Founded in 2004, Cranston, RI-based jewelry brand Alex and Ani scored a spot on Inc. 500’s fastest-growing brands in America list in 2012 and continues to garner a fashion-forward fanbase for its popular charms and bangles. Alex and Ani also has a division, Affinity, that builds corporate partnerships, through which the company sells licensed merchandise […]
The belief that cookies don’t work on handhelds or tablets, requiring an alternative tracking mechanism, oversimplifies the complex problem of mobile tracking. While advertisers cannot use third-party cookies to track mobile users the same way they would a desktop user, cookies can indeed be applied to an extent in a mobile environment. And while many […]
“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. We have a language problem in ad tech, and it’s only getting bigger. We love to use terms that have one meaning for us in “ad tech” 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 Marc Groman, CEO of Network Advertising Initiative. Context – how consumers engage with business – has emerged as a central theme in today’s policy debates about consumer privacy. The Federal Trade […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Pilots New Ad Format According to a post by Eran Arkin, product manager at Google, the company is testing a new ad format, called +Post ads, that allows brands to promote Google+ posts across the Google Display Network. An example would be using […]
WPP Group’s 24/7 Media – which will soon be absorbed into Xaxis – has acquired 12-year-old semantic ad-tech company Crystal Semantics and its 15 employees from previous owner Ad Pepper Media. London-based Crystal’s technology can be applied a few ways, said Rob Schneider, 24/7 Media’s SVP of corporate strategy and platform development. First, it offers straightforward […]
The retail industry, unlike verticals where data compliance is a major issue, appear more in the thought-leadership phase of advanced data analysis than actual execution, despite isolated gains by some their progressive counterparts in building their own marketing-tech stacks. Eighty-three percent of retailers profiled in EKN Research’s “Big Data in Retail” study said they are […]
Publicis Groupe media shop ZenithOptimedia and its rival, IPG’s Magna Global, predict the global growth of ad spend through 2016 will come from a number of new channels – namely more dollars allocated to mobile and social buys as well as the penetration of programmatic in more countries. Mobile wave: While analysts have predicted that […]
Just over two months ago, UK-based news outlet The Guardian unveiled the biggest step it has taken after four years of operating in the programmatic space: it opened its own publisher-side “trading desk.” Read the release. Created with help from MediaMath, The Guardian’s trading desk GuardianResponse+ will augment the news company’s existing programmatic tools, including its […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim Spanfeller, CEO at Spanfeller Media Group. At the end of the last century Michael Lewis penned the insightful and educational story of Jim Clark’s efforts to change the health industry. Clark’s efforts eventually led to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Perennial IPO The initial public offering (IPO) cavalcade is not over for digital marketing tech. Ad marketplace Rubicon Project is next and has chosen its bankers. Bloomberg notes, “Rocket Fuel Inc.’s successful offering in September and the rally that followed Twitter’s IPO last month […]
Location-based technology has come a long way from geofences. As mobile usage grows, location data has become more granular, providing marketers with greater opportunities to fine-tune their messages—but it has also created more complications. Apple, for example, switched on its iBeacon technology on Friday to send customers’ tailored messages depending on their exact location in […]
The rise of debit and credit card transactions over cash and checks (remember those?) created a wave of data that essentially time-stamped consumers’ daily purchases down to the second. This sea change in consumer purchase behavior created the need that card-linked marketing technology company Cardlytics, which recently expanded to the UK and snapped up client Lloyds Banking […]
Both agencies and ad partners draw comparisons between Twitter’s launch on Thursday of retargeting product Tailored Audiences and Facebook Exchange (FBX). Just how technically similar they are remains to be seen, but the industry is buzzing about the ad product’s cross-channel targeting potential. We asked some Tailored Audience partners, media agencies and a beta tester to […]
