John Montgomery, COO of GroupM Interaction, North America will appear at AdExchanger’s upcoming CleanAds I/O conference on June 3, an event addressing inventory quality and supply chain issues in the digital advertising ecosystem. GroupM’s stance on viewability is clear: “If an ad can’t be seen, then we can’t expect clients to pay for it,” said […]
Plenti, the new American Express-operated loyalty coalition, seeks to streamline the rewards program. The premise is that consumers can gather loyalty points for up to two years from a variety of partner brands, including ExxonMobil, Hulu, Macy’s, Rite Aid, Direct Energy, Nationwide, AT&T and Amex, and can redeem those points across participating Plenti merchants. “The […]
One year after the acquisitions of Adometry and Convertro by Google and AOL respectively, new breeds of attribution vendors are surfacing from periods of R&D hibernation, and they’re aiming to capitalize on what they and other observers see as openings in the market. The optimism comes from the belief that advertisers won’t pay for attribution […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in programmatic TV and video. Today’s column is written by Bob Rupczynski, vice president of media, data and CRM at Kraft Foods Group. You can’t fool me. I see you there. You’re reading this on your phone in the middle of another NewFront (or […]
“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. Earlier this week, I participated in the Five Boro Bike Tour, a 40-mile trek through the streets of New York. We rode […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. No. 3 In Ad Tech? AOL is working hard to differentiate itself from other ad tech providers. On Friday, Business Insider cited a recent remark by CEO Tim Armstrong that “AOL believes it will soon become a credible No. 3” behind Google and Facebook. […]
Just over half (54%) of all video ads across the web are viewable compared to YouTube’s 91% average viewability rate, according to a Google report released Friday. It’s not surprising Google is releasing video viewability figures, given its investment in TrueView formats for brand advertisers, which are sold on a cost-per-view basis. Google claims it […]
Publishers like PureWow seeking audience development have a few usual suspects to drive traffic to sites. There’s Outbrain and Taboola, social amplification and syndication or traffic exchange. And now, to help make social amplification more efficient, they have KeyWee. “At the most basic level, they find the right audience for the content,” said Anna Lee, […]
AOL reported revenue growth of 7% YoY in the first quarter, for a total of $625 million. Global advertising revenue, which includes AOL’s own properties, search and third-party platforms, climbed 12% YoY to $483 million. Read the earnings release. CEO Tim Armstrong said the company continues to make updates “placing AOL at the center of […]
App store discovery isn’t like finding a needle in a haystack. It’s more like finding a needle in a mountain of other needles. “It’s a challenge that’s always existed in the mobile space,” said Dave Bell, founder of Gummicube, a mobile analytics company that specializes in app store optimization (ASO). “It’s frustrating for developers, obviously, […]
“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 Tim Abraham, director of data platforms at Adbrain. Digital channels have provided a great return in dollar value and consumer insights. The emergence of cross-device solutions measurement has become a […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Will Doherty, VP of business development at Index Exchange. In order to effectively leverage viewability in a programmatic marketplace, buyers and sellers need to start thinking of it as a currency and not as […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Local Behemoth On The Block Yelp is exploring a sale, according to The Wall Street Journal’s sources. Needham & Co. analyst Kerry Rice tells Bloomberg possible buyers include Google, Yahoo, Facebook or travel firms like Priceline and TripAdvisor. “They’ve done a great job building […]
While it has taken video ad network YuMe quite some time to make programmatic progress, the company revealed during its first-quarter earnings call it would launch a demand-side platform sometime in the second quarter. Wall Street analysts wondered whether YuMe’s DSP, called YuMe For Advertisers (YFA), would include a bidder or simply integrate with external […]
When Rocket Fuel’s interim CEO, Monte Zweben, took to the company’s first-quarter earnings call Wednesday, he was representing a significantly different company from the one that delivered lousy news to Wall Street three short months ago. “We are a new Rocket Fuel,” Zweben said. That newness manifests not only in the company’s cost controls, including […]
Tremor Video’s growth continued in Q1 2015 as the company netted $40.6 million in revenue (16.4% YoY growth), above analysts’ predictions. Read the release. Eighteen percent of that revenue came from programmatic, which has been growing at a steady pace. Last quarter, programmatic was 14% of Tremor’s revenue; it was 4% this time last year. […]
Viewability and fraud will be addressed at AdExchanger’s upcoming CleanAds I/O conference on June 3, along with a host of other inventory quality and supply chain issues in the digital advertising ecosystem. Screening out fraudulent and non-viewable ads has never been easier or more popular. Last summer AdExchanger reported that the number of marketers running viewability […]
“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. If I’ve learned one thing from my 20 years in marketing, it’s this: When brands market to people, they expect to be able […]
Digital advertising revenue at Time Inc. rose 20% to $73 million in the first quarter. But overall advertising revenue declined 9% to $353 million, and total revenue declined 9% to $680 million. Those declines were still slightly better than Wall Street’s expectations. “We’re in a turnaround, and turnarounds are bumpy,” said CEO and Chairman Joe Ripp. […]
Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has replaced CEO Jonathan Lu, effective May 10. Announced Thursday during its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call, the company revealed incumbent COO Daniel Zhang would be promoted to CEO while Lu will continue on as vice chairman of the board of directors. Zhang, an eight-year Alibaba vet and original founding member, has held […]
The NewFront presentations, which started April 27 and continued through Thursday, showcased the convergence between digital video and linear TV. As the latter embraces targeting, digital video chases after “premium” in the eyes of buyers. The deal that epitomizes this merging isn’t yet official: Vice Media’s plans to take over a channel of one of […]
IBM has big digital marketing dreams. Last spring, those dreams warranted a $100 million commitment to future marketing investments. Wednesday saw the latest development, when IBM hooked its own marketing solutions into various Facebook ad products including the CRM matching program Custom Audiences to enable things like lookalike modeling. IBM also is expanding its Digital […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Catherine Oddenino, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. In recent conversations with marketers and technology providers for an upcoming AdExchanger Research report on content marketing, several have emphasized the ability to quickly respond to cultural events as a top […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Reddit’s O&O The Verge reports that Reddit is dipping into original video, where it can “control the conversation around the marketing and also tap into more lucrative advertising formats.” The videos will initially focus on the company’s AMA brand, the best loved of Reddit’s […]
Google on Wednesday released research conducted in partnership with teams at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and other institutions that details the harm ad injections from toolbars create for consumers, publishers and advertisers. Google and its university partners identified millions of cases of ad injections by tracking the pipeline of users who have foreign software […]
Facebook’s mobile ad network seems to be a hit with developers. In the six months since it rolled out Audience Network globally, the number of apps participating has grown by a factor of five, a big jump even from Q4 2014 when the number had grown 3x. Basically, app developers are flocking to Facebook. 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 Kathy Leake, CEO at Qualia. As cross-screen marketing continues to evolve, the industry’s approach to the underlying data science also will mature. The amount of time consumers spend per platform […]
The joke is that France’s socialist roots made it easy for publisher coalitions to spring up in the country. La Place Media led the way, three years ago, followed by Audience Square in December 2012. But now the idea of cooperation among former competitors is spreading. In recent weeks, AdExchanger profiled coalitions in the UK […]
An attention economy solves for viewability. That’s the thinking at real-time analytics firm Chartbeat, which announced $15.5 million in Series C cash on Wednesday, bringing the company’s total funding to $31 million. The bulk of the round, led by Harmony Partners, with participation from DFJ, Index Ventures and Digital Garage, will go toward building products […]
