Facebook has made steady progress on closing the loop between media spend and consumer transactions, according to Brian Boland, the company’s VP of ads product marketing. “Digital marketers expect accurate reach,” Boland said in a presentation at the DMA 2013 annual summit in Chicago this week. More and more are “expecting proven results. They’re now […]
Jeff Lanctot, who stepped down as global chief media officer at Razorfish in August, has a new gig. The seasoned digital-agency (and briefly, Microsoft) exec will take the reins at Mixpo. A longtime board member at the Seattle-based video ad server, Lanctot was immediately sought as a candidate to run Mixpo when CEO Anupam Gupta […]
HP Autonomy, the British software maker that Hewlett Packard acquired two years ago for $10.3 billion and wrote down in a multibillion-dollar loss, is hoping to erase some of that bad press with its new HP Digital Marketing Hub. The Marketing Hub is a cloud-based interface that lets marketers identify customer segments, build prescriptive models […]
“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. Lately I’ve had many conversations about the digital advertising market and how it’s evolving. The most-asked question: “Who will win the battle over […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mondelēz Targeting Offline Impulse snack buys are a data opportunity for Mondelēz International, which is working on “smart shelves” that will use sensors to gather basic information, such as age and gender. The Raw Story’s Travis Gettys reports that information could be used to […]
For all the talk of “programmatic direct” and bringing more automation to display ad sales, the future is bleak for the human element of ad sales, said IDC analyst Karsten Weide, who predicted that 80% of total US display sales will be sold via real-time bidding by 2022. Read the report [pdf]. In a presentation […]
Refinery29 has raised $20 million in Series C funding from Stripes Group to expand its category coverage and technological clout. The round brings its financing total to $30.4 million. What began as a grassroots fashion discovery portal for emerging brands and designers in New York, the city where high school friends Philippe von Borries and […]
Retailers are pouring more money into Facebook’s ad products and driving up CPM costs, according to a new report from Nanigans, an ad platform and Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer partner. The report is based on data from more than 100 online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the first nine months of 2013. CPMs of Facebook ads […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Tyler Fitch, founder of Yield Coalition. When I first started managing remnant yield for large websites, everything seemed to be cut and dry. You had your ad server, maybe an exchange, and you worked directly with […]
Brand Networks, a social marketing firm focused on large retail clients, has acquired rival Optimal Inc. for $35 million. The deal brings together two early movers in Facebook’s Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) program, each adept in its own way at seizing the social opportunity. In Brand Networks’ case, the strategy has been to focus on […]
Nearly a year after exiting Yahoo on less-than-amicable terms, Michael Katz, one of the founders of targeting and data provider interclick, is back on the scene with a new startup called mParticle. Billed as a mobile data platform, mParticle has secured a $3 million seed round from Google Ventures, Buddy Media’s Mike Lazerow and digital […]
“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 Andrei Dunca, co-founder and chief technology officer at LiveRail. Just a few years ago, consumers used numerous apps on their desktop computers, such as Winamp for music, Windows Media Player […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Site Retargeting Facebook is launching another retargeting tool, separate from FBX, that will allow a website owner to serve ads on mobile and desktop via custom audiences. It’s like the Facebook version of Google AdWords site retargeting, but it’s called Website Custom Audiences. […]
A year after Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said there was more potential “upside” for the portal’s revenues in search than display, its Q3 performance suggests it will not reverse its declines soon. Among the topline results in Yahoo’s Q3 (read the earnings release): GAAP display revenues fell 7% to $470 million. Last year, this percentage […]
The convergence of creativity and technology is shifting the dialog between consumers, agencies and brands. An on-stage discussion at the DMA 2013 conference in Chicago attempted to chart that shift by answering the question, “Does data drive the big idea or vice versa?” On the panel were Doug Bryan, a principal engineer at RichRelevance; Ben […]
A significant update to Adobe’s Analytics suite seems almost on cue from Google, which recently formalized data-driven attribution modeling for Analytics Premium users. One new feature, Anomaly Detection, helps users identify statistical anomalies in their marketing data — useful for incident detection or to expose new areas of opportunity. “The more advanced feature we’re announcing […]
As part of Microsoft’s entry into the world of online “offers” with a product known as Bing Offers, Microsoft recently announced a new enhancement called “Bing Offers Card-Linked” (see the Microsoft blog post). The product brings together transaction processors such as First Data with payment networks like MasterCard to address consumer audiences with offers fueled by […]
The lawyers may be scurrying and the deal fees mounting, but Omnicom and Publicis are still on track to complete their $35 billion megamerger by early 2014. The companies are making slow but steady progress on achieving regulatory approval for the deal, Omnicom CEO John Wren told investors on the company’s Q3 earnings call this morning. […]
Analytics provider Metamarkets has named Criteo Managing Director Jacob Ross as chief revenue officer, a new position as the company has doubled its staff in the past year. Jacobs’ hire, which gives Metamarkets 40 employees, comes after two other additions at the executive level in August, when the company brought in Rubicon’s Ron Claypool as VP […]
“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. When Acxiom announced the release of its Audience Operating System (AOS) in late September, I expected it to make a bigger splash. Likewise when Experian acquired digital data […]
Krishna Subramanian, the chief marketing officer of the mobile marketing agency Velti and co-founder of ad exchange Mobclix, which Velti acquired, has resigned from the troubled agency. In an email, Subramanian writes, “As many of you already know I have moved on from Velti. I am grateful to have co-founded Mobclix and humbled by the part […]
“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 Anand Das, co-founder and chief technology officer at PubMatic. It’s only October – way too early for end-of-year summaries – but one thing is already certain: 2013 marks the beginning […]
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 […]
