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 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Trading Desk Expansion Publicis’ VivaKi is continuing its international expansion and opening a regional Activation Centre in Singapore, according to Campaign Asia. This is the second VivaKi Activation Centre, the first being in Amsterdam, with a third being planned for China. Grace Liau will […]
Ned Brody can officially join Yahoo as SVP for the Americas, five months after resigning his post as CEO of AOL Networks, the unit that houses the company’s ad-tech properties. Brody had been constrained from heading to Yahoo by a noncompete clause, which could have kept him from starting the job until April 2014. But […]
With agencies continuing to voice concern about their battles with clients’ procurement officers, some high-profile agency executives have called to pay for performance. Perhaps they should look no further than today’s direct-response business — traditionally driven by search advertising — where agencies like WPP GroupM’s Quisma have been operating for more than a decade. Quisma continues […]
A new report from Germany-based ad exchange AdScale shows that US advertisers, agencies and vendors are not the only ones seeing rapid growth in real-time bidding (RTB). The average cost per thousand (CPM) for standard ad space purchased via RTB now averages close to 35% more than the average CPM of campaigns booked without RTB […]
Tapping into second-screen viewing and related search habits is the new black. Facebook confirmed Friday it is testing “trending topics” in the news feed after rolling out a hashtags feature, according to The Wall Street Journal. Apple and, especially, Twitter have made notable moves in the space. But, for all of the interest, the fact […]
Gil Beyda is Founder & Managing Partner at Genacast Ventures. His firm’s investments have included Invite Media (acquired by Google in 2010) and Demdex (acquired by Adobe in 2011). AdExchanger asked Mr. Beyda to explain a fundraising tactic increasingly used by advertising technology startups known as an “inside round.” In venture capital, an “inside round” […]
Over the summer, lead generation company Inadco raised an $11 million second round funding, giving it a total of $17 million worth of venture capital since opening its doors five years ago. Much of that time, the Palo Alto company was in stealth mode. That changed roughly two years ago when it sought to position […]
“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. Local advertising is the largest pool of dollars in the US advertising industry, but is also by far the most fragmented and complex marketplace. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Video Ad Logistics Facebook is pressing “auto-play” on its 15 second video ad strategy in users’ newsfeeds in hopes of capturing TV and video ad budget. As the LA Times points out, however, the success of TV ads can largely be attributed to the […]
Greater usability, product “stickiness” and the newly acquired ExactTarget propelled Salesforce.com into a strong second quarter, according to analysts. Salesforce.com posted $957 million in revenues, a 31% increase compared to last year. The San Francisco-based company projects its revenues will top $4 billion for the 2014 fiscal year and is on track to hit a […]
Founded six years ago by three former Yahoo engineers, social commerce community portal Polyvore has amassed 80 million product boards or “sets” since inception. To date, the company has raised more than $22 million in funding from Benchmark Capital and others, and now feeds 7.5 billion product impressions per month to brand and retail clients […]
This week saw the formal launch of a marketing services company geared to entertainment clients. Water Cooler Group contains four agency brands – Maude (offering creative and strategy), Media Storm (planning and buying), Hip Genius (social media) and Bolt (for iTV). Among its clients are Food Network, MLB Network, Major League Soccer, Viggle, and cable […]
