Singapore Telecommunications’ intent to acquire cross-channel ad platform Adconion (at a $235 million valuation) and ad network Kontera (at a $150 million valuation), on behalf of its mobile ad solutions subsidiary Amobee, is yet another example of a telco diving deeper into ad tech. SingTel’s announcement arrives less than a month after news broke of […]
Twitter users will begin to see weather-triggered advertising in their feeds, courtesy of The Weather Company. The companies have set up a partnership under which TWC will bring its advertisers to the platform, as part of its WeatherFX programmatic buying unit. WeatherFX works in much the same way other publisher “reach extension” plays do, leveraging […]
Independent media agency Harmelin Media, whose clients include BET and Blue Diamond Almonds, is constructing its own in-house trading desk. Working with TubeMogul, Harmelin, which used to work with a dozen vendors, will commit programmatic video buys to a single platform. Harmelin is doing this so it can be a better steward of client campaigns. […]
The liquor industry’s self-regulated restrictions, such as its Global Marketing Code, seek to reduce underage exposure to alcohol advertisements. This restriction poses challenges for alcohol brands that want to promote on digital messaging platforms like social media. “Regulations vary greatly across the globe,” said Jason Loehr, VP and director of global media and digital marketing […]
Tealium became the latest tag management system (TMS) provider to pivot away from pure play TMS on Wednesday when it released a tool designed to help companies link their various standalone marketing technologies. This puts Tealium on the same path as other TMS providers (like BrightTag, which renamed itself Signal and rolled out an Open […]
“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 O’Hara, co-founder and chief revenue officer at Bionic Advertising Systems. There has been a lot of talk about the pervasive amount of click fraud and bot traffic happening in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. SingTel Buys Ads Singapore Telecom is acquiring Adconion for $235 million and Kontera for $150 million. The acquisition was processed through the Asia telecom’s mobile ad subsidiary, Amobee, which has platform dreams. With the deals, CEO Mark Strecker says, “Amobee offers the most advanced […]
Time Inc. is in a tough spot after its spinoff from Time Warner Inc. It begins its run as an independent public company saddled with $1.3 billion in debt and revenue that has steadily declined with only two quarters of sequential growth in the past six years. In related (and unfortunately timed) news, the publisher’s […]
Procter & Gamble’s reported push to automate 70-75% of digital ad buys by year’s end underscores the convergence of TV, CPG marketing and programmatic media. “The closer we can tie shopper cart data to media, the stronger we get,” said Jen Mennes, director of media and public relations for Post Foods, during The Advertising Research […]
Location analytics startup Placed announced today $10 million in a Series B funding round led by Two Sigma Ventures, bringing its total to $13.4 million. Seattle-based Placed’s founder and CEO, David Shim, said the investment will go toward hiring data scientists and engineers over the next year to enhance Placed Attribution, a feature launched last […]
Tag management technology company BrightTag changed its name to Signal on Tuesday and rolled out an “Open Data Platform” for marketers to link disparate data collection sources such as CRM, email, DSPs and DMPs. This comes on the heels of a small acquisition the company made just days ago of Signal, an email and SMS marketing […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a weekly column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. It is written by Joanna O’Connell, Director of Research, AdExchanger Research. I had a wonderful conversation with Renee Horne, AVP, Social Business at USAA, at last week’s Merkle CRM Summit, in which she noted something that could make 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 Sara M. Watson, a technology critic and fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. I have owned a truck and am interested in buying another, […]
“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is written by Mayur Gupta, global head of marketing, technology and operations at Kimberly-Clark. In recent years an increasing number of marketing organizations have established “Digital Center of Excellence” teams. They are often called the DCOE or COE, and are […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic Direct…Only? Has the open exchange outlived its usefulness? In an interview with Beet.TV, Chief Investment Officer Ari Bluman says GroupM will limit its programmatic buying to private exchange deals struck directly with publishers. He says this will happen by year’s end. “That is […]
It’s a tradition as revered as turkey on Thanksgiving and baseball in the summer: ad agencies dumping budget at the end of each quarter so they won’t lose it at the beginning of the next. “There’s an artificial market dynamic that resets every month in programmatic where at the end of every quarter, we see […]
“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 Damian Garbaccio, global chief revenue officer at eXelate. Innovation is a concept often referenced rather liberally in the advertising technology space. However, a vast majority of industry players that tout […]
Monetizing apps in the iOS environment means playing by Apple’s rules, and occasionally adapting to changes in how those rules are enforced. Sometimes those changes can impact the way ads are served and tracked, as happened back in February when Apple (briefly) put a barbed wire fence around the use its Identifier For Advertising for […]
JiWire, a mobile advertising company most commonly known for serving ads over airport WiFi networks across the US, has rebranded as “NinthDecimal” and launched a mobile audience-targeting tool for pre-roll video ads. Working with buy-side partner TubeMogul, early beta brand users include L’Oréal Paris, Kraft Foods and Honey Maid. NinthDecimal is ramping up location-based data […]
There’s no doubt that Yandex is huge – and the Russian search engine is working to make programmatic buying and RTB a more popular option in the country as well. \ The company announced last week that its shares would be available on the Moscow Exchange in addition to its current listing on NASDAQ, news that comes […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Organic Search Vs. Ads Marketers have complained as organic reach of their pages has been throttled, apparently, while Facebook ramps up its ads strategy. Last Thursday, Facebook ads product team lead Brian Boland (AdExchanger 2013 interview) defended his company with reasons behind organic reach’s […]
Since demand-side platform (DSP) SiteScout’s $40 million acquisition by Centro in last November, the company has evolved its business model from a pure self-serve platform to managed services. Shawn Riegsecker, Centro’s CEO, hinted at the time of acquisition the company might acquire a data-management platform to extend its biddable media offerings. Matt Sauls, cofounder and […]
WPP-owned Kinetic Worldwide accounts for the planning and buying of more than 40% of all digital out-of-home media (DOOH) around the globe. The UK-based company contracts with more than 50 domestic, regional and global clients, including Vodafone, Molson Coors, Warner Bros. Pictures and Tesco. The Outdoor Media Center, Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and Route use Kinetic’s software. […]
Ad retargeter Criteo has expanded its engine to analyze conversion performance rather than simply clicks – a change intended to let marketers more selectively target impressions. The change looks good at face value, but for many companies, optimizing impressions means reducing them, which runs the risk of cutting off a nice revenue stream. Nevertheless, Travel Republic, a […]
Millennial Media is beefing up its location data prowess. The mobile ad network is rolling out an audience location ad suite dubbed “Point” and is teaming up with mapping and geo-analytics mainstay Esri. Point unifies three location-based products: Point Audience Frames, powered by Esri, which lets advertisers use hyper-local data to build campaigns; Point-Fencing Route, […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Steinberg, senior vice president of digital ad sales for The Weather Company. I think everyone would agree that two of the biggest growth areas of digital advertising are mobile and video. Content consumption on […]
“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. Wearables are the latest consumer tech fad. But if you think about it, mobile phones were the first “wearable.” They became smarter […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Video Retargeting Facebook added some features around video ads, including retargeting users who saw a brand’s earlier videos. Only large brands need apply! “Advertisers who work with a Facebook account representative can work with us to create audiences of people who have already […]
Twitter has snatched up mobile native advertising provider Namo Media, adding technology to enhance exchange-based monetization for app developers. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, and Twitter declined to comment. Namo Media has roughly eight employees, and will merge its product into the MoPub platform. The company’s SDK helps mobile app developers integrate native advertising by […]
