“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 Lung Huang, vice president of global partnerships at 84.51°. Little known fact: The Dalai Lama is technically not chosen, but rather found. This idea of “being found rather than chosen” […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. All Alibaba’s Data Alibaba, known mostly for ecommerce, actually makes most of its revenue from advertising. Ad Age reports that Alibaba’s online marketing arm, Alimama, “has teamed up with four first-wave agency partners: WPP’s OgilvyOne China, Omnicom Group’s Nim Digital, Dentsu Inc.’s &C and […]
Spotify is preparing to play in a very big pool – the world of original video content. The digital audio firm revealed the development during a New York City partner event it hosted Wednesday. Spotify plans to work with producers and artists to offer its exclusive original content. It will also host non-exclusive content from […]
Magnetic and MyBuys announced Wednesday they will merge, creating a company with a combined gross revenue of $100 million spanning ad tech and marketing tech. With their dual capabilities, they will be able to leverage first-party and third-party data to inform their 700 clients’ advertising spend and marketing efforts throughout the customer life cycle. At the same […]
The rise of private marketplaces has transferred power to publishers, who can communicate information about fill rates, win rates and floor prices to buyers. “What makes programmatic successful is having insights to communicate to the trading desk,” said Sean Holzman, chief digital revenue officer for Bonnier, publisher of Popular Science, Saveur and Field & Stream, […]
Centro, which sells media management software, revealed $30 million in Series B funding on Wednesday. Neuberger Berman Private Equity Funds is the sole investor in this round, joining FTV Capital, which led a $22.5 million Series A round in 2010. Founded in 2001, Centro initially focused on automating the guaranteed aspects of digital advertising, such […]
ComScore has added mobile ad network rankings to Media Metrix. The new reporting will be called Mobile Metrix and become part of the overall Media Metrix product suite. Until now, Media Metrix was focused on the desktop side of things, providing info on website audiences, including consumption habits, demographics and cross-site visitation for more than […]
Adam Cahill is taking his 20 years of digital media experience – during which he has worked at Dentsu Aegis Network agency Carat and, most recently, as chief digital officer at IPG’s Hill Holliday – and launching his own programmatic firm: Anagram. The agency, which opened its doors Wednesday and will work exclusively with MediaMath’s […]
Collective CEO Joe Apprendi would rather not describe his company’s shift toward self-service as a “pivot.” “We use the word ‘diversification,’” Apprendi told AdExchanger. “We realize that there are clients out there who want to engage with our capabilities in a variety of different ways.” Historically, Collective didn’t offer that variety. Like a lot of […]
What’s the future of content distribution and monetization, particularly as major players like Facebook, Google and Verizon make strategic moves to capture more share in mobile video? This was the dominant theme at JW Player’s JW INSIGHTS conference Tuesday in New York, where a group of execs from Google and AOL’s likely owner, Verizon, gathered for the […]
Female-oriented publisher SheKnows hired as its first CTO Carl Hixson, who’s built digital platforms for Getty Images, HBO, Pearson and McGraw-Hill. He’ll turn his experience toward Momentum, SheKnows’ data-driven content management system designed to help advertisers “create content [and] manage ad units around content in a single, seamless ecosystem,” Hixson said. Momentum is expected 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 Lux Narayan, co-founder and CEO at Unmetric. It’s sad to see the “Mad Men” series come to an end. The show struck a nostalgic chord for me and others with […]
CPGs And Retailers FTW Retailers are slated to spend more than other sectors on digital advertising this year, shelling out $12.9 billion, or 20% of a $58.6 billion pie, according to eMarketer. Financial, telecom and CPG will take third, fourth and fifth place, respectively. Read more. CPGs are big adopters of programmatic, with 63% of […]
The year of mobile, the decade of mobile, the year of data – none of the monikers matter if the right measurement isn’t in place. “Clients are still looking for ROI and to connect the dots,” said Jeff Hinz, managing partner and US digital director at Mediacom, speaking at the Mobile Media Summit on Monday during […]
Pinterest revealed Tuesday that marketers this summer will be able to target audiences, buy inventory on a cost-per-engagement (CPE) or cost-per-action (CPA) basis and run video units called Cinematic Pins. “These solutions map to any marketing objective,” said Tim Kendall, Pinterest’s GM of monetization. He described Pinterest’s ad solution set as “comprehensive” – a trait […]
