idea behind Parsec, a time-based advertising platform that was released in beta by mobile ad company Sled Mobile on Wednesday. Rather than selling on a cost-per-impression basis, Sled will start to charge by CPS – cost per second. For the moment, Parsec deals will […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Abderrezak Kamel, chief technology officer at Technorati. One of the largest inefficiencies about the current ad tech setup is the industry’s rapid-fire approach toward data pixels. In addition to being offensively inefficient, the approach […]
“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 Rachael Hadaway, vice president of media solutions at 84.51°. The speed at which data and technology has been deployed to enable advertising functions over the last five years is astonishing. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Antitrust Allegations Google’s headaches abroad just intensified. Several rivals of the tech giant, including OpenX and AppNexus, have asked regulators in Brussels to investigate Google’s dominance of the ad tech market. The Financial Times reports that representatives from Google’s competitors have visited the European […]
A year after Yahoo’s disastrous Q2, the company reported year over year revenue growth of 15%, or $159 million, its best in nearly nine years. Yahoo saw Q2 revenue of $1.24 billion. So-called “Mavens” revenue (mobile, video, native and social) grew 60% to $399 million from $249 million during the same time last year. Yahoo CEO Marissa […]
Advertiser agency reviews took center stage during Omnicom’s Q2 call. Chief John Wren claimed the holding company is well positioned to weather the storm of media reviews, which have spurred the reevaluation of nearly $30 billion in media billings, according to estimates from Pivotal Research, because of Omnicom’s investments in its data-management platform, Annalect, and its programmatic […]
During his first US appearance, Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang pledged the commerce giant wanted to help brands with cross-border commerce, not that it planned to expand into the US market. It appears he is making good on this strategy. Alibaba on Monday formed a strategic partnership with consumer packaged goods brand Unilever in order to […]
Kinetic Social is choosing growth over profitability. The social ads company, which announced $17.5 million in venture cash from Multiplier Capital and Bridge Bank on Tuesday, will use the bulk of its funding to ramp up its content management and creative services through an internal outfit the company is calling Creative Studio. The infusion brings […]
The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), which is uniting industry players to root out criminal activity in digital advertising, has unveiled a pilot program to block fraudulent traffic coming from data centers. Google proposed the data center project and is leading the pilot program, which will see member companies sharing intelligence about fraudulent data centers. The companies […]
Anyone interested in a modern-day Greek tragedy should check out the country’s economic situation. But all tragedy ends with catharsis, and it’s why RTB House is upping its investment in the country. The two-and-a-half-year-old demand-side platform (DSP) from Poland is bringing on a business partner Alexandros Rigas. “We’re mainly working with shop owners, which is […]
Cosmetic brand EMMA New York is finding customers to seed its sampling program in the most unlikely of places – a gamified trivia app. Founded in 2012, EMMA, which sells luxury makeup products in the US and China, recently started running campaigns on gameit, which came out of beta in early May. Rather than doling out […]
“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 Eric Bosco, CEO at ChoiceStream. Viewability. It’s a phrase tossed back and forth in sales meetings, delivered solemnly by speakers pacing conference stages and increasingly mandated by brands in their […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. WPP Scouts Social Data In a holding companywide deal, WPP’s GroupM synched up with Networked Insights, a Chicago-based social listening firm that mines more than 560 million social media posts per day. The goal is to tap into data about what consumers share on […]
Open auctions generated 70% of total programmatic revenue in the US last year, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) first-ever Programmatic Revenue Report. Programmatic display advertising totaled $10.1 billion last year, the study found, and made up 20% of 2014’s $49.5 billion total Internet ad revenues. The report, prepared in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers US […]
YouTube has sparked a brand fire, but can it ignite the same flame with content owners? “YouTube invented short-form video and took the category from zero to 4 billion views over a period of five years, but then it flat-lined and nothing happened,” said Hilary Perchard, head of US investments for European broadcaster and pay-TV operator […]
There have been several changes at Medialets in the three months since WPP snapped up the mobile ad platform. It’s got a new chief exec – COO Richy Glassberg took over as CEO from Eric Litman, who remains involved in the company as chairman – and it’s doubling down on its Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditations. Medialets, which received […]
John Nardone, the newly minted CEO of UK-based ad serving platform Flashtalking, feels like he’s come full circle. After spending more than 10 years deep in the ad tech weeds, Nardone, whose resumé includes the chief exec role at [x+1] – which sold to Rocket Fuel in August 2014 for around $230 million – and the co-presidency 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 Julia Amorim, CEO at MediaNet. As with traditional advertising mediums, marketers who invest in digital and programmatic advertising make a distinction between working and non-working dollars, which combined make up […]
