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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. OpenRTB Revised Guided by DataXu CTO Bill Simmons and Rubicon Project’s Neal Richter, and sponsored by the IAB, the new OpenRTB spec is in the wild (pdf). Simmons writes on the DataXu blog, “When OpenRTB was first announced in November 2010, programmatic advertising had […]

If all goes according to plan, Rubicon Project’s public offering will raise about $108 million ($77 million after expenses) in cash and give it a market cap of $671 million. In an update to its January S-1 filing with the US Securities And Exchange Commission, the company said shareholders will offer 6.8 million shares of […]

Although an industrywide video viewability standard has not yet materialized, players in the digital ecosystem are making progress. As a marketer, “you need to make sure an ad was viewed and we know we will never make video profitable on a click-only basis no matter what KPI we’re using,” remarked DJ Harman, online marketing manager […]

Mobile app retargeting firm ActionX is the latest company with a solution to help retailers target consumers across screens. ActionX’s Crossfire technology uses a set of pixels on a retailer’s app or website to track customers logged in to the site across a mobile device and desktop PC. “[Customers] roll up their cross-screen data and […]

Facebook and Google have emerged as the front-runners in the race to capture mobile ad dollars, with Google leading the charge. Facebook’s efforts to extend its mobile reach and rapid growth has made it a strong contender for first place, but can the behemoth social network overtake Google’s hold on mobile advertising? It is difficult […]

“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 Scharf, manager of display media operations and analytics at Adobe. The topic of viewability has infiltrated our lives. Viewability vendors flood the marketplace as marketers take steps to measure […]

“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 Ernie Cormier, CEO at Nexage. At first blush, there are two strategic imperatives in digital advertising that appear to conflict. First, marketers are catching up to the massive consumer shift […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Cloud Google has its own take on cloud computing, and the Google Ads Developer blog announces, “Starting [yesterday], Ad Exchange users hosting on Google Compute Engine will always receive 100 milliseconds for bid request processing and free network transit from Google Cloud Platform […]

As brick and mortar giants like Walmart and Tesco do more to monetize their customer data, the question becomes – will they go it alone or maintain third-party partnerships? Tesco subsidiary dunnhumby’s rumored purchase of demand-side platform Sociomantic is the most obvious example of a seismic shift that’s occurring in the shopper data space. The […]

Display and search ad tech company IgnitionOne has acquired Knotice, a data-management platform (DMP) and email service provider with approximately 70 employees, AdExchanger has learned. The deal is the latest in a wave of consolidation in the DMP space that began with the October acquisition of Aggregate Knowledge by Neustar for $119 million, and also includes Oracle’s […]

China is one of the fastest-growing, largest mobile markets in the world. Two new studies from Forrester Research and mobile developer-services platform Umeng delve into the unique characteristics of this continuously growing industry, including how consumers deal with the lack of high-speed data service and how social sharing plays a role in many apps. According […]

“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 Benjamin Masse, vice president and general manager, a2x, at Triton Digital. The advertising industry has changed dramatically in recent years. The digital age and vast array of audience-tracking data has […]

“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 Ted McConnell, a consultant at AudienceScience. Lately, trade pundits are predicting the disintermediation of agencies at the hands of digital. Indeed, like Jurassic Park, the ecosystem will produce outcomes no […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Integrating Paid Media The “social CRM” craze that propelled the acquisitions of Buddy Media and Vitrue is giving way to a new reality, Adaptly President Sean O’Neal writes for Adweek. “Paid, owned and earned are no longer a string of disconnected media tactics, but […]

Adobe’s fiscal Q1 (Oct to Dec 2013) delivered healthy demand for its six-product-strong Marketing Cloud suite, which includes Media Optimizer, Social, Analytics, Target, Experience Manager and the newest entrant to the pack, Campaign. “When we look at prospects for Marketing Cloud, we are optimistic,” CEO Shantanu Narayen said during Tuesday’s earnings call. Customers licensing Marketing Cloud products in Q1 include […]

