“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 Marcus Pratt, vice president of insights and technology at Mediasmith. Part of my job involves evaluating media technology companies. This is extremely fun but is sometimes frustrating. The vibrant marketing […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Collaborating For Online Video AT&T and The Chernin Group announced Tuesday plans to acquire, invest in and launch OTT (over-the-top) video services, and have collectively contributed more than $500M to the venture. This positions the companies to expand operations in the rapidly growing online […]
First Facebook, then Twitter and now Google. The search giant unveiled plans Tuesday to offer app install ads on mobile search and YouTube (where they’ll be presented like TrueView ads), similar to the units that have been a cash cow for Facebook. The company said it plans to launch this new product over the next […]
Omnicom’s global revenues rose to $3.5 billion during the first quarter, a 3% year-over-year increase. Increased US ad spend contributed to these better-than-expected figures (US revenue rose 4% year over year to $1.9 billion in Q1). All was not peaches and cream, however, due to the ongoing and unexpected delay of the $35 billion merger with […]
Marketing M&A deal activity increased 22% year over year, marking one of the highest volume quarters on record, according to new data from mid-market investment bank Berkery Noyes. On a quarterly basis, media and marketing transaction volume increased by 3% from 423 to 434 deals; average deal size also climbed, increasing from $25.1 billion to […]
Four months after first introducing support for native advertising, Twitter’s mobile exchange MoPub is pitching the solution to all publishers. Consisting of an native ads SDK, a publisher-side ad server, and an RTB extension, the MoPub native product is a “a complete solution for direct sold and exchange traded native ads, delivering the same control […]
Premium publishers have needed some convincing to open up their more valuable inventory to programmatic buying technologies. But interest in tools that streamline the often unwieldy direct sales process has heated up. It’s one of the reasons Yieldex, a company best known for producing forecasting and analytics tools for premium inventory, introduced a new line […]
The local search and advertising company YP has partnered with ad exchange OpenX, the companies said Tuesday. Under the agreement, OpenX allows advertisers to bid programmatically on mobile and Web display inventory on YP’s ad network. YP claims to have more than 300 publishers on its Local Ad Network, including AOL, Yahoo and Pandora. “With display, […]
Despite some volatility in ad pricing and performance last quarter, Adobe Index’s Q1 2014 Social Media Intelligence Report indicates Facebook remains the leader in driving revenue per visit (RPV). Meanwhile other platforms – namely Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest – are in some instances noticing quarterly double-digit declines in RPV. In paid social, Facebook saw 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 Justin Petty, vice president of global media and partnerships at dunnhumby. When I worked as an analytics consultant in the telecom industry 10 years ago, the incumbent approach was to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mobile Supply Deals As mobile gaming rises in popularity, Google and Apple are cutting deals with companies that develop popular games. In exchange for early releases on iOS and Android platforms, game makers are being offered prime marketing spots in app stores. This brings […]
In recent months, Evidon has pushed to get more people to use Ghostery. As of Monday, everybody who uses Evidon will by default be using Ghostery, because the entire company is taking the name of its popular browser app. More specifically, Evidon will become Ghostery Enterprise. “We’re refocusing on the concept of transparency for everyone,” […]
Social platforms like Tumblr and Twitter give content producers tremendous opportunities to engage with audiences. But they also present a tremendous challenge – namely being able to distribute and measure that content cross-platform. As the TV upfront season approaches, Viacom sales chief Jeff Lucas said overcoming this challenge will be a priority. Viacom is working […]
The native ad company Sharethrough expanded its services nearly three years ago from a purely video ad platform to multiple types of branded content. The move to include additional branded content has paid off. The company raised $17 million in a third round of funding in January. It also released a new SDK in early April […]
