“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 […]
“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 John Lee, executive vice president at Merkle. For many marketers, it makes perfect sense: the idea of using data to craft a personalized experience that’s suited to a consumer’s motivations […]
“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 Rahul Bafna, vice president of product management at Drawbridge. The biggest opportunities for brands and advertisers still live offline. People may be using the Internet more than ever before, but […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. YouTube Challengers Facebook, Snapchat, Vessel and others are in talks with TV broadcasters to offer better terms for video programming than YouTube, sources tell The Wall Street Journal. YouTube competitors are courting suppliers like Viacom, Time Warner, NBCUniversal and 21st Century Fox. YouTube’s terms […]
Mobile ad tech platform Millennial Media reported fourth-quarter and year-end earnings on Monday – with revenues down in Q4 but up from 2013’s full-year total. Q4 2014 revenue dipped to $86.4 million from $96.7 million in Q4 2013, while year-end revenue rose from $259.2 million in 2013 to $296.2 million in 2014. Read the earnings […]
Schibsted Media Group, a Norwegian publisher in Sweden, has lately come to market with a unified programmatic offering. Media agency executive Robert Johansson joined Aftonbladet, the group’s largest Swedish tabloid, in August 2013 as yield manager to work on its RTB offering. Six months later, Schibsted decided to combine and centralize data from across its […]
For CPG companies like ConAgra, buying media using sales data from retailers like Walmart offers a way to finally close the loop between media spend and sales. But some are concerned about the lack of transparency that comes with using the Walmart Exchange. “Walmart has more data than we do,” said Fernando Arriola, VP of […]
Unilever’s open-door approach to data and technology are on display in the brand’s Foundry effort, a program that invites startups to pitch their wares and work on digital innovation with the consumer packaged-goods company. Global Marketing SVP Marc Mathieu noted today’s data-obsessed marketing landscape has little to do with the French railway advertisements he remembers […]
“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 Justin Choi, CEO at Nativo. The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s recent update to the OpenRTB guidelines (PDF), which incorporate dynamic in-feed ad units, is generating lots of noise around programmatic, real-time […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Exchange Part Deux Facebook may be getting into the ad exchange business beyond its huge and popular Facebook Exchange (FBX), which functions more like a private exchange targeting users on Facebook inventory only. Ad Age’s Tim Peterson says a new, open exchange will be […]
Agencies are not transparent about their actions. Agencies recommend media that is off-strategy when it works for their gain. Agencies accrue media earned by advertisers’ spending and resell it to other advertisers. Agencies demand pay-for-play from vendors in order to be recommended, and cross the line in partnership relationships. These are among the claims made […]
