After debuting its Media Metrix Multi-Platform in beta in November, comScore opened the offering to all US clients and released the top 50 web properties for February 2013, based on data from both desktop and mobile visitors. While the top multi-platform properties overall were similar to the top desktop properties, there were several companies that […]
“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 Jay Friedman, COO at Goodway Group. Have you seen recent articles about the Firefox cookie-blocking privacy debate? I don’t blame those of us in the digital media community for going […]
Freelancers Union is seeing powerful results after a marketing revamp that has it churning out more content and shifting spend to native ads and programmatic display. Chief Marketing Officer John Donahue describes a move away from campaign thinking to “always on” communications. That change, underway for several months, is centered on daily amplification of content […]
“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 Jesse Pujji, CEO at Ampush. Facebook’s announcement of a real time advertising exchange in June last year was one of the biggest stories of 2012. Even though data is still scarce […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cookies, Who Needs ‘Em (Cont.) The Online Publishers Association (OPA) is the latest ad group to dismiss worries about the “Corleone kiss of death” Mozilla has seemingly planted on the third party cookie. It said in a statement, “In spite of the doom-saying, Mozilla’s […]
Ad management services provider Marin Software became the latest private tech company to go public, and it’s first day of trading on Friday was indisputably positive for executives behind the decision. Now, of course, comes the hard part: getting to profitability and managing expectations along the way. In a conversation with AdExchanger a few hours […]
App developers and publishers who have yet to stop using unique device identifiers (UDIDs) now have a cut-off date. Apple informed app developers yesterday that it will soon ban any apps or updates to existing apps that include UDIDs, a component of analytics systems that publishers and developers have been using to track apps 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 Phil Gross, Director of Product Management at Visual IQ. With Facebook’s purchase of Atlas, all eyes are on social media measurement. Twitter provides an interesting challenge with respect to measurement, as there […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Behind The Bot The focus on fraudulent impressions driven by the “Chameleon” botnet discovered by London-based ad measurement and viewability firm Spider.io this week continues to evolve. Dr. Douglas de Jager, CEO of spider.io, writing in Adweek, investigates some possible (inadvertent?) sources for the […]
As often happens with emerging channels, advertising dollars are still way behind when it comes to matching the time spent on smartphones and tablets. One barrier to greater spending is the lack of measurement of both the mobile web and app activity, but online analytics provider Quantcast is trying to tie usage across devices 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 by Heather Pidgeon, VP of Services at iProspect. As most of us know, fear of the unknown often comes from a lack of understanding. Due to the many new and unfamiliar factors […]
“There’s no such thing as social analytics. Just like there’s no such thing as big data—it’s an artificial amalgamation of related topics. When you lump these things together you lose the distinction between them. Don’t talk about social analytics — instead, talk about the analysis of the topic. What is the sentiment? What are the […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Eric Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. I’ve been writing about some of the ethical issues with “opt-out” third-party tracking for a long time. It’s a practice that makes me extremely […]
Google’s is taking its time adding features from supply side platform AdMeld, acquired nearly two years ago, to its DoubleClick Ad Exchange. Doing so is an ongoing process, Neal Mohan, VP for display advertising products, told AdExchanger in a discussion of Google’s attempts to broaden its appeal to brand-name publishers and big-spending marketers. This week, the company […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Two Speeds For Ad Spend Globally With job growth in the US, new fears in Europe, and uncertainty in China, guessing global ad trends one year out may seem a fool’s game. Carat takes a stab anyway, projecting 5% spending growth worldwide. Digital ads […]
Social data analytics provider ShareThis has raised a $23 million third round and has wasted no time spending a chunk of that cash by purchasing Socialize. Socialize creates tools for app developers who want additional social functions attached to their works. The point of the deal, details of which were undisclosed, is to give ShareThis […]
Even though it is widely used, customers would be hard-pressed to find vendors who agree with the label “marketing automation,” according to Jon Miller, VP of marketing content and strategy at marketing automation software provider Marketo. Marketing automation is “one of those terms that nobody really seems to love but at the same time it’s […]
“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 Kirk McDonald, President at PubMatic. The constant stream of new technologies in our everyday lives has created a “shiny new penny” syndrome. One day it’s emerging mobile apps that take the […]
At the Advertising Research Foundation’s Re:think conference in New York yesterday, discussion revolved around emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil. John Forsyth, principal at McKinsey & Company, presented data showcasing the growth in these markets. “If you look at the growth over the next 15 years, three-fourths of the global growth is going […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Botsploitation Adweek’s Mike Shields pens a feature on “ghost publishers” who create inventory through botnets, invisible impressions, and other non-human means. Using background sources, he fingers a group of the “most suspect” site networks. An irony: the problem may be driven by brand marketers. […]
Information Builders, a 38-year-old business intelligence and analytics provider that serves customers like Ford, Mastercard, Lockheed Martin, and Verizon, is setting its sights on the CMO. The New York City-based company yesterday launched its WebFocus Social Media Analytics platform, designed to provide insight into customer sentiment on social networks. “We were originally very IT-driven but […]
Even as its parent Time Warner works on spinning off Time Inc. into its own separately traded entity, the company has been pursuing a more aggressive approach to programmatic ad sales the past few months — albeit quietly. But it will have to go forward without two champions of that process. Earlier today, Chief Revenue […]
The growth of Real-Time Bidding (RTB) has created a paradox for those trying to root out ad quality issues of all kinds. On the one hand, the rise of viewability measurement and the relatively small number of scaled RTB marketplaces has made it easier to identify and police worthless impressions. But it’s also easier for […]
Location analytics company Placed launched Placed Affiliate, a monetization platform for mobile app developers, in beta today. By using Placed Affiliate, mobile apps collect location data on users who opt-in, and can then monetize that data. “Placed Affiliate does not impact the in-app experience with ads, rather it simply measures location for the purposes of […]
Full-service digital agency Booyah Advertising has launched a trading desk, led by new hire Matt Thompson, previously with Mindshare in London. The trading desk will employ four people, all in Denver. Booyah the agency is part of Booyah Networks, which also owns video ad marketplace SpotXchange. Booyah Advertising did $100 million in media last year, […]
Volkswagen created the “Smileage” mobile app, expanding on its 2012 campaign slogan, “It’s not the miles; it’s how you live them.” Working with Google, VW’s app is the first project from Google’s Art, Copy & Code project, showcasing how companies can use technology — Google’s technologies in particular — to create more innovative brand experiences. […]
“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 Franchi, Co-founder at Undertone. Digital media does not lack topics suitable for debate and disagreement. We have a variety of forums to debate them in real time over the web, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. SpotXchange On Publisher Tools Video ad marketplace operator SpotXchange is promoting some additional tools for publishers that promise to help balance the advantages that advertisers and media buyers get from demand side platforms. From the release: “Publishers will have insight into who their buyers […]
Berlin-based Rocket Internet incubates e-commerce startups in markets outside the US, running them first as closely held businesses and then encouraging greater autonomy of operations and marketing in advance of a potential sale. As such the company is a big proponent of retargeting and was an early adopter of Facebook’s ad exchange. The company leaped […]
