Talking about data feels a bit transgressive in Cannes, where creativity is literally center stage. But with data driving so much change at agencies – including at creative shops – it seems an unavoidable topic. It came up frequently in a conversation on Tuesday with Americo Campos Silva, Shell’s Global Media Manager, and Sasha Savic, CEO […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. GE Gets Predictive “Predictivity” — the name says it all. GE, in partnership with Amazon Web Services, Accenture, and others, are getting into the “big data” and analytics game with a cloud services offering. There’s nothing said about ads in the press release, but…listen […]
Web publishers using Google’s AdSense program will get new ad formats and better tools for optimizing ads on their sites in coming months and years, Google’s ad chief promised Monday. Susan Wojcicki, Google’s senior vice president of advertising and commerce, hinted at the improvements during a live video Google Hangout on Tuesday celebrating the official […]
As the mobile landscape expands, so does the trove of consumer data mobile carriers are sitting on. Enter SAP AG, which is hammering out deals to crunch carriers’ mobile user data and sell it to marketers. AdExchanger talked to Kevin Outcalt, head of Consumer Insight at SAP and Guy Rolfe, global mobile practice leader at Kantar […]
It’s been a little more than a year since Kepler Group was spun off (see AdExchanger’s Q&A) from MediaMath, where it had previously been the direct-to-client professional services group. So how’s it going for the world’s first independent agency to be incubated within a demand-side platform? Not bad at all. Kepler is hiring up and […]
One of the reasons that digital publishers like to talk about native is obvious: it resembles the age-old practice of high-priced “advertorials” and the natural customization of the placement dictates that marketers must deal directly with the site’s sales team. At the same time, those reasons have left agencies feeling frozen out by native ads, […]
As he intimated back in 2011, Monetate isn’t just servicing the e-commerce industry with its website optimization technology and analytics, says CEO David Brussin. It’s addressing the individual consumer as well. And yet, in spite of expanding into travel, financial services, and publishing, among other areas, Brussin thinks e-commerce giant Amazon is one of his […]
“Brand Aware” is a column on the data-driven digital ad ecosystem from the marketer’s point of view. It is written by Bob Arnold, Director of Digital and Social Media at Kellogg Company. One of my main responsibilities for Kellogg is to steward all of its digital media spend in North America, so a lot of media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Agency Investment WPP has invested in Fullscreen, a network of YouTube channels, as part of a reported 8-figure venture capital round. The LA Times quotes Fullscreen CEO George Strompolos, “We feel that the media company of the future ultimately won’t be built on a […]
As the fallout from the news that that the National Security Agency has amassed a vast collection of phone and Internet activity records continues, AdExchanger asked several marketing and privacy experts for their thoughts on the impact that the NSA’s data collection program may have on perceptions of consumer data used for advertising purposes. Click […]
At last week’s Merkle client summit, marketing chieftains from Geico and Travelers were present. [Record scratch here.] Wait a second – an agency has two ultra-competitve clients on its roster? Yes, it’s true. As Merkle CEO David Williams readily admitted to AdExchanger last week, the competitive nature of clients does create sensitivity around the data […]
AdExchanger is in the French Riviera, where some 12,000 people have gathered for the 60th annual Cannes Lions festival of creativity. We’ll have updates throughout the week, and a definitive (!) answer to the question, Can Big Data can play nice with the Big Idea? This morning Adobe hosted a discussion around advertising and trust, […]
Turn has snatched up Wolfgang Maasberg, the former chief executive at email and marketing automation firm Lyris, to lead its global sales operation. Prior to his job at Lyris, which he quit in March, Maasberg held North American sales leadership roles at Omniture and later Adobe. The hire speaks to two priorities at the demand-side […]
How best to capture and leverage mobile data is a question of critical importance to advertisers. App analytics and advertising firm Flurry approached it from numerous angles at its SourceDigital13 conference last week. AdExchanger caught up with CEO Simon Khalaf to talk about the company’s new mobile RTB platform and what’s top of mind for […]
“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 by Andrew Casale, VP of Strategy at Casale Media. Plenty of ad exchange buying patterns just make sense. There’s increased demand over the holidays, for instance, when more consumers are shopping, and retail […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MRC Updating ‘Viewability’ The Media Rating Council released an update on their efforts to solve the viewability issues of online advertising. Next month advertisers can expect to see a draft version of guidelines for measuring viewable impressions, followed by a report identifying the “discrepancies” […]
Some might view the timing of Tremor Video’s May S-1 filing with the SEC in preparation for its IPO as sign of a “video ad bubble,” but Michael Pachter, managing director of equity research for Wedbush Securities, warns that a public offering generally says more about the individual company than a particular industry segment, like […]
A few members of the group charged with creating the spec for a browser-based Do Not Track function have signaled their displeasure with the process by supporting a “contingency plan” that would effectively end the two years of talks without an outcome. But it’s far from clear whether they can find consensus to push that […]
Annalect Group, the digital and analytics division of Omnicom Media Group, will use Salesforce.com’s Marketing Cloud to support the social marketing offerings across Omnicom’s agencies, according to the companies. Omnicom already uses various Salesforce.com products such as Radian6 and Social.com. Today’s news highlights the company’s efforts to further “bundle” its work with the cloud software […]
“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. Just a few years ago, digital agencies had to spend a significant part of their day convincing traditional-minded clients that […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mobile Giants Google captured $4.6 billion in mobile ad revenue last year, fully half the global spend, according to eMarketer. Facebook, who just began mobile advertising in 2012, is expected to increase mobile ad revenue by 333% this year. And Twitter, Pandora and YP […]
Most of Gannett’s acquisitions in recent years have been about making the company more digital, but its $1.5 billion purchase of local broadcast operator Belo is a nod to the media business’s main advertising driver: television. But as McLean, VA-based Gannett goes about creating an advertising and content “SuperGroup,” as the company stated in its […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim Spanfeller, CEO of Spanfeller Media Group, a new-age media company. As the news about the U.S. government’s Prism program attracts full-blown global attention, raising questions about our privacy and our safety, I think it’s […]
For major publishers that built their businesses on print and glossy magazine pages, there is a clear sense that programmatic ad sales methods are becoming mainstream. What’s less clear is how to address the problems that programmatic has forced on them, namely, the struggle over developing a common metric and how to define terms like […]
It would be generous to say the attribution puzzle is half-solved. A quarter or an eighth solved is more like it. But the direction is clear. Advertisers are getting better at allocating conversion credit to brand interactions up and down the funnel. Platform companies are helping them, but their efforts can sometimes seem clumsy, calling […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Bags Hashtags Facebook is co-opting some of Twitter’s real-time cred with the addition of hashtag support for users and brands. In a blog post, it suggests marketers can stop worrying about going “all in” with Twitter when launching hashtag-based campaigns in their billboard […]
While it was not mentioned at Apple’s WWDC keynote address earlier this week, the newest version of iOS includes a new privacy feature that pushes more advertisers into adopting its latest user tracking system. After Apple announced nearly two years ago that it was shutting down access to the unique device identifier (UDID), which many […]
“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 Sid Shah, Director of Business Analytics for Advertising Solutions at Adobe. As a technical, data-savvy CMO, you want to make all key strategic decisions based on data and predictive […]
A month after accepting a $50 million investment from PE firm Spectrum Equity in return for a minority stake in the company, video ad platform Extreme Reach is carefully planning a series of small acquisitions directly tied to building scale, not greater technology advancement. In an interview with AdExchanger, CEO John Roland didn’t address the […]