ISpot.tv, which helps advertisers gauge the cross-channel impact of their national TV ads, revealed Tuesday it raised $21.9 million in Series B funding from Insight Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $27.5 million. The Seattle-based company, which has more than 60 employees and 150 customers including P&G and Holiday Inn, will invest this latest […]
BidSwitch on Monday announced a feature for its API that will incorporate the OpenRTB2.3 standards, opening up new sources of native supply and, according to BidSwitch GM Bob Walczak, “[enabling] a much higher degree of innovation and efficiency in the native market.” BidSwitch’s value proposition is its ability to integrate once and then connect with […]
We’re breaking with Marketer’s Note tradition this week to bring you our collective thoughts on the biggest news of last week. While the press release and countless interviews focused on a “mobile-first” strategy, we think there’s far more to the story than a simple pairing of AOL’s digital advertising platforms – arguably No. 3 in […]
“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 Ali Bohra, director of product marketing at Adobe. Are you reaching your audience where they are most often? It’s an increasingly important question for marketers today. The rapid proliferation 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 Bob Gilbreath, co-founder and president of Ahalogy. Back in the golden years of advertising, the creative agency was king and media folks were second-class citizens. A typical agency meeting was spent debating […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Inside The Google Batcave Ad Age reporter Alex Kantrowitz details the inner workings of Google’s anti-fraud team. The 100-person unit is led by Douglas de Jager, previously the founder of anti-fraud firm Spider.io, which Google bought last year. Until now, little was known about […]
The salespeople at Business Insider had a problem. Some potential advertisers wanted to buy directly with the publication, but due to minimums implemented in mid-2014, their budgets were below the minimum spend and CPM required for a direct buy. That would make them candidates for programmatic sales, but these clients didn’t have DSPs. Some were […]
Rakuten Marketing is gunning to be a full-funnel ad stack. Acquisition has been front and center in the Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten’s strategy, with investments in search, affiliate, display, mobile and attribution on the marketing services side. But there are different integration requirements since some of Rakuten’s acquired assets are consumer-facing while others are not. “It’s complex […]
As consumers increase time spent on social channels, the data on those platforms is becoming increasingly valuable to advertisers. In its 2014 year-end report, Pew Research found that 52% of adults in the US use two or more social media sites, up from 42% in 2013. And though user growth on the leading social platform, […]
Most commerce players are going omnichannel. Myntra is going only channel. The Indian fashion e-tailer became an “app-tailer” on May 15, when it officially pulled the plug on its desktop site. Myntra, which is owned by Flipkart – India’s answer to Amazon – had already shut down its m.dot site in February. For Myntra’s customers, browser-based […]
Taboola is paving the way to enter the Chinese market. On Monday, it revealed it had received a multimillion-dollar investment from Chinese search provider Baidu. Baidu does not name the level of investment unless SEC rules require it. “The goal behind the investment is to work together on launching native advertising in China,” Taboola CEO […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Lorne Brown, CEO at Operative. How can we reach the people we’d ordinarily try to reach on their televisions, now that they no longer look at their televisions? Consumers aren’t just watching cat videos […]
“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 Bob Buch, CEO at SocialWire. Facebook launched a remarketing product in February called Dynamic Product Ads (DPAs), which essentially represents the beginning of the end for the hundreds of ad […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mobile Ads No More? And you thought viewability was the big mobile issue of the day? If the Financial Times’ anonymous European telco source is correct, mobile operators might take the nuclear option and detonate all mobile ads from their networks. (In-feed ads from […]
It’s time for the next can of worms: mobile viewability. And the mobile ad vendors are already on the scene. Less than two weeks after the Media Rating Council (MRC) issued its long-awaited interim guidance on mobile viewability measurement, three separate mobile media sellers – Millennial Media, 33Across and JUICE Mobile – have announced their intention to offer a 100% […]
