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 […]
“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 Tim Stoute, principle engineer and chief technology officer at eyeReturn Marketing. Online advertising is under a media microscope, primarily due to the perception that targeted ads invade privacy and have […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Online-Offline Coupon Code PayPal is rolling out another way for users to pay for retail purchases through its app, according to AllThingsD. It’s called Payment Code and it uses a QR system for payment. If the store doesn’t have the proper scanner, however, the […]
All location-based mobile advertising campaigns are not created equal and, for retailers, the nuances between data sources and surfaced promotions have several layers of intricacy. Mobile advertising continues to pique the interest of retail marketers – and investors. Just today, end-to-end mobile marketing platform Swirl Networks closed an $8 million strategic investment round from Hearst […]
Michael Scissons, founder and former CEO of the recently shuttered Syncapse, has a new gig as entrepreneur in residence at the Anheuser-Busch InBev brewing company — a title often reserved for venture-capital and law firms. In his new role at AB InBev, Scissons told AdExchanger in an email that he will support the brewing giant […]
Mike Nolet has stepped down from AppNexus, where he has served as CTO since the company’s founding six years ago. He will remain an advisor but vacate his board seat, which will be filled by President Michael Rubenstein. Nolet is a foundational character in the programmatic story, having helped build the world’s first ad exchange […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Steinberg, senior vice president of digital ad sales for The Weather Company. After attending my very first ANA Masters of Marketing conference, I will never be the same. OK, maybe that is a tad […]
Moving between online and offline environments has become the norm for most consumers, but many marketers have yet to catch up. Semcasting, a MA-based multi-channel audience targeting provider, has launched a new self-service platform, the Semcasting Marketing Appliance, that promises to help marketers by connecting online and offline consumer touchpoints for targeted advertising. The Appliance […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DG Loves Rich Media TechCrunch’s Anthony Ha reports that DG has made what appears to be an acqui-hire of sorts with its purchase of 11-person rich media vendor Republic Project for a reported $1.4 million plus earn-outs. Read more. Republic pitches a cross-device integration […]
There’s an ever-growing opportunity for advertisers on Amazon, the commerce marketplace maven every retailer hopes to emulate (and simultaneously fears). The company has nearly doubled its global ad revenues since 2011, from $420 million to an expected $835 million this year, eMarketer estimates. If true, this puts it ahead of publishers like Pandora, Twitter, LinkedIn and […]
One reason the TV upfront market exists is that it takes a long time between planning an ad buy and actually delivering it. A partnership between TV ad targeter Simulmedia and TiVo’s TRA, which tracks TV viewing with consumer purchase data, to guarantee ad buys on preset audience targets has the potential to shake up […]
Panel-based TV ratings and TV-themed “social buzz” are on a collision course, and audience research mainstay Nielsen is doing everything it can to retain its pole position. The company today announced “Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings” to measure TV-related Twitter discussion — both the volume of discussion and its total reach. Last fall, Nielsen, through a joint […]
In a summer interview, Facebook’s head of vertical measurement, Fred Leach, described the company’s measurement products and its partnership with Datalogix. In the below follow-up Q&A, Leach digs deeper into the company’s work on mobile measurement, attribution and the CPG category. AdExchanger: What are you working on in terms of mobile measurement? FRED LEACH: There are a couple ways […]
There’s a bright future for agencies in being effective purveyors of first-party data, said Brian Krick, the newest head of North American search and biddable for digital agency Essence. But, he said, they have to be willing to have tough conversations and break down barriers. Weaning channel-specific marketers off artificially inflated CPAs that don’t reflect true incremental revenue […]
“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, chief revenue officer of NextMark. I recently had a cup of coffee with Christopher Skinner, who has spent the last dozen years MakeBuzz after selling his old company, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Sell-Side ‘Active GRP’ Coming Soon The Drum reports that that Google’s biz dev lead for large publishers, David McMurtrie, told the audience at Thursday’s Association of Online Publishers (AOP) event in London that it’s time for publishers to start protecting their yields and […]
Each day at 6:30am, Dunkin Brands President of Global Marketing and Innovation John Costello gets a report showing the previous day’s sales by item at every US location. The company, which owns Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robins, launched 43 new products this year, Costello told marketers at the Association of National Advertisers’ annual Masters of […]
Breaking: The sizzle reel still has legs. Two thousand attendees at the Association of National Advertisers’ annual Masters of Marketing conference were treated to numerous examples of the genre Friday, as senior marketers from Chrysler, Walmart, MARS and Coca-Cola showed off their favorite TV spots. Repeatedly. But while the raw storytelling power of television remains […]
IBM is continuing to sharpen its focus on building its enterprise-based approach to mobile commerce and advertising with the acquisition of Xtify, a company that manages mobile messaging for brands. Read the release. The deal, terms of which were undisclosed, is part of IBM’s expansion of its “smarter commerce” program that promises to bring together […]
However much click tracking, psychographic surveying, and big data analysis marketers do, few have a solid understanding of how their customers engage with social marketing content — or how those customers’ behavior differs between commercial and non-commercial interactions. To address the knowledge gap, Forrester Research has come up with a “Social Technographics Score,” a model […]
There is no doubt that data-driven advertising has transformed the marketing landscape. Traditional advertising agencies are fighting a steep battle against data-heavy enterprises like Google and Facebook as well as more nimble startups. Roundarch Isobar — an Aegis Media-owned digital marketing agency — is striving to embrace big data and mobile advertising. Its clients include […]
