Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Weather Change As it continues to ramp up technology aimed at better performance for predicting weather and related ad trends, The Weather Company (FKA, The Weather Channel) is bringing in ad tech vet Vikram Somaya from Thomson Reuters to run a newly created division […]
The industry has made striking advanced in tracking the value and attributes of biddable online ad inventory, but the road ahead is long. That much was clear at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Ad Operations summit in New York. In a discussion of inventory packaging and pricing, Neal Richter, chief scientist at Rubicon Project, and Art Schram, VP of Glam […]
Western Union describes itself as a financial services provider for the “underbanked,” a group it pegs at approximately 25% of the U.S. population. As with all financial companies it must be very careful with its customer data and how it uses that data to acquire customers and market new services. That caution extends to data-driven […]
“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 Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds. I’ve been designing, prototyping and deploying new ad formats in digital advertising for more than 15 years. I started one of the first rich […]
As the data-driven, digital ecosystem expands, so are the number of people looking to understand its intricacies. In an effort to bring transparency to the many industry terms and buzzphrases spinning ’round, AdExchanger asked several executives their thoughts on the following: “What is programmatic buying?” Click below to read their responses: Andy Cocker, COO/ Co […]
Facebook said on Friday it’s bringing back the conversion pixel to its online advertisers by the end of the month, after abandoning it in 2010. Editor’s note: Up until now, there appeared to be exceptions made for some large advertisers who were using third-party ad tracking on Facebook – likely due to the size of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Marketing Algos & Real-Time The New York Times’ Tanzina Vega covers digital audience buying momentum and its effect on big publishers. She writes, “That shift is punishing traditional online publishers, like newspaper, broadcast and magazine sites, who are receiving a much lower percentage of […]
Digital video, like mobile, remains something of a paradox: the growth continues to be absolutely phenomenal — eMarketer says it will grow 46 percent to $2.9 billion this year, with an additional 41 percent gain to $4.1 billion next year — but no one company in the space is viewed as really “crushing” everyone else. […]
Just ahead of Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving and the official start of the holiday shopping season — Facebook is broadening its e-commerce platform, Facebook Gifts, to include a wide range of big name retailers and digital content companies. The social network presented the announcement at a press conference at FAO Schwarz, the […]
“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 Dave Zinman, CEO of Infolinks. The economics of online advertising are at best confusing and at worst completely backwards. We’ve got a zillion systems to target ads and auction […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. SiteScout Goes Mobile Demand side platform SiteScout is getting more mobile. The company has increased the amount of mobile ad inventory in its system and is showing off a number of new features to its ad-buying solution. It’s promising clients more than 30 billion […]
Among the questions mobile marketers are grappling with is whether the channel is an extension of the PC-web or something entirely distinct. Is it better to emphasize some form of behavioral targeting or contextual? Is focusing on location the best way to target mobile users? While the industry sorts through those issues, mobile ad startup […]
Online analytics provider Quantcast is unveiling a new self-service tool for its brand targeting solution, Quantcast Advertise for Branding. After months of beta, starting today publishers and advertisers can better manage deals directly based on specified audiences. Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman told AdExchanger the goal is to be viewed as the company that makes real-time bidding and […]
Small and large publishers alike are grappling with what it means to support and distribute content in the face of increasing audience and ad dollar fragmentation. One of the more obvious solutions being considered is for the publisher to become a niche player. Offering an audience a distinct diet of sports or fashion or parenting […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. RTB Really That Big Put this in your acronym pipe courtesy of eMarketer: “Real-time bidding (RTB) will account for 13% of all US display advertising spending this year, more than triple its share in 2010.” That’s one finding from its new study on the […]
“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 Omar Tawakol, CEO of BlueKai. Pricing a shared asset like data can be counterintuitive. Data is a non-rival good, like a toll road. Even though people expect to pay for and […]
Last month’s ad spending tally from the Interactive Advertising Bureau was another “record-breaker,” as marketers lavished $17 billion on web ads between January and the end of June 2012. Display revenues in the first half totaled almost $5.6 billion, up 4 percent from $5.3 billion in the first half of 2011. So everything should be […]
Traffiq is among the few companies to cleanly jump the fence from a product-centric to a services-centric model. One year ago, it was focused on developing and marketing a self-service marketing workflow tool. Over time however it became clear prospective customers weren’t ready. “We were building a model that could be self-serve, and what we […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mobile Ad Server Heat Ad servers have been in limbo for the last few years, which has come as a surprise to some. To quote a recent AdWeek comment by Ari Paparo, alum of DoubleClick & AppNexus, “No one thought that all the ad […]
There is a common view that a big chunk of real time bidding activity consists of advertisers competing with themselves to win impression auctions. Not so, according to a new RTB report based on data gathered through Casale Media‘s sell-side Index Platform. “There are a lot of shared brands, and also a lot of retargeting,” […]
The Media Trust is a company that verifies the placement of ads relative to what the buyer originally intended. Sounds like the ad verification space popularized by companies like DoubleVerify, AdSafe and ComScore’s AdXpose, right? Well, it’s not. Though the pitch seems similar, according to CEO Chris Olson, the concept isn’t about brand safety metrics […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. No Joy In AppVille Is Tapjoy’s “incentivized” mobile app world crashing down? While Apple has practically kicked out apps that offer users incentives such as virtual currency in exchange for downloading a marketplace for games, Tapjoy and its brethren have largely moved to HTML5. […]
“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 Michael Oiknine, CEO of Apsalar. Every iPhone comes with an identification number — like a serial number – that’s used for connecting data to a specific handset. Until recently, the […]
Over the past two years, Ziff Davis has transformed itself from a digital-only tech publisher primarily known for PCMag.com to a broader content/digital marketing play by adding audience ad targeting, e-commerce and enterprise IT functions. Now, after roughly five acquisitions since CEO Vivek Shah took over the media property with investment assistance from Great Hill Partners, […]
Marketer integration is among the grand challenges facing the Data Management Platform space, according to a new white paper produced by Winterberry Group in partnership with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (download). Consider the top three “major hurdles” identified by the report’s 160 or so respondents: (1) “Internal Process & Marketing Ops Challenges,” (2) “No Clear […]
With a background in the performance marketing space with companies that included ClickHype and Linkbucks.com, YellowHammer Media Group’s Hagan Major is well aware of the intricacies of the performance ad network model. And now that the model has been transformed with audience buying across exchanges – though direct-to-publisher deals still exist – Major and his […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DG Down, Flat And Up DG, acquirer of MediaMind, Peer39, Eyewonder and Unicast among others, announced its third quarter 2012 results last Thursday. The company’s TV unit reported flat results (with continued competition from Extreme Reach) as did online on an “organic” basis ($33.7 […]
Visualized launched its inaugural data visualization event in New York City this week at The Times Center. Though not exclusively a business conference, the business implications of Visualized were clear – the visualization of big, bad data is critical as marketers, agencies, publishers, data and ad tech companies sift for actionable insights. For the Visualized […]
Over the past few months, “collaborative” publisher Wikia has been working with data management platform Krux Digital on streamlining and segmenting the company’s audience. The company claims the combined use of its first party data and third party data have led to 93 percent lift in eCPMs compared to what it was able to charge […]
