Private equity firm Vector Capital has acquired Triton Digital, a digital audio firm whose proprietary tech connects audio supply to advertising demand. The deal closed Monday morning for an undisclosed sum. Triton Digital has been building out its nascent programmatic business through SaaS solutions designed for publishers and advertisers since 2006. The company has a […]
“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 Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. A recent analyst report made an astute observation that all marketers should consider: It’s not about “digital marketing” anymore – it’s […]
The average tech stack runneth over, but that’s not exactly a good thing. According to joint IAB/Winterberry Group research, more than half of marketers use between five and 10 point solutions and roughly 27% of marketers use between 11 and 20 different technologies to manage their programmatic campaigns. One industry insider quoted in the report, a […]
Podcast consumption swelled from 29 million monthly users in 2014 to 46 million in 2015, according to findings from an ongoing study by Edison Research and Triton Digital. The popular podcast “WTF? With Marc Maron” is happily riding the wave. “We’re benefiting from the shifting media landscape,” said the podcast’s producer, Brendan McDonald. “There is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Powering The Transaction Facebook has acquired, and shut down, personalized commerce search app TheFind. TheFind combines search data with longitudinal purchase data to refine product suggestions. Facebook needs smarter targeting for retail marketers. Could this be the bridge? TechCruch has more. “Facebook’s resources and […]
In 2008, NBC Universal released a system called TAMI – the Total Audience Measurement Index. Despite the promise of its name, it did not revolutionize TV measurement. In fact, it wasn’t even a system. “It was a spreadsheet that someone updated manually,” recalled Julie DeTraglia, the network’s SVP of digital research, during a Thursday panel […]
Five of the biggest media players in France banded together to create a joint venture, La Place Media, to grow their programmatic revenues through a data-sharing arrangement. Between its first and second year in operation, the cooperative’s programmatic CPMs jumped 70%. It’s a trend that will continue as La Place Media closes out its third […]
Depending on whom you survey, linear TV viewership is either flat or rapidly declining. Thus, increasing digital’s revenue share is a priority for networks like CBS. In 2010, CBS started doing audience profile studies and, this year, found that 30% of CBS.com users didn’t subscribe to a cable package, according to Domenic DiMeglio, VP of distribution […]
“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 Jonathan Nelson, CEO at Omnicom Digital. Have machines become better than humans at making decisions in marketing? As the amount of technology and data goes up, does the importance of […]
“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 Lauren Moores, vice president of analytics at Dstillery. After spending three days wandering the halls of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I left with a few major takeaways. First, although […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Peter Spande, chief revenue officer at Business Insider. Read any trade publication and you’ll see an onslaught of coverage about how millennials engage with brands. According to the steady drumbeat of coverage, this generation […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Nestlé Speaks On stage at the IAB’s conference in London, Gawain Owen, digital lead at Nestlé, offered brands some advice. “Ask your agency for log-ins,” he said. “I can log-in at any time and see how my campaigns are performing because [the agencies] have […]
Jet.com, the stealth upstart from Marc Lore, the man who sold vertical ecommerce company Quidsi – parent of Diapers.com, Soap.com and BeautyBar.com – to Amazon for $545 million in 2010, wants to remake the commerce model. Primed to launch in late spring, Jet.com seeks to democratize the Amazon marketplace model. Buyers who subscribe for $49.99 […]
The Association of National Advertisers has distanced itself from comments former Mediacom CEO Jon Mandel made onstage at its Media Leadership conference last week. In his presentation, Mandel alleged that the practice of rebates or “kickbacks” demanded by agencies from media suppliers and tech partners – common overseas – has in recent years become widespread […]
Razorfish Global is updating its media strategy. Or, more specifically, it’s complementing its expertise in customer experience design and commerce with media. “Historically, the organization has gone after standalone media RFPs,” said Razorfish Global Chief Strategy Officer Scott Sorokin. “We can’t win against a media company. We have to pivot around technology and experiences – […]
Boston-based DataXu is getting into the cross-device game with a management, targeting and measurement capability of its own. The demand-side platform’s cross-device tool, dubbed OneView, exits beta next month. DataXu’s take on cross-device simplification hinges on compliance management. The tool offers check-box controls for marketers to tailor which data sources are used for targeting and […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Melissa Parrish, Executive Director, AdExchanger Research. Last week it was reported that Facebook is building out an ad exchange platform, powered by Live Rail. If true, it’s an indication that the social networking giant continues 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 Oisin Lunny, senior market development manager at OpenMarket. Our love affair with mobile devices shows no signs of diminishing. There are already more mobile devices on the planet than human […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. PubMatic IPO In Doubt? Plenty can change in a year, which is how long it’s been since PubMatic started dreaming about a $1 billion IPO. Today? “There is no plan for IPO,” CEO Rajeev Goel tells Indian newspaper Business Standard. “We would like to […]
The only certainties in life are death, taxes and multiple definitions of “viewability.” The Media Rating Council (MRC) defines a video ad as viewable if half of that ad is in-view for a minimum of two consecutive seconds, but others, like media agency GroupM, are demanding all pixels be in-view with the sound on for at least 50% […]
As programmatic buying continues its steady forward march, many are wondering when and how data-driven media buying and creativity can be reconciled. According to Nandini Nayak, managing director of design strategy and innovation at Fjord, the analytics and creative worlds are gradually coming together. Purchased by Accenture Interactive in 2013, Fjord has 500 designers and current […]
Major League Gaming is changing up its strategy, focusing on programmatic sales over direct. “We have consciously made the decision to focus 90% of our energies on programmatic for the year of 2015,” explained Don Reilley, EVP of MLG. “We can focus heavily on the programmatic side of things, and then layer two, three, four […]
“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 Scott Bedford, CEO at MultiView. Are you more likely to die of thirst in the middle of the ocean or a desert? It’s a trick question, because while the ocean […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Twitter’s Live Video Bet Twitter dropped a little less than $100 million for Periscope, a startup that’s been developing a live-video streaming app, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal was first reported by Business Insider and was quietly finalized a month ago. […]
It’s been 125 years since the death of famed Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, and Holland is going all out. With a yearlong commemoration of the post-impressionist painter just underway, the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions (NBTC) hopes to drive awareness for Amsterdam, but particularly the less-frequented destinations in Holland like Gelderland and Brabant. […]
Teradata wants to help fill in some holes. The company released a data integration solution called Teradata Digital Marketing Center on Tuesday, designed to plug the gaps between online behavior and offline customer action, and to connect marketers with individuals rather than broader audiences. Wes Moore, Teradata’s VP of marketing, said Digital Marketing Center also […]
To power native placements, Condé Nast’s Food Innovation Group selected TripleLift as a technology provider. It will sell native placements directly and through private native marketplaces. In-feed article previews for branded content, such as a recipe, will appear across the Food Innovation Group’s sites. The group reaches 50 million uniques a month across its portfolio, […]
All of La Quinta Inns & Suites’ 2015 insertion orders specify that it will pay for human traffic only. “As a brand that strives to do the most with our resources, and as a challenger brand in the space, it matters when our media dollars aren’t going to real people,” La Quinta director of media […]
So-called marketing clouds have commonly focused on enabling outreach to known customers, which is why they lean heavily on email marketing, CRM and campaign management – while paid media remains an afterthought. But Adobe, whose annual summit began Monday in Salt Lake City, is diving into ad tech with an upgrade to its Media Optimizer […]
