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 […]
Datalogix, which is known for connecting digital media with offline sales impact, will begin to tie ad viewability to in-store ROI via a partnership with comScore, unveiled Wednesday. Marketers will be able to combine comScore’s panel and Census-based data, as well as its impression-level reporting inclusive of “90 of the top 100 properties across the […]
DigitasLBi has named its first-ever chief data scientist. The Publicis Groupe agency’s Jason Kodish steps into the newly created role from his former position as SVP, North America, strategy and analytics lead. In the new position, Kodish will manage a global strategy and analytics team of 350 and report to global CEO Luke Taylor and North […]
“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 Marc Rossen, executive director of digital insights solutions at MarketShare. When most of us think about digital analytics, we tend to think about the science. Get the science, the math […]
“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim Spanfeller, CEO at Spanfeller Media Group. Without exception, every industry has its fair share of embellishments and untruths. In many ways, we as human beings cannot help ourselves. We simply want everything to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Atlas Jitters Publishers are nervous about data leaking through codes and scripts on their properties, including Facebook’s “social hooks.” According to The Information, that nervousness may have extended to the company’s recently rebuilt ad server. “In an abundance of caution, publishers are taking a […]
Facebook’s Atlas ad server allows advertisers to target Facebook users not just on Facebook.com, but across the web and app ecosystem. Once a user has logged into Facebook on a device, Atlas can find the user and serve ads just for that person. When he or she acts on the ad, Atlas ties that back to […]
AOL on Tuesday appointed Dermot McCormack president of AOL Video and AOL Studios, its original content production arm. McCormack, formerly Viacom’s head of connected content, will replace Ran Harnevo, a key player in the development of premium online video content network AOL On, who is pursuing “other opportunities.” McCormack’s appointment comes at a pivotal period […]
It’s been six months since Facebook unveiled a new mobile-centric ad network offering at its F8 developer conference. The message then and over the summer was clear: We’ll take our time ramping up the new Facebook Audience Network, from both a supply and demand standpoint. But as of Tuesday, Facebook said it’s ready to demonstrate the firepower of […]
Until May, Virgin Holidays lived up to the name of its parent company in terms of its experience with programmatic. As its senior digital marketing executive, Alex Adamson, attests, “We’d run some [display] activity in the past, but we never had a programmatic strategy in place. We never had an always-on approach.” That changed 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 Matt Keiser, founder and CEO at LiveIntent. When AppNexus paid nearly 15% of its total value for Open AdStream (OAS), speculation ran rampant about the motivation. As an entrepreneur and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Display Media 2019 Forrester says US display advertising will grow from $19.8 billion this year to $37.6 billion in 2019. The report, authored by analyst Samantha Merlivat, also project that video advertising will account for 55% of all online display ad revenue in five […]
Since Bob Rupczynski came on board as CPG giant Kraft Food Group’s VP of media and consumer engagement two years ago, the company has embraced programmatic and data-driven marketing. At the time, the company had split in two – its global brands spinning off into the entity known as Mondelēz International – and Rupczynski saw […]
The promise of “always in-view” ad formats sounds like panacea, but Parisian video supply-side platform Teads, which merged with European video platform Ebuzzing in the spring, is aggressively expanding into the US to tackle that very issue in video. The merged companies, which as of Monday will take the name Teads, had $100 million in revenue […]
“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 Kirk McDonald, president at PubMatic. When it was first introduced to the American Association of Advertising Agencies in 1989, the term “integrated marketing” sounded like the quintessential buzzword, just vague […]
The clock’s ticking for the click, and its replacement is rounding the corner: attention. Real-time analytics startup Chartbeat has some illustrious publisher partners on board for its attention-based metrics – which snagged Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation last week – including the Financial Times (FT), Wall Street Journal and Time.com. While publishers have traditionally used […]
At the outset of Advertising Week in New York City, WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell turned his attention to Amazon’s VP of global ad sales Lisa Utzschneider on the stage they shared with Live Nation, CBSi and ESPN. “Your job, I guess, is to demonstrate the value of Amazon’s data for off-platform advertising,” he quipped. “Your revenues […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Lockdown Google has been on a road tour of sorts with data-management providers, enforcing policies in the Google Display Network. Krux, BlueKai and Lotame have had their doorbells rung. Krux’s chief solutions officer, Mike Moreau, tells Adweek, “Google is only allowing data management […]
“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 Bob Lord, CEO at AOL Platforms. The annual whirlwind of Advertising Week events, when nearly 100,000 advertisers, agencies, media and marketing companies converge in New York, always presents a fantastic […]
This is the tenth in a series of interviews with vendors combating the problem of ad fraud. Other companies participating in this series include Moat and Sizmek. Read previous interviews with comScore, DoubleVerify, Dstillery, Forensiq, Integral Ad Science, PubChecker, Telemetry, Videology and White Ops. When Andy Fan founded Shanghai-based RTB Asia a couple of years […]
Chicago-based Iris Mobile provides a CRM platform that helps retail industry clients identify and personalize messaging to their customers across devices. The system works partly by taking a phone number from a customer record, and then pinging the phone associated with that number to establish a device link. Iris then tries to deliver offers most […]
As of Friday, Hearst Corporation will offer so-called premium ad units across its digital media network (which includes Cosmopolitan.com, Esquire.com and GoodHousekeeping.com) through a programmatic direct partnership with Varick Media Management. Hearst premium units involve high-impact placements that expand or include rich media, like the “lightbox,” “billboard” and cross-device “pushdown” unit that fills the page. […]
