Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. IBM Invests In Ads IBM says it’s investing $100 million into, wait for it, services! According to The Wall Street Journal, a new division called IBM Interactive Experience will lead the charge and “pulls together IBM’s digital marketing agency and its other marketing-related businesses […]
Despite the recent headlines generated around Newegg.com’s battles with patent trolls, the company is best known as an ecommerce retailer of computer hardware and software. The company is privately held, and has an estimated revenue of $2.8 billion. A large part of Newegg’s growth has to do with its continuous customer acquisition. At Adobe Summit 2014 the […]
Digital ad fraud has lately gained mainstream awareness, and many marketers at leading brands now realize the threat that fraud poses to their ability to track online advertising. A Wall Street Journal piece last week chronicled concerns at organizations like L’Oreal, General Motors and Verizon Communications. Fortunately for marketers, as the bad guys are shifting their […]
This is the second in a series on what’s still broken in the analytics space. Part one dealt with data ownership, part two will address technology and part three will focus on people and processes. Even when data ownership issues are resolved between marketers and third-party agencies and service providers, the way in which it is […]
Shirlene Chandrapal, former director of Yahoo! Connected TV (CTV) in Europe, says connected television will connect advertisers with a highly engaged audience whose medium of choice is the Internet. Chandrapal now works for cross-channel advertising technology company Adconion Direct, where she’s tasked with driving CTV’s US expansion. She’s taking on a market where an estimated […]
Mobile ad platform 4INFO ties mobile ad campaigns to offline conversion rates by matching offline consumer data with mobile devices on a household level. Founded in 2004, the company started out as a SMS publishing company but pivoted to mobile advertising in 2010. Its client roster includes Macy’s, Target, Kraft, Campbell’s, Walmart and Southwest Airlines. […]
“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 Marc Rossen, senior director of digital attribution at MarketShare. I am an audiophile. I enjoy music, especially the quality of music. As an audiophile, I have come to appreciate 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 Christopher Hansen, president at Netmining. The industry initially treated mobile like a silo in the rush to get ads onto devices. Marketers, eager to leverage these new devices, pushed agencies to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yield Times In a short feature article, The NY Times covers its own latest subscription offerings as well as native advertising initiatives (“branded content”) in mobile. Times executives continue to spin the “yield” dials. The NYT’s Denise Warren says that “the pricing for the […]
Social data analytics platform 4C released a study, commissioned by Facebook, ranking television show and genre popularity among consumers of various product categories. The research was the result of the company’s data science team combing Facebook for publicly available user behavior data. While some results were unsurprising — the strongest link for alcohol brand audiences […]
Video demand-side platform TubeMogul on Wednesday filed its S-1 registration document with the US Securities Exchange Commission, signaling its intention to raise $75 million in an initial public offering. Read the S-1. In the filing, TubeMogul stated, “For 2011, 2012 and 2013, our total revenue was $15.7 million, $34.2 million and $57.2 million, respectively, representing […]
With Tuesday’s announcement that SAP will resell Adobe Marketing Cloud, packaged with the analytics platform HANA and the ecommerce solution hybris, it’s fair to wonder what SAP’s role in digital marketing will be going forward. Will it, for instance, ever develop its own marketing cloud to compete with Oracle, Salesforce.com or IBM? Brian Walker, chief […]
AOL Networks on Wednesday rebranded as AOL Platforms. As part of the rebrand, the company has rolled programmatic capabilities for video with Adap.tv, mobile and display with the AdLearn Open Platform (AOP) and its supply-side Marketplace product, into the development of platform “ONE by AOL.” IPG Mediabrands is the charter agency partner for ONE, which […]
Mobile programmatic in China is having a turn in the spotlight, and mobile DSP Madhouse says it’s ready for the challenge. Founded in 2006, the company started around the same time US mobile networks AdMob and Millennial Media came on the scene, said CEO Joshua Maa. “We all shared the same vision,” Maa said of […]
Every couple of months, Adobe announces a new element of integration with its marketing automation and email product Campaign, the sixth and most recent addition to the Marketing Cloud. Last September, Campaign rebranded from Neolane, its maiden name before Adobe acquired the marketing automation company. In January, Adobe stated its intention to integrate Campaign with […]
