When Adobe Systems acquired French cross-channel campaign management company Neolane last summer for $600 million, it gained the ability to manage customer data at scale. Stephan Dietrich, cofounder of Neolane and now VP Americas for Adobe Campaign, one of six products that comprise the Adobe Marketing Cloud stack, said one of the drivers for joining […]
In two weeks, Levi Strauss & Co. will launch a campaign focusing on a broader, more inclusive brand direction – one that also ties its messaging closer to its line of jeans and apparel. As such, Levi’s is retiring the “Go forth” tagline it’s used since 2009 in favor of the more product-centric “Live 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 Dan Silver, director of marketing at xAd. Two parts first-party data, a splash of third-party segmentation, garnished with a slice of real-time consumer behavior. If only building mobile audiences were […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Blinkx Slides The FT reports that online video advertising company Blinkx lost a third of its value in the public markets as it announced revenues would fall short of expectations. The company said in a release, “During the last three months, which are seasonally […]
Facebook has agreed to buy video ad platform LiveRail, the companies said today. The acquisition will build Facebook’s capabilities around video, both on its own platform and on those of other publishers. LiveRail customers include Major League Baseball (MLB.com), A&E Networks, Gannett and Dailymotion, giving Facebook its first video ad server integration with premium video owners. Terms of the deal weren’t […]
Want to see a marketer rip out her hair? Ask her to begin identifying consumers across devices. It’s not an easy thing to do, but vendors have been building tools to help. When Experian Marketing Services acquired 41st Parameter last October, it also got the latter’s subsidiary, AdTruth. AdTruth’s core product is the AdTruth ID, […]
Updated 7/2/14, 3:22 p.m. For the second time in less than a year, CRM and database marketing agency Merkle is on the acquisition prowl. This time, it gobbled up RKG, an agency that provides paid search, social marketing and comparison shopping engine services. With the RKG acquisition, Merkle CEO David Williams said the agency is […]
“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. The Media Rating Council (MRC) hit yet another milestone [PDF] in their viewable impression crusade on Monday by lifting the advisory on viewable impressions for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Googling Video Video ad platform BrightRoll announced the hire of Bruce Falck as chief operating officer. Falck previously ran Google’s demand-side platform business, a.k.a. DoubleClick Bid Manager (née Invite Media), among other duties. According to the release, Falck will “oversee day-to-day operations at BrightRoll […]
French holding company Publicis Groupe acquired software and consulting firm Crown Partners on Tuesday and intends to align it with digital agency Razorfish. The purchase is a play to power up Razorfish’s ecommerce capabilities, especially as businesses that haven’t traditionally had strong online presences seek to remedy that situation. “Everyone wants to have an ecommerce capability today, even […]
PubMatic had a good spring. The company won top honors in Forrester’s sell-side platform shoot-out, acquired a mobile ad server (Mocean Mobile) and hired up to support its product initiatives around programmatic direct. The macro strategy, according to CEO Rajeev Goel, is to provide a full stack spanning all publisher ad revenue. That means guaranteed […]
Adknowledge has acquired video analytics provider TriVu Media for an undisclosed sum, a move the former hopes will extend its ad targeting capabilities to YouTube advertising. The company is betting the big three sources of video inventory going forward will be native (by which CEO Ben Legg means inventory sold through a transparent network), Facebook […]
“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 Rosenberg, senior vice president of marketing at 140 Proof. Facebook has heard its users loud and clear: They want more control over their privacy. So Facebook changed the default […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. It is written by Joanna O’Connell, Director of Research, AdExchanger Research. Call me naïve but I believe in the open exchange model. I always have. Something about the battle of wits it promises always spoke to me: The buyer who actively […]
“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 Jordan Mitchell, interim CEO at DigiTrust and vice president of product at Rubicon Project. We’ve all heard about the inevitable death of the cookie, but have we really found any […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Defining Viewability On Monday, the Media Rating Council adopted its new video viewability metric, which marks the first attempt to address industrywide invisibility issues. Get the PDF. However, many marketers take issue with the MRC’s two-second delineation. “Two seconds is not, by any means, […]
“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 Grabowski, entrepreneur-in-residence at Highland Capital Partners. Don’t act like you have built a brand or amassed some sort of great will among your “loyal followers.” You have spent money on […]
Three months after launching a pilot program for mobile app install ads, Twitter has made the offering available to all advertisers. The format is a bid to capture surging app promotion budgets that have been a boon to Facebook, Pandora and dozens of mobile-specific ad networks and demand-side platforms (DSPs) over the past two years. Ride-sharing service Lyft, EA […]
The Russian advertising market is one of marked interest for ad tech companies. Certainly Western mainstays like Google are working their way in. But it’s the local players that dominate. Consider Google’s recent partnership with Yandex to expand its inventory offered by Russian publishers. One such local player is ADFOX, a Moscow-based sell-side platform founded in 2005 […]
Danish ad tech provider Adform has released a first-generation data-management platform (DMP) through which its clients can monetize their data and increase yield. “There are a lot of publishers out there that want to monetize their data,” said Adform CMO Martin Stockfleth Larsen. “They’ve sold out inventorywise, but the one area that hasn’t sold out is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. CRMing The Exchange On Friday, Rubicon Project and CRM agency Merkle announced a new capability within programmatic ad buying and selling. The development rolls together Rubicon Project’s Advertising Automation Cloud and Merkle’s suite of marketing tools, and claims to help advertisers run campaigns that […]
Everyone wants to get into native advertising, yet everyone has a different definition as to what exactly that entails. Social media sites have it easy because any sponsored post, automatically blending into the site design, can hitch a ride on the native bandwagon. But while Facebook and Twitter are the current hotbeds of social advertising, […]
On Monday, the Media Rating Council’s (MRC) advisory to avoid buying in-browser video impressions on the basis of viewability will end. Although the MRC defines in-browser video viewability as an ad that is at least 50% in view for at least two continuous seconds, there’s little agreement in the industry on what, exactly, constitutes video […]
Before Brazil defeated Croatia at Arena de Sao Paulo to open the 2014 World Cup, the Coca-Cola Co. unfurled across the pitch the fruits of its biggest marketing campaign in its history: a giant mosaic called the “Happiness Flag.” But this campaign, which ended on the soccer field, began online. Activated across 175 countries, the Happiness Flag […]
“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 Berry, co-founder and CEO at TripleLift. Despite being one of the most revered techniques in digital advertising, optimization remains a highly misunderstood concept. While everyone responsible for running a […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Marketer Roundup Estee Lauder, L’Oreal and Spark marketing executives weigh in on programmatic in a recent roundup feature via Portada. “We find programmatic buying an efficient use of our dollars to reach consumers who are already engaged with the concept, the brand and the […]
Free ad serving might be bad business for all but the biggest players in ad tech. AdZerk, an ad-selling platform for publishers, sent a notice to its free and self-service customers that it’s shutting down that part of the business to focus on its enterprise clients. The company will complete its exit Aug. 31. The […]
The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) has released two consumer-targeted apps designed to help people manage their ad preferences in mobile. One gives users the power to set preferences for ads in apps and the other does the same for mobile browsers. The apps (scroll for screen shots) were previewed by the DAA at its annual […]
