Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Gobbles Up mDialog Google acquired mDialog, signaling its interest in more digital advertising. mDialog is a small-fish tech provider in the digital video ad space that services some major media companies and broadcasters. In a Google+ post concerning the acquisition, Google says, “We’re […]
Matt Seiler is remarkably on-message. For the past five years, the CEO of Interpublic Group’s media investment arm, Mediabrands, has banged the drum about the need for performance-based compensation for agencies. More recently he also took up the banner of automation, proposing to automate 50% of all media investment by the end of 2015. Interestingly, the automation rallying […]
When mobile analytics company Apsalar started telling its demand-side platform (DSP) customers a few months ago that is was exiting the DSP business, some took it as welcome news. Having a dedicated mobile DSP isn’t a priority yet for some marketers, and by taking their DSP off the table, Apsalar seemingly removed the conflict of […]
Twitter has seemingly renewed its commitment to the second screen, revealing plans Thursday to acquire live video clipping and distribution platform SnappyTV. “Our goal is to help publishers quickly share great moments from events so people can experience those moments as they happen,” wrote Baljeet Singh, a director of product management at Twitter, in a […]
Social bookmarking mainstay AddThis has rolled out an online marketplace to help online publishers serve more targeted and relevant content to their visitors. Like other companies of its kind that have shifted strategies (Bitl.y for example), AddThis, which began initially with a distinct focus on sharing widgets and site plug-ins, has since expanded its pitch to include […]
IZEA, a company that connects social media content creators with brands, recently rolled out a cloud-based “Sponsorship Marketplace” to help advertisers automate content distribution and measurement. IZEA’s network is comprised of over 50,000 registered advertisers and agencies. Some of the company’s agency partners include Mindshare, Starcom, Initiative, Ogilvy and Hill Holliday. Founder and CEO Ted […]
“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 Paul Steketee, head of paid social and emerging media capabilities at Merkle. Some common themes are emerging here at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity: Data and digital are the talk […]
“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 Andrew Casale, vice president of strategy at Casale Media Inc. In spite of a flourishing programmatic marketplace, with all the benefits it provides buyers for targeting key audiences with the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Targeting Wearables Tech startup Appier raised $6 million, TechCrunch reported Wednesday. Appier offers targeted marketing across wearables, smartphones and tablets, and works with clients such as Heineken, IKEA, Lancome and game developers. Appier will use the funding to further research its cross-screen targeting platform. […]
“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 Benny Arbel, founder and CEO at myThings. We’ve all seen the subject of programmatic campaign transparency hit the spotlight recently. “When someone claims there’s not enough transparency in programmatic, I encourage […]
On Tuesday at the Cannes Lions festival, leaders of the world’s four largest agency trading desks participated in a panel hosted by Rubicon Project. The discussion touched on a wide range of topics, including deal automation, technology investment and transparency. One macro takeaway is that the so-called trading desks resemble each other less than they used to. […]
Amazon preluded its “big reveal” Wednesday (Fire phone) with a word to app developers: “We’re where you want to be.” The company also struck a deal Wednesday with BlackBerry to offer the Amazon Appstore as a lifeline to BlackBerry’s fledgling of an apps ecosystem. Amazon’s Appstore sits somewhere in the 240,000 app range, coming close to tripling its […]
Retailigence, a mobile location company that connects brand advertisers with brick-and-mortar pricing and product availability down to the SKU, has turned an eye toward ad tech vendors. Rolling out on Wednesday an adPop Engine for channel partners, of which Medialets, AdColony, PointRoll, Tremor Video and Xtopoly are early users, the company, which bills itself as […]
When Xaxis released its proprietary data-management platform (DMP) last week, competitors backhanded the WPP-owned tech shop with compliments. On the one hand, $25 million is an impressive figure for a company to invest in technological innovation. On the other hand, what good is this technology if clients are scared off by Xaxis’ opaque business model? […]
Both site content and a publisher’s brand perception have significant impact on overall ad effectiveness, a new Millward Brown Digital publisher study reveals. The study, titled “Publisher Impact,” surveyed a sample group of 4,000 respondents, asking them to rate 40-some publishers across five categories for site “experience.” The end goal? Help premium publishers justify their position […]
