Digital marketing agency 3Q Digital last month snapped up iSearch Media, making it one of the largest independent digital marketing agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area. 3Q manages more than $300 million in ad spend and its client roster includes brands like Electronic Arts, Facebook, Square and Warby Parker. AdExchanger spoke with founder and […]
Traditional radio as a hotbed for ad tech? Well, not really – or at all – but this is precisely the problem Jelli co-founder and CEO Mike Dougherty recognized when his company launched on Wednesday a platform, called RadioSpot, designed to enable programmatic buying for radio advertising. “Radio is a little more simple [than digital […]
Digital think tank and research consultancy L2 is looking to corner the market on prestige brand and CPG strategy. A new investment round of $16.5 million from General Catalyst Partners (a HubSpot investor) received Wednesday also underscores the intersection of the management consultancy and digital agency. “The two primary buckets for this investment will be […]
“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 Chris O’Hara, co-founder and chief revenue officer at Bionic Advertising Systems. Programmatic RTB has seen the lion’s share of venture capital funding and an enormous amount of innovation, yet RTB […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Standardizing Ads The IAB is seeking comment on an update of its “Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metric Definitions.” New metrics include “Ad expand/collapse” and the ever-popular “Skip,” which “describes when a user intentionally skips a linear video ad by clicking a button or other […]
Israel-based performance network Matomy on Monday signaled its intent to go public in a letter filed with the London Stock Exchange. As we noted earlier, the company aims to raise $100 million at a valuation of around $400 million. The filing also revealed Matomy has 388 employees, and more than 1,500 clients. Matomy’s business is […]
Although Google is the $4 billion darling of the US display ad space, players like AOL, Amazon and Facebook are closing in on that share. Most noticeably, Facebook, which for the first time last quarter served more ad impressions on mobile devices than on the desktop, experienced a 50.5% increase in US digital display ad […]
Kargo, a mobile ad platform, has undergone several transformations and is about to make another one. Following the 2001 dot-com crash, Kargo pivoted from providing wireless operators with software and services to helping media brands launch mobile ad campaigns. The New York City company now has a client roster that includes CBS, Univision, Meredith and […]
Add another vendor to the Marketing Cloud fray. Teradata on Tuesday updated its marketing products, revealed a partnership with Urban Airship and officially began calling its stack the “Integrated Marketing Cloud.” Teradata isn’t a newcomer in the field of marketing tech. The company’s VP of marketing, Wes Moore, emphasized the company has been providing marketing […]
“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. As part of my ongoing look at companies’ migration toward a customer lifecycle management approach (or not, as I must always point out, as this is by no 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 Sacha Xavier Reich, partner, media and innovation director for Neo@Ogilvy. It’s funny that they call it native advertising because it is anything but indigenous. Native advertising can be described as ads […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Performance IPO Is it another programmatic IPO? Performance marketing company Matomy has decided it’s ready for an initial public offering and will seek to raise $100 million on the London Stock Exchange, according to the FT. The Israel-based company “generated revenues of $194m in […]
Interpublic Group’s (IPG) out-of-home advertising agency Rapport Worldwide will automate media planning and buying activities using outdoor advertising technology platform ADstruc, the holding company said Monday. As part of a strategic agreement between the two companies, IPG will deploy the technology across Rapport’s five offices globally, which will significantly improve agency efficiencies. Additionally, IPG has […]
Adknowledge has purchased video ad platform Giant Media for an undisclosed sum. The deal marks Adknowledge’s 12th acquisition. Giant Media “seeds” video content through a network of publisher partners and emphasizes social sharing and earned media. Its platform, VideoStat, has supported distribution for the hit Dollar Shave Club campaign and Hyundai’s “Cheetah” spot, which aired […]
“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 Bosco, CEO at ChoiceStream. In a recent column, Criteo CEO Jean-Baptiste Rudelle opined about the virtues of cost-per-click (CPC). I think he was right about the challenges and how […]
