Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cox Chooses Collective As Cox Digital Solutions prepares to shut down its in-house ad serving system, which evolved from its $300 million acquisition of white label ad network Adify four years ago, what’s it planning to replace it with? The answer is Collective, which […]
For the past decade, it had become a matter of when, not if. Time Warner, the entertainment conglomerate that took the first part of its name from the publishing empire that grew in the early 20th century, is spinning off its magazine division into a separate, publicly-traded entity. As a result, Laura Lang, the interactive […]
That was quick! AdExchanger’s conference, PROGRAMMATIC I/O, is sold out for our April 8 San Francisco event which is focused on educating the marketer on The New Normal of Marketing – programmatic media. You can still get on the wait list for April 8 at www.programmatic.io. For attendees, the SF conference’s agenda is available and includes […]
Christopher Reynolds, VP of marketing analytics at Condé Nast, spoke about how the publisher is improving its audience knowledge and helping advertisers better leverage its sites, at the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit this morning. “There is a lot of pressure from the buying side to focus more on the audiences,” Reynolds told Adobe’s Brad Rencher […]
There’s not much debate about the value of house ads. Maybe there never was. The house ad, like the TV promo, is just a way to fill some unsold inventory and promote the brand of a newspaper, magazine, or website. Or it could be an Ad Council placement. At a time when sites can fill […]
At its 2013 Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City, Adobe Systems announced an upgrade to its digital advertising and analytics platform. And it debuted a new, socially enhanced user interface and mobile capabilities for the Adobe Marketing Cloud. The company’s Media Optimizer, a cross-channel ad management platform, will be available in two versions: standard […]
“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 Jay Stocki, VP of Business Development at Bering Media. All opinions are Jay’s alone and not those of Bering Media. We have a privacy problem in online advertising. An anecdote that sums […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The New Normal For Agencies As companies founded on a traditional ad network model fail faster (see AdBrite and Adify), one obvious factor is the dwindling of agency demand as budgets shift to programmatic. What does this look like from the inside? The Media […]
Cox Digital Solutions, which houses the white label vertical ad network and ad serving business formerly known as Adify, will no longer offer platform services to outside media companies, the company has told clients. In a letter sent last month to customers, obtained by AdExchanger, Andy Levi director, Publisher Operations at CDS, as part of […]
Looking at 2013, mobile ad network Jumptap expects tablets to make up nearly a third of mobile devices, and iOS and Android operating systems to completely overpower RIM. In its February MobileSTAT report, Jumptap reported that in 2012, feature phones still made up 4% of the market share, while smartphones made up 78% share and tablets […]
If there’s anyone still debating the role of data in ad creative, as opposed to media buying, they don’t work at Draftfcb. Last week, the Interpublic Group shop unveiled an integrated campaign on behalf of Amtrak’s express eastern seaboard rail service, Acela, that aimed to get business travelers to reconsider the value of air travel. […]
“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. Digital marketing is at risk of becoming a demand-harvesting machine. We’re getting so good at finding audiences that will obligingly convert that […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Native Ad Clutter Riffing on a piece by NY Times writer Nick Bilton about declining engagement rates among his Facebook subscribers, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine wonders at the “skittish gift horse” that is the newsfeed. “The volume of advertising in the feed has increased dramatically […]
The PROGRAMMATIC I/O agenda is ready! AdExchanger has published the full list of sessions for our upcoming conference at San Francisco’s St. Regis Hotel, April 8. Please visit www.programmatic.io to see the lineup. Given AdExchanger’s goal to educate marketers on the New Normal of Digital Marketing, the conference agenda offers a range of topics covering programmatic media […]
Facebook has offered new details about changes to the application and recertification process for its Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) program. The changes affect both existing and prospective PMDs, and are likely to reduce the number of new startups entering the fraternity of third parties sanctioned to support Facebook marketing. Among the changes we previously noted […]
Google properties dominated the top mobile websites in terms of market share of visits during the week ending February 23, 2013, according to Experian Marketing Services. Experian introduced Hitwise Mobile at the beginning of March, a new offering that will provide data on mobile internet activity, including weekly website rankings from mobile devices, share of […]
TV has a tenacious grip on media budgets, and so it makes sense to place the boob tube at the center of attribution models. Anyway, that’s where attribution pure play Convertro is placing its bets. “Clients want to know how to spend money better, where to spend money to make money,” CEO Jeff Zwelling tells […]
“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 Kim Reed Perell, the CEO of Adconion Direct. Consumers are now everywhere when it comes to digital. They are networking on social media sites, watching videos, checking email, reading news […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Optimizing The Content Algo In The NY Times, David Carr recounts how movie streaming/DVD service Netflix used insights on its own “big data” to create a successful new television (wait, streaming) series called “House of Cards” with director David Fincher and actor Kevin Spacey. […]
This week computer hardware and software marketer HP became the first company on LinkedIn to attract a million followers. HP believes the service can work as an advertising medium, as much as it can a customer relationship management or public relationship channel. “Our one million followers are connected to over 42 million people on LinkedIn, […]
Sapient is a company with many faces, and revenue sources. About 70% of its business comes from the SapientNitro digital agency. Another 25% derives from Sapient Global Markets, which serves the capital and commodity market needs of clients in the financial and energy sectors. And 5% is in government services, where it has done work […]
“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 Tom Shields, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Yieldex, an analytics tools provider for sell-side, yield optimization. Over the last three months, the word “programmatic” has been featured in the […]
With over 50 magazine brands worldwide, including such niche “rag” legends as Popular Science and Field & Stream, Bonnier’s publishing arm has taken the long ride from print to digital. And as its digital strategy has expanded, so too has the company’s analysis of data for making the most of advertising yield. Peder Bonnier heads […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL’s Latest Shuffle AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has often talked about the company’s one constant: change and more of the same. Whether it’s rebranding business divisions or moving executives from one department to another, nothing at AOL stays the same for long. Artie Minson, […]
Just two years after Federated Media Publishing founder John Battelle handed the reigns over to then president Deanna Brown so he could step back as executive chairman, Battelle is taking back the CEO position. In an official blog post, Battelle said that Brown told him that she planned to do something “smaller” and directly involving […]
Facebook has confirmed its agreement to buy Atlas from Microsoft, paving the way for a more robust demand-side offering from the company. In an interview with AdExchanger, Ads Product Director Gokul Rajaram said the primary aim is to help advertisers compare their Facebook ads with all online, and eventually offline, placements. An ad network is not […]
Of the top 100 retailers in the U.S., 30% do not have mobile apps for iOS or Android devices, according to mobile solutions provider Xtreme Labs. And for those that do, there are still areas where consumers want to see improvement, including that many apps crash too often or lack features. Xtreme Labs pulled retailers […]
Maybe the Interactive Advertising Bureau should have titled its Annual Leadership Meeting, “Data, Data Everywhere And Not A Terabyte To Think.” This year’s theme was how Big Data can complement or conflict with big advertising – i.e., creative ideas. The general takeaway was that yes, the two sides can inform and influence each other, but […]
Over the past two months, the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab has released two reports highlighting the ad exchanges and networks that were placing the most advertisements on piracy sites or illegal download sites, and the brands whose ads appear on such sites. This has brought this issue to light once again, after last year’s discussion […]