The big problem advertisers have assessing the value of video viewability is that the metric means something different every time it’s used. Publicis Groupe digital buying hub VivaKi hopes it can promise clients across its media-agency siblings a single definition for viewability by using video ad server Vindico’s verification tool, AdTricity, for all video ad […]
“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 Jeff Green, CEO at The Trade Desk. Mozilla is no longer out alone calling for the end of third-party cookies; others such as Google and Microsoft have joined the fray in […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The V-Word Neal Mohan takes to the pages of Ad Age to champion viewability in an op-ed piece. He concludes, “Our brand, agency and publisher partners, like Publicis Groupe’s VivaKi, Kellogg’s and The Wall Street Journal, have been valuable collaborators in understanding this issue […]
Retargeting advertisements across mobile apps is quickly becoming a critical component of app developers who want to not only drive app installs but also move to the next step: driving continued app engagement among current users. “We’re spending a lot of money getting users to download our app and it wouldn’t make sense to stop […]
After beta-testing retargeting capabilities back in July, Twitter rolled out Tailored Audiences globally Thursday. The offering includes website retargeting along with third-party audience segments, supported by an eclectic crew of ad partners. Advertisers can now “reach users on Twitter who have shown interest in your brand or category even away from Twitter,” wrote Twitter product manager Abhishek […]
Omnicom Media Group’s trading desk, Accuen, has expanded its reach in the BRIC countries over the past year, and Jun Yuan, head of Accuen China, is navigating the unique challenges of the market. “As an agency, we started our RTB business in China last year, in April,” Yuan told AdExchanger, noting that the team is […]
Although Amazon has kept fairly quiet about its ad-services pitch to media buyers, analysts believe that marketing services will be a driving force in what sustains and propels the ecommerce giant in the years to come. “Amazon has to push into new areas,” writes David Farnoush, a media analyst for Harmelin Media, in a blog […]
One must forgive Scott Howe, CEO of big data solutions provider Acxiom, for gushing a little. “I’m kinda preaching here but I feel passionate about this, because I’m an agency guy, but I think the days of the silver bullet are done,” he told AdExchanger. He’s referring to advertising and marketing messages that adhere 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 Mihai Fanache, CEO at ChargeAds.com. Not long ago I searched for a flight from San Francisco to Singapore. Expedia presented me with no fewer than 4,500 options, many delightfully affordable. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. IAB Talks Native The IAB is stepping into the native ads standardization process, releasing a playbook for publishers, agencies and marketers. According to the IAB, the six formats considered native advertising are: in-feed units, paid search units, recommendation widgets, promoted listings, IAB standard ads […]
Mobile advertising exchange Nexage has become one of the largest independent mobile ad exchanges following Twitter’s decision to snap up its competitor, MoPub. As competition in the mobile ad space continues to heat up, it remains to be seen what Nexage’s next steps will be. AdExchanger spoke with Nexage CEO Ernie Cormier about the company’s […]
Back in August, San Francisco-based LiveRamp released GetOnboard, a CRM “data onboarding” software system designed to bridge the gap between marketers’ customer data and their online marketing efforts. By prepping massive amounts of data for every possible marketing service and destination, and by doing it quickly, GetOnboard has been selected by more than 200 customers […]
Video demand-side platform (DSP) TubeMogul will manage computer-manufacturer Lenovo’s global programmatic activity, an expansion of an existing partnership that reflects both cost-savings from automated ad sales and a greater interest in audience buying. For Lenovo, this increased focused on online video comes after two years of digital marketing expansion that remains largely concentrated on search […]
“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. Over the last two years, many premium publishers have struggled to resist programmatic efforts and stick solely to direct sales efforts. But as programmatic adoption and viability has grown, many publishers […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. LiveRail On Growth Rate LiveRail hopes to differentiate itself from video ad networks that have already gone public by its growth rate, according to TechCrunch’s Anthony Ha. LiveRail tells Ha it’s growing at a 200% run rate this year. “For LiveRail, being on pace […]
