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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Why In-House? Netflix’s senior manager of programmatic buying, Kathy O’Dowd, says protecting data is a big reason for in-house programmatic. “There’s a lot of intellectual property that we want to keep internal. And that’s made a lot easier when we’re internal,” she disclosed during […]

In Russia, programmatic and RTB practices are still in an early stage and make up less than 10% of the digital display advertising market. Yet despite that, or maybe because of it, demand-side platforms seem to be saturating the market – each seeking to distance itself from the competition. “The market is getting new DSPs every month,” Vladimir […]

Publishers looking to maximize their yield need to think more like buyers.  With that goal in mind, Rubicon Project unveiled Ad Engine on Thursday, a beta feature running in its Seller Cloud with NewsCorp as a launch partner. Although Rubicon hasn’t released an official date for when the product will made made generally available, Josh […]

“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 Chris Stark, senior vice president of product marketing at Grapeshot. There’s a fair amount of debate regarding display and video viewability standards now being transacted in the marketplace and it’s […]

Consumers may spend a lot of time watching video on over-the-top devices and mobile, but advertisers still haven’t invested heavily in those areas. While panelists throughout Advertising Week in New York City agreed that the development of measurement techniques will help close that gap, device fragmentation complicates these initiatives. Still, connected TV makers and distributors […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Quantcast Buys DCO Quantcast has added retargeting and dynamic creative technology with the acquisition of UK-based Struq for an undisclosed sum. In a blog post, Struq CEO Sam Barnett explained, “Combining Quantcast’s unrivaled data about online user behavior with our ad personalization technology will […]

Yannick Bolloré, the newly appointed chairman and CEO of Havas, took to the Times Center stage Wednesday at Advertising Week to talk about changes at the French agency holding company in the wake of last year’s restructuring. Bolloré, a family-owned investment group steered by Yannick’s father and famed French investor Vincent Bolloré, owns a 37% […]

CPG giant Mondelēz International, which made waves in the ad industry earlier this year by owning its deal with video demand-side platform TubeMogul, has entered another agreement designed to enhance its online video investments: a partnership with Google covering markets in North America, Europe and emerging markets in Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East […]

Audience Partners, which provides an advertising platform focusing on advocacy, political and healthcare verticals, reached an agreement Wednesday to acquire Bering Media for an undisclosed sum. Audience Partners expects the deal to close in October. For Audience Partners, Bering Media – with whom it has partnered over the past two years – provides an ad-targeting solution […]

Retailers face an uphill battle when it comes to justifying mobile ad spend. At the Shop.org Digital Summit in Seattle, some shared how they are tackling cross-device measurement and mobile attribution as more time and sales shift to mobile. “There is a study that says people spend 20% of their time on their phone, so […]

In a reprise of their recent startup adventure, former Sociomantic CEO and Admeld exec Jason Kelly will become “President of the Company’s Managed Media” as Millennial CEO Michael Barrett looks to re-create the programmatic magic of his Admeld days which led to an eventual acquisition by Google. From today’s release (see it): “Reporting to CEO and President Michael Barrett, Kelly will […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Hlavacek, vice president of programmatic at The Weather Company. Quick question: What’s the fastest way to kill the enthusiasm and energy of a media sales team? Lost business? Re-orgs? Missed goals? I don’t […]

“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 Eric Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. While we’ve been sitting in the progressively warmer water of the “programmatic kettle” without noticing the heat, the world has changed. The incremental changes have […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Spinning Off PayPal’s Data How will eBay’s spinoff of PayPal, announced Tuesday, impact the companies’ joint efforts on ads? eBay bought location-based media company Where.com in 2011 and rolled it into the modern-day PayPal Media Network and weeks ago unveiled plans to scale up […]

As a CPG newbie that launched last March, Hello Products competes with household brands like Crest and Colgate. In order to break into a $30 billion oral care market, the company first partnered with BMW Group’s agency DesignworksUSA to craft a visual identity around green living and innovative design. But as Hello ramps up, it […]

