You’re walking down the shoe aisle of your favorite department store. You’re browsing. You’re probably thinking to yourself, “Do I really need another pair of shoes?” Your phone buzzes. You take it out of your pocket to find a push notification from a shoe brand with a discount offer. It’s a brand you like. You […]
Walmart, one of the last bastions of big box retail, is investing for a digital future – one with considerably less square footage. Walmart recently revealed plans to invest between $1.2 to $1.5 billion in its ecommerce and digital operations for fiscal year 2016. Subsequently, its in-store investments are taking a temporary hit. In its […]
“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. Engaging consumers through authentic brand content is more important than ever for drawing them into the marketing funnel. And the best measure of successful brand […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Moré For Bolloré Bolloré Group wants to increase its stake in Havas Group from 36% to more than 50%. Adweek reports, “Havas described the offer as ‘friendly,’ but said its board had appointed an independent expert to assess the terms.” Earlier this year, Bolloré […]
“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. As Advertising Week drew to a close, a colleague of mine who is relatively new to ad tech voiced disbelief that many […]
This is the 12th and final installment in a series of interviews with vendors combating the problem of ad fraud. Read previous interviews with comScore, DoubleVerify, Dstillery, Forensiq, Integral Ad Science, Moat, PubChecker, RTB Asia, Telemetry, Videology and White Ops. Wasted delivery is not necessarily fraud – but all fraud is wasted delivery. In other […]
When your target audience is tween girls aged nine to 13, there are not only data and targeting considerations to keep in mind but also a general elusiveness from a media consumption standpoint. When UGG Australia came out with a new “I Heart UGG” brand line, YouTube stood out to its agency, Santa Monica-based Palisades […]
Because AARP serves a specific demographic – people over 50 – the magazine has long understood just how valuable it was to provide advertisers with a segmented audience. But within that age bracket, there is incredible diversity of segments that the AARP knew would provide value to advertisers. So the team decided to use Krux to […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Richard Jalichandra, CEO at iSocket. A recent AdExchanger column concluded that everyone is to blame for lagging automated guaranteed adoption. Buyers, sellers and vendors are not exempt. I agree. All parties bear responsibility for […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic Gains Speed Programmatic ad spend in the US will surpass $10 billion this year, according to eMarketer, and is growing at a rate of 137%. According to the research, ad spend on automation will double to $20.4 billion by 2016. “Today publishers largely […]
Marketing is more than ever a science, but that doesn’t mean it should become less of an art, according to Nissan’s marketing chief. “It’s the era of big data. To the most detailed level we can check who’s buying what and where and when, as well as people’s behaviors and actions,” the automaker’s global head […]
Google’s Q3 revenue rose 20% year over year to $16.52 billion, though it continued to see click volume rise (17% YoY) and cost per clicks fall (2% YoY). Google sites comprised about two-thirds of revenue, for a total of $11.25 billion. Partner sites contributed $3.43 billion, or about 20%. Google’s O&O paid clicks (which include […]
“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 Lawrence Herman, CEO at BlueLink Marketing. It seems over the past year we’ve heard a number of creative agencies tout programmatic ad buying as the perfect answer to a company’s […]
Besides its analytics announcement, Salesforce.com turned up the volume on mobility and its future in the wearables market during the Dreamforce conference. As if on cue, rapper Will.i.am paraded onstage Wednesday evening with a group of engineers where he revealed “PULS,” a smart wrist band he developed via fashion and technology firm i.am+, a business […]
Alliance Data Systems (ADS) reported Q3 2014 revenue of $1.3 billion, a 20% YoY change, mostly driven by the company’s private-label credit card services division, which saw 17% YoY revenue growth to $622 million. ADS has steadily increased its outlook with each earnings call, and it did so again in its Q3, raising its core […]
Plenty of companies offer social analytics, but the industry seems to lack a unified definition of what constitutes social native marketing and how best to measure sponsored content on social channels. And according to analytics company Socialbaker’s CEO and co-founder, Jan Rezab, all content is going to move to social channels one way or another. In […]
When it comes to online viewability, there should be more than meets the eye. That’s the philosophy at Sticky, an eye-tracking tech company launching a DIY version of its online research product, Autogazer, on Thursday. The tool is designed to enable users – primarily agencies, brands and publishers – to run unlimited tracking studies for […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Lizzie Komar, Associate Analyst, AdExchanger Research. Over the past few years, we’ve seen both marketer excitement over, and actual investment in, DMPs grow significantly. Heralded as a “true audience intelligence engine,” the DMPs foundational role […]
“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 Mayer, chief marketing officer at Trueffect. Facebook’s ad platform, Atlas, recently relaunched with an entirely rewritten ad server platform, a newly redesigned user interface and the ability to target […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Meredith Adopts Native Battling falling CPMs and banner blindness, Meredith Corp. is the latest publisher to hop on the native ad bandwagon. The first glimpse of sponsored content will surface later this month via FitnessMagazine.com, which relaunches Wednesday. According to Meredith SVP and Chief […]
Salesforce.com revealed Wave Analytics Cloud this week at its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, the latest patch – alongside marketing, sales and customer service – in the tech giant’s quilt. Speaking to more than 100,000 registrants (some were virtual), Salesforce.com’s chairman and CEO Marc Benioff called the analytics offering “revolutionary” and swiped at analytics competitors. […]
Enterprise tag-management specialist Ensighten has acquired multichannel marketing analytics startup Anametrix for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced Wednesday. The duo’s relationship dates back 18 months and had already manifested in a number of joint product integrations. Owning Anametrix was the natural next step, according to Ensighten’s founder and CEO, Josh Manion. Anametrix was founded […]
The digital ad sector has made some tangible progress in the war on fraudulent ad impressions, thanks to new detection methods and improved hygiene from many sell-side platforms. But one of the biggest exchanges has added rather than subtracted invalid impressions, and buyers are complaining. AppNexus, the industry’s uber-exchange and one of the most promising […]
An AdExchanger story published Wednesday describes the persistent problem of fraudulent ad impressions in the AppNexus inventory supply, and the company’s plans to fix it. Its plan of attack includes a new certified supply program that will clearly label inventory AppNexus has deemed “valid.” Buyers can choose to purchase only the good stuff, while ignoring the uncertified […]
Cross-device is hot (hey there, Atlas), and now data-management platform Lotame has tossed its hat into the ring with a feature built from AdMobius’ technology, a company Lotame acquired earlier this year. The feature, announced Wednesday, uses a combination of deterministic and probabilistic algorithms to create device matches and cross-screen audience segments within Lotame’s DMP. […]
Distributing the same sponsored posts across a network of sites isn’t a widespread practice – yet. While planning the media spend for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, ad agency Mediasmith turned to Distroscale, which allowed the team to leverage existing content to connect with readers about the hospital at scale. “Native advertising had a key role to […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Ostermiller, founder and CEO at Altitude Digital. Programmatic video platforms are perhaps the hottest commodity in ad tech right now, with several high-profile acquisitions taking place in the past six months alone. The […]
“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 Denise Colella, CEO at Maxifier. I recently listened to a great panel where marketers like Bank of America, Kraft and Dell discussed the big P (programmatic) and its impact on […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Other Search War Bing put up a good fight, but Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says the company’s biggest rival in the search arena is Amazon. “People don’t think of Amazon as search, but if you are looking for something to buy, you are […]