If you’ve ever shortened or shared a link on a social platform, chances are you’ve used Bitly. “We are so ubiquitous, but at the same time, people gloss right over us,” said Mark Josephson, CEO of URL shortening service Bitly. He joined the company six months ago from AOL, where he served as SVP of […]
Viewability – the qualities that convey whether an advertisement was seen by its target audience – remains a contentious issue in the ad tech space. This is why associations like the Media Ratings Council (MRC) give accreditation to vendors offering viewability metrics, and why those vendors have scrambled for approval. One such company is Sizmek, […]
Video ad tech firm YuMe on Monday launched its first programmatic solution, Video Reach, designed to provide agency trading desks and brand advertisers with more insight into their TV ad buys. Aimed at television advertisers, Video Reach collects first-party data across screens (PCs, mobile devices and connected TVs) with its Audience Aware SDK and audience […]
When The New York Times discontinued in February its director of programmatic advertising position, held by Matt Prohaska, partners and advertisers wondered how this would affect the publisher’s programmatic initiatives. Certainly the Times sought to alter its structure, saying in a statement it was “re-imagining and growing [its] programmatic organization and strategy with a focus […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Instagram’s Agency Deal Omnicom plans to spend up to $100 million on Instagram, according to Ad Age, in a new deal confirmed by Facebook and the agency holding company. With this new deal, Omnicom agencies will have the ability to create ads on the […]
RelayRides knows that mobile devices are an essential channel for reaching new and current customers. The San Francisco-based car-sharing service lets private car owners rent out their vehicles. It serves more than 1,900 US cities including 270 airports, connecting drivers with car owners who post photos and information about their vehicle on RelayRides’ website. When […]
The conventional wisdom on ad tech margins is that lucrative markups naturally compress over time due to a variety of factors, including competition for media impressions, which drives up the cost of impressions. But some companies, most notably Rocket Fuel, seem to have defied that logic. The programmatic ad platform, which went public last fall, […]
Comcast’s acquisition Thursday of video ad serving platform FreeWheel generated numerous questions, the most common being: What does this mean for the future of Pay TV and digital video ecosystem? Beyond anticipating the convergence of linear TV and digital video ad dollars, there’s still tremendous fragmentation between the worlds of the television operator and programmer, […]
Twitter’s average cost per ad engagement decreased steadily over the past seven quarters, culminating in an 18% decrease in the quarter ended Dec. 21. While ad revenue, by contrast, increased during those same quarters, this chiastic trend isn’t sustainable, as Twitter itself conceded in the 10-K it filed Thursday. The company noted its ad revenue […]
Call-measurement company Telmetrics says it’s seeing digital call tracking jump among its customer base of agencies, publishers and brands. The company’s core business focuses on measuring calls to businesses that come in through advertising assets. AdExchanger checked in with President Bill Dinan for an update on the company and the industry. AdExchanger: What’s new at […]
Barely two weeks after basking in the glow of its BlueKai buy, enterprise software giant Oracle is at it again – this time debuting an open paid media partner API program for Oracle Social Cloud. One of the many questions arising from the BlueKai deal (as well as other Oracle Marketing Cloud acquisitions including Responsys, […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Steve Goldberg, senior adviser at EmpiricalMedia. The industry has gone into full hand-wringing mode over fraudulent traffic, spurious clicks and low levels of viewable ads. That is good. After all, these are serious issues and […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Time Units Time Magazine is giving its site a facelift after Time Inc. spins out from its parent company, Time Warner. Time tells Re/code’s Peter Kafka that traffic has more than doubled and “video streams are up 860 percent in the last year, and […]
Of the three legacy data-marketing services companies, Epsilon has been the quietest in media and advertising services. By contrast, its competitor Acxiom has rumbled along with its data-management platform (DMP) product, Audience Operating System, and its flashy partnership with Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG). Experian Marketing Services recently incorporated its AdTruth product into its marketing tech […]
