Brad Rencher, SVP and GM of the digital marketing business unit at Adobe Systems, oversees the six-product-strong Adobe Marketing Cloud, which crossed the $1 billion mark in business for fiscal year 2013. Onstage at Industry Preview 2014, Rencher said that ad tech, marketing and enterprise technology are “becoming one and the same.” It’s certainly reflective […]
Three months after acquiring its parent company, 41st Parameter, Experian Marketing Services clients can now incorporate AdTruth’s cross-device recognition technology into their marketing campaigns, the company said Thursday. Founded in 2010, AdTruth lets advertisers identify users across platforms and mobile devices by connecting those devices to a user ID for retargeting purposes. AdTruth’s other offerings […]
A data-management platform (DMP) panel held Wednesday at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview 2014 revealed the philosophical differences held by four major DMP providers in terms of how the technology should best be implemented and used. The panelists – CEOs Scott Howe of Acxiom, Omar Tawakol of BlueKai, Bill Demas of Turn and John Nardone of [x+1] […]
IPG Mediabrands’ Global CEO Matt Seiler says the advertising industry thinks too much about media in the context of the individual medium. “It drives me crazy that the way media is procured is still the way media is procured,” he said during “The Unfolding Strategy and Services Sector” session at Industry Preview 2014, where he […]
Facebook has added another weapon in its mobile ad quiver, announcing Wednesday in a blog post that it is testing a mobile ad network with a group of advertisers and publishers that uses Facebook’s targeting capabilities to place ads in third-party apps. Brad Smallwood, VP of measurements and insights, declined to provide additional information about […]
Video demand-side platform provider TubeMogul is adding a viewability-reporting feature within its dashboard today, promising to give marketers a record of where their video ads are seen and tools designed to improve ad avoidance. “By integrating viewability reporting into our ad-buying software, we can provide metrics at the site level,” said TubeMogul CEO Brett Wilson. […]
“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 of Bionic Advertising Systems. Well, at least it’s not “The Year of Mobile” again. Or, maybe it is. After several days of media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Rising Social CRM Social CRM startup Intercom has raised $23 million, according to TechCrunch, as CRM evolves into a one-to-one marketing opportunity. “CRM companies haven’t innovated in over ten years. Many of them are just ticketing systems. But what’s happening is that customer service […]
An expanded partnership between Simulmedia and set-top box data company Fourth Wall is part of a larger effort to replace traditional demographic targeting as the basis for ad placement. Instead, Simulmedia is proposing to target TV audiences based on their purchase history, instead of using broad categories like gender and age to determine where and […]
The ability to connect consumers across devices represents a small but increasingly viable portion of marketers’ campaign strategies. During day one of AdExchanger’s Industry Preview 2014, several CEOs and marketing execs commented on the growing use of cross-device recognition technology as a marketing tool. According to AOL CEO Bob Lord, 45% of his clients’ display […]
Hundreds of advertising industry professionals braved the cold, snowy weather of New York City on January 21 and 22, 2014 for AdExchanger’s first Industry Preview conference at The Times Center. The two day show featured some of the biggest names in publishing,marketing and advertising technology. Among the biggest themes: programmatic, mobile and cross-device targeting. Here […]
Mobile and the rise of programmatic media buying are where two international priorities for publishers and marketers meet, according to global industry experts. During the “Marketing Tech Through the Global Lens” panel moderated by Constellation Research Analyst Ray Wang at Industry Preview 2014 on Tuesday, Jay Stevens, GM for international at online advertising technology company […]
“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 Jay Stevens, general manager for international at Rubicon Project. It’s fair to say that native advertising may have generated more column inches in the industry press than most any other […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdSense Direct Google rolled out Tuesday an AdSense feature allowing publishers to manage ads sold through direct channels. In a blog post by AdSense Product Manager Matt Goodridge, Google explained the process: Publishers working directly with advertisers (regardless of whether those advertisers use AdWords) […]
During a Q&A with AdExchanger’s Director of Research Joanna O’Connell at the Industry Preview 2014 conference, interactive agency veteran and AOL Networks CEO Bob Lord discussed AOL’s moves into programmatic, its emphasis on video through marketplace provider Adap.tv, the importance of cross-device advertising and the need to make ad tech in general less confusing and […]
