Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Your Ads Are Going Public Content-recommendation firm Outbrain is taking steps toward an IPO, including hiring its first CFO, Jeff Davison. According to paidContent, the company will make an estimated $130 million in revenues this year. Israeli news outlets, including Haaretz, are reporting that […]
Twitter’s acquisition of mobile ad exchange MoPub adds a new layer to its strategy. In addition to selling native ad units, Twitter will become a seller of standardized mobile ads as well — perhaps with its own user data thrown into the mix. “Buying MoPub reclassifies Twitter beyond a social platform, or even a broadcast […]
Buying MoPub does a few things for Twitter, potentially. It adds $100 million in 2013 revenue to Twitter’s income statement in the months leading up to a probable IPO. It creates an opportunity to monetize Twitter’s valuable data “off-platform” through an internally run mobile exchange. This could work by creating BlueKai-like data segments that would […]
“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 Kristine Welker, vice president, publisher and chief revenue officer of Dr. Oz Magazine at The Hearst Corp. I just embarked on my third startup, and it is as thrilling as […]
Marketers should broaden their view of the price-sensitivity spectrum or risk missing out on valuable consumer behaviors that impact their media buys, one study suggests. According to “Using Advertising to Engage the Price Sensitive Consumer,” a report published by dunnhumby, brands could be making a mistake by failing to dig deeper when it comes to […]
More than half of connected TV consumers use the apps on their set to view free, online videos and browse the web, a survey by electronics maker and video ad tech firm YuMe finds. To a lesser degree, these consumers — half of them, to be precise — are using their so-called smart TV apps […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Trending On Facebook Facebook is testing new ways to capture trending topics based on public discussions, much the way Twitter does. The initial partners, according to a Facebook blog post, will include Buzzfeed, CNN, NBC’s Today Show, BSkyB, Slate and Mass Relevance, with plans […]
Twitter has acquired MoPub, which provides ad management services to thousands of mobile publishers. The move gives Twitter considerable advertising reach in mobile, including real-time bidding inventory through MoPub’s Marketplace mobile ad exchange. Kevin Weil, Twitter’s VP of Product for Revenue, wrote in a blog post: “The two major trends in the ad world right […]
Real-time ad platform Rocket Fuel amended its S-1 Registration statement (see it) to go public and revealed how much it will raise and how much it will be worth should all go according to plan. The answer according to NASDAQ: “$102 million by offering 4.0 million shares at a price range of $24 to $27. […]
Intel Capital, the venture-capital arm of early HookLogic advertiser Intel, has invested $14.3 million in the ecommerce search-advertising company through a Series-B round that included some support from Bain Capital Ventures and former AdMeld CEO Michael Barrett. HookLogic, which recently launched a bid marketplace for ecommerce advertisers called the Retail Search Exchange, powers brands and […]
Critical Mass has lasting expertise in analytics. The digital agency specializes in optimizing websites and other user experiences by placing data at the center. For some clients, such as Nissan, it acts as the measurement hub for all shops in the roster. The agency’s Marketing Science group is led by Shaina Boone, who oversees about 30 […]
“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 EveryScreen Media, a Media6Degrees company. Celebrities know they’ve hit the big time when the paparazzi camp out on their lawns and the tabloids […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Media Riptide You may want to set aside next weekend for this. Nieman Journalism Lab has released a tome called “Riptide,” chronicling media’s transformation brought on by digital in the past 30+ years. Among the many media honchos, Business Insider’s Henry Blodget is positioned […]
Not to be outdone by the brick and mortars, eBay announced today its acquisition of Seattle-based pricing research and data firm Decide.com for an undisclosed sum. Decide.com applies what it calls “patent-pending machine-learning and text-mining algorithms” to an avalanche of price points to connect consumers to highly rated products and services. Users gained access to competitive pricing […]
Independently owned-and-operated outdoor specialty retailer Rock/Creek has realized early return as one of Twitter’s early beta advertisers. The brand was founded 25 years ago as a Chattanooga-based canoeing company. It operates five standalone stores in addition to an ecommerce platform, but has yet to mobile-optimize its site. Fifty-one percent of retailers cited this very optimization […]
