“Can the TV upfronts work in digital, too?” This is a question the Wall Street Journal’s Nina Lawrence gets to consider after she and her WSJ team present their wares at today’s Digital Content NewFronts, produced by the IAB. With only five months under her belt as VP of Global Marketing and Advertising Sales, after […]
“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 Jeremy Cornfeldt, President of Client Services, Strategy & Product at iProspect. We’ve all heard the news that Mozilla, by default, will start blocking third-party cookies in the upcoming launch […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up…Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cheaper, Future Inventory YouTube says it’s an “upfront” contrarian, lowering rates for media buyers in a bid to attract a bigger share of those TV budgets. “Last year we were rigid; we got a few big advertisers with huge checks,” YouTube Sales Chief Lucas Watson […]
Google’s offering in the ad viewability space has scored third-party accreditation from the Media Ratings Council. Google joins others who have wended through the MRC’s approval process – the respective viewability products from comScore, Double Verify and RealVu have been approved – so Google does not stand alone. But given its expansive relationship with marketers, […]
Experian Marketing Services has integrated technology gained from last year’s acquisition of Conversen with its CheetahMail platform. Referred to simply as “Experian Marketing Services’ cross-channel marketing platform,” the new offering lets marketers coordinate customer interactions across email, mobile, social, web, display, and print advertising campaigns, using testing and rules-based segmentation capabilities. For instance, a customer who made a […]
Like your run-of-the-mill 728×90 display ad unit, email can be taken for granted. Yet it remains a powerful channel powered by unique engagement for the email consumer and advertiser alike. LiveIntent EVP of Operations Jerry Sandoval has learned the nuance of email over the years, and in his most recent role at email ad targeting […]
Interpublic Group has made changes to its Cadreon trading desk in North America, uprooting it from its previous home in the Mediabrands Audience Platform and repotting it in the Magna Global media investment arm. As Adweek reported earlier this month, a new entity called Magna Global North America will absorb the trading desk along with […]
“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 Jeremy Hlavacek, Vice President of Operations and Strategic Partnerships at The Weather Company’s WeatherFX. It’s hardly news that the explosion of data and programmatic buying in the last five […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Omnicom Programmatic Dan Salmon, analyst at BMO Capital Markets, hosted a meeting with Omnicom CFO Randy Weisenburger on Wednesday. In a note to investors after the meeting, Salmon writes, “With [Omnicom] having reported earnings last week, the conversation focused primarily on the long-term impact […]
Using customer data to personalize or optimize individuals’ website experiences can increase conversion and customer satisfaction, yet a majority of digital marketing professionals do not prioritize it, according to two recent studies from Adobe and Econsultancy. As marketers leverage more digital tools, turning to real-time behavioral and existing customer data helps segment website visitors and […]
The New York Times Co. CFO Jim Follo reiterated a point he’s been making on earnings calls since last year, namely that “premium” digital advertising continues to be challenged by the rise of audience targeting and the infinite amount of digital inventory generated by social media. Read the release. During the Q1 earnings call, Mark […]
No company has seized the Facebook data opportunity as well as Datalogix. Facebook and Datalogix have worked together since 2011, when they began linking Facebook ad impressions to in-store purchases. Later, Facebook tapped Datalogix as the first partner in its Custom Audiences CRM and offline data-matching program. Acxiom, Epsilon and BlueKai were later added. Datalogix […]
Pasadena, California-based Perfect Market has had a ringside seat while its publisher clients have battled to keep revenues flowing as an important slice of ad spend has moved to audience-based, programmatic campaigns. Consequently, in the past couple of years, Perfect Market CEO Julie Schoenfeld says her 60-person company has gone from helping publishers monetize content […]
Social data analytics provider ShareThis is allowing Publicis-owned Starcom MediaVest Group to embed the company’s Social Quality Index rankings in its advertiser dashboard. In essence, the SQI is an indicator of the volume of social sharing and clicks across all of ShareThis’s 2.4 million publishers, who are mostly smaller, long-tail players but also include major […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon Ad Net Rumblings Reuters describes some campaigns that have run on the Amazon’s secretive ad network since late 2012. They included clients like Kimberly-Clark (Huggies), Ubisoft and an unnamed movie marketer. For the latter, “data on purchases of related DVDs, books and music […]
