“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 Evans, corporate development director at Crimtan. I promised myself I would never use the quote, “Fifty percent of my advertising is wasted — but which half?” But here I go […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ned Brody Speaks On Yahoo Ad Age’s Tim Peterson gets Yahoo’s Ned Brody to talk ads in a Q&A on Ad Age. About the ups and downs of display results at his company, he says, “I believe a third of the company is new, […]
Senators John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) introduced legislation Wednesday that would require data brokers to be accountable and transparent about the information they collect and sell about consumers, but the direct marketing industry is already pushing back hard. “Consumers deserve to know what information about their personal lives is being […]
Professional social platform LinkedIn is cooking up a number of paid product extensions, at the base of which is its nearly 300 million-member-strong social graph and a quickly growing content operation. At LinkedIn’s FinanceConnect in New York Thursday, an event that drew roughly 200 marketers, financial professionals, customers and partners to the Time Warner Center […]
By Ryan Joe and Judith Aquino Media and cable conglomerate Comcast Corporation’s $45 billion deal to acquire its peer, Time Warner Cable, could be a boon for the advertising and marketing industry, combining Comcast’s superior digital platforms with Time Warner Cable’s audience reach across major metropolitan markets. “[This will provide] a level of scale and […]
“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. The explosion in digital data, along with the evolution of the consumer voice, gives brands the opportunity to disrupt traditional relationships with […]
“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 Joe Fullman, director of digital strategy at Arnold Worldwide. It’s official: Google revealed yesterday that its purchase of smart home equipment company Nest closed last week. When we first learned […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Native Exchanges Native advertising appears to be a success, but making it scale is a problem some companies are now trying to solve. Native advertising exchanges are popping up and the last one, as AdWeek’s Mike Shields reported, is Bidtellect. The company is run […]
The typical Alex and Ani customer doesn’t just buy one bangle – she buys repeatedly and pairs them. It’s a style that reflects the jewelry manufacturer and retailer’s philosophy around building its in-house marketing stack. Many brands hate the idea of wading through marketing and ad-tech swamplands. At least, that’s the argument commonly fielded by […]
French retargeting company Criteo closed Q4 with revenues of €135.9 million, up 57% from the €86.6 million recorded for the fourth quarter one year prior. The company, which has been rooted in retail and travel retargeting since its start, said last quarter exceeded expectations after it clocked €113.8 million in the third quarter, its first […]
“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 Michael Oiknine, CEO at Apsalar. The mobile app industry is again abuzz with news that apps are being rejected from Apple’s app store for accessing the Identifier For Advertising (IDFA) […]
Although the jury is out whether consumers will completely cut the cord on traditional TV consumption and migrate en masse to Web streaming, publishers are preparing for the cross-platform possibilities presented by shifting viewer habits. “We’re moving toward consistent measurement,” commented Sarah Baehr, SVP of digital for independent media buying agency Carat, citing the cross-platform […]
Facebook has cut two partners from its mobile ad measurement program for failing to honor its policies around data retention and disclosure, AdExchanger has learned. The companies, HasOffers and Kontagent, violated their agreements with Facebook, including holding onto data longer than their contracts allowed and failing to require their advertisers — app developers — 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 Pete Kim, CEO of MightyHive. The first- party data/big data revolution is in full swing. Virtually everyone now agrees that activating first-party data is strategically important. The simple truth is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. More Distinctive Guardian The Guardian is a digital audience powerhouse, reaching 90 million monthly uniques. In an interview with Media Briefing, Guardian Media Group CEO Andrew Miller says programmatic advertising is integral to monetizing that huge audience. Reporter Jasper Jackson writes of Miller, “He […]
