Last week, WPP launched the “marketing foresight” consultancy Gain Theory, housed within GroupM. Gain Theory, which has 200 people and a new office in New York City, rolls together two existing WPP agencies: the London-based marketing effectiveness agency Ohal and the Bangalore-based data analytics firm Meritus. Jason Harrison, previously CIO at Maxus, has been appointed […]
“On TV And Video” is a new column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. Go to any ad tech conference this spring and you’re sure to hear people buzzing about how digital video – specifically mobile video – 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 Denise Colella, CEO at Maxifier. Programmatic ad tech has made the advertising process easier, faster and more efficient, but it cannot drive great advertising strategy alone. Insights gleaned from a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. LiveRail On The Ecosystem In a Friday Q&A with Business Insider, LiveRail’s international chief, Yoan Arnstein, opens up about Facebook’s push into native and the recently filed patent that suggests Facebook is working on a content exchange. “Publishers are really excited about the world […]
On April 21, Google will begin instituting a change to its mobile search algorithm that will take a site’s mobile-friendliness into account when ranking results. Indexed apps will also start showing up among organic search results. The update applies to mobile search only. In somewhat un-Google-like fashion, Google, which normally makes its search algorithm changes […]
“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 Bosko Milekic, co-founder and vice president of technology at AdGear. After scoring space for your client’s ad on a few premium websites, the reports rolling through your demand-side platform show […]
Programmatic ad tech companies aren’t properly estimating their total addressable market, said BMO Capital Markets equity research analyst Dan Salmon. Salmon presented a report Thursday at Programmatic I/O in San Francisco that pointed to two areas where these estimates tend to get thrown off. First, most ad tech vendors don’t factor in take rates – the […]
Marketers are seizing upon advanced attribution models as a way to rationalize their data and divvy up credit. InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), one of the world’s largest hoteliers, is an ideal example of where and how advanced attribution methods are taking hold. David Schmitt, director of interactive marketing operations and analytics for IHG, recently partnered […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Randol, vice president of programmatic sales strategy at Pandora. Five years ago, programmatic buyers were in the driver’s seat, with access to an overabundance of cheap, programmatically accessible inventory. Cookies were all you […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hitting A Mobile Target Rubicon Project and xAd are combining their capabilities to bring scale and precision to programmatic mobile advertising. xAd claims it “verifies location data signals for accuracy and validates the physical location of the signal,” within 80 milliseconds. Dan Hight, xAd’s […]
Spotify added Playlist Targeting to its advertising mix on Thursday, an offering that lets brands access its first-party data to target listeners based on current moods or activities. Playlist Targeting will be available for all brands when it launches out of beta on May 1st. Thursday’s launch adds to Spotify’s video offerings, Video Takeover and […]
“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 Marc Grabowski, CEO at Iris Mobile. Marketers need to reprioritize their remarketing and display reengagement decision stack because the status quo is antiquated. Display remarketing, retargeting and reengagement – terms […]
Quizzes perform. They’ve set traffic records at publications like Slate and The New York Times and given rise to platforms like PlayBuzz and sites like Zimbio. That’s why Refinery29 was eager to partner with quiz platform Hone to create quizzes that have the look and feel of Refinery29 articles along with the incredible engagement that […]
The rumors were true. Google’s skippable and click-to-play YouTube ad format TrueView will be available programmatically, the company announced Thursday at the Programmatic I/O conference in San Francisco. The 5-year-old format, priced on a cost-per-view basis, represents more than 85% of in-stream ads on YouTube, according to Rany Ng, product management director for Google. TrueView […]
The ad tech funding scene is getting a little unfriendly – but that doesn’t seem to be a problem for the video guys. On Thursday, Altitude Digital announced a $30 million cash injection from financial tech firm FastPay, bringing the video SSP’s total funding to $45 million. The Denver-based company has direct relationships with 500 […]
“On TV And Video” is a new column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jonathan Bokor, senior vice president and director of advanced media at MediaVest. Although a commonly agreed upon definition of programmatic TV doesn’t exist yet – making it perhaps the most abused term in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Splashy Programmatic Programmatic is slowly seeping into other digital formats, Ad Age reports. Automation is already a mainstay for display ads, but splashier units like homepage takeovers and pushdowns are attracting ad dollars. Undertone, the ad network behind these alternative units (currently running on […]
The European Commission hit Google with a Statement of Objections on Wednesday, claiming the tech giant prioritizes its shopping comparison service in search results, featuring Google Shopping results more prominently on screens, thereby abusing its dominance. The Commission claims this policy artificially diverts traffic, hinders market competition and violates EU antitrust rules, which ultimately harms […]
Marketing automation, long defined as a B2B lead-gen system, is making its way into B2C territory. One of the most common complaints about standard marketing automation systems is that they’re simply too old or unable to sync data in real-time. But Salesforce.com’s Pardot and Marketo are all updating to compete effectively in a cross-channel media environment. […]
Partner, build or buy? WPP Group has decided on the last in the case of Medialets. The global holding company said Wednesday it will acquire the mobile ad platform as a wholly owned subsidiary. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Clients across the breadth of WPP’s holdings will have the option to use Medialets’ tech. Medialets CEO […]
Banners weren’t cutting it for Vaibhav Gupta, CEO and founder of Bidstalk, a Singapore-based company that provides a white-label mobile and video DSP platform for advertisers and publishers. But the alternative – native – presented its own attendant complications. “Marketers are ready to experiment with newer mobile-focused ad formats, but such traffic is still limited,” Gupta said. […]
While Rubicon Project might be widely thought of as a provider of ad tech for the supply side, CEO Frank Addante hopes to dissuade advertisers from that perception. “Our strategy has been to be the infrastructure that powers automation,” he told AdExchanger. “We want to be the grid that connects everybody.” That grid extends from […]
Most targeting data addresses consumer marketing needs. Finding people who want to buy welding machinery or business software in a market full of data segments about new moms or golfers is tough. It’s a void that B2B marketing company MultiView intends to fill through its expertise serving B2B advertisers. Because many of its clients don’t […]
“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 Justin Petty, vice president of global media and partnerships at dunnhumby. The big data revolution helped to create a new job title: the data scientist. The title, which Harvard Business […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Manny Puentes, chief technology officer at Altitude Digital. Ad fraud is present across all layers of the advertising ecosystem, but there is one behavioral factor that is more likely to predict the presence of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. See No Native When GroupM and Condé Nast announced that the former’s clients would only pay for 100% viewable ads, a lot of people were stunned. But the decision is less radical than it initially appeared. Speaking at Ad Age’s Digital Conference in New […]
Buffering video isn’t a great experience, but what is its impact on ads? Networks still face challenges when placing ads against over-the-top (OTT) content, which is one of the reasons why Adobe Primetime and content delivery network Akamai are partnering on a new tool to link Adobe’s ad-insertion technology directly to Akamai’s server-side plug-in, announced […]
“im really upset that I have not yet gotten any Girl Scout cookies because I can’t find those freaking Girl Scouts anywhere” Tweets like that make it pretty clear that Girl Scout cookies don’t have an awareness problem. Tweets like that also make it clear that cookie lovers often have trouble finding the Thin Mints, […]
Calling all advertisers who want to target based on where people have visited: Foursquare is expanding its location targeting from its 55 million users to anyone with a smartphone. On Tuesday, it launched a programmatic ad platform called Pinpoint, designed to leverage the location data from its partner app ecosystem. While Foursquare previously let advertisers […]
