“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 Ken Allen, Managing Director at Blackstone. Robb Stark, in Season II of HBO’s Game of Thrones, is presented with an interesting dilemma during his quest to avenge his father’s death. At […]
At first, the joke was when mobile will finally “arrive.” And now the joke may be “I wish mobile had stayed away,” as publishers report increased traffic for mobile (hooray!) but decreased ad revenues (ouch!) in comparison to its PC-based facsimile. Of course, there’s no turning back, as report after report signals the consumer’s move […]
In the past few years, Bizo CEO Russ Glass says that marketers have gotten smarter about using online data for targeting – and that’s a good thing, since his company’s success revolves around B2B audience segments gleaned from data partnerships with publishers. It’s less about “evangelizing the value of data,” says Glass, as the marketer […]
For all the glitz and glamour that surrounded Aol’s Newfronts programming preview on Tuesday, perhaps the most relevant news for advertisers came at the end of the showcase with a mention of the unsexiest of topics: back-office operations designed to support the thousands of hours of digital video, along with analytics. Following appearances by actors […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Hidden Ads Botnets get all the glory when it comes to ad fraud, but there’s plenty of malfeasance to go around. Consider “ad hiding,” where ad traders load many ads (most of them unviewable) into a single ad slot – sometimes on premium sites […]
Ad network Pulse 360, a subsidiary of Seevast, is on the brink of shutting down and may have closed its doors already, AdExchanger has learned. Pulse 360 issued a company-wide layoff in April and began looking for a buyer or new investor, according to a former employee who asked to remain anonymous. Pulse 360 founder […]
A year after Twitter opened its self-serve Twitter Advertising system to businesses on an “invite-only” basis, the microblog’s Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts products will be open to anyone in the US. Read the release. This news was mentioned as Kevin Weil, Senior Director of Product for Revenue at Twitter, participated on a panel with […]
Yahoo executives talked a lot about “new” ad formats and video-centric programming during its Newfront presentation, but a vague familiarity persisted until the very end of COO Henrique De Castro’s presentation, when he made a promise to media buyers: give us a small yet sizable portion of your TV ad spending and we’ll guarantee satisfaction. […]
With a PhD. in econometrics and an analytics and statistical background on the AdAdvisor side of the Neustar “house,” VP of Research & Analytics Ken Inman has good reason to be laser-focused on building consumer predictive models. Inman oversees the development of targeted marketing applications, using data and information to help address challenges in customer […]
It’s been over a year since publisher, ad server and ad exchange OpenX bought publisher ad tech services provider LiftDNA (AdExchanger story). And as often happens in these cases, the founder of the acquired company is exiting. Vadim Telyatnikov, who founded LiftDNA in 2009, told associates in an email memo obtained by AdExchanger that he is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic, Indoors And Out Automation isn’t just for websites anymore. The WSJ’s Suzanne Vranica focuses on how programmatic tools are being used for radio and out-of-home buying, which are among the oldest traditional media formats. “We are always looking for ways to make it […]
The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) will make a formal case this week that Do Not Track should be set to “off” by default. Members of the group charged with creating the DNT browser spec heard details of the ad industry’s proposal during a Monday call meant to prepare for next week’s face-to-face meeting in Sunnyvale, […]
WPP Group has shared some new details on revenue performance and strategy for its Xaxis trading unit. Xaxis grew its revenue by 28% during the first quarter, said Pivotal Research Analyst Brian Wieser in a research note. WPP had previously stated the business had 2012 media billings of $270 million and a headcount of 200. […]
As Facebook continues to expand and adapt its advertising offerings, metrics including CPMs, CTRs and CPCs showed inconsistencies in Q1 2013 which are expected to level out as advertising normalizes on the social networking site. Facebook strategic PMD Spruce Media highlighted these changes in its “State of Facebook Advertising Q1 2013,” released this week, leading […]
“Can the TV upfronts work in digital, too?” This is a question the Wall Street Journal’s Nina Lawrence gets to consider after she and her WSJ team present their wares at today’s Digital Content NewFronts, produced by the IAB. With only five months under her belt as VP of Global Marketing and Advertising Sales, after […]
