The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) kicked off day one of the Annual Leadership Meeting (ALM) by rallying advertisers to raise the bar on marketing. To do this, however, marketers and advertisers need to be more vigilant around traffic fraud. Additionally, they must also realize that consumer attention spans, especially in mobile, are short. Holding Agencies […]
San Francisco-based iSocket has raised $5 million in funding, led by Time Warner Investments. The round reflects publishers’ growing interest in the nascent area of programmatic direct ad buying. This latest round represents the second half of iSocket’s B series (the first half was led by Foundry Group) and brings the company’s total to $16.3 […]
“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 Steve Goldberg, senior adviser at EmpiricalMedia. “What was the exact day programmatic went from mostly aspiration to complete validity?” This is a serious question I posed last week to 10 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Tapping Bankers Not to be outdone by the plans of competitor Rubicon Project, sell-side platform PubMatic is now taking its IPO aspirations to the next step, says The Wall Street Journal. The WSJ’s Telis Demos writes, “The company is working with Credit Suisse Group […]
Targeted advertising and programmatic buying changed the advertising landscape by enabling marketers to purchase and scale impressions from specific audiences. But the growth in targeted ads has also caught the attention of fraudsters, who are increasingly using botnets to generate and sell impressions to advertisers, according to Michael Tiffany, co-founder and CEO of the online […]
Location-based marketing technology company MomentFeed is betting big on the hyper-local search and marketing movement. Founded in 2010, the Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) company has raised $3 million in seed funding and recently closed a $6 million Series A round. According to its chairman and CEO Robert Blatt, MomentFeed is “the first company to […]
The distinction between an ad exchange and a supply-side platform (SSP) has become muddled as the once disparate but complementary technologies have merged. Rubicon Project’s description of its offering as an “Advertising Automation Cloud” in its S-1 filed Tuesday underscored that shift and showed how companies originating as SSPs have attempted to shed the label. […]
The advertising industry has been wrestling with what exactly constitutes ad viewability. Trade organizations like the the Media Rating Council (MRC), among others, are working to develop and refine guidelines on this issue. The MRC in particular has approved several viewability measurement solutions. Only a handful of vendors have been approved so far, such as […]
“Brand Aware” explores the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. Today’s column is by Mike Zeman, director of North American digital marketing at Netflix. Numerous studies have outlined the importance of impactful creative in successful advertising campaigns. Many have shown that creative variables, such as messaging, formats and aesthetics, account for […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic Growth Sell-side platform PubMatic raised $13 million, according to Re/code, to aid its expansion internationally and to improve its platform. Although PubMatic’s valuation remains a mystery, the company has raised $76 million to date. “The globalization of real-time bidding has taken place,” said […]
2014 will be a “critical year in the story of advertising” at The New York Times Co., CEO Mark Thompson said during the company’s Q4 2013 earnings call today. It’s a story that will play out in ad tech, native ads, mobile formats and video. “In 2014, we will apply greater focus to mobile monetization, […]
Digital Generation Inc. (DG) will officially rebrand as digital marketing solutions provider Sizmek on Friday. The shakeup follows the $485 million sale of DG’s television ads distribution business to competitor Extreme Reach, announced last August, approved by DG shareholders Monday and which CEO Neil Nguyen expects to close Friday morning. The sale is important because it […]
As Google continues to expand its efforts in search, display, video and mobile, and address consumers across digital marketing channels, the company has obvious aspirations to become a more holistic solution for marketers. The seeds of Google’s marketing – not just advertising – plans could be linked even to the name of its platform: the DoubleClick Digital […]
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said 2013 delivered the “best results we’ve had in a decade.” Although the company reported 13% overall growth in revenue year-over-year in the fourth quarter, growing from $599 million to $679 million, AOL noted net and operating profitability was affected by a “pre-tax restructuring” that cost it $13.2 million. This was […]
