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 […]
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 […]
