Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Can You Hear Me Now? As Facebook ramps up its video ad efforts, marketers are learning how to develop content for the platform on the fly. But they have only a few seconds of soundless video with which to seize consumer attention. The WSJ […]
Havas unveiled a tool Monday designed to measure inventory quality holistically by assessing fraud, viewability, ad clutter and brand context. The tool, called a meta-quality barometer, provides a quality score for publishers or inventory providers. “We need to help media vendors and tech partners to better guarantee the quality of the inventory,” said Dominique Delport, global […]
Update 6/15: Google says Mohan will stay put. Original story: Re/code’s Kara Swisher just reported that Neal Mohan, for many years the architect of the DoubleClick family of products and top product guy in Google’s sprawling display ad business, is leaving the company to take a similar role with Dropbox. Read it. AdExchanger has reached […]
As more brands introduce attribution technology – or push their agencies to do the same – basic models and applications on the vendor side are expanding. Initial players in the space, such as Adometry and Visual IQ, still focus on enterprise clients. Meanwhile, a newer breed of attribution tech is aiming more for a white-label […]
A year before the Media Rating Council (MRC) released its baseline definition of video ad viewability (at least 50% in-view for two consecutive seconds), a group of video vendors and agencies had formed their own initiative dubbed Open Video View (OpenVV). Founding consortium member TubeMogul, along with Innovid, BrightRoll, SpotXchange and LiveRail, developed standards in […]
When “Serial” broke the record for the fastest series to reach 5 million downloads, it created new interest in podcasts as an advertising forum. Though podcasting still has measurement hurdles to clear, it’s attracting more attention from larger advertisers. “Early on with any kind of new advertising medium, there are going to be institutional advertisers […]
Agencies and publishers alike have jumped into private marketplaces. Rocket Fuel, known for its performance-driven campaigns in open marketplaces, has lately begun pitching an offering of its own. For the past six months, it’s partnered with agencies and publishers to enable performance-driven campaigns in premium environments, building on technology put in place by [x+1], which […]
Outbrain will allow publishers to sell native in-feed placements via their direct sales channels. In beta testing with four publishers, publishers can offer the units on a CPC or CPM basis. “Over the last six months, we’ve had more and more publishers dipping their toe into native ads,” said Matt Crenshaw, Outbrain’s VP of product […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Walt Horstman, president at AudienceXpress. Based on the number of times it was cited in recent upfront presentations, people’s perception of programmatic TV appears to have morphed from wry skepticism among industry insiders 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 Paul Rostkowski, president at Varick Media Management. Viewability has become a major issue in online advertising, having come to represent advertisers’ fear and lack of trust in digital. Brands want […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon’s Bot Involvement Some fraudsters are using Amazon’s cloud to create and drive bot traffic across the web. As Jack Marshall reports for The Wall Street Journal, Fraudlogix uncovered the malware by measuring 2 billion ad impressions delivered to 64 million IP addresses in […]
Earlier this week, Mary Engle, the Federal Trade Commission’s associate director of advertising practices, suggested to attendees at AdExchanger’s Clean Ads I/O conference that publishers could be held responsible for native ads deemed misleading that run on their properties. Read the original story by AdExchanger’s Sarah Sluis. Readers interested in her comments can now check out the above […]
Comcast’s plan to acquire Visible World, announced late Thursday, will deepen its addressable TV prowess, but the real target might be Visible World subsidiary AudienceXpress and its burgeoning buy-side dealings. Comcast’s inheritance of AudienceXpress, which provides provides digital workflow automation for the buying and selling of linear TV ads, could reduce the media giant’s reliance […]
Mediahub, the planning and buying arm of Mullen Lowe, has partnered with cross-device platform Tapad to help identify viewers cross-screen. In doing so, it hopes to help brands – as well as “tune-in” clients such as entertainment and media broadcasters PBS, VH1 and National Geographic Channel – drive audience viewership across all devices. “Given the […]
Most publisher sites are not oversubscribed – not by a long shot, said Amiad Solomon, chairman and co-founder of Komoona, a company that bills itself as an “RTB router.” Solomon put it bluntly: “Publishers are bleeding.” A lot of that has to do with the CPMs most publishers are able to attract for their non-direct programmatically […]
“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 Josh Speyer, CEO at AerServ. Israeli startup Shine recently made waves in the mobile ad tech world with its ad blocking platform, which enables users to remove ads from the […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Joanna O’Connell, Lead Analyst, AdExchanger Research. I was in a meeting with an ad tech company recently, listening to its executives pitch the company’s “multichannel” capabilities. Fair enough, I thought, their platform can execute buys […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by James Curran, CEO and founder at Staq. When it comes to discrepancies in digital advertising, publishers bear the brunt of the cost. It’s a fact that is so ingrained in the standard processes used […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yet Another Telco Merger Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A telco and broadcaster are looking to hook up. This time, it’s T-Mobile hoping to tie the knot with Dish Network. Federal regulators can attend that wedding after they’re done ministering the […]
Datasift’s hookup with Facebook is gaining steam. It’s a good thing for the social media data provider, which got cut off from Twitter’s firehose in April, one month after announcing its non-exclusive Facebook partnership. On Wednesday, social analytics platform Pulsar became one of the first Datasift clients to benefit from this connection – it will […]
When Reddit revealed it would produce original video, code for “more premium content,” it was right in line with its pitch to brand advertisers – as well as more tools for publishers – through features like embeddable comment threads. That said, the last thing it will compromise is a solid user experience in its community […]
Travel is a tricky category. It’s generally one of the top things people want to spend their money on – but it’s also not something most people get to do on a regular basis, said Sam Shank, CEO and co-founder of last-minute hotel booking app HotelTonight. “In theory, people can use an app like GrubHub to […]
When WPP’s programmatic arm debuted Xaxis Audio last month, it did so with the intention that it would not be used in isolation. “For us it’s another arrow in the quiver when you’re doing programmatic media planning,” said Nicolas Bidon, managing director of Xaxis in the UK. “This is a new way to reach audiences […]
“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 Michele Appello, director of business solutions at Improve Digital. What makes an ad viewable? Your answer may differ based on whether you work on the buy side or the sell […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DSP Wave Forrester ranks DataXu, AppNexus, AOL, Turn and The Trade Desk among the industry’s top demand-side platforms in its latest Wave report. Google is relegated to a second tier of “competitive” options (along with MediaMath and Audience Science), penalized for lagging on its […]
The fox can’t guard the chicken run. GroupM is not down with Facebook and Google’s reticence around third-party verification tags. “You can’t measure yourself,” said John Montgomery, COO of GroupM Interaction, North America, speaking at AdExchanger’s Clean Ads I/O conference in New York City on Wednesday. The fact that Facebook is working closely with the […]
In 2012, Target had to swallow a few hard truths. Its digital platform relied solely on third-party code and it had little to no engineering talent in-house. And it was playing catch-up with mobile. “My focus has been on moving toward an agile product model where we rewrote our code [over three years] for about […]
According to a study conducted by the ANA and White Ops in December, 83-89% of agencies and media vendors see fighting ad fraud as a requirement, but only 26-28% actually have the tools in place to accomplish those goals. The latter may look like a discouraging figure, but Heineken senior media director Ron Amram sees […]
Publishers taking the role of an ad agency by creating content for marketers should make sure they’re not creating misleading native advertising: The Federal Trade Commission will hold publishers responsible. “For us, the concern is whether consumers recognize what they’re seeing is advertising or not,” Mary Engle, the FTC’s associate director of advertising practices, told […]
