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 […]
Comcast will acquire video ad-serving platform FreeWheel, the companies confirmed Thursday. The development comes just weeks after the cable giant made public its intent to acquire Time Warner Cable for $42.5 billion. TechCrunch first reported the news, and Re/code confirmed Thursday it’s a done deal and pegged its value at approximately $360 million. That’s roughly in line with […]
La Quinta Inns & Suites knows while most travel within the United States is leisure-based, business travelers offer more lucrative messaging opportunities for marketers. These individuals travel more frequently than recreational visitors, rack up more repeat visits to the same hotels and are less subject to price sensitivity, which are attractive qualities for hotel chains, […]
Even as the cost of acquiring a new app user grows, mobile app analytics firm Fiksu has noted major fluctuations between gaming apps and general apps, as well as iOS vs. Android apps. According to Fiksu’s new Cost Per Install (CPI) Index, which measures the cost per app install attributed to advertising, the CPI Index […]
“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 Evan Schwartz, CEO at ActionX. Brands are paying closer attention to the benefits of broadening their mobile-only campaigns to include multiple consumer devices. This shift in strategy reflects a growing […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New Video iAds Apple will begin selling interstitial video iAds later this year, reported Ad Age. The video ads will play automatically within iPhone and iPad apps, according to Ad Age’s Tim Peterson, who cited unnamed sources. “The in-app video ads may be a […]
Native advertising technology startup TripleLift has raised a $4 million Series A round led by True Ventures. The investment, made three months ago, has gone toward building out the company’s RTB-based native ad exchange. New York-based TripleLift’s CEO, Eric Berry, said the money has supported hires in engineering, sales and business development. In addition to […]
Agency holding company MDC Partners has rebranded its Maxxcom Global Media unit as MDC Media Partners. It has also rolled two prior agency acquisitions, TargetCast and RJ Palmer, into a new, 250-person-strong media agency called Assembly, which will function as a unit within MDC Media Partners. Assembly combines resources from independent media communications agency TargetCast […]
Facebook hasn’t said much about Atlas since buying it a year ago, but it has been making incremental tweaks to the product. On Wednesday it took a bigger step, launching a creative partner program (blog post) with rich media vendors Innovid and Flite. The deal will let Atlas’s agency customers more easily integrate rich media into […]
“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 Skinner, CEO at MakeBuzz. I’ve said before that IBM and other consultancies control the future of digital media because they can get better access to both client and media […]
Lotame, known for its data management platform (DMP), has received a $15 million injection in Series D funding, led by Sozo Ventures and TrueBridge Capital Partners. This brings Lotame’s total funds raised to $44 million. These new funds, said CEO Andy Monfried, will be used to enhance the platform’s technology and expand globally, particularly in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Easy Fraud Fraud is a problem, but just how easy is it for someone to set up a site, load it up with inventory and then rake in the ad revenue? Digiday’s Jack Marshall did the legwork to find out and reported his findings. […]
An updated S-1 from IPO aspirant Rubicon Project shows the sell-side platform’s revenue grew 47 percent in 2013, to $83.8 million for the full year. In its earlier filing, submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month, the company disclosed revenues only up to the third quarter of 2013. The new document […]
What is the cost of acquiring a loyal app user? Based on the testimonial of various industry insiders, the price is rising so quickly ad revenue can’t keep up. As such, app developers are looking for new ways to profit, often by developing ad tech. Gartner predicts mobile ad spend will reach $18 billion this […]
Marketing automation platform Silverpop’s recent push into revenue analytics for B2B marketers culminated Tuesday in the launch of Marketing Automation for Ecommerce. The product addresses a multitude of B2C needs, at the core of which is the ability to tie email to revenue. The problem with attributing email to purchase activity is that a customer […]
Consulting activity around marketing technology continues to gain steam, with interest coming both from small boutique firms such as Unbound Company and Freestyle Consulting (both established by former Mediabrands executives) and large established advisory companies such as Deloitte and Accenture. The latest company to join the fray is Concept Corridor, a one-man consulting play founded […]
Visible World, which has been developing addressable TV technology since 2000, claims to cover nearly 90% of cable TV households in the US through its targeted ad products. The company has developed a video and TV campaign platform used by advertisers directly or by distributors to sell to advertisers. That same platform is now being […]
“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. For all our industry’s talk about 1:1 communication between companies and consumers, the question – “Is it worth it?” – still looms large for many marketers. 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 Sebastien Blanc, general manager, US, at Struq. Considering the number of channels where marketers can spend their budgets, understanding and proving a return on ad spend (ROAS) is vital. If […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Preeeemium Guardian Media Group CEO Andrew Miller is crowing about his company’s latest results as display ads take center stage. The company is apparently about to report its biggest rise in revenue since the financial crisis in the late 00s. Miller tells the FT, […]
Much of the debate about the convergence of digital video and TV advertising has centered on budget and measurement. Members of the advertising industry have wondered whether digital video would cannibalize TV ad dollars and to what extent the right metrics are in place to effectively execute cross-platform video buys. A report from Nielsen and […]
Google’s publisher business is on a tear. Last week it struck two private exchange deals with Time Inc. and the 42-member Local Media Consortium. Google will support programmatic direct sales for these sellers and provide wider access to their quality inventory for global media traders such as trading desks at Publicis Groupe’s Vivaki AOD or […]
Adap.tv, acquired by AOL six months ago, unveiled on Monday a new add-on to its Audience Path demand-side platform (DSP), called Audience Path for TV, to let advertisers and agencies apply more data to their linear TV ad buys. The release capitalizes on a trend in which data-driven ad buying on linear TV presents opportunities for […]
Palo Alto and Paris-based startup Ifeelgoods is betting consumers will gravitate toward personalized offers over traditional loyalty concepts like deep discounts. The digital rewards network founded in 2010 has launched a Personalized Offers Platform for marketers and established a strategic partnership with VivaKi for an initial rollout to Publicis Groupe agencies Razorfish, Digitas and Performics. […]