Demand-side platform (DSP) DataXu has recruited Ed Montes, CEO of programmatic trader Digilant, to lead its sales and marketing operations as chief revenue officer. Montes helped found Digilant in 2009, back when it was still called Adnetik and operated as the trading desk unit of French agency conglomerate Havas. Later, when Adnetik was spun off […]

Enterprise tag-management company Ensighten has acquired UK- and New York-based tag manager TagMan for an undisclosed sum, AdExchanger has learned. TagMan confirmed the deal Tuesday. The tag-management space has heated up of late. BrightTag just hired Forrester analyst Joe Stanhope as its SVP of marketing, barely months after banking $27 million from Yahoo Japan. Conversely, […]

Although the performance-based pay-per-call model is not new, there is renewed interest from publishers due to the ubiquity of mobile and new experimentation in ad formats. Twitter last week, for instance, revealed plans to serve direct-response marketers through beta tests with brands for click-to-call functionality, as first reported by Digiday. At its most basic, the […]

Are brick-and-mortar retail chains setting their sights on demand-side platforms (DSPs)? The rumor that Tesco’s customer insights subsidiary, Dunnhumby, will acquire Sociomantic, a DSP provider, adds fuel to the possibility. And whether or not the rumored acquisition is true, industry experts expect to see more retailers working with DSPs. If the deal occurs, Dunnhumby will […]

Data management platform (DMP) Lotame has acquired AdMobius, a company that identifies audiences across devices for ad targeting purposes, AdExchanger has learned. Terms weren’t disclosed for the deal, which comes two weeks after we first reported on talks between the companies. With the purchase, Lotame accelerates its ability to use non-cookie methods to find users […]

“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. The proliferation of connected electronics has spurred new interest in device-recognition technologies even though they have been […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Revolutionizing TV Boxfish, a TV data startup, has raised $7 million in hopes of augmenting its product portfolio and expanding internationally. According to GigaOm, “Until now, the idea has been to profile viewers based on where they live and which shows they watch – […]

Nearly half of content consumption in the U.S. happens simultaneously to other device use, marketing research agency Millward Brown found in its 2014 AdReaction report highlighting how audiences react to ads across devices. The report details how consumers consume content on each screen, as well as simultaneously across screens. In the United States, the agency […]

Ex-Googler Graham Cooke believes that just as the data-management platform (DMP) space has evolved and entered a period of consolidation and attracted new cash injections, so too will the tag managers. Prior to founding Qubit in 2010 with Emre Baran, who spent four years in product management on Google AdWords and AdSense, and two other former Googlers, […]

Mobile analytics firm Kontagent has rebranded itself with a new name – Upsight – through its merger with mobile monetization platform PlayHaven, the companies said Monday. The rebranding comes a month after Kontagent and its competitor, HasOffers, were booted out of Facebook’s Mobile Measurement Program (MMP). Upsight also launched a new mobile analytics platform that shares the […]

Programmatic buying is becoming increasingly important to the China advertising industry. But in recent weeks, executives, including Publicis’ Maurice Levy, have shared how a dip in the luxury market in China has affected their business. We reached out to several industry executives in China with the following question: How is the slowdown in the China […]

“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. We’ve all heard the hype about hyperlocal marketing. This kind of mobile targeting allows brands to reach consumers on mobile devices and […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Putting Out Wildfire Google is rolling Wildfire’s technology into its DoubleClick platform but will leave companies such as Amazon and Cisco looking for a new social media management company. (Read AdExchanger’s June 2013 interview with Google’s Neal Mohan about the integration.) Adweek’s Garett Sloane […]

Media agency MediaCom launched a partnership with mobile ad creation and analytics platform Celtra on Wednesday, a year after the two began working together. The two companies hope to develop solutions that simplify the management, observation and delivery of mobile advertising. Traditionally, these steps required clients to work with individual publishers and multiple tools. In […]