On Monday, Salesforce.com announced the acquisition of social marketing software company Buddy Media for $689 million. Read more. Marcel LeBrun, CEO of Salesforce Radian6, and Michael Lazerow, CEO of Buddy Media discussed the transaction with AdExchanger. AdExchanger: Marcel – can you talk a little bit about why Salesforce’s Radian6 is part of the discussion when […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. It’s The Pixel Yesterday’s DoubleClick marketing event appeared to be a success if a “few thousand viewers” via a livestream is any indication. The event announced new integrations within the DoubleClick marketing stack known formally as DoubleClick Digital Marketing. Invite Media-like tech is getting […]
Google has 1,000-plus engineers globally working on display advertising, and now – to hear display ad product chief Neal Mohan tell it – all their hard work is about to pay off. In a presentation to DoubleClick customers today, Mohan will outline imminent plans to consolidate DoubleClick’s fragmented menu of advertiser-facing technologies into a single […]
Bob Liodice, CEO of the Association of National Advertisers, is far from alone in being flummoxed by Microsoft’s decision to roll out IE 10 with Do Not Track “on” by default. But, as a key figure in privacy self-regulation, his confusion is poignant. “This came out of left field: no context, no rationale, no rumors […]
Microsoft’s apparent abandonment the Digital Advertising Alliance’s industrywide agreement that “Do Not Track” should be a strictly opt-in has surprised and concerned Interactive Advertising Bureau President and CEO Randall Rothenberg. Still, the IAB head, in a conversation with AdExchanger, was clear that although Microsoft’s forthcoming Internet Explorer 10 browser come with an active “Do Not […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Alt UDID Under Review The Wall Street Journal sees the new UDID alternatives as mobile ad networks’ efforts to “circumvent” Apple Safari browser security efforts. The WSJ says, “…Ad networks that serve advertisements within mobile apps have started using new identifiers that collect information […]
Google has agreed to buy hosted IM platform Meebo in a deal that signals its growing eagerness to wrap its head (and pocketbook) around social and “earned” media– including how to monetize content-driven brand connections. The purchase price was not disclosed, but in an earlier report about talks between the companies, AllThingsD claimed the price […]
It’s official. CRM loves social as it looks to make actionable its vast data sets. The announced acquisition of Vitrue by Oracle a couple of weeks ago has been followed today by the $689 million purchase of Buddy Media by Salesforce.com. Jeff Pashalides, Head of SaaS Advisory at Blackstone offfered his thoughts on the acquisition: […]
Here’s a snippet from the release: “Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Buddy Media, the world’s leading social media marketing platform, for approximately $689 million payable in cash and salesforce.com equity. The transaction is expected to be completed during salesforce.com’s fiscal third quarter […]
Microsoft’s decision to ship Internet Explorer 10 with Do Not Track “on” by default has created palpable upset in digital ad circles. Evidon, the Association of National Advertisers, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau quickly lambasted the decision, which may renege on a non-publicized agreement among members of the Digital Advertising Alliance that DNT should be a […]
Matt Seeley is President of Experian Marketing Services. Seeley recently discussed his company’s acquisition of Conversen with AdExchanger. Conversen develops “interaction management technologies that enable marketers to create fully integrated, cross-channel conversations through mobile, Web, social, email and traditional channels,” according to the Experian press release announcing the purchase. Read it. AdExchanger: For the the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Login Cometh Michael Miller reports on Google execs Susan Wojcicki and Sundar Pichai’s appearance at last week’s D:10 conference. In response to a question about the poor targeting of advertising today, Miller paraphrases Pichai who says, “The personalization of advertising is still in […]
There’s no question that display advertising continues to be one of the fastest growing parts of online advertising, but some of the largest bellwethers in the space appeared to stumble in Q1. Both AOL and Yahoo experienced slight declines in display, and even Facebook had to admit just prior to issuing its troubled IPO a […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Joshua Koran is VP Digital Product Management, Research and Data for AT&T AdWorks. Much has been written about the “viewable impression” metric, which banishes impressions that go unnoticed by consumers. It relies on […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DNT Set To “ON” If you just can’t stand browsing without a Do-Not-Track feature, in a few days Microsoft says it can help with DNT Features built into its latest Internet Explorer 10. Read the news buried in a release. Meanwhile, IAB CEO Randall […]
