What exactly is going on with Google and the providers of data-management platforms (DMPs)? As AdWeek reported in early October, Google will begin enforcing a rule prohibiting DMPs from firing tracking pixels on ads running through the Google Display Network unless that DMP also owns the demand-side platform (DSP) buying the impression. This rule is listed in […]
Ecommerce is a “clean business” when it comes to attribution. That’s one reason why 90% of media dollars at contact and eyewear company Coastal.com go toward influencing sales: It’s easy to tell if those tactics actually work. After tracing the path from advertising to a sale, that same data is applied to make the advertising […]
FreeWheel, a video ad server owned by Comcast and used by broadcasters like ABC and Discovery Communications, has teamed up with digital demand-side platform (DSP) TubeMogul to make premium digital video inventory accessible on a programmatic reserved basis. FreeWheel is arranging several data escrows with TubeMogul and providing access to agencies and marketers like Allstate, […]
When Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage in Cupertino last month and unveiled Apple Pay, it was game on for many in the mobile payments industry. While Apple’s embrace of mobile payments doesn’t mean retailers immediately need to outfit every point-of-sale system with an NFC reader, megacompanies like Disney, Macy’s, Panera, Sephora, Starbucks, Walgreens […]
In the two years since GPS solutions provider Telenav acquired hyperlocal ad platform Thinknear, there’s been minimal technology integration between the two companies. But that’s all part of the strategic plan, Telenav vet Loren Hillberg told AdExchanger. Hillberg, who most recently served as VP and general counsel at Telenav, a public company, announced Tuesday that […]
“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 Keith Pieper, director of product management at SpotXchange. Fraud is a big issue. Quality is a bigger issue. Sadly, both are subjective. There are a growing number of solutions on […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Automating Local TV Sales WideOrbit is supporting a new “live environment” for trading locally sold, linear TV. The offering was created in partnership with IPG’s MAGNA GLOBAL and Tribune Media and includes “linear television station inventory across customized geographic areas ranging from specific DMA […]
Beauty startup Julep has grown up in the age of social. The brand uses Facebook, blogs, and surveys in order to interact with customers and encourage them to have a stake in the brand. “We’re one of the first beauty brands to have grown up post-social media,” CEO and founder Jane Park said. After all, […]
“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 Ted Dhanik, CEO at engage:BDR. The news media industry is caught between the traditions of the print world and the experimentations of the digital age. Their struggle is to make […]
Rentrak defended itself late last week against rival measurement firm Nielsen, whose global president Steve Hasker claimed Rentrak “never lets the facts get in the way of a good press release.” Hasker, in a Friday media briefing regarding errors Nielsen had discovered in its national networks ratings going back to March 2, opened fire on […]
Publicis Groupe will acquire 20% of Matomy Media Group, an Israeli performance marketing company that recently went public on the London Stock Exchange, the companies said Monday. The investment will not generate cash for the company’s coffers, going instead to a small group of individual investors, but CEO Ofer Druker said it will result in collaboration […]
Germany is leading the attack in the EU’s deepening privacy war against Google. Late last Tuesday, a legal ruling levied by Hamburg data protection commissioner Johannes Caspar required that Google obtain Germans’ expressed permission in order to access their data, or face $1.27 million in fines. “Our requirements aim at a fair balance between the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mobile Dimes In a recent interview with Bloomberg News, Vice CEO Shane Smith called mobile “the holy grail” for media companies. “Mobile is the Wild West,” Smith said. “It’s where everyone’s scale is coming from, but it’s very difficult to monetize right now.” New […]
Visible Measures has forged a number of supply-side integrations with AdsNative, TripleLift and DistroScale, adding “thousands” of publisher supply sources as a result of the deal, revealed Friday. These partnerships build on the recent rollout of Fabric, a demand-side platform (DSP) designed to place native ads, used first by Publicis Groupe’s media buying unit VivaKi. The DSP is primarily […]