While audience measurement giants Nielsen and comScore have scrambled to meet online ad industry demands around TV’s gross ratings points, WPP Group’s Kantar Media has concentrated more narrowly on “return path data” – metrics derived from pay TV boxes. While talk of addressable TV (aka advanced or “targeted TV”) has floated around for over a […]
“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 Andrew Casale, vice president of strategy at Casale Media Inc. It probably isn’t immediately obvious to point to cocoa beans when we think about making the RTB environment more conducive […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. New Product, Old Partners SAP and Accenture are continuing their partnership, this time by offering a product aimed at CMOs to “easily view and act on centralized key marketing performance data such as sales figures, media spend and social reach in near real-time.” Accenture […]
A few days after Acxiom unveiled Aboutthedata.com, a website where people can review the (sometimes inaccurate) online data that the marketing firm has collected about them, Pew Internet has published a report suggesting internet users are trying to remain anonymous online. Out of a survey of 792 online users in the US, 86% of the […]
Amobee, a mobile advertising company that was acquired by Singapore-based telecom SingTel last year, has bought Gradient X, a Los Angeles-based startup that offers a real-time bidding platform for mobile ads. Gradient X will provide Amobee with a real-time bidding functionality for various ad channels and formats, such as video and HTML5, as well as […]
More advertisers are running in-house “agency” units in 2013 than did five years ago, according to a new survey from the Association of National Advertisers. The change is driven in part by the weak global economy, but also could be chalked up to digital acceleration – including data/analytics and social imperatives. The survey of 203 […]
“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 Andrew Shebbeare, founding partner and global chief strategist at Essence. I love digital media. I particularly enjoy the geekery, the data, the possibilities. The only trouble is that when faced […]
Under two separate deals that took place this week, Microsoft, Nokia, Verizon and Vodafone took steps that speak to the companies’ expectations for the smartphone market and the telecom industry as a whole. Microsoft’s decision to acquire Nokia’s devices and services division could help it shore up its place in the smartphone ecosystem while Verizon […]
Buy-side video ad server Vindico has in recent months sought to position as a viewability specialist. This fall the company is broadening that profile further to include a fuller set of programmatic tools, as it offers workflow and measurement services to publishers. Vindico President Matt Timothy hastens to add: Don’t call it a pivot. Vindico […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Time’s Subscriber Data After a successful run with Toyota, Time Inc. hopes to capture more brands with its Engage product, which already counts Johnson & Johnson as a customer. According to Ad Age, Time Engage takes subscriber data and applies it to Web and […]
Rockfish has added 100 staffers since its acquisition by WPP Digital in 2011, expanding from its anchor office in Arkansas to Chicago, Austin and Atlanta. Now the agency is in the midst of constructing a digital CRM practice. Citing growing client demand for CRM-related services, Rockfish’s SVP & Chief Strategy Officer Dawn Maire noted a […]
This story continues our series on programmatic media in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China). Check out our earlier pieces on Brazil and Russia. The final installation, on China, will publish in the coming weeks. India’s growing Internet population would seem to make it a prime market for RTB and programmatic buying. But the […]
AOL and Yahoo – so different, right? Well, not exactly, but they have less in common than they once did. Here’s a crackpot theory for you: The companies are taking different paths in preparation for an eventual megamerger of the sort that was discussed, and then scrapped, back in 2011. Now we’re deep in speculative […]
With mobile commerce forecasted to hit $25 billion by year’s end, according to comScore, digital agencies are naturally fielding more questions about device strategy. Or, in the case of Razorfish, “context strategy.” Jason Goldberg, VP of strategy for multichannel commerce & content at Razorfish and member of the board of directors for Shop.org, touched on […]