Scott Ferris, GM of television and video at Microsoft Advertising, has been in the video biz for around three decades. For seven of those years, Ferris has been at Microsoft, heading up its video business group. Most recently however, he’s taken the lead role in what Microsoft calls its Content and Entertainment business group, which […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Buying Time Spent Contently’s Sam Petulla interviews Jon Slade, digital ad director for the FT, on the FT’s new “time spent” currency being implemented instead of CPMs. He explains, “We’re working from a hypothesis that one hour is our currency, with a minimum of […]
GroupM made waves last week when Ari Bluman, chief digital investment officer for North America, said WPP Group’s media agencies will stop buying impressions in open auctions by the end of 2014. It turns out that’s not quite the case, as Brian Lesser, CEO of WPP’s Xaxis programmatic platform, made clear in public comments Tuesday […]
Adobe Systems’ fiscal Q2 numbers are in – quarterly revenue for the Adobe Marketing Cloud suite was $283 million, a 23% increase year-over-year. Adobe expressed strength in its outlook for Marketing Cloud, targeting 20% year-over-year future revenue growth. Adobe’s total fiscal second quarter earnings were strong, coming in at $1.07 billion with non-GAAP earnings at 37 cents […]
“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 Tony Casson, senior director of ad tech products at sovrn. The challenge of combatting online ad fraud has received intense publicity in recent months. The digital advertising industry, in conjunction […]
Updated with comment from Yahoo Yahoo has been courting agencies for months, rumoredly circulating a blueprint to bring Tumblr sponsored posts off-site to Yahoo owned-and-operated properties, as AdExchanger reported in early May. Yahoo has now emerged with those plans publicly, rolling out on Tuesday Tumblr Sponsored Posts through Yahoo’s network, which the Internet company claims will reach […]
Penry Price has a long legacy as an advertising exec. He went from Google to Dstillery and, as of eight months ago, assumed the role of VP of marketing solutions at LinkedIn. Compared to his previous roles, Price has a slightly different imperative at LinkedIn. Because of the social network’s audience of 300 million business-minded registrants, […]
The big brands have woken up to programmatic buying, and will not be going back to sleep. The gang of marketers directly controlling their exchange-traded media platforms keeps getting larger. Its membership now includes Kimberly-Clark, Kellogg’s, American Express, Procter & Gamble, Allstate Insurance, 1-800-Flowers and Unilever. Mondelez International is the latest to seize a more […]
David Helmreich, the former SVP and GM of Neustar’s media and advertising business, will take on the role of CEO for Audience Partners beginning in either late August or early September. Jeff Dittus, the CEO and co-founder, will step down and be chairman of the board, though he will continue to be involved in the […]
“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. Is it just me, or are there an awful lot of great folks leaving their agency jobs these days? I took notice when Matt Spiegel left Annalect, a division […]
“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 Marcus Tewksbury, global vice president for product strategy at Experian Marketing Services. In the highly addictive, long-running television series “Battlestar Galactica,” there is a pivotal moment where warring factions from the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Biting Into Programmatic Mondelez International is adopting a programmatic strategy for video buying through TubeMogul, according to a release. Working with brands like Oreo, Chips Ahoy, Toblerone and Trident, the CPG corporation will target consumers mainly through mobile and Internet videos. “Programmatic fits within […]
Audience measurement mainstay Rentrak paid homage to the staying power of programmatic when, on its Q4 earnings call just weeks ago, Vice Chairman and CEO Bill Livek credited automated advertising as a growing trend the company is now “catering to.” Rentrak has been on a tear of late, racking up headlines as a (perhaps less-publicized, […]
The Economist has rolled out “First Impression” multiplatform ad units to let advertisers grab a weekly premium spot across all Economist channels, including its website, tablet and smartphone apps, as well as its print edition. The publisher has also debuted a new weekly reader measurement called “Total Economist Weekly Audience” (TEWA) in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers to help […]
As advertisers seek ways to extend their broadcast media buys through cross-platform campaigns, cross-screen ad-delivery companies are bridging the technical gap. Such is the case with cross-screen tool Civolution, which has teamed up with Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer Brand Networks to help brands buy social ads in conjunction with live television events. Omnicom’s Resolution Media is […]