The general consensus is there’s a long way to go before linear TV buys are fully automated. Despite advancements in pushing programmatic into video-on-demand (VOD) environments, the enablement of programmatic transactions in linear TV is still in its infancy. Part of this has to do with the state of the technology. “All the tools in […]
A company already making waves in the insurance advertising world has taken the wraps off a “programmatic” approach to lead generation. Dubbed MediaAlpha Exchange, the demand-side platform vendor has already engaged with some of the biggest names in advertising— including Geico , Progressive and Esurance—to target audiences and acquire customers through custom bidding strategies for […]
“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 Giles Goodwin, co-founder and president of product and technology at Flite. Display advertising had almost been written off when native advertising made its mark against a backdrop of controversy. While […]
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 Brooks Bell, founder and CEO of Brooks Bell Inc. Businesses capture mountains of data and increasingly use it to make smarter decisions. Customer data has become a valuable asset for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Exchange Meets The Street The WSJ profiles MediaCrossing and its Wall Street pedigree as the ad business starts to echo financial markets. The WSJ’s William Launder discusses what’s behind the trend: “Though in its infancy, … ‘programmatic buying’ of ads is changing the industry. […]
You walk into a Honda dealership, and a Toyota ad pops up on your cell phone. The future of programmatic is destined to get more mobile and more local as ad exchanges and agencies team up on innovations that will target consumers more specifically, even when they’re on the move. Christina Lee, a senior digital […]
Location data is a key component of many mobile ad strategies, but more is needed to make the ads relevant. Sportswear company Columbia wanted to reach people who were likely to be interested in its Omni-Heat jackets, but it knew that serving ads in cold climates wasn’t enough. Through the ad agency BSSP, Columbia tapped […]
MyBuys, a provider of personalized recommendations solutions for retailers, has rolled out a display ad offering called MyAds and rewired its product suite. CEO Bob Cell said the changes let marketers more easily measure across the full consumer journey. And just as larger vendors like Adobe have moved toward “customer profile” pricing schemas, so too […]
For anyone wondering what SAP AG is up to these days in digital marketing, an answer was provided at the Adobe Summit in Salt Lake City. SAP has a global partnership with Adobe to resell the latter’s Marketing Cloud along with SAP’s HANA platform and its hybris Commerce Suite. Read the release. Let’s back up […]
If Adobe’s Monday announcements at its annual Summit are any indication, the theme for the company’s Marketing Cloud going into 2014 is “Integration.” This theme manifests in new features Adobe introduced including: a customer data repository (Master Marketing Profile), the ability to evaluate online and offline marketing activities (Marketing Mix Planning), deeper integration with Adobe’s […]
“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. On Monday I presented the findings of our recent “State of Programmatic Media” survey at our bi-annual Programmatic I/O conference. For background, we fielded a survey over a […]
“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 Nishat Mehta, executive vice president of global partnerships at dunnhumby. Consumers further consolidated the number of retailers they invested in last year, shopping at fewer stores than in the past, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Demandbase Banks $15M Cloud-based marketing platform Demandbase closed a $15 million round of equity financing from Greenspring Associates to help B2B marketers serve ads. Enterprise digital marketing competitors have been vying for the same territory, such as the deal Oracle struck with partner Bizo […]
Self-serve programmatic media buying is gaining favor with the in-house marketing set. That was a key trend that emerged at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference in San Francisco Monday, where approximately 500 marketers and data-driven tech companies convened to share how programmatic media buying is changing advertising. At the outset of the show, AdExchanger Director of […]
Delivering retargeted ads to mobile users is a challenging practice. Marketers must decide whether the same consumer browsed through multiple mobile sites and apps, then evaluate the extent to which they can serve relevant ads without appearing creepy. Retargeting firm MyThings believes it has found a solution through a combination of probabilistic technology and various […]