“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 Jeremy Cornfeldt, President of Client Services, Strategy & Product at iProspect. We’ve all heard the news that Mozilla, by default, will start blocking third-party cookies in the upcoming launch […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up…Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cheaper, Future Inventory YouTube says it’s an “upfront” contrarian, lowering rates for media buyers in a bid to attract a bigger share of those TV budgets. “Last year we were rigid; we got a few big advertisers with huge checks,” YouTube Sales Chief Lucas Watson […]
Google’s offering in the ad viewability space has scored third-party accreditation from the Media Ratings Council. Google joins others who have wended through the MRC’s approval process – the respective viewability products from comScore, Double Verify and RealVu have been approved – so Google does not stand alone. But given its expansive relationship with marketers, […]
Experian Marketing Services has integrated technology gained from last year’s acquisition of Conversen with its CheetahMail platform. Referred to simply as “Experian Marketing Services’ cross-channel marketing platform,” the new offering lets marketers coordinate customer interactions across email, mobile, social, web, display, and print advertising campaigns, using testing and rules-based segmentation capabilities. For instance, a customer who made a […]
Like your run-of-the-mill 728×90 display ad unit, email can be taken for granted. Yet it remains a powerful channel powered by unique engagement for the email consumer and advertiser alike. LiveIntent EVP of Operations Jerry Sandoval has learned the nuance of email over the years, and in his most recent role at email ad targeting […]
Interpublic Group has made changes to its Cadreon trading desk in North America, uprooting it from its previous home in the Mediabrands Audience Platform and repotting it in the Magna Global media investment arm. As Adweek reported earlier this month, a new entity called Magna Global North America will absorb the trading desk along with […]
“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 Jeremy Hlavacek, Vice President of Operations and Strategic Partnerships at The Weather Company’s WeatherFX. It’s hardly news that the explosion of data and programmatic buying in the last five […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Omnicom Programmatic Dan Salmon, analyst at BMO Capital Markets, hosted a meeting with Omnicom CFO Randy Weisenburger on Wednesday. In a note to investors after the meeting, Salmon writes, “With [Omnicom] having reported earnings last week, the conversation focused primarily on the long-term impact […]
Using customer data to personalize or optimize individuals’ website experiences can increase conversion and customer satisfaction, yet a majority of digital marketing professionals do not prioritize it, according to two recent studies from Adobe and Econsultancy. As marketers leverage more digital tools, turning to real-time behavioral and existing customer data helps segment website visitors and […]
The New York Times Co. CFO Jim Follo reiterated a point he’s been making on earnings calls since last year, namely that “premium” digital advertising continues to be challenged by the rise of audience targeting and the infinite amount of digital inventory generated by social media. Read the release. During the Q1 earnings call, Mark […]
No company has seized the Facebook data opportunity as well as Datalogix. Facebook and Datalogix have worked together since 2011, when they began linking Facebook ad impressions to in-store purchases. Later, Facebook tapped Datalogix as the first partner in its Custom Audiences CRM and offline data-matching program. Acxiom, Epsilon and BlueKai were later added. Datalogix […]
Pasadena, California-based Perfect Market has had a ringside seat while its publisher clients have battled to keep revenues flowing as an important slice of ad spend has moved to audience-based, programmatic campaigns. Consequently, in the past couple of years, Perfect Market CEO Julie Schoenfeld says her 60-person company has gone from helping publishers monetize content […]
Social data analytics provider ShareThis is allowing Publicis-owned Starcom MediaVest Group to embed the company’s Social Quality Index rankings in its advertiser dashboard. In essence, the SQI is an indicator of the volume of social sharing and clicks across all of ShareThis’s 2.4 million publishers, who are mostly smaller, long-tail players but also include major […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon Ad Net Rumblings Reuters describes some campaigns that have run on the Amazon’s secretive ad network since late 2012. They included clients like Kimberly-Clark (Huggies), Ubisoft and an unnamed movie marketer. For the latter, “data on purchases of related DVDs, books and music […]
