Mozilla wants to build content personalization into future generations of its products, and has recruited MDC Partners’ Darren Herman to lead that charge as VP for content services. Herman – a digital agency exec and startup entrepreneur – will head up a brand new Content Services division focused on building out a content experience within the […]
Mobile rewards and advertising platform Kiip is hoping to put a spin on online offers with its new self-serve platform. Tuesday’s launch of the Kiip Self-Serve platform, following a five-month beta period, is intended to enable marketers to serve targeted offers to consumers who complete an activity or other action on a mobile app. The […]
The largest purveyor of Latin American-influenced food products in the United States, Goya Foods has come a long way from the “Goya, oh boy-a!” tagline it popularized in the 1980s. After reaching $1.3 billion in revenue last year, according to Forbes, the New Jersey-based, family-owned and -operated food company will continue to tap its core […]
After several months in beta, Nielsen is finishing its decadelong project to combine audience measurement of TV, online and mobile with its Digital Program Ratings (DPR). The company is winding down a pilot test, running since May, with nine major clients: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CW, A&E, Discovery, Univision and AOL. DPR’s public debut next […]
“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 Rachit Srivastava, Data Scientist at PlaceIQ. Thanksgiving is around the corner, meaning great food, family and, of course, Black Friday. Mobile ad targeting and strategy have advanced significantly this year, and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Email Fandom In reviewing rock bands’ email marketing efforts, The Wall Street Journal’s Hannah Karp says new data from ecommerce music website manager Topspin shows email is the gift that keeps on giving. Karp notes the power of growing fan base loyalty: “Fans who […]
Datalogix has hired a seasoned agency alum to spearhead brand marketing globally, and to strengthen ties to the agency world. Steven Wolfe Pereira, previously the EVP of Publicis-owned MediaVest and managing director of MediaVest Multicultural, comes to Datalogix at a time of great acceleration for the company. The data services provider, which matches its clients’ […]
With his company’s roots in lead generation, Vizury CEO Chetan Kulkarni is unequivocal about the importance of first-party data and the value it can create for advertisers. But, before one can begin using first-party data effectively, Kulkarni suggests defining it. “Let’s say we’re talking about a transaction – for first-party data, you need to ‘map’ […]
The value that Salesforce.com’s solutions bring to marketers, customer experience managers, and sales staff is well-established. But what can Salesforce.com offer for online advertisers? Within the various acquired companies that constitute Salesforce.com’s ExactTarget Marketing Cloud — recently integrated with the Salesforce1 platform — is Social.com. Social.com was made possible when social media commerce company Buddy Media […]
Rocket Fuel’s entry into Japan last year through a partnership with Dentsu subsidiary interactive unit cyber communications inc. (CCI) has helped the Japanese ad shop’s ability to expand its programmatic services, particularly its demand-side platform (DSP) business. Though its programmatic business was essentially nonexistent before teaming with Rocket Fuel, its DSP business has since risen […]
“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 Russell Glass, CEO at Bizo. Smartphones are dominating the mobile market. With 1.4 billion predicted to be in consumer hands by the end of 2013, the most valuable digital real estate in the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Browsing Future Mozilla’s executive chair, Mitchell Baker, talked to CNET about what the company is up to and its expansion into mobile. She told CNET, “One thing that has shifted is the ability to access the abilities of the phone using Web apps. The […]
Google, Zappos Labs, Foursquare and taxi-hailing app Uber talked about the trade-off of consumer data in exchange for better customer experiences during PSFK’s Future of Retail forum Thursday along the San Francisco marina. Uber’s data evangelist, Bradley Voytek, kicked off the exchange with an anecdote about how when he started at Uber, the average wait […]
Impression fraud has been a major industry problem for a while, but it’s only lately that buyers, sellers and vendors have sought to quantify and arrest it. Even at a roundtable discussion of more than two dozen online ad executives held by Integral Ad Science on Thursday morning, participants seemed resigned to the idea that […]
