Google’s publisher business is on a tear. Last week it struck two private exchange deals with Time Inc. and the 42-member Local Media Consortium. Google will support programmatic direct sales for these sellers and provide wider access to their quality inventory for global media traders such as trading desks at Publicis Groupe’s Vivaki AOD or […]
Adap.tv, acquired by AOL six months ago, unveiled on Monday a new add-on to its Audience Path demand-side platform (DSP), called Audience Path for TV, to let advertisers and agencies apply more data to their linear TV ad buys. The release capitalizes on a trend in which data-driven ad buying on linear TV presents opportunities for […]
Palo Alto and Paris-based startup Ifeelgoods is betting consumers will gravitate toward personalized offers over traditional loyalty concepts like deep discounts. The digital rewards network founded in 2010 has launched a Personalized Offers Platform for marketers and established a strategic partnership with VivaKi for an initial rollout to Publicis Groupe agencies Razorfish, Digitas and Performics. […]
“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 Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, CEO and co-founder at Criteo. Digital advertising moves quickly — sometimes too quickly. The market and technology has evolved significantly over the past five years to drive the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Video Acquisition Over the weekend, Ryan Lawler said in TechCrunch that, according to his sources, Comcast will buy video platform Freewheel for $320 million. Lawler explains, “Comcast, of course, is interested in owning the technology for its own video ad platform. That said, FreeWheel […]
One of the key strengths of a business is knowing when to pivot. For demand-side audience-targeting platform ChoiceStream, that involved switching from product recommendation software to programmatic advertising services in 2011. Eric Bosco, formerly the company’s COO, took the reins as CEO last May. AdExchanger spoke with Bosco about the company’s transition. AdExchanger: Where does […]
You could say digital entrepreneurship runs in the family. Zach James cofounded Movieclips.com in 2009 before embarking on his latest venture into video with Zefr, which helps brands and networks manage and monetize their YouTube video assets. James is also the brother of Josh James, founder of Omniture (which was sold to Adobe Systems for […]
Solutions that analyze various data points such as device types, location data from an ad request, operating systems and other data to evaluate matches between users and devices are gaining traction. For instance, AdMobius, which offers probabilistic solutions, is rumored to be an acquisition target. But pinning down the accuracy rate of probabilistic solutions continues […]
“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 Eli Portnoy, general manager at Thinknear. Job listings always include requirements, such as a minimum level of experience, a degree in a related field, fluency in certain languages or residence […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Video Ads Continue Growing Online video ads on long-form content grew by 86% in the fourth quarter, according to FreeWheel. According to co-CEO Doug Knopper, there are currently nine ads per long-form video, which isn’t very much compared to TV’s 20 ads. Read more […]
In its Q4 conference call with investors, digital video ad solutions provider YuMe’s CEO Jayant Kadambi provided some insight into the company’s planned entry into programmatic and international markets this year. Kadambi said YuMe’s programmatic offerings will be built on existing platforms, and complement rather than replace direct sales. Agencies and trading desks will be […]
Salesforce.com reported 37% revenue growth in Q4, to $1.15 billion, driven in part by the $2.5 billion July 2013 acquisition of ExactTarget. Its full year revenue was $4.07 billion, up 33% year-over-year. ExactTarget is the lynchpin of ExactTarget Marketing Cloud, which competes with analogous stacks fielded by Adobe and Oracle. Specifically, ExactTarget contributed $96 million in […]
Addressable TV advertising shouldn’t be viewed as a replacement for mass audience or network buys – or executed without rich data extensions, warned cable operators, agencies and media companies at the Advanced Advertising forum Thursday in New York. Ultimately the promise of addressable TV depends on the granularity of audience-targeting data marketers get at the household level. […]
Cross-device audience targeting company AdMobius is close to a sale, and a deal could close as early as next week, according to sources with knowledge of the company. One of the suitors is Lotame, which has made an offer, but the transaction has not yet been consummated. There may be other buyers interested as well. AdMobius […]
“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 Mike Driscoll, CEO and founder of Metamarkets. Data is the fuel and the exhaust of programmatic advertising. It informs every transaction, and every transaction generates more of it. As impression […]
