Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Pinterest Pins Paid Ads Last fall, Pinterest announced its plan to test promoted pins. The social-bookmarking company is expediting its monetization aims, with the launch of its first paid ads. Of Pinterest’s estimated 40.1 million monthly US-based users, about 85% are female. The paid […]
CBS Sports SVP and GM Jason Kint will as of May 27 serve as the new CEO of the Online Publishers Association (OPA), a non-profit trade organization representing the interests of premium online publishers like The New York Times, NBCUniversal and the Associated Press. Current OPA president Pam Horan is stepping down after 10 years. […]
As the growing number of smart TVs and connected devices cause further fragmentation, de-duped cross-platform measurement has become the media planner’s imperative. Nielsen and comScore are answering the call by beefing up digital video and mobile integrations in their respective media measurement tools. Nielsen since 1950 has been inextricably linked to TV audience measurement, claiming access […]
Mobile analytics and advertising firm Flurry will allow advertisers to buy VAST-enabled (IAB’s Digital Video Ad Serving Template) video ad units programmatically through its network and marketplace. It also unveiled additional features through its SDK designed to give app developers more options to show video ads on their apps. “For the first time, publishers or […]
Valuing mobile ad inventory is challenging as advertisers struggle assessing viewability, attribution and other measurements. To find out how media-buying agencies tackle this problem, AdExchanger asked agencies, “What are the attributes of quality mobile inventory?” Click below or scroll down to read their responses. Jenn Cox, mobility lead at Starcom USA Jason Pope, VP of AOD at VivaKi JiYoung Kim, […]
When ad tech company IgnitionOne acquired data-management platform (DMP) Knotice, did it become a marketing cloud? CEO Will Margiloff would say the company was one even before. In the most literal sense, he’s right: “We decided back in 2011, well before anyone talked about marketing clouds, that you need to integrate the disparate pieces of […]
“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 Tom Manvydas, vice president of advertising strategy and solutions at Experian Marketing Services. Marketers that successfully innovate in digital possess, without exception, established core competencies that deliver consistent results. These […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mozilla’s Change Of Heart On Friday, Mozilla pivoted from its previous “experiment” – announced by Darren Herman in February – to test browser tab ads known as “Tiles.” Mozilla VP Jonathan Nightingale said in a post, “A lot of our community … worried that […]
Incoming CEO David Yovanno says Marin Software has unfulfilled potential to support execution of display media buys alongside search, and he wants to help it get there. “In search, which represents roughly 50% of total online marketing spend, Marin Software is a leader,” he said. “As the company grows, there’s an opportunity to leverage this […]
Tremor Video’s management this week hammered on the company’s embrace of programmatic video and talked up plans to roll out a supply-side platform (SSP) for premium publishers later this year. (Read the earnings release.) Tremor posted a top-line revenue increase of 40.8% year over year, to $34.9 million. CEO Bill Day emphasized during Tremor’s earnings call the company’s […]
Jonathan Becher has a lot on his mind this week. As CMO of global German enterprise software company SAP, which employs 67,000, he spearheads the messaging for a multi-billion dollar public business. And on Sunday, that business announced the departure of Vishal Sikka, one of its product pioneers who tirelessly evangelized SAP’s high-speed-everything engine HANA. […]
With the collapse of the proposed merger of agency holding companies Omnicom and Publicis, former agency exec and Vertere Group’s Tim Hanlon provided his take: “Much of of the logic I laid out last year when the deal was announced still holds. If anything, it only exacerbates the questions that brand marketers have about how to best […]
Performance Horizon Group (PHG) is an affiliate marketing campaign management provider whose clients have included Sony and T-Mobile. Started in 2010 with seven employees, the company now has nearly 60 on staff in offices in London and Newcastle, England, New York and Sydney. The company is led by some of the founding members of Buy.at, […]
“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. I recently bought a dress at a Uniqlo store in New York. Given the mobile soapbox upon which I typically stand, this […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Pressure On Display TV station and website owner Scripps Networks reported favorable earnings Thursday and, in the process, commented on the programmatic wave for its websites. Lori Hickok, Scripps’ EVP for finance, said on the earnings conference call with analysts, “What we’re seeing, … […]
