Pandora’s Q3 mobile ad revenue had president and CEO Brian McAndrews singing from the rooftops – but the singing stopped when he got to the verse about monthly active users (MAUs). Total revenue for the quarter clocked in at nearly $240 million, a 42% YoY increase. A whopping $188 million of that sum is mobile ad […]
Amazon remained tight-lipped about its developing ad network during the company’s Q3 earnings call, about which CFO Thomas Szkutak only said: “There’s not a lot I can say there.” Amazon’s “Supplemental Revenue” category, which includes advertising, Web services and co-branded credit cards, raked in $1.3 billion in Q3, up 40% YoY from $960 million. Amazon’s supplemental revenue […]
Rubicon Project’s stock rose over 20% in after hours trading following the announcement that the company posted a record quarter. That’s good news for a supply side platform that has struggled to educate Wall Street of its value. Rubicon Project hoped its IPO would give it a market cap of $671 million. The current market cap is […]
Publicis Groupe reported a meager 1% organic growth rate for 2014’s Q3 on Thursday, with the displeased CEO Maurice Lévy blaming key account losses at Razorfish and lingering “distraction” on the failed Omnicom fusion. Publicis’ revenue in Q3 grew 4% YoY to reach $2.21 billion. “We have been too much focused on [the merger] and […]
We live in a world of media fragmentation, said Nielsen CEO Mitch Barnes during the company’s Q3 earnings call. And Nielsen, which reported Q3 revenue of $1.6 billion, a YoY increase of 13.3% (excluding its recent acquisitions of consumer research company Arbitron and market research firm Harris Interactive), wants to help measure it. Net profits, however, continued their slump from last […]
Hearst Magazines plans to remove its marketing data from silos and bring it to the cloud using Acxiom. Hearst hopes this move helps it bring together siloed customer information. Finding the overlap between Hearst newspaper and magazine subscribers, for example, is a manual process under the current system. “If a customer engages with us in one […]
What do you think of when you hear the words “marketing cloud?” Most likely, your mind conjures up Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle. Maybe even IBM. Then there’s Teradata. As noted in the first Forrester Wave evaluating enterprise marketing software suites (aka marketing clouds) released Tuesday, Teradata is more often recognized for its data warehousing solutions. Over […]
Like other vertical content networks, Womensforum.com cornered a niche early – women’s health, beauty and entertainment – and cultivated an audience that today totals nearly 40 million unique monthly visitors. The publisher has worked with household brands ranging from Sweet’NLow to Mazola Cooking Oil to “craft customized programs” that resonate with its female-based audience. 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 Louis Moynihan, vice president of business development at Demandbase. If you have been in ad tech a decade or two, you’re probably sensing a major sea change. Online advertising used […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Sorrell ‘Puzzled’ By Media Margin Pushback Speaking at ad:tech London, WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell said he’s troubled by the debate around transparency and programmatic. Regarding his position on the media sold through WPP’s programmatic arm, Xaxis, Sorrel said, “We decided to do this […]
Facebook is unraveling its preferred marketing developer (PMD) program, its platform for organizing and referring key partners to prospective advertisers. In its place will be a new classification system, called simply Facebook Marketing Partners (FMP, for the acronym-addicted), with no badges but with a list of nine “specialties” – including ad tech, content marketing, and […]
Interpublic Group (IPG) reported Q3 revenue of $1.84 billion, an 8.3% increase YoY and an organic increase of 6.3%. IPG Chairman and CEO Michael Roth attributed the solid quarter to strategic digital developments and to the competitiveness of its agencies. IPG’s media agencies are housed in its Mediabrands entity and include Initiative, BPN, ID Media […]
LinkedIn has plans to make marketing leads “more quantifiable, and attributable” across the Web and through a company’s own sales channels, and in a year’s time will enable a much deeper view of conversions. “If you have a tool that can import all of your prospects to a LinkedIn tool, why wouldn’t you want to […]
Here’s a potential new acronym for you: MOOH – that’s to say, mobile out-of-home. Digital OOH programmatic player Vistar Media launched an extension of its cross-screen offering Wednesday via a partnership with AirSage, a little-known Atlanta-based company that collects data on consumer location and population movement. AirSage captures and analyzes in the neighborhood of 15 […]
The value of a marketing cloud, as Forrester Research pointed out Tuesday, is in the level of its integration. But Portland, Oregon-based startup Lytics takes the position that whatever level of integration the big-name marketing suites offer simply isn’t enough. The company, which started in 2012, made its “marketing activation platform” generally available on Wednesday […]
