“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. […]
How far into the social marketing story are we? Unified Social is betting this summer’s big acquisitions (Buddy Media, Vitrue, etc) are just the opening volleys, and that the coming years will see the rise of enterprise class social dashboards capable of integrating presence management, paid media, and downstream “earned” media tracking. The company’s Social […]
“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. Ad tech is a fascinating and constantly evolving space. We’ve seen several ‘waves’ of evolution in ad tech over the years, and I believe […]
Bipul Sinha saw the early days of the latest ad tech era when he helped lead investment in ad verification firm DoubleVerify on behalf of Blumberg Capital in 2008. In 2010, Sinha moved to Lightspeed Venture Partners (LSVP) where ads remain a focus and companies such as news aggregator Pulse, social ad platform MyLikes, and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Screen Size Matters It makes sense that the more screen space you have, the opportunities for bolder creative and less clutter are more pronounced. Video ad platform YuMe collaborated with IPG Media Labs to find out just how much of a difference screen size […]
Yes, indeed. There are quite a few blue eyes at Chicago-based Blueye Creative, launched by managing partner Shannon Smith in 2004. And, there’s also the blue branding of the Facebook preferred developer program, which the company has been a part of since 2010 according to partner and VP of product Abby Ross. Ross joined Smith […]
As 95-year-old business magazines go, Forbes is hardly looking its age. It’s helped that the title’s digital content and ad operations have been through a number of reinventions the past few years. The most recent changes have been on the digital content side. Last summer, the company revamped Forbes.com with an eye toward reducing content […]
“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jim Spanfeller, CEO, Spanfeller Media Group, a new age media company. Today’s media buyers and sellers are playing on a whole new field, where preying on consumer behavior is the norm and big data is the apparent […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Buzzfeed Acquihiring Buzzfeed acquired one-year old Kingfish Labs last week. ClickZ’s Susan Kuchinskas says, “The publisher will use Kingfish’s technology to enhance its ability to target Sponsored Stories on Facebook.” Read more. GigaOm reports that Buzzfeed will add three to its engineering team. No […]
Traditional media companies like Condé Nast are learning to fit programmatic buying into their ad sales strategies. We spoke with Josh Stinchcomb, VP of corporate partnerships for Condé Nast about the company’s recent investment in cloud-based ad platform provider Flite and how the publisher of 18 magazines, 4 business-to-business titles, 27 websites, and more than […]
Measuring the real time bidding market is a tricky thing, given the still-expanding list of exchanges and sell-side platforms, and the variable inventory available through each. Attempts to encapsulate the space call to mind the Indian proverb about the blind men and the elephant – in which several men touch different parts of the animal […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AppNexus’ European Call Exchange provider AppNexus is the new Europeon ad platform for telecom company Orange. In March 2010, Orange had hooked up with OpenX for the creation of the Orange Ad Market. From the release: “Orange has deep relationships with both buyers and […]
Facebook today removes the “beta” label from its fledgling real-time-bidding ad exchange (official blog post), and has given its 15 platform partners permission to crow about their early results. And crow they have… Here are two big takeaways from the wave of FBX data coming out this morning: (1) Facebook Exchange dramatically increases the amount […]
The ad industry has moved well past the experimental phase of audience buying. But where programmatic media has proven most effective are still primarily around direct response objectives. Many in the space agree it’s only a matter of time before brand marketers get serious. But is that true? To answer that, we asked three senior […]
“Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Bob Walczak is VP Mobile Product at Pubmatic. Mobile is a massively fragmented market, making a simple action like delivering a static banner ad a fairly involved process today. At this point we have figured out the basics. When an ad […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! Cash AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher says that Yahoo! is about to enjoy a huge, $7 billion windfall thanks to the sale of 80% of its Alibaba stake. Swisher suggests acquisitions are ahead for Yahoo! Read more. Will advertising and marketing technology lure Yahoo! CEO […]
Last week, IBM announced the next step for an integrated software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering which formally combines the recent acquisitions of Unica, Coremetrics, DemandTec and Tea Leaf. It’s called IBM Marketing Center. So – Google has DoubleClick Digital Marketing platform and Adobe has its Digital Marketing Suite …and IBM has its Marketing Center as enterprise solutions […]
Google is poised to shake up e-commerce to an even greater degree as the company merges its paid Product Listing Ads and its “free” shopping-related results into a single paid format. The process started in the U.S. two months ago and is expected to be completed by the beginning of October, with Asia and Europe […]
After months of speculation, Apple will announce its iPhone 5 on Wednesday. Among the rumors that have gotten the most traction, observers are expecting to see a remade iPhone with a 4-inch retina display. That’s a half-inch larger than the current iPhone 4S and comes with a resolution of 640 x 1136 pixels — in […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Social Matchmaker Facebook is letting some large advertisers match its users to their CRM databases using an email address or phone number. AdAge contrasts it to similar standard practices in the magazine industry, posing the question, do people want or expect this from Facebook? […]