In a hearing held by the Senate Commerce Committee, Chairman John “Jay” Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) accused the ad industry of dragging its feet on the creation of specs for a Do Not Track browser option. “A commitment was made to honor Do Not Track requests from consumers that has not yet been followed through,” Rockefeller said […]
“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 John Ramey, CEO of isocket. At the AdExchanger Programmatic I/O conference in San Francisco last week, while people schmoozed at the rooftop after-party, an unofficial meeting was held down the […]
Weather is getting more news attention these days. In financial market terms, you could say weather has had a “high beta” lately – extremely volatile. According to Jason Chen, co-founder of four-person WeatherAlpha, marketers and media companies alike have taken note and are starting to use information about weather, building it into their operations and […]
MailOnline’s site is an endless broadsheet of breaking news, tabloid gossip and tawdry thrills (pictured: the money a stripper makes in just ONE shift – and it’s more than most people make in a month). Some might consider this publishing format tailor-made for real-time bidding. But the site, which has its own dedicated editorial 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 Chris Tuleya, Vice President of eDR at Underscore Marketing. Smartphone ownership has skyrocketed in the last three years, with nearly half of the US population now using smartphones. The […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Microsoft Publishing Microsoft Advertising – or is it Microsoft Publishing? – announced a new ad placement called VersaTiles for its popular email portal Outlook.com. Microsoft Advertising’s Jennifer Creegan explains that the ad has three “states:” “Default state: Consumers see the Default state as they […]
Since being acquired in September 2012, Paul Cimino’s Brilig Data Exchange serves not only its own customer base but also that of its new owner, Merkle, and all of the first- and third-party data it looks to leverage on behalf of its Merkle clients across marketing campaigns. In an ongoing effort to understand how data […]
Falling ad revenues hurt Gannett in Q1, even as the company enjoyed the fruits of its paywall strategy. Digital revenues and the completed national rollout of its all-access content subscription model contributed to Gannett’s 1.6% increase in overall revenue for the first quarter 2013. Total revenues were $1.2 billion, while advertising revenues accounted for $526.5 […]
Salesforce.com introduced today a new addition to its Marketing Cloud – Social.com, which allows marketers to apply their CRM and social listening data to their social ad campaigns. Creating targeted ads, marketers frequently run into the “silo issue” of being unable to connect their various customer data sources, noted Gordon Evans, VP of marketing at Salesforce.com. […]
The Weather Company (TWC) has partnered with Lotame to target ever-narrower segments of audiences across PC and mobile screens. Lotame, the seven-year-old data management platform, beat out four other DMPs for the assignment, TWC Chief Revenue Officer Curt Hecht confirmed. Hecht declined to say who the other contenders were, but sources indicate Lotame bested Bluekai […]
“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 at NextMark. When you think of advertising technology in the display space, the first names to come up are probably Google, PubMatic, Adobe and AppNexus. But […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Bots And Ghouls, Cont. On Adweek, Mike Shields wades again in the bot muck, outing properties and networks that appear to benefit from fraudulent traffic. Media6Degrees and RadiumOne alerted him to sites with large amounts of audience overlap – suggestive of bots. Mevio.com, Forward […]
It’s been almost a year since Microsoft first pledged to default-enable Do Not Track in Internet Explorer 10, setting off an urgent debate about the future of third-party ad tracking which continues to this day. The company has endured attacks both withering (“paternalistic,” said Evidon) and mild (“absolutely not helpful,” offered IAB CEO Randall Rothenberg), […]
Facebook may be pouring on the revenue afterburners while reducing the precision of self-serve ad targeting in the news feed. Or, if you’re Facebook, the latest changes are all about making it simpler for the advertising long tail. As many of you may know, AdExchanger reaches out through your Facebook news feed by posting links to […]
