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  • Startup Lytics Raises $7M, Wants To Help You Build Your Own Marketing Cloud

    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 […]

  • Retargeting By Any Other Name Is Still Retargeting

    “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 […]

  • Dynamic Price Floors Perpetuate An Ad Stack Cold War

    “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 […]

  • Apple May Add Pay To iAd; MediaMath Does $1M In Video

    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 Announces 'Material' Mobile Revenue In Earnings

    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: Adobe Marketing Cloud Makes Big Waves, SAS Is 'Best-Kept Secret'

    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 […]

  • Q3: Omnicom Reveals How It Fares On Programmatic

    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, […]

  • Findings From VivaKi AOD, IAB Support Mobile’s Rising Supremacy

    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 Ink A Deal In The Name Of Cross-Platform Measurement

    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 […]

  • CPXi Keeps Expanding Its Focus

    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 […]

  • ANA Masters of Marketing Recap: Getting Back To Basics In An Era Of Big Data

    “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 […]

  • The Early Word On Snapchat’s First Push Into Advertising

    “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 […]

  • Videology Adds TV; Gannett Does Better Than Expected

    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 […]

  • Telstra Subsidiary Ooyala Agrees To Acquire Video SSP Videoplaza

    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, […]

  • Kraft CMO: First-Party Data Fuels Content And Ads

    “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 […]

  • Annalect Goes For The “Golden Nugget”

    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 […]

  • Want To Target Consumers In-Aisle? There’s A Programmatic Beacon Ad Exchange For That

    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 […]

  • Inside Walmart’s Ecommerce Marketing Engine

    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 […]

  • OK, You Have Their Attention. Now What?

    “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 […]

  • Bolloré Group Wants More; YouTube Losing To Facebook

    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 […]

  • The Folly Of The Click-Through Rate And Simple Math

    “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 […]

  • Fraud-day With Sizmek: Fraud Has A Bit Of A Nomenclature Problem

    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 […]

  • UGG Australia Reaches Its Audience, One YouTube Sensation At A Time

    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 […]

  • AARP Turns To Krux To Act On Its First-Party Data

    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 […]

  • What Does The Future Hold For Automated Guaranteed?

    “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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  • Programmatic Speeding Up; MediaMath Acquires Upcast

    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 […]

  • Beset By Data, Nissan Demands More Integration At The Agency Level

    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 […]

  • DoubleClick Bid Manager Volume Doubled In Past Year, Google Q3 Revenue Up 20%

    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 […]

  • Programmatic: Great For Direct Response, Bad For Branding

    “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 […]