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 […]
“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. The industry is rife with conversations about programmatic premium media buying and selling right now, and I could write a column about each of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL’s Ad.com Gets ‘Friended’ As AOL Networks head Ned Brody plans to refine the company’s supply side offerings, its demand side, third party ad network is likely to see a boost now that it has access to inventory from the Facebook Exchange. As Brody […]
Facebook is ramping up the volume of outside data marketers can apply to their audience targeting campaigns on the site. It confirmed it will extend its Custom Audiences tool, begun in partnership with Datalogix back in September, to three new partners in the CRM matching arena. Epsilon and Acxiom will bring their first and third […]
Amazon continues to be a risk for brick-and-mortar retailers, especially when it comes to consumers showrooming, or visiting a store to try on or see in person a product before then buying it online. The “Aisle to Amazon: How Amazon is Impacting Brick-and-Mortar Retailers” report from Placed calculated the risk level for major retailers from […]
You wouldn’t expect a media-focused conference to dwell on content strategies, but “owned media” dominated at the Association of National Advertisers Media Leadership conference in Miami this week. Numerous client-side marketers trumpeted their content innovation, including paid integrations with network TV programming, mobile apps, and social fan engagement. They often appeared to give short shrift […]
The word “premium” is bandied about the advertising industry to – at a minimum – add a glow to digital ad inventory. But, what does “premium” mean? AdExchanger reached out to executives in the online ad tech ecosystem for their thoughts on the following question: “What makes ‘premium’ premium? Please share your top three attributes of […]
Salesforce.com added new mobile customer service solutions to its offerings, the company announced this week. Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff spoke about the new focus for the company, and demonstrated the new features, at an event at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York on Tuesday. The company currently offers three cloud-based products: the Marketing Cloud, which […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google’s Addressable Email On the Google Developer blog, the company announced it’s setting up Google+ single sign-on for apps, which dovetails with unifying its privacy policy across Google products and services. From the blog, “If you sign in to Gmail, YouTube or any other […]