“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 Petty, vice president of global media and partnerships at dunnhumby. We’ve all done it. Days after browsing a product online, maybe across several different sites, we see it out […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Will Doherty, senior director of business development at Index Exchange, a division of Casale Media Inc. The jig is up. And it’s been up for a long while. It’s time to move past dynamic […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Apple Eyes Tap-To-Buy Apple is rumored to be bringing its mobile payment system, Apple Pay, to iAd. Digiday reports that the integration would embed a tap-to-buy button in mobile ads, mirroring similar moves by Facebook and Twitter earlier this year. Jeff Malmad, managing director […]
Yahoo says its investments in mobile have paid off. The company announced its mobile revenue in Q3 exceeded $200 million, or 20% of its $1.1 billion in GAAP revenue. Mobile revenue doubled year over year, including both search and display. Revenue growth on mobile far outpaced user growth. 550 million people are mobile monthly active […]
Forrester Research crowned Adobe Marketing Cloud in its first-ever ranking of enterprise marketing software suites – informally called “marketing clouds.” The report, compiled by analysts Cory Munchbach and Rusty Warner and released Tuesday, encompassed eight vendors (Adobe, Salesforce.com, SAS, Teradata, IBM, Oracle, SAP and Marketo). Munchbach and Warner interviewed three clients from each vendor and tallied […]
Omnicom Group’s programmatic buying discipline is still in its early days, the agency holding company emphasized during its Q3 2014 earnings call Tuesday. Programmatic buying constitutes just south of 2% of the company’s overall revenue, which reached $3.75 billion during the quarter, up 7.4% YoY. Most of the growth came from the North America region, […]
Digital ad revenues in the US hit an historic high in the first half of 2014, reaching $23.1 billion, according to the IAB’s Internet Advertising Revenue Report released Monday. Notably, the IAB reported that mobile jumped 76% YoY and overtook banner ads. In another Monday release, the VivaKi AOD Benchmark Report saw CPMs increase across display, social, […]
Nielsen and Adobe revealed a partnership Tuesday designed to combine Nielsen’s digital audience measurement products with Adobe Analytics and Adobe Primetime, the company’s platform for online TV delivery and monetization, making both available to joint Nielsen/Adobe clients through Adobe Marketing Cloud. The result is Digital Content Ratings (DCR), a cross-platform census-based metric that aims to do for digital […]
Roughly a year ago, CPXi began building out two consumer-facing sites: PressRoomVIP for celebrity culture, and the music-oriented portal Hip Hop My Way. These two sites formed the foundation of CPXi’s Consumed Media publishing division, which launched in late September. What’s unusual is that CPXi, which used to be the ad network CPX Interactive, doesn’t […]
“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, Director of Research, AdExchanger Research. I spent several days last week enjoying the inside of a giant hotel in sunny Orlando, Florida, for the ANA’s annual Masters of Marketing conference, the second […]
“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 Ed Darmanin, chief revenue officer at 140 Proof. Ever since Snapchat crashed the social networking scene, the app has made social heavyweights fidget anxiously and spawned a long line of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Videology Adds TV Videology wants to support television buys. Though the firm’s main focus has been on the Internet video marketplace, advertisers and agencies are increasingly coordinating their web and TV budgets. It says 50% of revenue now comes from TV budgets. “Marketers are […]
The turf war for programmatic video technologies wages on. Video distribution and analytics platform Ooyala, acquired by Australian telco Telstra in August, revealed Monday it would purchase London-based video supply-side platform Videoplaza for an undisclosed sum. Read the release. This is a critical move for Ooyala, which focuses on helping publishers run and operate their video business by managing content, metatags, […]
“What does the manufacturer of Velveeta possibly know about data?” That was the question Deanie Elsner, chief marketing officer at Kraft Foods Group, posed to an audience of her peers at the Association of National Advertisers’ Masters of Marketing conference last week. The answer, as it turns out, is quite a bit. Two years ago, when […]
A change is on the horizon for Annalect, Omnicom’s analytics and marketing technology arm. Omnicom agencies – both its media traders and its creative firms – use Annalect when they need data-driven expertise for their clients’ campaigns. As such, Annalect has a wealth of data scientists and technologists, 250 relationships with third-party data sources and a […]