Following a rough year, Conversant – the ad-tech company formerly known as ad network ValueClick – had what CEO John Giuliani described in the company’s quarterly call as a “solid Q4 to close out the year.” Read the release. The company on Tuesday announced 2013 Q4 revenue of $176.4 million, a 6% increase from the same period […]
Advertising intelligence provider Integral Ad Science has acquired Simplytics, a UK-based mobile ad server and analytics platform. The deal brings mobile verification capabilities for in-app and mobile Web campaigns to Integral’s existing verification services for video and display ads. “We’re very excited because Simplytics is complementary to what we do and once we add our fraud […]
Datalogix’s acquisition Tuesday of shopper marketing and loyalty data company Spire indicates a growing trend around in-store marketing: blending traditional shopper-and-trade-marketing dollars with brand spend. “[Traditionally], shopper decisions would be made specifically by the teams at P&G and Unilever or Kraft, who own those retailer relationships and have got a certain fixed allocation of shopper […]
Update 4:00 ET: In a recently-released blog post, Mozilla VP of content services Darren Herman announced the kick-off of an experimental program called Directory Tiles. Normally, when Firefox users open a new tab, they see tiles featuring images from sites they’d visited in the past. New users with no Firefox surfing history will, upon opening the […]
FreeWheel, a technology and services company cofounded seven years ago by Jonathan Heller, Doug Knopper and Diane Yu, helps media companies like NBCUniversal and Viacom connect TV buyers with premium digital video inventory. It also worked with Amazon to help power video ad content for the ecommerce giant. Knopper, who also serves as FreeWheel’s co-CEO, […]
Google is injecting real-time metrics into its DoubleClick ad business via a partnership with comScore, the Mountain View, Calif., company said Tuesday. On day two of the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting, Neal Mohan, Google’s VP of display advertising, outlined the challenges marketers face in measuring the results of digital ad campaigns. “Existing frameworks don’t do a […]
The best-of-breed hodgepodge has created a giant puzzle for marketers, who must piece together various vendor reports to see a clear picture of ad campaign performance. “Publishers and marketers rely on third-party reporting to run their businesses,” said James Curran, CEO of STAQ, a systems integrator specializing in advertising technology. “They have multiple log-ins, multiple […]
“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 of Bionic Advertising Systems. Standardizing operations on a media management system and putting together a media plan are huge undertakings, with a ton […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Extreme Reach Closes Deal After months of anticipation, Extreme Reach on Monday closed its $485 million acquisition of its former competitor, Digital Generation’s (DG) TV advertising business. Read the press release. DG, for its part, rebranded as Sizmek after jettisoning this line of business. […]
It’s a tumultuous time for the usually staid ad-tech subsector of sell-side platforms (SSPs). As The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday (registration required), PubMatic will chase direct competitor Rubicon Project into the public markets, seeking a valuation of more than $1 billion. Additionally, PubMatic has replaced its top marketer, Larry Harris, with Razorfish and […]
Despite the ballyhoo over cord cutting, data from Forrester Research shows there’s no widespread move by consumers to cut television services in favor of Internet streaming, at least for now. The reprieve is certainly good news for broadcasters, and also gives marketers some breathing room to straighten out their digital video strategies. Forrester’s report showed […]
As ecommerce takes off globally, retargeting technology and demand-side platform (DSP) provider RTB House, which works with brands in 29 markets, is educating international advertisers about programmatic buying and RTB. Programmatic buying and RTB in Europe has benefitted from the increase in ecommerce and the growth of the international fashion industry. RTB House started in 2012 in […]
At last month’s Industry Preview 2014 conference, IPG Mediabrands Global CEO Matt Seiler joined Deloitte Digital principle Mark Singer for a discussion about “The Unfolding Strategy and Services Sector.” The panel was moderated by Zach Rodgers, AdExchanger’s managing editor.
From 2010 to 2013, enterprise giants like Adobe, IBM, Oracle and Salesforce.com collectively spent close to $30 billion acquiring digital marketing technologies. Yet, enterprise platform companies will continue to invest to fill gaps in their marketing stacks in 2014, experts predict. Email, one of the oldest of digital channels, still remains an attractive target for […]