Mobile retargeting platform TapCommerce has raised $10.5 million in a Series A round led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from RRE and Nielsen Ventures and existing investors. While Web-based retargeting historically focused on recent visitors who abandoned an onsite purchase, certain aspects of mobile behavior completely disrupt traditional retargeting practices. For instance, TapCommerce CEO […]
“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. In their seminal book, “The One-to-One Future,” communications strategists and futurists Don Peppers and Martha Rogers imagined a world beyond mass marketing. Somewhere beyond the television […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Twitter Targeting TV (Again) In a blog post yesterday, Twitter continued its TV-online product drumbeat and announced TV conversation targeting for US and UK advertisers. The post explains, “The way TV conversation targeting works is simple: Through our conversation mapping technology, networks and brands […]
Turn Inc. is seeking new funding at a valuation up to $700 million, ahead of a probable IPO in 2014. Sources say the demand-side (DSP) and data management platform (DMP) company has been calling on investors in recent months seeking a new strategic round. These investors have gotten a peek under the hood at Turn’s […]
Among the recurring themes Wednesday at Dreamforce in San Francisco was the need to develop customer-centric experiences that are both channel-agnostic and measurable. Online job finder CareerBuilder and CPG giant Unilever were among the major brands that took turns on stage and dished about their digital priorities, best practices and thoughts around their marketing investments. […]
A progenitor of the agency trading desk concept and key advocate for programmatic buying within the agency world is leaving his multifaceted role at MDC Partners. For the past six years, Darren Herman’s business cards have carried titles including chief digital media officer at MDC media agency The Media Kitchen; CDMO at Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal […]
Denise Colella joined sell-side pricing and inventory manager Maxifier two years ago and quickly climbed the ranks from CRO to president before taking on the CEO’s role in October. Colella replaced Anthony Katsur, who held the post for less than a year and is now an advisor for the programmatic direct marketplace iSocket and Involved […]
“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 Matthew Keylock, global head of data at dunnhumby. Everywhere I go, I overhear conversations about data science, big data, algorithms, the cloud, machine learning hackathons, Hadoop…the list goes on. But these […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Paid Hire PR company Edelman has hired VivaKi AOD’s Chris Paul to helm its budding paid media practice, according to Ad Age. “The volume of paid work we’re doing is increasing,” said Kevin King, global chair of Edelman’s digital practice group. “It’s happening organically.” […]
According to Merkle, Facebook’s Custom Audiences program and its related lookalike modeling tools lead the pack when it comes to customer prospecting. Merkle bills itself as a CRM agency, so the company knows a thing or two about database matching online. Paul Steketee, head of paid social and emerging media, said match rates on Facebook […]
As brand marketers demand increasingly sophisticated tools to quantify the value of social media campaigns and improve performance, social analytics provider Socialbakers finds itself reaping the benefits. Headquartered in Prague with offices in New York, London and other cities, Socialbakers’s client roster includes Samsung, LVMH, Discovery and Disney. It acquired two thousand clients within a […]
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer remained relatively unfazed onstage Tuesday at the Dreamforce conference as a pack of protesters disrupted an otherwise smooth Q&A session with Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. Despite the larger-than-life mural of Mayer’s mug and echoing shouts protesting her seat on Walmart’s board of directors, the fireside chat between the two CEOs covered […]
A new report from Neustar’s Aggregate Knowledge notes the strong performance of advertising in social channels in terms of reach (58% better than exchanges) and the ability to deliver more high-quality buyers than ad portals, networks and exchanges. According to Aggregate Knowledge President Rob Gatto, this portends a shift in the role of social advertising […]
When marketing data company eXelate introduced optiX in October, it was a shot at disrupting the multibillion-dollar market research industry. With optiX, which was released following a beta program that included 30 brands, eXelate CEO Mark Zagorski said he wants to enliven the idea of real-time analytics to “all the time” consumer insights that bring […]
“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 Marcus Pratt, director of insights and technology at Mediasmith. Digital media provides massive amounts of data against which to plan, optimize and buy. Smart marketers have learned to turn this data […]
