Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Traffic Jam The problem of fraud could be even worse than people realize, according to a new report from Adweek’s Mike Shields. Along with the usual suspects, there are sites like Crackle and CollegeHumor that may employ robotic means in order to drive traffic, […]
Demand Media co-founder Richard Rosenblatt is stepping from his roles as chairman and CEO of the content aggregator. Read the release. The company has worked for years to be perceived as a curator of “prime”, albeit utilitarian content instead of being perjoratively identified as a keyword-laden “content farm.” Rosenblatt’s departure suggests no immediate wholesale change […]
As an industry, data-driven marketing drives $156 billion in revenues and contributes 675,000 jobs to the US economy alone. These figures, published and heralded onstage to thousands of marketers this morning by Direct Marketing Association president and CEO Linda Woolley, were part of a 100-page Data-Driven Marketing Economy report distributed today at the DMA 2013 […]
“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. Earlier this month, panels at Advertising Week on viewable impressions revealed a subtle new point of resistance for adoption by sellers and aggregators. Resistance […]
Emmett Shine’s Bowery-based agency Gin Lane Media is not your everyday 25-person creative shop. The agency had early roots in women’s apparel; its founder and CEO began T-shirt company LOLA New York in 2005 while circumnavigating the downtown New York design and art scene. After securing a number of small projects that landed SeamlessWeb and […]
MAGNA GLOBAL Research has issued a new report this morning chock full of data that shows robust growth in programmatic buying of digital media. For starters, the company says that in the U.S. programmatic inventory (display, mobile, social, video) will hit $7.4 billion this year. Of that, $3.9 billion will be real-time biddable, which $3.5 […]
In the past week, Integral Ad Science and DoubleVerify – two companies whose aim is to ensure that brand advertisers get the kind of exposure and inventory they expect – unveiled their respective tools designed to limit, if not eliminate, the waste caused by fraudulent traffic – namely “bots.” The new tools, as outlined by […]
The chances of finding a company website that does not include a blog or other form of earned media is rare these days. While most companies understand the value of promoting their brand through earned media, many stumble when it comes to driving audiences to that content. The Texas-based startup OneSpot is tackling this issue […]
“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 Sean Callahan, marketing director at Bizo and editor at Digital Marketing Remix. Digital ad spending continues to climb, with US budgets expected to reach $42.5 billion this year and grow […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Recommended Ad Google may be inserting a Google+ recommendation of yours — called “Shared Endorsements” — into an ad, according to changes announced by the company on Friday. Google’s terms-of-service page provides a use case: “For example, your friends might see that you rated […]
Like their private counterparts, public organizations are experimenting with targeted offers delivered through apps. The Montreal Transport Society (STM) is one such organization. STM wanted to increase its ridership among younger customers, so it developed an app with SAP’s Precision Marketing division, which it dubbed STM Merci. Through partnerships with local vendors, the app delivers […]
Alibaba Group, the Chinese equivalent of Amazon, has invested $206 million in ShopRunner, a member-only subscription ecommerce platform connecting consumers to hundreds of retail brands (like Toys R Us and Tommy Hilfiger) and a plethora of perks — like free, two-day shipping and express checkout for $79 a year or $8.95 a month. Alibaba, in […]
“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 Jim Parkinson, chief digital officer at Valassis. I don’t come from this media world, so I learn something almost every day. What I’ve recently found very interesting is the intersection […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Twitter Slip Twitter accidentally spilled the date of its IPO, PrivCo has uncovered. In a financial document, Twitter pegged Feb. 15, 2014, as the end of the lock-up agreement — typically 90 days after an IPO. Hence the offering will be Nov. 15. PrivCo […]
Last month Media6degrees rebranded itself as Dstillery. Why? For years, Media6 had sought to position itself as a finder of consumer prospects for brands. From the beginning, it created audience segments based in part on social characteristics. But over the years that led to confusion: Was Media6 just another “social graph targeter?” No, that was never […]
A panel covering RTB and “viewability” played to a packed room atop the Gansevoort Park Hotel in New York last night. What commenced was a (congenially heated, at times) meeting of the minds between James Green, CEO of Magnetic; Anne Hunter, SVP of global marketing strategy at comScore; Brian Gleason, managing director, North America, Xaxis; […]
Programmatic buying and RTB in the Asia-Pacific region continues to grow, with impressions over the past year spreading out across different countries and inventory from a wider variety of publishers hitting the market. A new Real Time Media Insights report from Brandscreen, an ad-tech company that provides DSP and trading-desk services in the APAC region, […]
The retargeted advertising space is becoming highly lucrative, finds retargeting platform AdRoll, which announced today that it had passed a $100 million run rate, up from $50 million last year. The 6-year-old company claims to have more than 10,000 customers across 100 countries and was one of the first platforms to become a Facebook Exchange […]
Essence has made another key hire from the Razorfish talent pool with its appointment of Christian Juhl as the digital agency’s CEO of North America. Juhl arrives from his former post as president, West, at Razorfish, where he managed four offices with a focus on integrated media, creative and technology lines of business. Essence, in […]
Data science is the backbone of numerous ad-tech firms competing in an increasingly technology-driven environment. Explaining what data scientists do is difficult, however, given that their work is often described as a mix of art and science and varies with each company. AdExchanger asked data scientists from Decide.com, a price research firm acquired by eBay, […]
“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 Alex White, general manager of data and trading at DG Peer39. Fraud has always been the online industry’s open secret. There are varying estimates as to its total costs, with […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Do Not Track, We Will Microsoft was the first browser maker to turn on “Do Not Track” by default, and now its advertising arm plans to implement a proprietary tracking system. Microsoft would track across computers, phones and tablets that are running Windows, as […]
This morning NBC Universal entered a strategic partnership with Comcast and Twitter to engineer a “See It” feature allowing Xfinity TV viewers to take action around a TV show from their Twitter stream. The integration allows Xfinity TV viewers to take actions such as starting a show on-demand or setting a DVR to record. Executives […]
Digital ad spending in the first half of 2013 grew 18% year over year, according to the 2013 Half Year IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report. The increase marks the fifth consecutive year of double-digit growth in the first half. The IAB report, conducted by Pricewaterhouse Coopers, tracks and analyzes US Internet ad spending. Mobile is […]
Retail brands, and the vendors that serve them, continue to obsess about how to bridge the gap between online intent and offline sales. Retailigence, the developer of a “hyperlocal marketing platform” for brands and retailers, has rolled out a solution that allows consumers to reserve products online and pick up in-store. Although the concept is […]
The “Ad Tech Industry” is maturing. For the past five years, AdExchanger has observed, engaged and, hopefully, enlightened about this budding sector. But! Today this sector has expanded its horizons and global appeal to the point where the “ad tech” label no longer easily fits. It has become a “Digital Marketing Technology Industry,” steadily embraced […]
“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. Having just returned from the three-day ANA Masters of Marketing conference, held this past weekend in Phoenix, I thought it worth sharing my thoughts with marketers on what […]
Digital sales platform isocket has named Richard Jalichandra as CEO. John Ramey, who founded isocket four years ago, will step aside but remain with the San Francisco company as its chairman. Jalichandra stepped down as Technorati’s CEO in May 2011 to join Austin-based digital startup MapMyFitness. After that change of pace, Jalichandra, who has remained […]
While the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act registration is at the center of the US government shutdown and has faced criticism over technology glitches this week, healthcare-oriented contextual ad network Precision Health said its expansion into real-time bidding and “audience extension” through AppNexus has gone off without a hitch. Precision Health’s work with AppNexus has […]
