“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 […]
Setting aside for a moment the credibility gap inherent in any new Yahoo product launch – let alone a search product – you have to admire the company’s brazenness in talking up the ad potential for Axis, its new lightweight browser geared toward smartphones and tablets. Below are a few choice comments Ethan Batraski, director […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Evidon, DoubleVerify Partner Just in time to provide compliance with the EU ePrivacy Directive and U.S. Self Regulatory Program, DoubleVerify has agreed to integrate Evidon’s privacy solution into its measurement platform. About a year ago, DoubleVerify was an Evidon competitor when it came to […]
Despite AOL’s efforts to build up its owned & operated sites, including the Huffington Post Media Group its local content offering Patch, the portal’s real growth has always come from its Advertising.com ad network. So it wasn’t too much of a surprise when AOL announced a few executive shifts that are designed to highlight the […]
With its deal to buy Vitrue, database giant Oracle wants to be the first to help corporate clients integrate social across human touch points – both within and beyond the organization, as well as up and down the purchase funnel. “By combining Oracle’s assets with social marketing, social calling, social service, and social monitoring, we […]
Oracle gets deeper into the ads space! The company has agreed to acquire social marketing software company Vitrue. Read the release. No terms have been disclosed. More from Oracle’s corporate website: “On May 23, 2012, Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Vitrue, a leading cloud-based social marketing and engagement platform […]
Online video advertising platform Adap.tv has a distinct goal in mind for its new App Center: to bring buyers, sellers and vendors that serve each into a single video marketplace for brand advertisers that will eventually include TV ad inventory. The thinking, Teg Grenager, Adap.tv co-founder and VP, told AdExchanger, is that as TV buying […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Viewable Tsunami Viewability metrics – called AdView – are now part of ad verification platform DoubleVerify as the race to offer better buying metrics intensifies. Mitchell Weinstein, adops maven at Universal McCann, says in the release, “We’ve been using DoubleVerify for content verification for […]
Bret Leece knows analytics. He got his start in 1995 creating econometric time series models to track and predict Sprint’s call center activity, before moving on to CRM and database marketing roles including at MarketShare. Currently Initiative’s EVP of performance analytics, he has a long view of where advertising performance has been and where it’s […]
“Ad Agents” is a column written by the agency-side of the digital media community. Chris Tuleya, vp of Direct Response at Underscore Marketing, a boutique, digital marketing agency Who am I to criticize a multi-billion dollar company? On the other hand, criticism is the back-bone of the internet, specifically Facebook, so why not… Facebook has […]
“Now Serving Mobile” is a column focused on the audience-buying opportunity in mobile advertising. Eric Johnston is VP Engineering and Chief Architect with Verve Wireless. Last October, when Apple released version 5 of its mobile operating system, hidden deep in the developer documentation was a short note attached to a system function called uniqueIdentifier: “Deprecated […]
Josh Manion is CEO of Ensighten, a tag management technology company. AdExchanger: Do you consider Ensighten a publisher side tag management company? Or do you consider some connection with the buy side as well? JM: If you were to categorize us in that framework, I would say we’re probably more publisher-focused… Some of our technology […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. DNT Twitter Do-Not-Track standardization on Twitter’s platform will partially cut the legs out from under one of its personalization features. ClickZ’s Kate Kaye reports on the Firefox browser implementation, “When users who have DNT enabled on their browser visit any web page that features […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Predicting Digital On the DoubleClick For Publisher blog, Google VP of Product Neal Mohan revisits his predictions for ads from a year earlier as well as comments he made at Wednesday’s LUMA Partners’ Digital Media Summit. He also makes new predictions such as: “25% […]
Facebook is keeping the door open to an ad network. Its recently updated Data Use Policy says, “We may serve ads, including those with social context (or serve just social context), on other sites.” But “may” doesn’t equal “will.” In conversations with AdExchanger, Facebook observers place bets on if and when Facebook will launch an […]
Today’s column is in response to “Second-Guessing the Second-Price Auction Model” and written by Jonathan Wolf, Chief Buying Officer at Criteo, a buy-side, display ad tech company. Esco Strong at Microsoft wrote an interesting piece in a personal capacity on this site this week. While I am and remain a fan of Esco, and his […]
