Internet marketing agency VirKet based in Mexico City, Mexico announced last month that it had signed on with Kenshoo and its search engine marketing (SEM) platform products – Kenshoo Enterprise (for large, corporate clients) and Kenshoo Local (for managing many smaller advertisers). See the release. Daniel Molano, Chief Strategy & Product Officer at VirKet, discussed the deal and […]
Bubbling around and through the advertising ecosystem is what some have called “Big Data.” Is it demo data? Location data? Or data from that little mouseover you just did with the graphic appended to this post? – It seems like it’s any piece of data we can think of, no? Time for some ecosystem input! […]
Mobile advertising is on the rise and, looking at reports from the third quarter 2012, the use of mobile real-time bidding by buyers and publishers is also growing. Market intelligence firm IDC predicts that mobile advertising will reach $8 billion globally in 2012, jumping to $14.2 billion by 2014. Looking just at the U.S., market […]
“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 the second installment in a two-part overview of the technology issues associated with ad viewability (Part I is here). It is by Jeremy Stanley, Chief Technology Officer, Collective & Co-Chair, IAB 3MS/Viewable Impressions […]
“How do we deliver analytics in a way that is inexpensive – and not a headache?” That is the high-level proposition behind BitYota according to Dev Patel who co-founded the company with fellow, former Yahoos Harmeek Bedi, Soren Riise and Poulomi Damany. And last week, he and his company took the wraps off of their solution […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Display Ads Hoppin’ Video and social will be among the driving forces behind 20% annual growth in online display spending through 2015, according to a new ZenithOptimedia forecast. Next year digital ads will grow 14.6% compared with 1.7% for traditional media, the agency believes. […]
AOL’s display performance is in comeback mode, but growth is lopsided. The company’s Q3 earnings presented a clear demonstration of the strength of third party network, which includes the flagship ad unit Advertising.com, as revenues jumped 18 percent over the same period in 2011. At the same time, revenue from AOL’s owned & operated sites […]
“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 part one of a two-part overview of the technology issues associated with ad viewability (Read part 2). It is by Jeremy Stanley, Chief Technology Officer, Collective & Co-Chair, IAB 3MS/Viewable Impressions Implementation […]
“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 Laura O’Shaughnessy, CEO of SocialCode. Today’s social advertising campaigns and branded social communities reach tens of thousands, even millions of people. Brands now benefit from cultivated communities that act on special […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Viewable Unimpressive The debate over the value of viewable impressions as a metric for online branding campaigns is endless at the moment. Following the Media Ratings Council’s preliminary conclusion that viewable impressions aren’t all that viewable right now, Mitch Weinstein, SVP, director of ad […]
AudienceScience has shuttered its publisher network business to focus completely on marketing technology. The move is yet another sign of weak demand for traditional ad networks, as buyers steadily migrate budgets to exchange-traded media bought through DSPs. President Mike Peralta tells AdExchanger, “The transition has been in the works for 12 to 18 months. Across […]
“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 John Nardone, CEO at [x+1]. It has been argued that the proliferation of ad technologies over the last few years has not really advanced our industry. Moreover, some suggest […]
It’s been less than two years since former Aperture executive Scott Knoll was brought in as AdSafe’s CEO. Knoll has just introduced his biggest change to date: After today, the brand “AdSafe” is no more. Instead, the company will now be known as Integral Ad Science. In a sense, the move codifies a shift that […]
Triggit, a demand side platform that has lately repositioned itself as a Facebook Exchange specialist, has raised a $7.4 million Series B round from existing investors. Spark Capital and Foundry Group participated, as did the company’s recently added CRO Chris Zaharias. CEO Zach Coelius tells AdExchanger, “We’ve focused every bit of our development and resources […]
With the launch of an Ads API access yesterday, LinkedIn joined a very small club of social companies that allow developers of outside platforms to customize and sell into their paid media products. The club shrinks further if you count only household names. Of the roughly 8 social companies with ad APIs, Facebook is the […]
For the past seven years, Techmeme, the technology news aggregator, has relied heavily on algorithms to help it organize hundreds of breaking reports every day. While it has employed a growing team of editors to sift through and monitor the tweets, emails and other news items that come in from around the tech sector to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Do Not Track Meltdown Do Not Track will have to wait for next year. After 14 months of sometimes harsh debate via email, phone and in-person meetings, the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) working group charged with creating specs for the browser mechanism has all […]
Among the many concerns ad sellers and ad agency staffers harbor about the rise of automated audience buying is that all these advancements will ultimately put people out of a job. The ethos of doing “more with less” is a general worry that happens anytime an industry finds itself in the throes of technological change. […]
Retailers are opening their doors earlier and earlier on Black Friday, even creeping into Thanksgiving. As customers spread their purchases throughout the weekend, the Black Friday/Cyber Monday combination has become a hub of social media, mobile usage, and local in-store purchases. Below we present new data from Placed showing in-store visits on Black Friday, the […]
It’s been three years since Adobe embarked on the digital acquisition spree that would bring it a major analytics platform (Omniture), a DMP (Demdex) and a media buying platform (Efficient Frontier). How to measure its success to date? Financial results tell one story. In Q3 2012 the digital marketing suite delivered 40% growth in revenue, […]
“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 Greg Keller, Chief Operating Officer at LinkSmart. Green arrows up. Red arrows down. The distillation of large amounts of data into simple information that users can understand and take […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Price Per Second On Digiday, Josh Sternberg takes a look at StumbleUpon advertising and its “native” format. He finds a creative pricing structure: “The most common pricing for advertisers on StumbleUpon is a flat fee of 10 cents per engagement of anything five seconds […]
Ad networks are alive and well when it comes to certain discrete, vertical markets. Jim Barkow can attest. He was CEO of shopper media/e-commerce ad network Longboard Media, up until early November when he — along with his company — were acquired by Bazaarvoice. (See the release.) Barkow, who will stay on as Bazaarvoice’s GM […]
When it comes to e-commerce, there’s Amazon and then there’s everybody else. Whether a retailer specializes in flash sales or in subscription-based, curated “boxes of merchandise,” all companies in the space are defining themselves against what Amazon has achieved and what it, as general go-to for everything from books to music to household items, can […]
Offered without comment, here are two recent quotes about Walmart’s approach to digital innovation: “We are uniquely positioned to give customers anytime, anywhere access to Walmart by combining the smartphone, online, and the physical stores. Ultimately, that will give us an edge over any competitor. …We’ve hired hundreds of incredibly talented people, in Silicon Valley […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Jonathan Mendez, CEO and founder of Yieldbot. “It’s still day one (for the Internet). The alarm clock hasn’t even gone off. We haven’t even hit the snooze alarm. […]
With the ecosystem providing insights on “programmatic buying” and “programmatic selling” last week, we reached out to a new group of executives to define one of the key underpinnings of programmatic media – whether display, mobile, social, etc. – and asked: “What is Real-Time Bidding?” Click below or scroll down for more: Scott Spencer, Director […]
J.T. Batson is leaving his post at media buying workflow systems provider Mediaocean to become chief revenue officer at Cumulus Media, which is primarily known for running the former ABC Radio Network. Meanwhile, Mediaocean, which was the resulting brand from last year’s merger between Mediabank and Donovan Data Systems, will not be replacing Batson directly, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Upfront Momentum? This past spring’s attempt to formalize Digitas’ NewFront — the four-year-old online ad sales-focused event designed to capture the attention of media buyers attending the TV upfront presentations — was a big production. And now, the Interactive Advertising Bureau says it will […]