“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 Lung Huang, vice president of digital advertising, global partnerships, at dunnhumby. Now that we’re done hearing every industry pundit give their New Year’s resolution or big predictions for 2014, it’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Limitations The openness of the online advertising industry has allowed in sites of all types, and as Randall Rothenberg points out in an article for Business Insider, this could threaten the whole system. The solution, according to Rothenberg, is to have strict guidelines […]
Google’s shift of ads and commerce chief Susan Wojcicki Wednesday to SVP of YouTube, which has 20.5% stake in the US video ad market, and which eMarketer estimated had $5.6 billion in gross ad revenue last year, comes at a critical time for the online video platform. With Wojcicki’s appointment, Salar Kamangar, SVP of YouTube […]
The Rubicon Project’s S-1 filing Tuesday revealed the exact nature of its relationship with News Corporation: The multinational mass-media conglomerate owns 21.3% of Rubicon shares. This deal, which came about in 2010 when News Corp. folded its advertising platform, Fox Audience Network (FAN), into Rubicon Project and took an equity stake in the ad-tech company, […]
Twitter’s first quarter as a public company was hot and cold. Ad performance was the hot part. Q4 2013 ad revenue on the Twitter platform grew 121% to $220 million, of which mobile advertising accounted for more than 75%. The MoPub mobile ad exchange, acquired during the quarter, delivered $8 million in revenue. Audience trends […]
Rubicon Project’s Tuesday IPO filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was a widely anticipated moment of financial transparency for the sell-side platform (SSP), but it wasn’t the first programmatic player to initiate a public offering. Rocket Fuel and Criteo both went public last fall, creating an interesting point of comparison for Rubicon […]
Although national automotive ad budgets are often planned three years in advance, the successes in digital media and marketing on local campaigns have brand managers rethinking those appropriations more frequently. Such was the case with Toyota’s Scion line, a brand designed for younger auto buyers. “Come March, we will likely have discussions as for how […]
Komli Media, a digital media technology provider in the Asia-Pacific market, has launched a Remarketing Demand Side Platform (DSP) geared to enterprise clients. The goal is to help digital marketers convert site visitors into customers using custom tools that blend the advantages of both remarketing and DSP services into a single platform. “DSPs have typically […]
Specific Media’s announced launch Wednesday of a programmatic buying channel – dubbed “Programmatic from Specific Media” – comes at a time when some in the ad-tech industry feel that such tools have become a commodity. Bill Schild, SVP of global marketing at Specific Media, is acutely aware of the perception that everyone and their mother have developed […]
“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 Louis Moynihan, vice president of business development at Demandbase. The convergence of “ad tech” and “marketing tech” has already emerged as a key theme for 2014. There’s just one problem. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Satya Nadella, Ad Man? The question is irresistible: What does Satya Nadella’s CEO appointment auger for Microsoft’s advertising business? One of his many promotions was to corporate VP of the the search, portal and advertising platform group, so he has some fluency in digital […]
Yahoo and mobile ad-serving platform Mocean Mobile jointly announced Tuesday the launch of the Mocean Mobile Marketplace. Mocean Mobile brings mobile inventory from publishers such as Nokia and Univision to Yahoo’s Ad Exchange. Publishers in return can access Yahoo’s ad-targeting capabilities and other services. The Mocean-Yahoo partnership comes one week after Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer […]
Bizo, a maker of B2B digital media and marketing solutions, is betting on the growing importance of paid media to marketing tech. After citing Q4 gross revenue of $12.4 million and a $50 million annual run rate with media costs that average in the 35-40% range, Bizo’s CEO Russ Glass said Bizo for Marketing Automation, […]
At long last, sell-side platform (or do you say “ad exchange” or “marketplace”?) Rubicon Project has filed it’s S-1 Registration Statement with the U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission in preparation for an Initial Public Offering (IPO). The company is looking to raise $100 million. It has yet to reveal pricing for its offering so no […]
Companies can spend millions on ads, SEO, search, content marketing, social and so on, but never maximize those dollars because they lack a good way of stringing together data about the interactions that result from that investment. With no singular picture into each customer’s cross-channel journey, brands don’t have the power to make real-time business […]
