If you’re looking for a last-minute hotel in Times Square, who ya gonna call? Google hopes you’ll simply do a quick search. The company has updated its Google Hotel Ads format, an AdWords product first launched in 2011, to include greater searchability on price and location, user reviews, mobile compatibility and high-res images. Hospitality giant […]
Is traditional advertising dying in the US? Not for midsize advertisers, according to research from Kantar Media. However, while smaller and midsize advertisers are spending more on “traditional linear media,” the largest US advertisers are redirecting those budgets to digital forums. “The growth of the ad market is on two different tracks right now,” said […]
Gravity4, the ad tech firm started by Gurbaksh Chahal in the wake of his firing from RadiumOne, has acquired retargeter Triggit in a probable fire sale. Triggit’s three founders, including its red-shirted CEO Zach Coelius, are leaving the company in the wake of the sale. Its management received multiple offers, and Gravity4 was both the highest bid […]
“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 Finn Faldi, CEO at Trueffect. The Internet of Things (IoT) exploded onto the tech scene last year and scored major attention at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. The IoT market is huge, […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Grant Brown, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Rant. March Madness has officially begun. For brand marketers, the NCAA men’s Division I basketball championship tournament is a billion-dollar lollapalooza. Behind the NFL playoffs, March […]
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Is This Town Big Enough For Two? The face-off between Israeli-bred competitors Outbrain and Taboola is punishing margins, leading some to wonder if the firms should hurry up and merge already. But the contenders don’t see it that way, and analysts agree. “Competition is ruthless, and everything between Outbrain and Taboola is aggressive,” Eric Yohay, […]
IBT Media – publisher of International Business Times, Latin Times and Newsweek – plans to grow programmatic revenue from 30% to 60% by the end of this year. It first started selling programmatically last May and plans to fuel growth by adding programmatic direct to the mix through Rubicon and Sonobi. Buyers can purchase through […]
Video and cross-screen private marketplaces (PMPs) are all the rage, though their strategic uses differ from publisher to publisher. AOL’s newest PMP partner, Rev4 Media, wanted to take advantage of the silver screen and the associated second-screen opportunity for mobile app developers. It’s in the process of building a PMP using AOL’s technology. Rev4 Media […]
“Premium” can be a slippery term, but Opera Mediaworks defines it thusly: the ads publishers actually want to appear near their content and the content advertisers actually want to show up near their ads. That need was the instigator behind Opera Select, the mobile ad company’s new private mobile marketplace offering, unveiled Thursday. Publishers that contract […]
Wells Fargo had a problem. Customers weren’t walking into retail banks, making them less likely to apply for mortgages or credit cards. The solution was to stitch together multiple tech platforms to provide customers with offers where they actually were: on their mobile devices. One of those technologies was Google’s Waze platform, a mapping app that […]
“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 Tom Triscari, CEO at Labmatik. The chief marketing officer (CMO) is thriving. Pronounced dead by Forbes back in 2012, CMO tenure has doubled over the last 10 years from a revolving […]
“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 Corey Preston, senior product specialist from Adcade. Net neutrality rules will give rise to a number of changes in the digital advertising landscape, including new, exciting opportunities for marketers to enrich […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Tech: It’s Everywhere Visa Wants To Be Speaking to Ad Age, Visa CMO Antonio Lucio said the company fancies itself a tech firm, and it plans to back that fact by hiring 500 engineers in Austin, Texas, this year. Visa spends 46% of its […]
There are a number of reasons programmatic buying has yet to permeate the digital audio space, a growing area that would seem ripe for automation. Among those reasons is a lack of standards. The IAB’s first stab at standardization was the Digital Audio Ad Serving Template (DAAST), which surfaced some six months ago. But according […]
AppNexus has acquired Yieldex, whose platform provides publishers with analytics, forecasting and sales management tools. The deal might help strengthen AppNexus’ relationships with media sellers at a time when direct deals between marketers and publishers represent a growing portion of the programmatic ad pie. The Wall Street Journal placed the deal’s value at approximately $100 million in cash and […]
When it comes to ad spend, Cidewalk is more interested in Main Street than multinational brands. The app-based service, which was spun off Wednesday into a separate business unit from its parent company, mobile ad network Chitika, allows SMBs to create and target local ads across roughly 10,000 well-known apps, including MLB, The Weather Channel, […]
“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 JB Brokaw, president, North America, at Sociomantic Labs from dunnhumby. Customer expectations have fundamentally changed. Today’s consumers expect to be understood and spoken to as individuals. They want relevant content […]
It’s been 100 days – give or take a day – since Yahoo bought the video demand-side platform and exchange BrightRoll for $640 million, and BrightRoll CEO Tod Sacerdoti has been busy. BrightRoll on Wednesday revealed it’s baking Yahoo audience demographic and behavioral data into BrightRoll’s DSP, which the company claims will enrich ad-targeting capabilities […]
PlayBuzz, the user-generated quiz and article site, revealed Wednesday it had raised $16 million in Series B financing, bringing its total funding to almost $20 million. It’s the latest win for the Israeli publisher, which surpassed The Huffington Post three months ago to become the most-shared publisher on Facebook. Investors liked PlayBuzz’s growth potential and […]
The Guardian, CNN International, the Financial Times and Reuters have banded together to sell inventory programmatically through a program called Pangaea. The Economist also will sell inventory through Pangaea but is not a founding publisher. Pangaea gives publishers something they don’t have on their own; scale. It marries that scale with the member publishers’ first-party […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Lorne Brown, CEO at Operative. New viewability measurement capabilities and the discovery of rampant fraud in ad exchanges has led advertisers to question whether any online advertising is actually seen by viewers. As a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Is iAd Apple’s Sleeping Giant? With headlines percolating about Apple’s plans for a subscription TV streaming service, Business Insider’s global advertising editor, Lara O’Reilly, says the offering could revive Apple’s dormant ad business, iAd. “[iAd] may just make up an estimated 0.3% of Apple’s […]
Competition in the various app stores is fierce, and app publishers like Indonesia-based gaming developer Alegrium are feeling the burn. Contending for traffic volume with big developers and brand advertisers, tracking the quality of users by channel and coping with ever-increasing cost-per-install (CPI) rates are what keep Alegrium CMO and GREE vet Jennifer Lin up […]
As it nears its fifth birthday, Nielsen Catalina Solutions (NCS), a joint venture between Nielsen and Catalina, is making moves to marry shopper marketing data with mobile ads to determine the sales impact. “Mobile is a huge area for us and we expect it to be 50% plus of digital media buys in the future, […]
“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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. There is little doubt that Facebook is the leader in this new era of people-based marketing. It was the first mainstream product on […]
As SapientNitro’s VP of technology, Scott Petry oversees the Publicis-owned digital agency’s tech solutions for clients like Coca-Cola and The Home Depot. The agency, since its acquisition, sits as one of the key digital properties under the Publicis.Sapient umbrella (the others are Razorfish Global and DigitasLBi) – and it’s known for its technology build-outs. Clients […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publicis Undesked The decentralization of Publicis Group’s programmatic buying activities away from its VivaKi trading desk hub to embed within operating agencies is a natural progression, SMG’s programmatic SVP, Mac Delaney, tells Beet.TV. “The operators … within AOD [will be] there to help inform […]
Advanced audience targeting is taking a seat at this year’s TV upfronts. Sellers are lining their arsenals with new products promising cross-platform reach, partially out of necessity. Viewer attention is fragmenting and advertisers want assurance that if they commit an upfront buy, there will be multiple points of execution. It’s unclear the extent to which buyers […]
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 […]
