The repercussions of cable heavyweight Comcast’s planned acquisitions of Time Warner Cable and video ad-serving platform FreeWheel are still unknown. One of the biggest questions for ad industry insiders is the extent to which the preexisting relationship between Amazon and FreeWheel, announced in early February, will continue. Although neither Amazon nor FreeWheel have confirmed whether […]
Dunnhumby, a data and customer insights company owned by British grocery giant Tesco, is close to acquiring Berlin-based retail retargeter Sociomantic Labs, sources say. Business Insider first reported the rumored deal Thursday and estimated the deal size to be between $175 million to $200 million. Although dunnhumby and Sociomantic have not publicly announced the transaction, […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Richard Jalichandra, CEO at iSocket. Programmatic media buying, from RTB to fixed-price reserved, is quickly becoming the way of the future. It’s clear why buyers are interested in programmatic —increased efficiency and lower costs — […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Rumor: Dunnhumby Buying Sociomantic Business Insider’s Nicholas Carlson says that retargeter/DSP/(acronym here) Sociomantic is being acquired by Dunnhumby, a subsidiary of British retailer Tesco, for $175 million-$200 million – though Carlson says the deal isn’t finalized. Read more. If true, this could be about […]
Despite Bitcoin’s volatility, businesses are beginning to experiment with the peer-to-peer payment system. One such company is Vungle, which helps mobile app publishers promote through 15-second in-app video trailers distributed through its ad platform. Vungle said Thursday it’s giving publishers the option to be paid in bitcoins, though its advertising clients cannot pay with the digital […]
Microsoft has added new ad formats to Skype’s “connection hub,” the screen users see before and after placing calls and while instant messaging each other. The new placements are a logical way to boost Skype’s monetization. The company hopes connection hub ads will generate an at least 20 billion additional impressions per month for advertisers. […]
Marc Landsberg knows agencies. Landsberg previously served as the former EVP at Leo Burnett and president and CEO of Arc and MRM Worldwide. As the current CEO of Chicago-based social agency socialdeviant, he says the traditional media-buying process has been turned upside down and the players flipping the tables aren’t the platform providers. Comcast’s planned […]
The term “programmatic” is contentious even among its faithful adherents. Not only does it inadequately describe a range of ad-buying activities, it also implies that everything is done automatically, as if robots are replacing a human sales staff. But a panel during the Premium Programmatic 360 summit (presented by Sonobi and MediaMath) held Wednesday in […]
“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. If you search Google for “transparency + ad tech,” you’ll get more than 20 million search results. Nearly every network, DSP and publisher claims […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Testing Cross Channel Google is testing a new cross-device targeting option with advertisers geared to brand sites with more than 100,000 visitors, AdAge reports. Google drops a tag on the brand’s site which can then be matched across devices. “We’re always running experiments with […]
Marking up cheap Facebook inventory has been a lucrative business for a range of companies in its Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) ecosystem. And Facebook is fine with that practice, just so long as it’s clear to advertisers just how big of a cut their partners are taking. But do advertisers know, and do they care? […]
Digital marketing agency 3Q Digital last month snapped up iSearch Media, making it one of the largest independent digital marketing agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area. 3Q manages more than $300 million in ad spend and its client roster includes brands like Electronic Arts, Facebook, Square and Warby Parker. AdExchanger spoke with founder and […]
Traditional radio as a hotbed for ad tech? Well, not really – or at all – but this is precisely the problem Jelli co-founder and CEO Mike Dougherty recognized when his company launched on Wednesday a platform, called RadioSpot, designed to enable programmatic buying for radio advertising. “Radio is a little more simple [than digital […]
Digital think tank and research consultancy L2 is looking to corner the market on prestige brand and CPG strategy. A new investment round of $16.5 million from General Catalyst Partners (a HubSpot investor) received Wednesday also underscores the intersection of the management consultancy and digital agency. “The two primary buckets for this investment will be […]