Mobile demand-side platform (DSP) Tapad has hired Ben Regensburger, the former president of the DoubleClick ad exchange in EMEA and APAC before its acquisition by Google. Regensburger will serve as president of Tapad Europe. He joins Jim Clark, formerly of Turn, whom Tapad brought on this month to lead media and programmatic ad sales, as well […]
Hundreds of mobile ad networks are working on a transition to programmatic trading. One of them is Orange Advertising, a unit of European wireless carrier Orange. Last year, the company realized it needed an answer to the impression-buying trend, and began evaluating ad tech partners to support a nascent trading desk. It ultimately settled on […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Search Expansion Twitter is adding promoted accounts to search results as the company seeks new revenue streams. Although mobile is a huge part of Twitter’s strategy, its fourth-quarter earnings were disappointing. The new advertising option is data-driven. “We automatically select relevant search queries for […]
Time Inc. has set up a private exchange with inventory from its global properties, supported by Google technology. The new, expanded marketplace – called Time Inc. Global Exchange – is built on Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange and spans some 116 million global unique users (per comScore). Advertisers and marketers can use it to reach audiences across […]
Demand-side platform The Trade Desk has received $20 million in Series B funding led by Hermes Growth Partners. The Ventura, Calif.-based company told AdExchanger the move was a natural response to growth in demand for programmatic platforms globally. “We made a strategic decision that we wanted to take in more capital,” CEO Jeff Green said, […]
OpenX Technologies on Wednesday rolled out a mobile native ad exchange called Native O/X. The “native” ad formats include in-stream display, rich media and video ad units that are inserted into an app’s content. OpenX’s launch partners for the exchange include IconApps, Tagged, Run, Mediasmart and Celtra. Presenting ads in a format that matches the […]
“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 Alan Pearlstein, CEO and co-founder of Cross Pixel Inc. A fundamental difference between offline and online data usage is associated marketing cost. Digital ads (banners) delivered to specific audiences across […]
Zumobi, a Seattle-based mobile media and advertising technology company that supplies integrated app content to brands and publishers, launched Wednesday the Zumobi Brand Integration Platform for Marketers. Zumobi operates premium mobile app network The Zumobi Network and has worked with publishing partners like Hearst Digital Media and MSN to monetize its mobile apps through its […]
As marketers and advertisers try to parse real-time interactions across multiple channels, they’re finding they need big data warehouses and analytics tools. The problem is, some are startlingly slow or, in other instances, they simply hit a wall when volumes are high. To combat this, vendors selling big data tools to marketers are increasingly building their […]
Russian search engine Yandex and Google have agreed to give their respective advertisers mutual access to the real-time bidding (RTB) ad exchanges. Under the agreement, Google’s clients will have access to the advertising inventory offered by publishers in Yandex’s Advertising Network (YAN), while Yandex’s clients will be able to bid on display ads on Google’s DoubleClick Ad […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Takeover Target An article in Bloomberg explores the possibilities that ad tech firm Conversant (was ValueClick Media) may be an attractive takeover target. Bloomberg’s Laura Lorenzetti paraphrases Wedbush analyst Shyam Patil, who says, “Conversant could struggle to find a buyer for the whole business […]
Pegasystems, a company that offers customer relationship management and business process management solutions for B2B customers, is moving deeper into the marketing world. The Cambridge, Mass., company last week added location-based mobile targeting capabilities to its marketing solution and appointed Robert Tas, JPMorgan Chase’s former head of digital marketing, as its new CMO and SVP […]
A deal between Google and a collective of 42 local media holding companies could enable private exchange deals spanning some 800 newspapers and 200 broadcasters. The agreement is the first in a series of projects that the so-called Local Media Consortium (LMC) – formerly known as the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium — will bid out to […]
“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 Tim Gough, vice president of media solutions at dunnhumby. Ah, February — the season for major television events that aren’t dominated by the trucks-and-beer crowd of the regular football season. […]
