All location-based mobile advertising campaigns are not created equal and, for retailers, the nuances between data sources and surfaced promotions have several layers of intricacy. Mobile advertising continues to pique the interest of retail marketers – and investors. Just today, end-to-end mobile marketing platform Swirl Networks closed an $8 million strategic investment round from Hearst […]
Michael Scissons, founder and former CEO of the recently shuttered Syncapse, has a new gig as entrepreneur in residence at the Anheuser-Busch InBev brewing company — a title often reserved for venture-capital and law firms. In his new role at AB InBev, Scissons told AdExchanger in an email that he will support the brewing giant […]
Mike Nolet has stepped down from AppNexus, where he has served as CTO since the company’s founding six years ago. He will remain an advisor but vacate his board seat, which will be filled by President Michael Rubenstein. Nolet is a foundational character in the programmatic story, having helped build the world’s first ad exchange […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Steinberg, senior vice president of digital ad sales for The Weather Company. After attending my very first ANA Masters of Marketing conference, I will never be the same. OK, maybe that is a tad […]
Moving between online and offline environments has become the norm for most consumers, but many marketers have yet to catch up. Semcasting, a MA-based multi-channel audience targeting provider, has launched a new self-service platform, the Semcasting Marketing Appliance, that promises to help marketers by connecting online and offline consumer touchpoints for targeted advertising. The Appliance […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DG Loves Rich Media TechCrunch’s Anthony Ha reports that DG has made what appears to be an acqui-hire of sorts with its purchase of 11-person rich media vendor Republic Project for a reported $1.4 million plus earn-outs. Read more. Republic pitches a cross-device integration […]
There’s an ever-growing opportunity for advertisers on Amazon, the commerce marketplace maven every retailer hopes to emulate (and simultaneously fears). The company has nearly doubled its global ad revenues since 2011, from $420 million to an expected $835 million this year, eMarketer estimates. If true, this puts it ahead of publishers like Pandora, Twitter, LinkedIn and […]
One reason the TV upfront market exists is that it takes a long time between planning an ad buy and actually delivering it. A partnership between TV ad targeter Simulmedia and TiVo’s TRA, which tracks TV viewing with consumer purchase data, to guarantee ad buys on preset audience targets has the potential to shake up […]
Panel-based TV ratings and TV-themed “social buzz” are on a collision course, and audience research mainstay Nielsen is doing everything it can to retain its pole position. The company today announced “Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings” to measure TV-related Twitter discussion — both the volume of discussion and its total reach. Last fall, Nielsen, through a joint […]
In a summer interview, Facebook’s head of vertical measurement, Fred Leach, described the company’s measurement products and its partnership with Datalogix. In the below follow-up Q&A, Leach digs deeper into the company’s work on mobile measurement, attribution and the CPG category. AdExchanger: What are you working on in terms of mobile measurement? FRED LEACH: There are a couple ways […]
There’s a bright future for agencies in being effective purveyors of first-party data, said Brian Krick, the newest head of North American search and biddable for digital agency Essence. But, he said, they have to be willing to have tough conversations and break down barriers. Weaning channel-specific marketers off artificially inflated CPAs that don’t reflect true incremental revenue […]
“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, chief revenue officer of NextMark. I recently had a cup of coffee with Christopher Skinner, who has spent the last dozen years MakeBuzz after selling his old company, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Sell-Side ‘Active GRP’ Coming Soon The Drum reports that that Google’s biz dev lead for large publishers, David McMurtrie, told the audience at Thursday’s Association of Online Publishers (AOP) event in London that it’s time for publishers to start protecting their yields and […]
Each day at 6:30am, Dunkin Brands President of Global Marketing and Innovation John Costello gets a report showing the previous day’s sales by item at every US location. The company, which owns Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robins, launched 43 new products this year, Costello told marketers at the Association of National Advertisers’ annual Masters of […]
Breaking: The sizzle reel still has legs. Two thousand attendees at the Association of National Advertisers’ annual Masters of Marketing conference were treated to numerous examples of the genre Friday, as senior marketers from Chrysler, Walmart, MARS and Coca-Cola showed off their favorite TV spots. Repeatedly. But while the raw storytelling power of television remains […]
IBM is continuing to sharpen its focus on building its enterprise-based approach to mobile commerce and advertising with the acquisition of Xtify, a company that manages mobile messaging for brands. Read the release. The deal, terms of which were undisclosed, is part of IBM’s expansion of its “smarter commerce” program that promises to bring together […]
However much click tracking, psychographic surveying, and big data analysis marketers do, few have a solid understanding of how their customers engage with social marketing content — or how those customers’ behavior differs between commercial and non-commercial interactions. To address the knowledge gap, Forrester Research has come up with a “Social Technographics Score,” a model […]
There is no doubt that data-driven advertising has transformed the marketing landscape. Traditional advertising agencies are fighting a steep battle against data-heavy enterprises like Google and Facebook as well as more nimble startups. Roundarch Isobar — an Aegis Media-owned digital marketing agency — is striving to embrace big data and mobile advertising. Its clients include […]
“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 Grabowski, chief operating officer at Nanigans. Attribution helps measure the events impacting a business, but it is much more important than measurement alone. An accurate attribution picture should allow […]
“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. Big data is one of those wonderful concepts meant to make life easier and business more efficient. But in practice, before we […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Instagram Addressing Ads On the (Facebook) Instagram blog yesterday, the mustard seeds of an ads strategy were strewn about as an anonymous Instagram blogger wrote, “In the next couple months, you may begin seeing an occasional ad in your Instagram feed if you’re in […]
Twitter’s IPO filing is no longer “confidential” as the microblog released its full S-1 document with the SEC that details its plans to sell $ 1 billion worth of stock. Twitter, which recently acquired mobile supply side platform MoPub and unveiled its own version of an ad exchange with several API partners, will trade under […]
There’s a new breed of social platform in town, with direct-to-consumer and merchant wherewithal. The group includes social startups like Wanelo, a uniquely searchlike experience for “all stores in one place,” and OpenSky, which combines the microblogging feel of a Twitter with the slightly more visceral look of a Pinterest. According to OpenSky CEO John […]
An array of visualization products have emerged to help marketers turn “big data” into smart data. This week has brought announcements around visualization from the likes of Tag Man, Placeable and SumAll. Meanwhile, plenty of other data and analytics vendors — including Tealium, Adobe, IBM, Acxiom and Domo – are investing in this area. But […]
Staples’ acquisition today of San Mateo, Calif.-based conversion marketing platform Runa is one more building block in the brand’s plan to construct a data hub within its own four walls. Although the terms of the deal were not disclosed, Staples spokesman Mark Cautela told AdExchanger, “We looked at this primarily as a technology acquisition, but […]
“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. About a year ago, I predicted the consolidation of ad tech and its move away from the main stage of the digital ecosystem. With all due notation of […]
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 […]