Early in September, Russian search engine Yandex acquired ad tech company ADFOX, generating a bit of buzz around the relatively early stage programmatic buying market in Russia. Yandex only entered the RTB market in 2012 and ADFOX, a Moscow-based sell-side platform, was originally founded in 2005 but also introduced its RTB offerings in 2012. “We expect […]

While marketing clouds push the promise of technological integration, the fact that every major cloud was built through acquisition means it’s fair to question the extent to which the components are truly unified. Getting applications within a cloud to communicate is ultimately an iterative process and Oracle, on Tuesday, unveiled its latest development within its […]

No one’s going to say that walled gardens don’t have their perks. Just look at Facebook and the new and improved Atlas. Facebook’s long-awaited announcement of a cross-device user ID solution, made Monday as part of Advertising Week in New York City, invites advertisers into a putative Eden that gives them access to what could […]

If AOL hadn’t already made it clear it would double down on digital video and end-to-end marketing tech at its Digital Newfront in May, Monday’s Programmatic Upfront at Advertising Week in New York left no doubt. AOL’s latest development? The company has layered in and built a data-management platform (DMP) out of attribution vendor Convertro, which it purchased […]

“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 Ben Kartzman, CEO at Spongecell. Yahoo’s share of Alibaba has been something of a life preserver for the company. With Alibaba’s recent IPO, Yahoo now has a giant piggy bank […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic Pop Interpublic Group’s media investment arm, Magna Global, estimates media investments in programmatic will rise 50% this year to $21 billion. AdAge picks it up: “By 2018, only the most premium digital inventory, including sponsorship and full-episode video, among other non-standard formats, will […]

While AOL and Publicis Groupe have been programmatic cohorts since last July, the media giant and the holding company took their partnership to another level by adding video and linear TV to the mix Monday at Advertising Week. The move will link Publicis’ digital arm VivaKi with AOL Platforms, which will become Publicis’ preferred partner for programmatic video. […]

“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 Marcus Pratt, vice president of insights and technology at Mediasmith. Measured in digital years, the banner ad may be approaching old age. Is it time for retirement? Wired placed the […]

Google’s betting the industry needs a hand making ads workable across devices. On Monday, it unwrapped two mobile display formats and a handful of desktop tools that aim to help advertisers optimize ads across multiple screens. Google will release the tools piecemeal over the coming months across the Google Display Network, the AdMob Network and […]

London-based ecommerce personalization tech company Qubit has raised $26 million in a Series B round led by new investor Accel Partners. Existing investors Balderton Capital and Salesforce Ventures also participated in the round, which brings Qubit’s total financing to $36.5 million to date. “Our new funding is for continued investment in R&D, and we have […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ID Wars Quartz reporter Leo Mirani details the trajectory of Google and Facebook’s crusade for login data. “As mobile phones and tablets render old tracking mechanisms, such as cookies, increasingly ineffectual, identity is becoming the single most important tool to follow web users across […]

Facebook has done something big with the relaunch of its Atlas ad server, acquired from Microsoft 16 months ago, but that something has little to do with serving ads. Rather it’s about replacing the beleaguered cookie with a new, more reliable ad-tracking mechanism for the mobile age. The new Atlas – expected to be unveiled […]

Following ad network Undertone’s summer snap-up of programmatic exchange Upfront Digital Media, the company rolled out on Friday a programmatic platform called Virtuoso. The platform is part of Undertone’s developing ad stack, said cofounder Eric Franchi. The company will stagger the release of Virtuoso’s functions, first beginning with programmatic execution and workflow via the Upfront integration. There’s a […]

While some brands migrate ad spend to programmatic practices, others are stymied by a lack of understanding. For instance, some marketers continue to think that programmatic only refers to transacting on inventory in an open exchange, unaware that automation can be applied to certain aspects of direct deals as well. In fact, programmatic direct deals […]