“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 Yuchun Lee, VP and general manager of IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management. He was previously founder and CEO at Unica. Marketers preparing for Q4 are no doubt keenly aware of the importance of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Viewable Currency Brand campaign-focused ad industry professionals have been complaining about clickthroughs as a lousy metric for premium marketing. Engagement is the buzzword, but how to measure it in a way everyone agrees is has been the problematic response. Peter Naylor, EVP, Digital Media […]
Yahoo is taking the wraps off a new contextual ad network powered by Media.net. The publisher offering goes by the catchy name Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual Ads, though despite the reference to Microsoft’s search product, Redmond is not involved. Most people will interpret this a second attempt by Yahoo to create a competitor to Google’s […]
With experience in the Wall Street professional services world, Ampush CEO Jesse Pujji and his co-founders, Chris Amos and Nick Shah, have seen the big data of financial trading desks and their offshoots. And, that’s one reason the trio decided to move into the online ad business and start Ampush in 2010. Pujji told AdExchanger […]
“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 Pete Sheinbaum, CEO of LinkSmart, which provides text-linking optimization solutions for web publishers. Today’s consumer expects a lot from her digital devices. A busy parent looking for Mario Batali’s latest […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Looking For ‘Acqui-hires’ Yahoo’s “Marissa Mayer era” is starting to take shape with a series of small moves that are designed to change the culture at the portal. For example, Blackberries are out, iPhones are in. The “biggest” change is yet to come, as […]
Business and consumer privacy interests are flinging letters at the Federal Trade Commission, decrying what they see as shortcomings in the Worldwide Web Consortum’s (W3C) process for setting the browser tech specs for Do-Not-Track. In recent weeks the agency has received a letter from Republican lawmakers criticizing the standards making process and the FTC’s role […]
More than at any other time, publishers are trying to solve the e-commerce riddle. Consider guy-focused Thrillist. The eight-year-old lifestyle media company’s properties include its namesake e-newsletter and mobile app, a local deals provider called Thrillist Rewards, and shopping recommender JackThreads. CEO Ben Lerer spoke to AdExchanger about the way editorial and shopping curation fit together as Thrillist prepares to roll out […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Joanna O’Connell is Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Last week, I participated in AdExchanger’s first ever conference and I thought I’d use the column today to share several themes I heard over the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Criteo’s Windfall Retargeting specialist Criteo has been working on its expansion plans lately and has its eye on building up its presence. The company has raised a whopping $38 million (30 million euros) fourth round funding from its recent partner Yahoo Japan. The large […]
In beginning his new mobile ad startup, Admobius, co-founder Dan Grigorivici admits he’s no “spring chicken” when it comes to the ad technology landscape. He’s worked in a range of product-related capacities spanning digital agencies Carat and Digitas, mobile ad network Quattro Wireless (sold to Apple) and behavioral ad network Tacoda (acquired by Aol). Along […]
Satya Patel has a long history in the advertising technology world on both the product and venture capital sides, including roles at Google/DoubleClick and Battery Ventures. Most recently, Patel worked at Twitter as its VP of Product until June of this year. Today, he’s looking ahead to a startup of his own, offering only a […]
Tracking agency adoption of data-driven strategies is pretty easy in the media planning sphere. Media agencies partner with trading desks, data platforms, demand side platforms, and others to launch and optimize audience buying programs. With creative and “general” agencies, the adoption curve is more obscure. But if you squint, you can see it. Take Cheil USA, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Social Ads Meet POS It’s another ‘holy grail’ moment for digital ads — this one involving a pairing between Facebook and loyalty card tracker Datalogix that could help marketers follow the cookie crumbs from offline sales back to online ad views. The Financial Times […]
Microsoft is preparing to woo digital marketers and agencies with a set of new ad units tied to the release of the Windows 8 OS next month. Rik van der Kooi, corporate VP of the Microsoft Advertising Business Group, tells AdExchanger the new formats — Microsoft prefers to call them “experiences” — will be released […]
Agency trading desks are understandably eager to ramp up with the Facebook Exchange, which promises to broaden the reach and frequency of their programmatic buying efforts. But right after the FBX launch they weren’t equally able to use it — which has led to some hand wringing. WPP’s Xaxis had a direct seat, while Publicis’s Vivaki […]
“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 Darren Herman, Chief Digital Media Officer at MDC Partners’ The Media Kitchen. There was a seminal study done a few years ago by comScore, Tacoda and Starcom USA called “Natural […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! Ad Tech Aspirations On AllThingsD, Kara Swisher says that results from past acquisitions are not stopping Yahoo! from potentially going into ad tech acquistion-mode. She writes, “It’s water under the bridge, apparently, since the group has been making the rounds, helped by Yahoo’s […]
“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 Brian Decker, a managing director at Mindshare, a GroupM agency. Most people in the digital marketing world wouldn’t credit Albert Einstein as a founding father of digital marketing, but […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Ads ‘Common Mistakes’ If marketers are complaining that Facebook’s ad offer ings don’t work, it’s probably because they don’t fully understand how to use them. That’s the nutshell from a presentation by Facebook’s Gokul Rajaram, Product Director Ads, at AdExchanger’s Human Centered Automation […]
“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. Ever since my March column addressing viewable impressions, I’ve been tagged as “that […]
AddThis, the social sharing tools and analytics provider formerly known as Clearspring, is trying to solve a problem that has long plagued the business of using online data – how to incorporate information from the physical world consumers mainly inhabit alongside their digital characteristics, profiles and behaviors. In its bid to address those digital data […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google Crowned Display King Google has been battling Facebook for dominance of the total display ad market for over year, ever since Yahoo was ousted by the two after a long reign. Now, eMarketer is ready to declare a winner for 2012, saying the […]
With Facebook Exchange now three months old and officially out of beta, agencies have started to get a sense of the possibilities. In many cases they’re working through holding company trading desks to source audience and measure results on the fledgling marketplace. For Omnicom Group agencies, that means collaborating with Accuen. AdExchanger spoke with Josh […]
After years of courting the demand side with all sorts of tools aimed at marketers, small businesses and media buyers, Google is paying a little more attention to its publisher partners on the supply side. The latest offering is Audience Extension from DoubleClick For Publishers and was announced by Google’s Neal Mohan at yesterday’s Ad […]
When building a technology platform, self-service isn’t always the Holy Grail it seems to be – at least initially, as Spruce Media founder and CEO Rob Jewell discovered. A couple of years ago, his company was an early Facebook Ads API partner, and after seeing Kenshoo and Marin Software take a self‑service approach to channels […]
“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 Paul Turner, General Manager of EMEA, Adaptly. The social ecosystem is waging change on traditional powerbases within the industry. Not only has power shifted back to the publisher (the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo’s Alibaba Cash Alibaba’s long-time-coming share repurchase from Yahoo has come to pass, and Yahoo investors are to be the main beneficiaries. Wall Street liked the payout (YHOO is up nearly 2% after hours), but is doing right by shareholders the wrong thing for […]
Facebook is rolling out a “small test” of mobile ads on non-Facebook sites, a spokesperson told AdExchanger today. The move is an extension of its current ad sales and serving relationship with Zynga, and the first time the company has signaled interest in combining its data with outside media impressions. Yes, it’s an ad network. […]