LifeStreet Media has, to this point in its trajectory, been focused on driving app installs through mobile and social ad placements. Its optimization engine, RevJet, claims to dramatically improve ad performance for its core customer base of app developers and publishers. But lately it’s begun to focus more on serving “true campaign objectives” rather than […]
“Ad Agents” is a column written by the agency-side of the digital media community. Peter Randazzo is Chief Technology Officer of iCrossing, a global, digital marketing agency The above headline contains an acronym long enough to strain its credibility as a time saver. TANSTAAFL stands for “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch“, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Internet Trends In spite of the fact that former Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker has joined the VC world (Kleiner Perkins), she is still cranking out her famous Internet Trends report which she presented at All Things D’s D10 conference. And guess what? Mobile […]
Among the first wave of digital agencies launched in the early to mid ’90s, Razorfish may be the strongest survivor. Through several acquisitions that ultimately placed it in the stewardship of Microsoft, then Publicis Groupe, the agency retained a distinct identity while continuing to innovate and expand globally. Last week it grew its China headcount […]
Recent years have brought tighter alignment between marketing and IT at many global organizations. Pressure to bring the previously fire-walled disciplines closer together is driven in part by the flattening of the purchase funnel, which has in turn eroded barriers between advertising and CRM and created opportunities to track and manage touch points from very […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Salesforce.com Has A New Buddy? Social marketing software is the new DSP. Last week Vitrue was acquired by Oracle. This week, Peter Kafka says on All Things D that Buddy Media and its $90 million of venture funding is about to get rolled up […]
Today, on the Doubleclick Publisher blog, Google released a new report showing a range of display ad trends for publishers using its DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) ad server, the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, and Google AdSense network. For example, not unexpectedly, Google’s Jonathan Bellack, Director of Product Management, Display Advertising, states, “Sell-through rates (the percentage of […]
AdKeeper says it isn’t doing the proverbial pivot. In fact, it’s “keeping” the foot on the gas with a growing product line, said CEO Scott Kurnit and company President MaryAnn Bekkedhahl in an interview last week with AdExchanger. In early 2011, AdKeeper raised $35 million to support its offering of allowing consumers to “keep” online […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Kicking Tires With reports continuing to swirl of Amazon building a significant display advertising business, Kunur Patel says in Ad Age that the acquisition of a mobile ad network may be next. Patel thinks Amazon’s ecommerce data could be a powerful bottom-of-the-funnel solution for […]
Oracle’s deal to buy Vitrue gives it a strong foothold in community management. The execs who brokered it intend for the acquisition to be the foundation of a social platform strategy that will encompass not only to social marketing, CRM and lead generation, but eventually hiring and HR functions too. AdExchanger asked a handful of […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Was MSNBC.com, Now NBC.com? There’s long been speculation that NBC Universal could take full control of MSNBC.com from Microsoft, its partner in the website venture. Adweek’s Mike Shields hears that the Comcast-owned network is considering it. “The site benefits heavily from its prominent placement […]
Yesterday, Microsoft Advertising and WPP Group‘s 24/7 Media announced a new deal, which “consists of four main components that will help strengthen advertising technology stacks and expand opportunities for the marketer and publisher clients of both WPP and Microsoft Advertising,” according to a release. Read more about the components. AdExchanger discussed the deal with Dave […]
While the world obsesses over Facebook and its troubled IPO, an older social media entity that used to attract as much attention is trying to rebuild. In July, Myspace marks the anniversary of its hand-off from News Corp. to ad network Specific Media, and the year has passed more quietly than its new owners had […]