What a fiasco. A “merger of equals” between Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group that was to be the largest acquisition in advertising history is now off as the two companies have proven unable to overcome a range of impediments, including tax concerns, integration pain, and the personalities of the chief executives. “The challenges that still […]
Rocket Fuel, one of a growing pack of public ad tech companies, reported 95% growth in revenues and 107% margin acceleration during the first quarter. But it wasn’t enough for Wall Street, which punished the company’s stock after hours – perhaps in light of decelerating top-line revenues. Rocket Fuel’s active customers more than doubled year over year to 1,251, and the […]
After AOL’s and Google’s respective acquisitions of Convertro and Adometry, the space held by independent marketing attribution vendors immediately shrank. Remaining companies include Visual IQ, C3 Metrics, DataSong, DC Storm, and Encore Metrics. But what is the future of these attribution pure-plays as enterprise stacks invest in cross-channel technologies? “I see a complete collision course with […]
Still thinking of AOL as a media company? Tim Armstrong wants to change your mind. On the company’s Q1 earnings call Wednesday, its CEO repeatedly invoked “platforms,” “mechanization” and, of course, “programmatic” as the underpinnings of the business. AOL’s Tuesday acquisition of multitouch attribution vendor Convertro also hammered this message home. Armstrong’s platform ardor almost […]
Digital agency Essence has hired Oscar Garza, formerly of Electronic Arts (EA), to lead a new effort to bring programmatic buying solutions to clients in North America. Garza started this week as director of programmatic and audience, tasked with building a new team based out of Essence’s San Francisco office. As director of acquisition for […]
Following Google and AOL’s acquisitions of multitouch attribution vendors Adometry and Convertro Tuesday, several questions arose. The first, and perhaps easiest to answer: What was the driving force for the purchasers and how will the technologies plug into their existing platforms? “The macro rationale for both of the acquisitions seems to be the growing need […]
Yahoo will try a new way to monetize Tumblr, via the introduction of posts that can be promoted as ad units across Yahoo’s network of owned and operated sites. While neither Yahoo nor its Tumblr subsidiary confirmed to AdExchanger that this is in the works or when the product is scheduled to debut, the existence of ads designed […]
“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 Russell Glass, CEO at Bizo. Yes, the B2B advertising campaign is in the last throes of death. Don’t believe me? I’ll explain. It all started with the buyer’s journey, which […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Americans For Original Digital Video Original digital video is increasingly popular among Americans, according to the IAB’s “2014 Original Digital Video Study,” courtesy of GfK. Surveying original digital programming viewers, audiences prefered digital over news, sports and daytime programming on television. IAB’s SVP of […]
Mobile ad network Millennial Media revealed during its Q1 earnings call Wednesday that although quarterly revenue is up, the company continues to bleed money and CFO Michael Avon is stepping down. As a result of its dismal report, the company’s shares tumbled 45% in after hours trading, hovering in the $3 range. While Millennial Media reported $72.6 […]
Digital publisher Internet Brands has seen a revenue uptick from a new ad unit implemented across some of its sites. Since launching the so-called InFold format from ad tech provider Infolinks across its auto community and travel and leisure verticals, revenue in those verticals grew 2.5 times across Web and mobile, with CPMs increasing by more than 180%. […]
The relationship between procurement and marketing has always been dicey, but things may be turning a corner. New survey results previewed Wednesday at Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Advertising Financial Management Conference show that while procurement and marketing professionals may not always see eye to eye, both parties are starting to collaborate better to achieve more […]
“Mechanization,” “piping,” and “programmatic” are the keywords at AOL these days as the company puts the pedal down on its ad tech plans. One day after scooping up multitouch attribution vendor Convertro for $101 million, AOL revealed revenue from the company’s ad platform business grew 55% during the first quarter 2014 to $186 million, despite a 3% decline in […]
Marketing attribution and device fragmentation continue to prevent advertisers from further investing in mobile advertising, said MasterCard and Chrysler executives in a panel discussion at the Mobile Marketing Association’s New York Forum on Tuesday. Bob Arnold, digital strategy and media lead of North America at Google, moderated a discussion with Benjamin Jankowski, group head of […]
