What’s that, reader? You didn’t read each and every AdExchanger news story, deep dive Q&A, and column from 2012? And now you’re bereft over the loss of all that deep industry thinking? Take heart! Below we’ve compiled some greatest hits from the year that was. Kick back, throw a log on the fire, and relive […]
While advertising spending was depressed across Europe as a result of the ongoing debt crisis, the resilient German economy represented the best growth aspects for the ads space. And as the sense of doom and gloom ebbs a bit in Europe, there is a sense that real-time bidding, and its promise of efficiency, has received […]
Today, remnant, or unsold, media has been pointedly addressed by real-time biddable exchanges and their partners in comparison to the direct-sold market. But, Shiny Ads founder and CEO Roy Pereira says that in the last six months his company has seen a “warming up” from publishers in regards to creating efficiencies in the direct sales […]
“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 Adam Chandler, CRO in Residence at Lerer Ventures. This fall, a number of companies, most notably Federated Media, announced sales force downsizings. In the process, these companies began what I expect […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Video DSP Funds As video demand-side platform (DSP) TubeMogul looks to increase the amount of revenues it derives from real-time bidding, the company has taken a $20 million funding to help it maintain and enhance its two-year-old system. The proceeds will specifically go towards […]
Ken Allen, Managing Director, The Blackstone Group, commented on today’s acquisition of Eloqua by Oracle. “There is currently an arms race among Enterprise Software players seeking to build out integrated marketing stacks / clouds. We have seen increased M&A activity in the sector for some time now among CRM vendors such as Oracle and Salesforce.com, […]
Having acquired social marketing software-as-a-service company Vitrue in May, Oracle continued its acquisition of marketing tech companies today with B2B SaaS marketing provider Eloqua for roughly $810 million. Read more. From the release about the acquisition: “The combination of Oracle and Eloqua is expected to create a comprehensive Customer Experience Cloud offering to help companies […]
It’s been a little over a year since Anthony Katsur joined sell-side pricing and inventory manager Maxifier as COO from demand side platform MediaMath, and the former DoubleClick executive is moving up to the CEO seat. He replaces Jonathon Shaevitz, who steps down from the post just two years shy of taking it. The move […]
Having “incubated” rich media mobile ads firm Celtra in 2006 while he finished his graduate studies at Babson College, CEO Mihael Mikek has seen the pre-smartphone days when SMS ads were all the rage. Eventually the mobile market began to take off and after grabbing $7 million in funding since 2010, the Boston-based company has […]
“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 Gordon McLeod, president of Krux Digital. I recently hosted an event for media industry friends where famed photographer Rick Smolan, co-creator of the just-released The Human Face of Big […]
Analysts expect real-time bidding to account for between 25% and 50% of total display ad spend by 2015. Meanwhile the video RTB space is growing at an even faster clip, but not accounting for as much media investment — yet. “We do see RTB in video but it is still early, for everyone from ad […]
AdBrite morphed into an ad exchange platform four years ago after shifting gears from its ad network beginnings, but the company was never recognized for making the full leap. Back in May, its board decided it was time for a change and brought in former Yahoo/Right Media executive Hardeep Bindra to make the evolution complete. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Shuttering Ad Network All Things D’s Peter Kafka reports that Facebook has suspended plans to create a mobile ad network for now. Facebook spokesman Brandon McCormick tells Kafka by email: “We are pausing our mobile ads test off of Facebook. While the results we […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls. The Rosetta Stone. The Caves of Lascaux. Pantology. As archaeological finds go, AdExchanger’s recent investigation into the history of media buying has yielded a stunning discovery courtesy of a source from the ad ecosystem black market. First thought to be yet-another-version of Candyland, AdExchanger scientists believe this gaming device came from […]
Facebook has added retargeting firm Chango to its list of preferred partners for Facebook Exchange, bringing a powerful aggregator of search intent data to the real-time bidding marketplace. The move is notable in that it represents an incursion by Facebook on the “intent currency” of Google (Bing and Yahoo too), after a period of failed […]
