Like a lot of midsize independent newspapers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is starting to see some thaw in the economic downturn that hurt the print business at large. While the climate is better, the challenge of declining print ad revenues has been replaced by the challenge of developing a more mature online ad strategy. The […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cleaner Than Thou A day after OpenX went public with some traffic quality improvements, Google wants the world to know it’s keeping things clean too. A DoubleClick blog post details those efforts, including a ban on toolbars that overlay ads and manual and automated […]
With its 6.3-inch screen, it is easy to mistake the new Samsung Galaxy Mega smartphone for a tablet. It isn’t even the largest smartphone — the Sony Xperia Z Ultra has a 6.4-inch screen. As the gap between smartphones and tablets shrinks, combined with the growing hype around wearable devices, the demand for tablets is […]
Twitter has opened up Lead Generation cards to all advertisers after a limited release earlier this May. Twitter appears to be after direct-response advertising. Writing in a blog post, Twitter product manager Tarun Jain described the Lead Gen cards as “a streamlined tool to help advertisers find and connect off-Twitter with users interested in their message.” […]
Relying on ads to monetize a kids’ mobile app comes with a minefield of rules and restrictions. Apple, for example, requires app developers to avoid any behavioral advertising, ask for parental permission for in-app purchases and include a privacy policy. Developers also must get parental consent before collecting personal information like phone numbers and email […]
Twitter’s wading deeper into the TV pool. The end goal? Unlock more viewer data to balance the scale on social engagement and determine the opportune time to push paid media promotions. With its latest acquisition of real-time social data analytics platform Trendrr, which is used by a range of media companies and TV networks such […]
LiveRamp, a company that takes offline marketing data and matches it with online advertising, continues to find ways to blend in customer relationship management into the digital mix. The company is releasing a CRM data onboarding software product, called GetOnboard, that helps tie online and offline, as well as CRM and advertising, more closely together. […]
“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 Khoa Pham, product and data analyst at PlaceIQ. How many golf balls can you fit in a 747? This simple, albeit somewhat ridiculous, question digs right into the heart of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Native Scale The native advertising buzz continues to vibrate. In Ad Age, Alex Kantrowitz identifies six top native ad networks and outlines their attributes in a feature piece. The list includes BuzzFeed, Nativo and more. The Media Kitchen’s chief digital officer and venture maven, […]
While Yahoo has lately focused on buying and rolling out consumer-facing products, the Sunnyvale company also has ambitions around advertising. It drew attention to them yesterday, unveiling plans to add its Stream Ads format to several properties. Yahoo first introduced Stream Ads, which it refers to as a native ad format, to its homepages in […]
Google is leading the charge on mobile ad revenues, but Facebook is closing the gap. The two companies’ jointly control nearly 70% of mobile ad revenue, according to new estimates from EMarketer. Google owns more than 53% of mobile ad market share, to Facebook’s 16% — placing both well ahead of players like Pandora, YP, […]
After announcing that he had been appointed to an intelligence review panel, Peter Swire, co-chair of the Tracking Protection Working Group (TPWG), which is tasked with creating a universal standard for the “Do Not Track” browser feature, has resigned from the TPWG. A seasoned negotiator, Swire was brought in last November to salvage the DNT […]
The rise of programmatic buying has been a boon for some unscrupulous publishers that have learned to game the system by unloading junk ad impressions on exchanges. Now the money grab may be ending as exchange operators respond to improvements in fraud detection and to buyer demands for legit inventory. At least one such player, […]
Taking a page from the Weather Company, which has been trying to convince brand advertisers that meteorology is about lifestyles, not umbrellas, Brand Networks is partnering with Planalytics to build out its “social marketing stack” around connecting local and national retailers with data about weather patterns and consumer behavior. The deal comes a few weeks […]
