Centro’s estimated $40 million purchase of demand-side platform SiteScout isn’t just intended to imbue the digital media workflow specialist with real-time bidding chops. Read the release. For Centro CEO Shawn Riegsecker, the point of this deal goes beyond wrenching the obvious efficiencies of having a DSP function in-house. Adding SiteScout will prepare Centro for the […]
“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 Williams, chief operating officer of Mediaglu. Over the past several years, an abundance of ad-tech companies have constructed large businesses completely dependent on their audience data. This data is […]
“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 Goldberg, senior adviser at EmpiricalMedia. A recent blog post written by Seth Sternberg, one of the founders of Meebo, postulated that ad-tech businesses are exceptionally hard to run. In a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DAA Transparency Survey The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) recently polled approximately 1,000 US adults about their thoughts on ad transparency. More than 57% of respondents said they wouldn’t visit any of the free, ad-supported sites that they currently use if those sites converted to […]
ValueClick will sell a bunch of websites as it pours all efforts into upgrading its wheezing display ad infrastructure. The company is also building a DSP, despite earlier claims that clients “wouldn’t move to a DSP; there’s not enough richness and personalization.” On the block are Investopedia, PriceRunner, Smarter.com, SymptomFind and CouponMountain.com. No word yet on the timeline […]
It’s been a big year for mobile ad exchange MoPub. The 3-year-old company opened new offices in London, Singapore and New York, reached a revenue run rate of $100 million and was acquired by Twitter. In its first New York City conference today, CEO Jim Payne sat down with talk show host Charlie Rose (who […]
Brian Sugar has ambitious plans for PopSugar.com, a celebrity news and pop culture media platform he founded with his wife, Lisa Sugar, some seven years ago. Specifically, he wants to drive more than $1 billion in sales next year to retail partners through ShopStyle, PopSugar.com’s content and commerce offshoot it acquired in 2007. That figure’s […]
AOL’s comeback story under CEO Tim Armstrong over the past four years has at times looked improbable, with highs and lows along the way. Its quarterly performance has often been mixed: As one area of its display advertising stream looked strong, other parts have lagged. Its usually strong third-party network business had been looking weaker […]
What could be coined Amazon’s original advertising product, the Amazon Associates affiliate marketing program, connects advertisers to more than a million products in its marketplace. As standard affiliate models go, publishers can run traditional text links or customized image links, widgets with Amazon functionality or banner promotions and ads in return for an advertising fee […]
There are plenty of reasons, mostly technological, why integrated desktop/smartphone/tablet campaigns are tough to pull off for brand advertisers. Throw in an exchange-based ad strategy and the complexity goes through the roof. Ryan Christensen, AppNexus’ VP of product, teamed up with Julienne Thompson, VP for programmatic business at mobile ad network (and AppNexus partner) Millennial […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a weekly column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. It is written by Joanna O’Connell, Director of Research, AdExchanger Research. A recent study released by the ANA (done in partnership with Nielsen) indicates that 50% of marketers plan on dedicating budgets to multi-screen campaigns in the next three […]
“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. The appetite for ad technology is just beginning to appeal to new markets in new ways. Expect to see significant growth in the sector […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Tesco’s Ad Screens There was a time when scanning technology for the purposes of ad serving would have seemed invasive, but GigaOM’s David Meyer points out that’s no longer the case. Tesco is taking advantage of OptimEyes’ technology by installing ad screens that also […]
Adchemy has sold its lead-generation and performance-marketing business, Actions, to erstwhile partner XL Marketing. With the divestiture, Adchemy will focus exclusively on its software geared to the search marketing needs of large retail and ecommerce marketers. With the sale, all employees working on the Actions business – which specializes in the financial and education verticals […]
It’s good news/bad news for the Twitter IPO today. The company has raised its price range to $23-$25 per share, suggesting strong demand. It also faces an intellectual property infringement claim from IBM — relating in part to ad technology. To address the upside first: At the upper end of its new range Twitter would […]
Sweepstakes giant and direct marketer Publishers Clearing House (PCH) is known for its offline magazine subscriptions and contests but, like many companies, it is making a play for mobile audiences. The Port Washington, NY-based company today launched its new mobile ad optimization engine, called Chrysalis. More than 25% of existing customers and at least half […]
This year’s third quarter was marked by a lot of activity in the mobile ad space — several startups specializing in ad targeting, optimization, distribution and other services were snapped up, such as MoPub, JumpTap, Ad-X and EveryScreen Media. Marketers also continued to explore programmatic buying in mobile and saw Apple’s new iOS 7 drive […]
Last week was a busy one for photocentric platform Pinterest, which unveiled both related pins and a data agreement with Getty Images. The Getty deal looks good for brands and Pinterest’s 70 million users, experts said. On the one hand, it looks like “a quality-control mechanism, which is likely aimed at supporting monetization while maintaining […]
“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 Jared Belsky, president at 360i. Google recently launched a display test on its coveted search results page. It was done quietly, with only a few test partners and little fanfare. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Got Your Back Eric Picard’s startup, Rare Crowds, had run out of money and was facing imminent shutdown, so he reached out to the ‘Internet Oldtimers Group’ for money and they came through for him. Ad Age got the inside story of how Internet […]
Google’s product listing ads (PLAs) have positioned it for a strong holiday season, possibly at the expense of Amazon. Based on data compiled in the third quarter, search and digital marketing agency RKG found that among 500 online retail clients, Google search spending increased 18% year over year. In Q3 alone, Google PLAs drove 35% […]
Up to now, performance marketer Adknowledge’s AdParlor platform has served agencies and advertisers solely on Facebook, but it will now extend its work as the newest Twitter API partner. The company joins SocialCode, Voxsup, Kenshoo, Adaptly and other social-media marketing technology providers who have made the leap from Facebook to Twitter. While similarities exist between […]
“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 Jonathan Lenaghan, head of data science at PlaceIQ. With mobile devices generating tens of billions of location-enriched ad requests every month in the United States, marketers have long experimented with […]
“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 Victor Wong, co-founder and CEO of PaperG. Native advertising may be the latest buzzword, but the idea of aligning advertising with the content’s purpose has been around for a while. […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Ad Tech Is Back Ad tech is making a comeback with investors, David Pakman points out on his blog, although it never completely went away. He notes that exchanges are currently driving a lot of ad sales and those are the companies that have […]
Delivering ads to consumers across multiple screens has become critical for advertisers as more people divide their attention between various devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, in addition to watching TV. Marketers are taking note and ramping up multiscreen budgets, according to a new report from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and Nielsen. […]
The New York Times Co.’s digital ad revenue continued to slide in Q3 as, for the first time in recent years, print actually performed better. CEO Mark Thompson sought to put that contrast in context, saying that it was more a sign that the company had been able to arrest print losses as it works […]
Lego’s Charles McLeish said the brand’s first attempt at measuring marketing effectiveness began six years ago and is a constant work in progress. “We are not limited to screens,” he said during the Advertising Research Foundation’s Industry Leader Forum this week in New York. “TV and online video are a big part, but we also […]
SpotXchange, a video-marketplace operator focused on the supply side, is the latest private marketplace provider to add Deal ID functions to its offerings. Deal IDs, still mostly associated with general display, are an attempt to make exchange buying friendlier to publishers that want to set reserved inventory aside for specific buyers (or categories of marketers). […]