Since Russ Fradin initiated Dynamic Signal following the $300 million acquisition of his previous startup, Adify by Cox Enterprises (which Cox has since shuttered), he has transitioned away from paid media and helps brands tap customers’ social media influence. The idea behind Dynamic Signal is to simplify the process by which passionate customers can advocate brands […]
Social data analytics company 4C Insights has raised $5 million in Series B funding from Jump Capital. 4C originated last fall when ecommerce ad-tech company The Echo System merged with Twitter Ads API partner and Facebook PMD Voxsup, founded by Northwestern University Professor Alok Choudhary. 4C currently employs between 30-40 people, but expects to grow […]
Ad exchange operator PulsePoint is trying to find a middle ground between private exchanges, which often require more scale than smaller publishers can manage, and real-time bidding (RTB) platforms, which tend to attract more performance marketers than brand campaigns. In its quest, PulsePoint began its partnership late last year with demand-side platform (DSP) MediaMath 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 Steve Latham, founder and CEO at Encore Media Metrics. While exchange-traded media is praised for bringing ease and efficiency to the display ad market, a deeper dive reveals numerous factors […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Future Media Agency Mediabrands CEO Matt Seiler wants to prove media agencies don’t have to fall behind the curve when it comes to innovation by taking his company firmly into the automated, digital age. A profile in Adweek outlines how Seiler has advocated for […]
Entrepreneur and paid-search pioneer Bill Gross, who in 2003 sold search company Overture Services to Yahoo for $1.6 billion, has set his sights on a new venture: mobile advertising. Gross’ mobile ad firm, UberMedia, started as a developer of free utility apps in 2010 before transitioning into mobile advertising last year because it needed a […]
Sean Corcoran, SVP and director of digital media and social influence at Boston-based digital agency Mediahub/Mullen, says that while the company is “a little bit more of…a ‘right-brain’ agency” because of its creative focus, data and analytics can still drive that innovation. Mediahub/Mullen serves clients like VH1, JetBlue and Adidas, and Corcoran spoke with AdExchanger […]
Last year was a big year for demand-side platform (DSP) and ad network Rocket Fuel. The company went public in late 2013 and analysts remain largely bullish on its continuing growth prospects. Known mainly for its offerings in the traditional display ad space, the Redwood City, Calif., firm is ramping up its pursuit of mobile […]
“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 Tom Manvydas, vice president of advertising strategy and solutions at Experian Marketing Services. Many marketers believe that programmatic media-buying platforms will optimize their ad campaigns but, in reality, nothing could […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic Direct On eMarketer, Xaxis COO Dr. Mark Grether answers a question about percentage of ad spending going to programmatic direct vs. RTB. Grether tells eMarketer: “It really depends. I don’t have a number for the US, but I do have a number for […]
In a speech Friday on proposed changes to the government’s spying program, President Barack Obama briefly linked the National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic and foreign surveillance activities to digital ad tracking common in the marketing world. According to the speech transcript, Obama said of his intelligence review: “There was a recognition by all who participated […]
Friday’s announcement that ePrize, a provider of multichannel engagement and loyalty solutions, has rebranded as HelloWorld represents more than a new company name. It also underscores the introduction of a “rich engagement platform” combining mobile CRM, live event activation, loyalty programs and in-store activation capabilities. The architecture of this platform comes from components either built […]
Fred McIntyre, CEO of social marketing platform Awe.sm, has noticed that while the present-day patterns of media consumption are exciting, they also pose challenges to the DNA of cost planning for publishers and marketers. “If you look at media consumption across most categories in television, radio, online and social, they’re going up in each category,” […]
You’ve got to hand it to Razorfish for even having a media practice. Considering the clout of corporate siblings like Starcom Mediavest Group (SMG) and the growing power of media agencies in general, it would not be surprising to learn that – four years after its acquisition by Publicis Groupe — the digital agency’s media […]
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. More than ever, consumers connect with brands through mobile communications and perform transactions on mobile devices. According to comScore, 2013 was the […]
