Having grown an ad network business in two years to a nearly $30 million run rate in 2011, most ad technology executives would have been satisfied. But, CEO Andy Monfried saw another future for his company, Lotame, and decided to focus on being a data management platform (DMP) only for publishers and marketers to manage data. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook To Report J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth has questions for Facebook ahead of the company’s Q3 2012 earnings release later today. Among his Qs: “Can Ad Revenue Re-Accelerate? What Will the Sponsored Stories and Mobile Run-Rate Be? How Will Web Marketplace Ad Revenue […]
A year after the Travel Ad Network rebranded itself as Travora Media, the company is attempting to cement its new image as a content company with the launch of a guide to major cities and destinations around the globe. The guide, which operates separately under the Travora.com domain, features staff writers producing original work, and blogging […]
“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 Kyle Barber, SVP Global Performance Lead at McCann Worldgroup. Wouldn’t it be great if there were one simple metric that neatly measured the effectiveness of all social media advertising and […]
This past week, home furnishings shopping site One Kings Lane kicked off its first national brand advertising under the tag, “Design is Never Done.” The ads, which were created by Wieden+Kennedy, are intended to complement the San Francisco company’s extensive use of internet advertising, which includes a heavy dose of display, search, retargeting and social […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! Returns To Tech Have time for today’s Yahoo! earnings call at 5p ET today? If you’re an ad technology aficionado, you may want to tune in. Reuters says that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will declare that her company is back to being tech-focused. […]
Today at Salesforce’s Cloudforce conference in New York, CEO Marc Benioff said CMOs are like “fighter pilots without a cockpit” when it comes to social campaign management. “They’re going to want all the analytics, the ability to listen, place media, test media, run A/B tests,” he said in response to an AdExchanger question. “They’re going […]
Digital marketing has expanded well beyond the realm of paid media, yet the old label “ad tech” persists as a blanket descriptor of this maturing industry. Are we good with this? We asked a handful of execs to answer the question: If the phrase “ad tech” did not exist, what would you call the space […]
“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 Bitsy Bentley, Director of Data Visualization at GfK. Think graphic designer, and what comes to mind? PowerPoint decks? Infographics with cute cartoons? Yes, it all has its place, and […]
Earlier this week Facebook launched a new ad format geared to app developers, called Mobile App Install Ads (AdExchanger story). Its entry has the potential to disrupt the current field of companies that have sprouted up to drive app installs — including mobile ad networks and companies that incentivize downloads. But first it has to […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Paparo Departs AppNexus What’s up with AppNexus? Business Insider’s Nicholas Carlson offers one answer, describing a mixed bag of recent events at the company, the freshest of which is the exit of product guy Ari Paparo. AppNexus continues to grow, with a headcount numbering […]
Location-based marketing player Placecast has taken the wraps off a new card-linked offers program geared to credit card companies and retailers. With the program, called Card-Linked ShopAlerts, Placecast will compete with FreeMonee Network, Linkable Networks, and Cartera Commerce among other vendors. But it claims to have a leg up when it comes to analytics, since […]
For the past few years, Google’s quarterly earnings have tended to be a day of celebration for the search giant. But its Q3 report, which was released a few hours before the company intended, contained some slight signs of weakness as profits and revenues missed analysts’ bullish forecasts. Read the earnings release. The misfired earnings […]
Compared to the U.S., Japan’s programmatic buying space is in its infancy. But to Rocket Fuel, this is the perfect time to stake a claim for its demand-side platform in that country, as the ad tech firm has been working on building a bigger global presence this year. But instead of just opening up its […]
“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 Andrew Pancer, COO of Media6Degrees. Viewability – it’s a word of the moment. I’m pro-viewability (it’s hard to not be!) but there are issues with establishing it as a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdSense Alternatives Google has long banked on small- to medium-sized businesses to boost revenues through AdWords and AdSense offerings. But the search giant can no longer take those dollars for granted, as the NYT’s Darren Dahl reports that small businesses are looking for alternatives. […]
Facebook has expanded a test of mobile ads for app developers who are looking to drive installs, a bright spot in the paid mobile media landscape. The beta program was announced in August, with a select group of developers including Kabam, Fab, TinyCo and Big Fish. As of today any developer can sign up to […]
Precision Health Media is one of a large number of ad tech companies that began life as a vertical ad network and have been trying to evolve into a broader “platform.” The New York-based company still has many of the attributes of an ad network — it was initially known as Good Health Media when […]
“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 Will Price, CEO of Flite. Brands are increasingly embracing content marketing, behaving like publishers for their owned and earned media in today’s digital world. Coca-Cola’s “Liquid and Linked” video […]
On yesterday’s Omnicom Q3 earnings call with CEO John Wren and CFO Randall J. Weisenburger, the ad agency’s digital media and analytics efforts through Annalect were highlighted…. -and that’s news in itself as trading desk-related business has rarely, if ever, made an appearance on a holding company earnings call. A trend to watch for the […]
There’s a lot of talk about the need for online advertising to be less “obtrusive.” (Okay, that view is mostly coming from Microsoft with regard to the default “Do Not Track” feature in its latest Internet Explorer web browser. But still.) When it comes to video, the notion of user control has been a big […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Barrett To Depart Yahoo The news that Yahoo Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett would be leaving the company has been hinted at since Ross Levinsohn departed in July as acting CEO and head of North American sales. Although no official word about the exiting […]
“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. Millions of people are now pinning, tweeting, re-tweeting, hashtagging, liking, sharing, and commenting throughout the day. While […]
Targeting consumers according to their demographic profile is one area where online and offline media buying methods still closely resemble each other. While many ad tech companies have pitched alternatives, such as relying on the social graph to segment consumers, that approach is hindered by guesswork when it comes to drawing on offline behaviors. When […]
Navigation and mapping specialist Telenav has acquired ThinkNear (AdExchanger Q&A) just five months after the hyperlocal ads company launched. The $22.5 million deal ($18.5 million cash plus options) may come as good news to other mobile-local ad startups, suggesting strong demand and potential fits with companies in the fast-changing GPS and mapping arena. Telenav owns […]
Ask a random digital ad buyer how she feels about the shift to a Viewable Impression standard and you’re likely to get an upbeat response. But she may not realize the efficiency and cost savings that come from buying only in-view ads can mask a significant problem on the reporting side. The issue is this: […]
James Beriker has led two companies that ultimately became big acquisitions in the digital ad space. The first was Efficient Frontier, which was one of the pioneers of search and social media marketing. It was sold to Adobe in a deal completed this past January. About two years prior to that sale, Beriker had already […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Tablet Ad Network The shortcomings of mobile targeting continues to provide opportunities for the growth of ad networks. Mojiva announced yesterday that it has effectively re-branded the tablet audience of its ad network as another new ad network called Mojiva Tab. (Marketing, baby!) 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 Nishat Mehta, EVP Global Partners at Dunnhumby. When my family and I moved to New York City, one of the first items we purchased was a Sodastream home carbonation […]
