Marketing technology company Syncapse learned first-hand how to work with large companies to integrate digital and social elements into their businesses, by working with RIM Blackberry as its first major client. With a team of about 70 people, the company became skilled at what would work for large enterprise companies when it comes to social […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Slow Programmatic Yesterday at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference, eBay’s head of digital display said programmatic needs to be less about real-time. As reported by Forbes’ Robert Hof, Stephen Howard-Sarin said, “The marketer needs to know, how long does it take for someone to buy […]
“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 Ed Carey, VP Demand Sales at The Rubicon Project. At this stage of the programmatic growth story, almost every business in the chain of marketers, agencies, platforms, and publishers has […]
Last week X+1 secured a new $17 million debt facility with Ares Capital, a cash reservoir the demand-side platform plans to tap for two acquisitions this quarter (one social, one mobile). A global expansion will follow in the second half of the year, including a possible outpost in Brazil, according to CEO John Nardone. By […]
“Workflow” is not the sexiest of topics, even in the realm of digital advertising. But as the process of buying, planning and tracking digital ad buys gets more complex, both agencies and software companies are taking a more serious look at what can and should be automated. Several months ago, Mediaocean, which was the product […]
Convincing students—not to mention adults with full-time jobs—to sign up for summer courses is never an easy task. As an experiment, New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies is trying out a free mobile app designed to drive enrollment in an online summer mobile marketing course. Created through sponsorships with Sprint and DudaMobile, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adapting To Nielsen OCR Adap.tv has signed on to use Nielsen’s Online Campaign Ratings, which aims to measure the reach of video ad campaigns across screens. The video ad platform hopes to show it can tackle issues of price, quality/engagement and above all, a […]
Business Insider, the chief digital tabloid with its screaming headlines, bold commentary and incessant slideshows, attracts a lot of pageviews, controversy and ad spending. But the mix has left it grasping for profitability. Now, with Jeff Bezos’ venture capital group leading a $5 million funding round — bringing the total raised to $18.3 million over […]
Tablet usage is on the rise but retailers have yet to catch up, shows a new report by research company L2. As more people spend time on tablets—which L2 categorizes as a separate device from a PC or mobile device—retailers need to adopt a distinct strategy for engaging shoppers on their tablets. “Tablets have been […]
“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. Worthless. That’s what I – and most of my colleagues – thought of leftover or remnant advertising when I was selling highly premium banner […]
E-Commerce has entered the mainstream in the U.S. and Europe, but China is where the growth really is. As eMarketer predicted earlier this year, the Asia-Pacific region will surpass North America to become the world’s number one market for business-to-consumer e-commerce sales with an annual gain of 30% to over $433 billion. And that is […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Home Invasion Om Malik sees a privacy menace in Facebook’s ‘Home’ phone integration (AdExchanger story). He argues Facebook will know our home location, shopping habits, and travel routes. “Facebook is going to use all this data — not to improve our lives – but […]
Facebook’s first deep hardware integration is a custom version of the Android operating system, packaged on a new HTC smartphone called “HTC First.” “We didn’t want to build our own phone or an OS,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the press conference at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters. “We want to provide the best experience 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 Douglas de Jager, founder of Spider.io. In Will Luttrell’s AdExchanger article of last week, he argues that if the display advertising buy side adopts better performance metrics then the problem of fraud […]
eMarketer updated its forecast for ad spending purchased through real-time bidding, which will make up 19% of total digital display ad spend in the US in 2013. The previous forecast, out in November 2012, was increased slightly and the company added its 2017 forecast. According to eMarketer, US RTB digital display ad spending, for all display […]
“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 Shebbeare, Founding Partner & Chief Strategist at Essence Digital. No doubt about it: Direct response marketers bankrolled the real-time bidding revolution, while brand dollars keep fuelling growth on the reservation side. […]
A variety of publisher analytics firms are analyzing the yield of the digital publisher today. But for Scout Analytics, which is based just outside of Seattle, it’s not about better advertising yield as the end game. The 40-person company lays claim to the optimization of well over $2 billion in annual client revenues according to […]
One question that’s unlikely to be addressed during today’s Facebook press conference has to do with the possible data tracking implications of a phone deeply integrated with Facebook’s core features. But given Facebook’s mobile ubiquity (More than 680 million people use Facebook on mobile devices every month) and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s focus on the mobile […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Playing Tag With Cash Gotta tag? It’s valuable if you can scale the management of millions and billions of the ad variety. Tag manager Tealium has raised $15 million-plus (total for the life of the company is $27 million). The release claims large revenue […]
The Weather Company, owner of The Weather Channel and its digital extensions, unveiled a plan to bring more addressability to its TV advertising. Dubbed “CableFX,” the new offering from the company’s WeatherFX Division brings existing “big data” to its local and regional TV targeting system. The idea is to more closely bridge TWC’s TV, web, […]
Marketing automation vendor Marketo has filed for a $75 million IPO, adding fuel to speculation on whether it will soon be snapped up in an acquisition. From 2010 to 2012, Marketo’s revenue grew from $14 million to $58.4 million, according to its S1 filing. The San Mateo, Calif.-based marketing automation firm has raised $108 million in venture funding […]
Chartbeat recently announced that it has brought its “engaged time” metric to its growing web ad analytics offering. Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile and Product Manager Alex Carusillo discussed their company’s objectives in advertising and industry trends with AdExchanger… AdExchanger: Overall, where does the analysis of advertising fit in Chartbeat’s strategy? TONY HAILE: Our core has […]
In some ways, “Local” holds the same allure and mystery of “Mobile” for the digital ad ecosystem. How can they be unlocked through automated, advertising strategies? For both, aggregation of demand through display ad networks has been the automated answer – i.e. solutions like Google’s AdWords/AdSense. That’s great for indirect sales, or smaller websites without […]
Marketing executives for pharmaceutical companies are stepping up their use of digital technologies and analytics to save money and fine-tune their targeting efforts. That includes hyper-personalization through retargeting and other digital ad technologies. According to a recent survey by management and tech consultant Accenture, more than 80% of the 200 executives surveyed named cost reduction […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Measuring ‘Walk-Throughs’ PlaceIQ is offering a new metric for mobile ads that’s essentially a real-world equivalent of the online “view-through.” The so-called “Place Visit Rate” is defined thusly: “The ratio of people who viewed mobile ads for a physical retailer and subsequently were observed […]
Before taking the reins at DoubleVerify six months ago, Wayne Gattinella spent ten years at the helm of WebMD. When he signed up for that job, the consumer health publisher was three years old and had collapsed to some extent, like most web content providers in that era. Since then it has largely reversed course. Revenues for […]
The first quarter of 2013 was marked by some notable acquisitions—Google acquired Channel Intelligence; Twitter snapped up Bluefin Labs and Facebook agreed to buy Microsoft’s Atlas DMT. Merger and acquisition activities for marketing and other sectors have generally cooled down, however, according to a new report from The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI), an investment bank […]
Adaptly, a company that aims to assist brands in increasing and understanding their “engagement” across social media, may now have greater ability to help its clients: The company is the 13th to be awarded Facebook’s Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer title for the social net’s exchange. For Adaptly, being given the keys to the Facebook Exchange is […]
“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 Jim Parkinson, Chief Digital Officer, Valassis. Today, marketers have a unique opportunity to engage consumers through the integration of print and digital mediums. The marketer who is able to […]
