Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Public Ad Network A source tells TechCrunch’s John Constine that former Blue Lithium chief and current RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal is readying his company for an IPO. It is rumored that RadiumOne has about $100 million in annual revenue — if true, this […]
Walgreens is pursuing digital in a “deliberate and strategic way,” according to its CEO. “Sometimes I feel like a B-52 bomber where I’m clearing a path to a 112-year-old brick-and-mortar business,” Greg Wasson confessed to a packed room of retail brands and marketers today at the Shop.org summit in Chicago. “Digital wasn’t something Walgreens was […]
In-app ad supply keeps growing as people spend more time with their devices. Last year 80% of time spent on a smartphones and tablets took place in apps, versus a mobile website, according to comScore. Of course mobile developers remain a prime source of demand in the in-app ad space. There are more than 1.5 […]
Adaptly is one of a handful of ad-tech companies serving as a preferred partner to both Facebook and Twitter, but it doesn’t see its induction into the latter’s API program as an extension. Although Twitter’s strategy has similarities to what Facebook did last year — including a retargeting exchange — Adaptly CEO Nikhil Sethi noted […]
California Gov. Jerry Brown set a precedent for privacy rights last week when he signed into law Assembly Bill 370. Under the bill, which amended a section of the California Business and Professions Code, websites that collect personally identifiable information (PII) about California residents must provide a privacy policy that identifies the type of PIIs […]
“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 Adrian Tompsett, vice president of business development at DataXu. Folks continue to lament the lack of brand dollars in digital, especially in the auction-based exchange environment. One of the primary […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cross-Device Search Google is putting its cross-device first-party data to use, giving AdWords users a chance to see the effectiveness of search ads at different points in the purchase funnel. The new feature is called “Estimated Cross-Device Conversions” and it relies on Google login […]
Designer apparel brand Tory Burch now sees 44% of its site traffic stemming from smartphones and tablets with more than 28% of sales attributed to mobile devices. During a keynote presentation this morning at the National Retail Federation’s Shop.org summit, Miki Berardelli, Tory Burch’s CMO, told an audience in the mid-thousands here in Chicago that […]
Did you notice? Experian just bought a cross-device ad tracking — ahem — fraud-prevention vendor. The credit-reporting and marketing giant laid out $324 million to nab 41st Parameter, a security and fraud-detection business that guards against unauthorized purchases, among other things. Importantly, 41st Parameter also runs an ad-tracking brand, AdTruth, that hawks the same basic […]
Keeping up with tech-savvy consumers who demand personalized experiences is a challenge for publishers and advertisers alike. Like other companies, health information provider WebMD realized it needed to revamp its advertising strategy with a greater focus on mobile devices and customizable features. Earlier this month, the company launched a new version of its app that […]
Interactive ad holding company CPXi is acquiring self-serve ad platform and dynamic creative vendor AdReady to augment its three other units as it works to close the loop around the demand side and the sell side. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. The purchase comes more than a year after two began preliminary […]
“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 Richard Sharp, UK managing director of ValueClick Media. Nearly 20 years ago, Procter and Gamble CEO Ed Artzt foresaw decades of turbulence within the advertising industry as technology changed the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Sets Sights On TV (Too) Facebook has its eye on TV measurement, the WSJ’s Digits blog is reporting, by offering big networks a look at exclusive show data as it looks to match recent initiatives by Twitter. Facebook’s data is centered around the […]
In a move to ramp up what TellApart CEO Josh McFarland describes as “programmatic personalization,” the developer of a customer data platform for commerce companies today acquired email marketing optimization provider AdStack. According to TechCrunch, the transaction cost the company, which has raised $17.75 million in funding to date over the course of three rounds, […]
Video demand side platform TubeMogul and IPG Mediabrands have expanded their work together in the UK, Australia and Japan as the two seek to build up their programmatic video operations in those countries. Their agreement also aims to deliver more seamless campaign tools to globally-minded US marketers. TubeMogul’s non-exclusive partnership with Mediabrands, which has largely […]