“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 Tony Effik, managing director of media and connections at R/GA. I believe that smart machines will ultimately perform the vast majority of media’s routine tasks. We’ll spend most of our […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Tagging Attribution Still calling itself a tag-management company, TagMan continues to bend into the attribution space, which helps marketers understand ad-spend performance across campaigns and channels. Yesterday the company announced a partnership with ecommerce retargeter MyThings. According to the release, through the TagMan partnership, […]
The rapid adoption of tablets and smartphones has not been matched with equal intensity by the number of digital sales transactions occurring on those devices, but that divide is beginning to close. In the first half of 2013, m-commerce transactions totaled $10.6 billion in sales, which represents close to 10% of the total digital commerce […]
In a new report, Forrester Research senior analyst Joanna O’Connell identified the pros and cons of three of the most common techniques for targeting consumers across platforms: cookie-based targeting, person-based targeting and inference-based targeting. In terms of cookies, O’Connell noted that the usefulness of the third-party cookie is “finally showing signs of strain … in […]
To Qubit, a London-based company founded by four former Googlers, proper optimization of Web technology deployments plays a critical role in the effectiveness of commerce experiences and online advertising. A range of publishers like the BBC and retail brands like Pandora rely on Qubit’s enterprise tag management product Opentag for digital marketing and other forms […]
Data scientists are fueling the growth of the ad-tech industry, as well as many other industries. Straddling art and science, data science requires a solid understanding of machine learning, computing and algorithms, in addition to strong problem-solving and communication skills. The other thing about data scientists: There’s not enough of them. In order to meet […]
Doing the real-time dirty work for online advertising may not be as sexy as buy side platforms and your favorite late model DMP, but 50-person strong Aerospike doesn’t mind. In fact, many ad tech companies including AppNexus, BlueKai and eXelate use Aerospike’s database product to fuel real-time, big data interactions. Today, the company announced (see […]
Lori Tavoularis, managing director for Revenue Partnerships at Tribune Digital, said she is ignoring the uncertainty around a possible sale of some or all of the newspaper division that houses her unit. Last week, according to The Daily Caller, Koch Industries decided to give up its pursuit of the newspaper chain, which was split from […]
“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 at Spanfeller Media Group. Amazingly, the Internet — the most trackable medium ever due to its two-way and one-to-one connections — has always faced huge issues surrounding measurement. There are many good reasons […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adobe Wants To Own Video (Tech) Watch out comScore, Chartbeat, FreeWheel, BrightCove and Salesforce — Adobe is coming for you! At least that’s what Bill Ingram, VP of Adobe Analytics and Adobe Social, told Adweek in a Q&A. “We’re really about digitizing the word […]
Now and then the question comes up. How vulnerable is the digital ad ecosystem to the technical problems that occasionally knock out trading in the major financial markets? One such glitch hit Nasdaq on Thursday, freezing out investors for three hours. Time to revisit! Once the preferred way of explaining RTB to one’s relatives, the “financial […]
LifeStreet, an in-app advertising platform that claims to have more than 3,500 Facebook developers using its product, is going after a bigger slice of mobile with its new self-service publisher portal. The portal, which was launched today, is an extension of the company’s current portal that is used by Facebook app developers to publish display […]
Close to a year after Google evolved its product search to a paid model under the auspices of Google Shopping, new data suggests the imagecentric ads are strongly outperforming standard text ads in retail advertising. According to Marin Software‘s sampling of global advertisers and agencies that spend more than $100,000 on paid search per month, […]
“Native advertising” is a projection of publisher desires to revamp traditional print advertorials. Advertisers, too, like the idea of doing something unique that dovetails with editorial content and looks good across devices without requiring three creative versions. But scalability remains an issue. Ad-tech provider Appssavvy is one of several players looking for ways to combine the […]
With Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer planning to retire inside of a year, the question from an ad tech perspective is: could Microsoft return to an ad stack strategy with a new CEO? And if so, who would it be? Today, Microsoft’s ad tech/stack strategy largely consists of an hypnotic focus on search advertising through Bing, […]