Retargeting platform AdRoll announced a $70 million funding round, led by Foundation Capital. The San Francisco-based company, which had previously raised $19 million, has expanded rapidly since launching in 2007 and become a leader in the retargeting space. AdRoll plans to use the investment to beef up its existing platform for mobile, and expand hiring at […]
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 Bill Day, CEO at Tremor Video. Until recently, TV has been a relatively easy means to a reach and frequency end, but that’s not enough anymore. I doubt any big […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Tracking Location New location tracking capabilities (announced last Thursday) through Facebook have the ecosystem – and Facebook users – wondering when it will be used for ad targeting. TechCrunch’s Josh Constine posits, “Imagine if the ads you saw in your News Feed were for […]
A co-op of 26 Godfather’s Pizza franchises drove online sales at a rate of six times their media spend through FBX. Working on behalf of the co-op, Nebraska agency SKAR enlisted Varick Media Management (VMM), which it had worked with previously, to help run its coverage through FBX. Digital advertising is relatively new to the […]
The rules of marketing have changed drastically for organizations that traditionally relied heavily on the big broadcast buy. Consider political campaigns, which are placing a growing premium on targeted messaging across multiple channels. The tech-savvy campaign that President Barack Obama’s aides unleashed six years ago was only the beginning – employing digital strategies is quickly becoming […]
Most know Adobe for the company’s Creative and Marketing Cloud offerings, but it’s the company’s end-to-end, “TV Everywhere” platform Adobe Primetime that steals the show with broadcasters and cable operators like NBC Sports and Time Warner Cable. The year-old platform encompasses technology Adobe acquired when it bought video ads platform Auditude in 2011, as well […]
Krux’s co-founders, CEO Tom Chavez and CTO Vivek Vaidya, discuss what the company offers in terms of linking consumers across devices. This is the eighth in AdExchanger’s series on the cross-device question, in which we examine what each DMP can provide in terms of connecting the identities or profiles of consumers across the digital, mobile […]
As programmatic buying continues to grow internationally, one region is catching companies’ eyes: Asia Pacific. But online advertising technology in countries like China is a completely different beast than what many Western ad tech companies are used to. Many players in the ad tech space in China, including the major publishers, are international companies looking […]
“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. When real-time bidding debuted at scale a few years ago, it was heavily associated with remnant inventory and direct-response campaigns. Fast forward […]
“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 Frost Prioleau, CEO and co-founder of Simpli.fi. The average small and medium-sized business (SMB) in the US spends about $400 a month on marketing, according to the US Chamber of Commerce’s […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publicis Groupe’s Q1 Report The merger of equals with Omnicom is underway but moving more slowly than anticipated, according to Publicis Chairman and CEO Maurice Lévy. On Thursday, Publicis reported earnings and an organic growth rate of 3.3% for 2014’s first quarter. Stats showed […]
Rovio, the creator of the “Angry Birds” mobile game franchise, was one of the first companies to explode in the mobile gaming space. Mobile gamers are fickle, though, and the company has expanded into a multimedia enterprise in addition to growing its advertising business. AdExchanger spoke with Michele Tobin, VP of global brand partnerships and […]
AgilOne, a cloud platform designed to enable predictive marketing, has raised $25 million in Series C funding led by Tenaya Capital with participation from Next World Capital and Four Rivers Group. AgilOne’s most recent raise was a $10 million Series B round last November, bringing its total funding picture to $41 million. AgilOne CEO Omer […]
Twitter, as rumored, is developing an ad product specifically designed for app installs. On Thursday, Twitter acknowledged the existence of the mobile app promotion suite, the first product that connects Twitter with the mobile ad exchange it inherited when it acquired MoPub last September. Advertisers shouldn’t try to jump on board quite yet, however: The […]
Salesforce.com has partnered with offline audience-targeting specialist Datalogix. Salesforce.com’s clients now have access to what Datalogix claims is an offline audience data set that represents $1 trillion in spend. Eric Kirby, Datalogix’s chief product officer, told AdExchanger the data provider’s offline reach enables Salesforce.com’s CRM clients to supplement their CRM databases with new prospects “by […]