“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 Chris O’Hara, co-founder and chief revenue officer at Bionic Advertising Systems. Programmatic RTB has seen the lion’s share of venture capital funding and an enormous amount of innovation, yet RTB […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Standardizing Ads The IAB is seeking comment on an update of its “Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metric Definitions.” New metrics include “Ad expand/collapse” and the ever-popular “Skip,” which “describes when a user intentionally skips a linear video ad by clicking a button or other […]
Israel-based performance network Matomy on Monday signaled its intent to go public in a letter filed with the London Stock Exchange. As we noted earlier, the company aims to raise $100 million at a valuation of around $400 million. The filing also revealed Matomy has 388 employees, and more than 1,500 clients. Matomy’s business is […]
Although Google is the $4 billion darling of the US display ad space, players like AOL, Amazon and Facebook are closing in on that share. Most noticeably, Facebook, which for the first time last quarter served more ad impressions on mobile devices than on the desktop, experienced a 50.5% increase in US digital display ad […]
Kargo, a mobile ad platform, has undergone several transformations and is about to make another one. Following the 2001 dot-com crash, Kargo pivoted from providing wireless operators with software and services to helping media brands launch mobile ad campaigns. The New York City company now has a client roster that includes CBS, Univision, Meredith and […]
Add another vendor to the Marketing Cloud fray. Teradata on Tuesday updated its marketing products, revealed a partnership with Urban Airship and officially began calling its stack the “Integrated Marketing Cloud.” Teradata isn’t a newcomer in the field of marketing tech. The company’s VP of marketing, Wes Moore, emphasized the company has been providing marketing […]
“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. As part of my ongoing look at companies’ migration toward a customer lifecycle management approach (or not, as I must always point out, as this is by no means […]
“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 Sacha Xavier Reich, partner, media and innovation director for Neo@Ogilvy. It’s funny that they call it native advertising because it is anything but indigenous. Native advertising can be described as ads […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Performance IPO Is it another programmatic IPO? Performance marketing company Matomy has decided it’s ready for an initial public offering and will seek to raise $100 million on the London Stock Exchange, according to the FT. The Israel-based company “generated revenues of $194m in […]
Interpublic Group’s (IPG) out-of-home advertising agency Rapport Worldwide will automate media planning and buying activities using outdoor advertising technology platform ADstruc, the holding company said Monday. As part of a strategic agreement between the two companies, IPG will deploy the technology across Rapport’s five offices globally, which will significantly improve agency efficiencies. Additionally, IPG has […]
Adknowledge has purchased video ad platform Giant Media for an undisclosed sum. The deal marks Adknowledge’s 12th acquisition. Giant Media “seeds” video content through a network of publisher partners and emphasizes social sharing and earned media. Its platform, VideoStat, has supported distribution for the hit Dollar Shave Club campaign and Hyundai’s “Cheetah” spot, which aired […]
“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 Eric Bosco, CEO at ChoiceStream. In a recent column, Criteo CEO Jean-Baptiste Rudelle opined about the virtues of cost-per-click (CPC). I think he was right about the challenges and how […]
If you’ve ever shortened or shared a link on a social platform, chances are you’ve used Bitly. “We are so ubiquitous, but at the same time, people gloss right over us,” said Mark Josephson, CEO of URL shortening service Bitly. He joined the company six months ago from AOL, where he served as SVP of […]
Viewability – the qualities that convey whether an advertisement was seen by its target audience – remains a contentious issue in the ad tech space. This is why associations like the Media Ratings Council (MRC) give accreditation to vendors offering viewability metrics, and why those vendors have scrambled for approval. One such company is Sizmek, […]
Video ad tech firm YuMe on Monday launched its first programmatic solution, Video Reach, designed to provide agency trading desks and brand advertisers with more insight into their TV ad buys. Aimed at television advertisers, Video Reach collects first-party data across screens (PCs, mobile devices and connected TVs) with its Audience Aware SDK and audience […]