Investments in mobile advertising continue to accelerate, but the growth rate could ease off next year, according to a new report from Publicis Groupe’s ad agency ZenithOptimedia. Global mobile advertising, which includes all online ads delivered to smartphones and tablets, whether display, classified or search, is growing seven times faster than desktop ads. ZenithOptimedia predicts mobile […]
Chinese search engine Baidu is one of Google’s biggest competitors. The company recently bought China’s largest Android app distributor, 91 Wireless, for $1.9 billion and launched its own smart TV. And it is reportedly developing a wearable computing product, a la Google Glass. Baidu reported $1.2 billion in revenues for this year’s second quarter, representing […]
Contrary to the image the name conjures, browser plugin Adblock Plus says it’s not out to kill all the ads on the Internet. Company co-founder and CEO Till Faida told AdExchanger that some 61 million people have downloaded Adblock Plus to date, and it sees, on average, 270,000 downloads per day. “There is demand to […]
Notice how the cover-up of scandal is often worse than the original misdeed? The same is true when it comes to the appearance of a conflict of interest – if it looks like a conflict, you’ve got a conflict. That’s ultimately what led Starcom MediaVest Group CEO Laura Desmond to resign from the board of […]
“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 Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. There has been a quiet shift in the digital ad ecosystem over the past few years, although it isn’t clear to many people working […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AppNexus Eyes Mobile Leadership In a video interview on Bloomberg, CEO Brian O’Kelley of real-time ad platform AppNexus talks about his recent mobile deal with mobile ad network Millennial Media to create an exchange (read that AdExchanger story). He says his company will be […]
Facebook is once again experimenting with a mobile ad network that would place ads on non-Facebook mobile apps and sites based on the social network’s data, the company confirmed. Business Insider first reported the news. “We’re currently running a second test to show Facebook ads off Facebook in mobile apps and on mobile sites. Our […]
Automation Is Coming. In panel after panel at New York’s Advertising Week, publishers and agencies heaped hate on ad selling inefficiencies and delivered eulogies for their mutual adversary, the insertion order. The big questions: Which players will be first to seize the automation grail? And how long will it take? The holding company trading desks […]
Figuring out how to leverage the overwhelming amount of data they collect is a critical challenge for advertisers, and one that spans industries. To shed some light on big data issues, real-time ad platform Rocket Fuel invited Forrester Research analyst Mike Gualtieri, Visible Measures CEO Brian Shin, Morpheus CMO Shenan Reed, and Verizon marketing and […]
As other video ad firms lay the groundwork for programmatic online video, Harris Broadcast is working with Placemedia to administer exchange-based sales for TV spots first. Then, maybe they’ll take on online video. After nearly a year of collaboration, Placemedia, which has deals with broadcast stations, cable operators and satellite providers covering 50 million households, […]
Depending on who you ask, Rocket Fuel’s stunning IPO is either a new dawn for programmatic media investment or a scary bubble indicator. In either case, it clearly went better than the company and investors planned. For comparison, we looked at how its nearly $2 billion market cap stacks up against other big companies 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 Bob Walczak, general manager of mobile and video at PubMatic. For those of us in the digital advertising community, there has arguably been no development that has inspired so much […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Weather Moves To The Exchange IPONWEB and The Weather Company say they are partnering on a weather-based advertising platform. The release states that this isn’t just about targeting through Weather Channel owned-and-operated websites: “Weather can now leverage this targeting for extension campaigns purchased on […]
Mark Weninger, chief creative officer at Merkle, said there’s growing clamor outside of the creative fortress. Taking the stage at Advertising Week on behalf of the customer relationship-marketing agency, he alluded to a force that’s “armed with zetabytes of numbers and analysis.” The new competitive differentiator in advertising is the person or platform that holds […]