Thus far, our “Define It” series has covered definitions for some of the essential drivers of programmatic media including real-time bidding and “Big Data.” But, running in, around and through all of these concepts is something called an algorithm. What’s that? AdExchanger reached out to a group of programmatic media “top guns” and asked for […]
In 2012 major publishers’ wariness of programmatic advertising began to thaw. As part of our 2013 predictions series, we asked Kristine Welker, Hearst Digital Media’s Chief Revenue Officer, what she expects from coming next year. In essence, she sees the promise of brand dollars emerging more visibly as publishers help push the boundaries of exchange-based […]
“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 Mark Trefgarne, CEO of LiveRail, a provider of a supply-side platform for video. The need for online GRPs has come clearly into focus this year. Solutions like ComScore VCE, DoubleVerify […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Is Video-Serious Facebook is briefing agencies on plans to beef up its video ad menu, AdAge reports. Much remains unknown, or undecided, including targeting parameters, pricing and whether ads will autoplay with audio on. According to the story, “Several… executives Ad Age interviewed […]
Fan acquisition has been a major (and much derided) goal of Facebook advertising campaigns for years, but the door is closing on easy “likes.” A November 21 change to Facebook’s ad creative policies for Page Post Ads has significantly hampered the ability of brands to grow their Facebook audience by using a “like” call to […]
Nielsen has for years sought ways to measure the interplay of social media activity and TV viewing. Its new “multi-year” deal with Twitter is a tacit acknowledgement that Nielsen can’t close the media measurement loop on its own. There’s a similar observation to made about this morning’s announcement that Nielsen is buying long-time audience measurement rival, Arbitron, […]
Jon Baron is CEO of tag management technology firm, TagMan. He recently spoke to AdExchanger about his business and industry trends. AdExchanger: Tag management versus data management platforms (DMPs) – what do you see as the difference today? Is Tagman in the DMP space? JON BARON: Whenever I talk to industry experts, they seem to […]
As part of our year-end coverage, AdExchanger is publishing a variety of perspectives on a single question: “What will happen next year in marketing and advertising that hasn’t happened before?” The below response is from Michael Lazerow, Chief Marketing Officer of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and CEO of Buddy Media. Buddy Media’s sale to Salesforce.com in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon Self-Serve? In Adweek, Tim Peterson puts together a comprehensive piece on Amazon ad strategy plans – including the roll-out a new self-service ad platform in 2013. He writes, “According to trading desk executives with knowledge of Amazon’s plans, the platform is expected to […]
Mobile advertising revenue will still make up a small percentage of total media ad spending, according to digital marketing research firm eMarketer, but the industry is growing at a faster rate than the company forecasted only a few months ago. In 2012, mobile ad revenues will account for 2.4 percent of total ad spending, and […]
Last month, local TV broadcast operator Belo Corp. launched its attempt at a pure play digital marketing unit, ScreenShot Digital. The move is similar to ones taken by Time Inc., Gannett, Meredith Corp. and others the last three years. Unlike some of those integrated digital marketing units, ScreenShot isn’t being positioned as a way to leverage […]
When Accordant Media was founded in 2010, co-founders Art Muldoon and Matt Greitzer admit that they thought programmatic media was complex. Two years later, the two executives say there’s even more complexity – but, there’s more opportunity, too. Positioning as an independent trading desk offering service and technology layers for marketers and their agencies, Greitzer […]
“Brand Aware” is a column from the marketer’s point-of-view on the data-driven, digital ad ecosystem and written by Bob Arnold, Associate Director of Global Digital Strategy at Kellogg Company. As consumer adoption of online video continues its rapid ascent, there’s understandable buzz about video’s potential move into the programmatic space and the opportunities for marketers […]
Programmatic media arrived in force this year, and brought with it a few surprises. (Facebook Exchange anyone?) To get a sense of what might be waiting in 2013, we’ve reached out to a number of industry all-stars to answer a single question: “What will happen next year in marketing and advertising that hasn’t happened before?” […]
