After a few months of preparation, digital marketing tech provider Kenshoo unveiled a number of new tools this week as part of its Kenshoo Enterprise 4.7 software upgrade, including integrated organic and paid search reporting. The Israeli company, which has U.S. operations in San Francisco, New York and Chicago, as well as in China and […]
“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 Sacha Xavier, Partner, Media & Innovation Director for Neo@Ogilvy. The mobile media space is as exciting as it is daunting. As a digital media director, it seems there are more […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. YuMe Flips Video ad network YuMe has been working the “users don’t differentiate between screens, why should advertisers” concept of cross-platform ad sales for a while. To try to make that idea a bit more graspable, YuMe has unveiled a mobile video ad unit […]
Boring? Maybe, but email remains a powerful channel for online retailers. As a means to reactivate latent customers and shopping cart abandoners, it’s hard to argue display, affiliate, or even search is more effective. But the bar is getting higher in the space, thanks in part to Amazon’s email retargeting platform. Enter Listrak, whose Lifecycle […]
“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 Mark Hughes, CEO of C3 Metrics. It was a Michael Lewis book before it was a Sandra Bullock movie. Published in 2006, “The Blind Side” stated very elegantly what most football […]
One particular area of hope for Yahoo has been its acquisition of data management platform interclick, for which it paid $270 million November 2011. But the financial boost it provided was deemed “disappointing” by CFO Tim Morse during the company’s Q2 earnings call last week. AdExchanger spoke with Peter Foster, Genome’s GM, on the integration of Yahoo’s data […]
Dan Salmon is an equity research analyst at BMO Capital Markets and covers advertising and marketing services. Salmon recently discussed with AdExchanger.com the latest industry events as well as an update to his ongoing analysis of the marketing ecosystem titled, “The Race For The Digital Marketing Hub: Version 2.0.” Download it (PDF). AdExchanger: In this […]
Upcast Social is a London-based marketing firm specializing in managing Facebook campaigns. It was one of the early companies to be certified as a preferred marketing developer (PMD) for the Facebook Ads API. AdExchanger spoke with CEO Jim Brigden and Client Services Director Josh Wallin. AdExchanger: What’s the origin story for Upcast Social? JB: Upcast […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. FB Ad Team On Display The New York Times examines Facebook advertising, even the Facebook exchange, in an article ominously, “Facebook Efforts on Advertising Face a Day of Judgment”. Talking about the FB ad team, the NYT explains, “In an indication of how critical […]
The IDG TechNetwork is pulling the curtain off its new data management platform (DMP) today. The network oversees roughly 500 sites, including the tech and information publisher IDG’s own web extensions such as PC World, Macworld and CIO magazines. Peter Longo has been CEO of the IDG TechNetwork for four years and has held executive posts […]
Retargeting specialist AdRoll began its life in 2007 as an ordinary ad network, looking to solve the problems of display advertising that still plague marketers and publishers. The company, which grew out of work with semantic advertising and a history of thinking deeply about artificial intelligence on the part of its founders, CEO Aaron Bell […]
Having originally conceived the idea while at vertical ad network Adify (which he sold to Cox in 2008 for a healthy $300 million), CEO Russ Fradin has not lost any steam in his own personal startup engine – let alone his passion for his latest startup, Dynamic Signal. Fradin explains that brand clients want to […]
When it comes to attribution modeling on the Facebook platform, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. Last week, Adometry became the first pure play attribution vendor to get certified under Facebook’s ad tracking requirements (AdExchanger story). But not all of its competitors see approval of their ad tags as an important step […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Online TV Ads In the wake of the DirecTV agreement regarding Viacom carriage fees, free online TV proponents may have suffered a setback as network providers don’t want to carry (and pay fees for) something that subscribers may be able to get online for […]
Social analytics provider 33across just raised $13.1 million as part of a “growth round,” designed to help the New York-based company build up its technology offerings and marketing team. Read the release. We sat down with CEO Eric Wheeler to discuss the details of those plans and to take a look at how the company […]
WPP-owned Mindshare has a lot of love for its digital ad partners, but it’s tough love — especially on the first date. For one client, new ad networks, data providers, and other platforms must prove their worth within a week of testing. “Every test partner for this client has seven days to perform, and if […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Multi-Threaded (Brand) Tweets Saying it’s responding to brands, Twitter product manager Kevin Weil writes on the Twitter ads blog, “Now global brands that have different launch dates for several countries can send tailored messages at different times, customized for the users in each country. […]
Google offered very little that was new on the display business during its second quarter earnings call, and analysts didn’t press for details. Instead they hammered execs with questions on the newly acquired Motorola business and mobile search monetization. But a handful of details do jump out with links to display and video ads… During […]
Internet advertising is growing everywhere – even in economically bedraggled countries like Greece and Spain. So says GroupM in its new global report looking at measured media spend in 70 countries. The surge comes amid lower than expected growth in overall measured ad spend, both globally and in the U.S. Futures director Adam Smith spoke […]
AdExchanger caught up recently with search services and ad tech provider, Adchemy, and its CEO Murthy Nukala. Nukala sees a change in the way intent will be captured in the future. Is the power of bottom-of-the-funnel search going away? Read on. AdExchanger: What are the touch points for capturing intent in digital, in your estimation? […]
“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 Ran Cohen, president and co-founder of Legolas Media. Programmatic Buying: The reduction (but not elimination) of human decision-making in the serving of digital ads. It promises to solve many of the […]
This summer has shown that social media is maturing as a marketing and advertising vehicle. We have seen the unveiling of the Facebook Exchange – while Twitter, LinkedIn and Tumblr have made steps to refine their revenue models. In addition, there have been two high profile acquisitions. And companies that help marketers navigate social media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Ad Data Space Data exchange, data management platform and now BlueKai is looking to define a new space – the Data Activation System (DAS). The release explains, “Data Activation spans not only banners, but includes site optimization, CRM, email marketing and other possible […]
“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. When the “Four P’s of Marketing” were first developed by E. Jerome […]
Facebook is gradually opening up to third party ad vendors, including ad tracking companies. Its list of certified tracking partners includes Atlas, Mediamind and Pointroll. Until today, none of them was exclusively focused on the burgeoning niche of attribution management. That changes with the certification of pure play Adometry’s tags for the Facebook platform. Customers […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Estimating Display ThinkEquity analyst Ronald Josey offers his thoughts on Thursday’s Q2 2012 earnings release by Google. He tells investors about “display and new products: We believe YouTube and Google’s AdExchange continue to take share of the overall display market and we currently project […]
Yahoo followed yesterday’s big news that Google product veteran Marissa Mayer was its new CEO with a Q2 earnings report consisting of small, barely-better-than-flat revenue and profit gains. Read the release. Display revenue was $473 million (excluding traffic acquisition costs), representing a 1 percent increase over Q2 2011. To put that number in context, in […]
Social popularity metrics are losing fans on the client side, suggests a new survey of Association of National Advertisers members. In its “Digital/Social Media Survey” of 224 client-side marketers, the ANA notes “Facebook ‘likes’ or Twitter ‘re-tweets’ fell to the bottom of the list” of preferred metrics, with just 30 percent and 39 percent of […]
Late last week Facebook released Premium Ad inventory to its self-serve and Ads API channels. By doing so, it intends to relieve the burden of selling these ad types solely from its direct sales force and make them more widely available. But the eventual impact of the move could be more complicated. For instance, from […]
