The next time you see a video advertisement on Yahoo, it will most likely be tied to search data and other information that Yahoo has about you through a new partnership with Starcom USA. Yahoo and Starcom have struck a deal to deliver video ads across Yahoo’s properties that are targeted at viewers based on […]
AudienceScience has been in business for more than a decade, starting out as an ad network and later adding demand-side and data-management abilities. Last year, the company took the relatively big step of closing its network business. Now, in its bid to be viewed as a one-stop shop for digital advertisers, AudienceScience, like many others, […]
Even though it has a long way to go, mobile advertising is gaining traction in Latin America and companies are taking note. One such company is StartMeApp, a 2-year-old mobile ad network based in Argentina that serves ads in Latin America as well as other regions. Dealing mainly in display ads, StartMeApp serves advertisers and […]
“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. Recent discussions on the evolution of media have moved beyond mobile to omnichannel and n-screen. Before we move too fast into n-screen, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. PubMatic Responds In a blog post on Friday, sell-side platform PubMatic responded to critical comments made by AppNexus CEO Brian O’Kelley in an AdExchanger interview last week. The blog states, “We respect the business that Brian has built in display, but his comments were […]
Ecommerce spending in the US grew 13% year-over-year in the third quarter to $47.5 billion, a softening from Q2 when the growth rate hit 15%, according to comScore’s State of the US Online Retail Economy report. “There was a bit of a dip in consumer sentiment,” commented Andrew Lipsman, VP of industry analysis at comScore. […]
Bank of America’s card-linked offers program, BankAmeriDeals, offers customers cash back when they purchase from any of 4,000 partnering retail merchants. Cash-back discount deals are surfaced to customers right in the Online Banking environment, based on their past purchase history. Powered by purchase data platform Cardlytics, Bank of America, to date, has issued about $17 […]
“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 Jason Kelly, CEO at Sociomantic. Digital marketers look at data through a very narrow lens, but with great expectations for how it can impact their business. The only data that […]
Publishers have increasingly embraced products that provide more insight into their inventory and help them manage their ad operations. Yesterday at a panel discussion moderated by Yieldex CRO Andrew Rutledge at ad:tech New York, executives from Fox News Digital, Viacom, Washington Post Digital and Turner Broadcasting discussed the tools they’re using to better leverage ad […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. eBay’s Programmatic Success Programmatic is becoming a big part of the display pie for eBay, who says the volume of ad impressions on its exchange has grown fivefold, UK-based The Drum reported. “The budgets currently being allocated to private marketplaces are much smaller than […]
Like most of its video ad-tech rivals, Tremor Video has vied for TV-like brand dollars by offering a pitch based on online’s strength in performance with the branding appeal of “sight, sound and motion.” The problem, as Tremor’s Q3 earnings make clear, is that, as CEO Bill Day put it, TV buyers still value the […]
Rocket Fuel is sitting pretty in its first quarterly earnings report since going public in September. The company saw Q3 top-line revenue growth of 132%. Its customer base reached 938, up from 406 in the third quarter of 2012, and headcount grew to 552 – about on par with AppNexus. Press release. Impressive as those stats […]
After going public, Twitter saw its stock price nearly double in early trading to a $45.10 high during the early morning hours of day one on the New York Stock Exchange. Twitter sold 70 million shares to raise $1.82 billion with a market cap of $18 billion through the IPO. As trading began, that valuation […]
If you made it to AppNexus’ New York Summit on Wednesday, you might have come away feeling that the programmatic frontier has been largely colonized — at least as pertains to traditional display — and the remaining work to be done is along the lines of tree clearing and swamp draining. VC investment has slowed […]
Nearly three months after DG decided to sell its linear TV ad-delivery business to video ad-management company Extreme Reach for $485 million, it is enjoying revenue momentum from its online platforms. Among the key results from DG’s Q3: Online revenues were up 13% to $38.2 million. The online segment’s margins improved to 25% from 13% […]
“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 Jon Mandel, CEO at PrecisionDemand. Nobody dies or suffers injury in advertising. That allows people to become entrenched in the way things are done, with false beliefs about others’ capabilities. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. App Retention Bonus Appboy wants to be the “ExactTarget for Mobile Apps,” and has secured $7.6 million from IDG Ventures and Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow to get there. The money will help build out loyalty and retention efforts on behalf of developers. “The […]
Resonate has debuted a platform that measures consumers’ online motivations to help agencies better target campaigns across mobile, social and video. Dubbed Resonate Analytics for Agencies, the software is based on 4-year-old technology that statistically models people’s behavior online against in-depth, survey-based knowledge about their personal values to track how those values motivate the way […]
Baidu, China’s equivalent of Google in search scope, is bringing a surplus of intent data to demand-side platform Brandscreen through a strategic deal the two have forged. Using Brandscreen’s RTB platform, advertisers now have access to Baidu Exchange Service inventory spanning 500 million unique users and 15 billion impressions monthly; it’s estimated that Baidu commands […]
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 […]