This is the 11th in a series of interviews with vendors combating the problem of ad fraud. Other companies participating in this series include Sizmek. Read previous interviews with comScore, DoubleVerify, Dstillery, Forensiq, Integral Ad Science, PubChecker, Telemetry,Videology, White Ops and RTB Asia. The meta-problem with ad fraud, according to Moat CEO Jonah Goodhart, is that it’s a tremendous […]
There’s a long line outside the club – but once you get past the bouncer, there’s no one to dance with. Problems of supply and access have plagued private exchanges even as they grow increasingly popular. There are many reasons for this: Those who want to transact privately using programmatic “pipes” may find little 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 Ryan McConville, senior vice president of business development and partnerships at Kargo. Programmatic advertising has slowly but steadily taken hold of nearly the entire digital marketing universe. And while by […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ephemeral Ads Though valued at a whopping $10 billion, Snapchat has yet to raise revenue. But that’s about to change, according to Bloomberg. Speaking at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel confirmed, “People are going […]
HubSpot, an independent, Boston-based tech company that built one of the first all-inclusive marketing and sales platforms (at least for the mid-market), began its first day of trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange, its share price rising to $33 in early trading. HubSpot – or HUBS, per its new ticker – was valued at close to $759 […]
Mobile app analytics just got a bit meatier with the release of expanded functionality within Adobe Marketing Cloud’s Analytics application. The product includes enhanced support for beacons, app acquisition analytics, customer lifetime value (LTV) reports and what Adobe is referring to as retention analysis – the ability to track and understand how newly acquired customers […]
WPP Group planted a stake Thursday in Rentrak by acquiring $98 million of the media measurement company’s common stock (12.4% of total shares). In return, Rentrak gets Kantar Media’s TV measurement business in the US. WPP also made a $56 million cash investment in the company, which, barring regulatory approval, would give the holding company […]
The best way for publishers to survive these days may be to become technology companies. “Media businesses will win because of their content platform strategies,” predicted Say Media CEO Matt Sanchez. Say Media is both a technology provider and publisher of numerous online magazines including xoJane, ReadWrite, Remodelista, xoVain and Not Impossible Now. As 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 Baiju Shah, managing director for strategy and innovation for Accenture Interactive. The digital revolution is changing the business world as we know it, bringing with it a head-spinning number of […]
Once upon a time, Microsoft seemed to be positioning itself as both a publisher, via its network of owned and operated sites, as well as an ad tech provider – sort of like where AOL is today. In 2007, it bought aQuantive for just north of $6 billion, which included major digital marketing players like […]
Verizon bills itself as a triple threat. It’s got mobile, it’s got television, it’s got broadband. And those three channels form the foundation for a deterministic data cocktail that Precision Market Insights (PMI) – Verizon’s addressable advertising division – is tapping to power Precision ID, the carrier’s answer to the ever-elusive mobile cookie. When Verizon […]
“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 Anush Prabhu, partner and chief channel planning and investment officer at Deutsch NY. Almost every brand-related decision a consumer makes today is based on a complex string of devices and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Native In The Exchange Twitter’s MoPub unwrapped some features to ease native ad operations for developers, courtesy of the June acquisition of Namo Media. Keek, a social app, is one MoPub client seeing increased ad revenue and user engagement thanks to the tweaks. ”Being […]
The confluence of health data and advertising is a privacy-sensitive subject, and marketers have generally been slow to adopt automation in the health care sector. But two Publicis Groupe agencies are looking to bridge the gap between automation and health care marketing. On Wednesday, VivaKi and Publicis Health Media (PHM) unwrapped their programmatic buying solution […]
Why would former MediaMath Chief Strategy Officer Eoin Townsend join Collective, a company that built its reputation as an old-school ad network? On the surface, the move seems counterintuitive: a guy working for a provider of self-serve ad technology jumping to a company that made its rep performing media-buying services. Since mid-September, Townsend has operated as Collective’s […]
