Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Falling Video CPMs In a WSJ story last week, reporter Suzanne Vranica revisited the case of the falling video CPMs using new data from video ad network and exchange owner Bright Roll. The data fingers the usual suspect (programmatic buying). But there’s a silver […]
The private marketplace – or exchange – strategy has been bubbling for several years as large publishers look to collect programmatic media budgets from advertisers that are hunting audience across “brand-safe” sites. On Wednesday, sell-side platform PubMatic announced that business news site Business Insider had signed on as a client for its private marketplace product. […]
Some companies claiming to be “mobile demand-side platforms” are veiled mobile ad networks, or at least they’re mobile ad network-like. Which is to say they may be taking margin without disclosing price paid to the client. Others may be more transparent, buying on a per-impression basis and charging licensing fees as a standard DSP would […]
“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 Gurman Hundal, Co-founder at Media IQ. The expression “the elephant in the room” feels rather fitting when considering barriers to display trading innovation. As digital marketers, we have many “elephants” — […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdBlock Blocked Google has booted a number of programs including AdBlock Plus, AdBlocker, AdFree and more from the Google Play Store. “After a regular review we have determined that your app interferes with or accesses another service or product in an unauthorized manner,” says […]
Mozilla’s move to stop third-party cookie tracking in the latest version of its Firefox browser – echoing Apple’s Safari browser attributes – has attracted wide attention across the advertising industry. And no wonder – Mozilla’s Firefox has about a 23% share among consumers in the browser market. AdExchanger reached out to a selection of […]
Back in December, Operative founder Lorne Brown reclaimed the CEO role at online ad sales software management company. He replaced Mike Leo, tapped for the post back in 2004. The New York company is working on serving the largely untapped mid-market and smaller publishers and while looking to sharpen its position as an alternative to […]
“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 Chris O’Hara, Chief Revenue Officer at NextMark. It’s hard to argue that the banner ad era has been good to publishers. After a brief initial period in which banner inventory […]
Reduce Data uses advertiser data to optimize campaigns across DSPs and ad networks. For instance, CEO Asif Ali says when a network is buying or retargeting a user who has already clicked or converted, Reduce Data can override the network-specific optimization and deliver a different campaign or creative. Ali says Reduce Data can similarly use […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Custom Audiences Ad Boost More than twice as many advertisers have flocked to Facebook’s custom audiences feature since January, reports Bloomberg’s Brian Womack. Released nearly six months ago, custom audiences, which lets companies apply data they’ve collected from outside the social network to their […]
The old thinking: social media channels like Facebook and Twitter will be the death knell of traditional publishers. The new thinking: they need each other desperately. And just maybe, they can actually generate a worthwhile amount of ad dollars and audience engagement through mutual benefit. That was the consensus at the opening panel of the […]
Winning a hotel guest takes more than a swimming pool and a spa package. Like its competitors, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide looks for opportunities to give its accommodations an edge over other hotels. With more than 1,100 properties in nearly 100 countries across nine brands, the company has strong brand awareness. But that isn’t […]
Resistance to Mozilla’s proposed blocking of third-party cookies got a boost yesterday from the IAB. The trade organization released a statement from president and CEO Randall Rothenberg opposing Mozilla’s plan, and an online FAQ about the situation for those who may want to learn more. In late February, Mozilla announced that for Firefox version 22, […]
The growth of online media has upended the way media is bought and sold, and the traditional ad agency model is under greater pressure than ever before. On one side of the office are established account planners and media buyers; on the other side sits the trading desk. A group of media agency heads kicked […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. SlideShare Gets a Makeover After snapping up the content sharing platform SlideShare for $119 million last year, LinkedIn today unveiled its new SlideShare Content Ads. “Similar to display ads, Content Ads reach a targeted audience of professionals on LinkedIn. However, they differ in that […]
“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 Jed Nahum, Senior Director of Programmatic Sales at Microsoft Advertising. At the recent IAB Annual Leadership Conference, I attended a cocktail-fueled discussion of programmatic. The discussion started with a […]
As content, commerce and ads collide in digital, retailers are looking for ways to capitalize. For pet supply company Petco and its director of online marketing Jason Stuempfig, strategic plans included bringing tag management firm Tealium into the mix. (Read the release.) Looking over the commerce landscape, Stuempfig says many retailers are becoming “content machines,” i.e. […]
“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 Tony Effik Managing Director, Media & Connections, R/GA. It’s difficult to think about the multibillion-dollar world of real-time media auctions as a game, but auctions have winners and losers, like […]
Oreo’s humorous tweet referring the temporary power outage at the Super Dome in New Orleans that halted the Super Bowl action between the ultimately victorious Baltimore Ravens over the San Francisco 49ners was hailed as the marketing play of the game. Oreo’s message that “you can still dunk in the dark” caught fire on Twitter, […]
If you’re attending an ad industry conference, it’s a safe bet you’re going to hear a lot of cheerleadering and hyperbole about how great things are. And while there are any number of ardent defenders for the ad agency model out there, few could muster a level of encouragement as spirited as the one laid […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Business Intel Adobe Omniture founder Josh James continues to build his BI/data visualization business, Domo, and Amazon has a seat at the table. According to TechCrunch, Domo has raised $60 million in new financing from several firms including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ personal investment […]
Tablet usage is growing at an impressive speed, with traffic from tablet devices doubling over the past year, according to new data from Adobe’s Digital Index. Additionally, tablets surpassed smartphones for the first time in February 2013, when looking at global traffic share. Adobe looked at more than 100 billion visits to more than 1,000 […]
Lifestyle blog network and ad rep firm operator Evolve Media is working on what executives say is a balanced approach to digital sales, albeit one that will continue to tilt more toward direct selling over programmatic methods for at least the next few years. Unlike other digital publishing and ad services rivals, such as Federated […]
Digital ad management provider DG is pouring the disparate technologies and products it has bought and built over the last few years into a single receptacle called “VideoFusion.” While having a clearer marketing message is the over-arching reason for the “brand unification,” the company also wants to emphasize its proposition to be the connective tissue […]
When you think of big consulting firms operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, names like McKinsey and Deloitte come to mind. GroupM? Not so much. But WPP Group’s media investment arm aims to change that with a new consulting unit led by Ernie Simon, previously the chief strategy officer at Omnicom’s OMD. Unlike […]
What did marketers take away from the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City last week? Below we recap some keynotes, breakout sessions, and broad themes from the conference. The Wednesday evening general session, featuring a conversation between Federated Media’s John Battelle and Twitter’s Adam Bain, garnered a lot of buzz online (AdExchanger story). During 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, executive VP-global partners at Dunnhumby. Fundamentally, people prefer to be treated personally. We like to be called by name at our favorite restaurant. A resort hotel’s excellence often is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mobile Vs. Desktop Pandora reported better than expected (but still a loss) fiscal fourth quarter earnings late Thursday as the company continues to concentrate on a mobile future. See the release (PDF). The Wall Street Journal digs into the details, “Mobile ads still aren’t […]
“Traditionally from an online advertising perspective, we invest heavily in paid search and display advertising. We’re going to use data to start to test display advertising [more]: how effective is our display advertisement? We’re going to leverage our platform to serve up two different types of display ads to understand how effective our banners really […]
