Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Listen For The Target Radio is the “last bastion of context based advertising” eXelate CEO Mark Zagorski tells paidContent’s Jeff John Roberts, but Zagorski adds that this will change shortly. Pandora, the online radio streamer, is already selling “interest-based” ads that reflect users’ online […]
This week, San Francisco-based Goodby Silverstein & Partners announced that it has decided to take the New York plunge and open its creative agency offices in downtown NYC. Read the release. AdExchanger spoke to ECD Christian Haas about the new base as well as technology and creative. AdExchanger: New York is often viewed as the […]
“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 Darren Herman, Chief Digital Media Officer of The Media Kitchen and President of kbs+p Ventures, both of which are part of MDC Partners. AdExchanger asked Herman to give us […]
Even as mobile real-time bidding gets more attention, the obstacles currently in its path will continue to prove challenging, says Brian Monahan, managing partner of IPG’s Magna Global. The media shop’s research unit just unveiled its twice-annual Media Economy Report, which details the promise and the problems of mobile advertising. As Monahan pointed out in […]
Among the questions facing publishers last year: (1) What should be done about the rise of audience buying?, and (2) How do we make mobile advertising really pay off? Meredith Corp., the publisher of women’s magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle, has been focused on mobile for years, particularly through the […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Dan Grigorovici is CEO at AdMobius. If brands and agencies are ever expected to invest significant dollars in mobile then it’s time for the industry to get serious about measurement. While it’s true that progress […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Real-Time Games Marketing Chartboost, which “allows game developers to reach new users through cross-promotion, make money from their games, and collaborate directly with fellow developers,” has pocketed $19 million in funding from the likes of Sequoia Capital. Read the release. Last February, CEO Maria […]
Essence Digital has acquired Point Reach, a Seattle-based agency with 19 employees and significant mobile capabilities. The deal brings Essence’s global headcount to 233, with the bulk of those staff concentrated in London, New York, and, most recently, San Francisco. The Bay Area presence materialized last September with the acquisition of SF-based Black Bag Advertising […]
As part of what it describes as a refocusing of its business on its social enterprise ad software (SaaS), Spruce Media is cutting jobs in the account management and design areas. The strategic shift comes just after landing a $15 million debt financing deal late last year when Spruce Media trumpeted strong momentum with clients. From […]
Although Quantcast has often discouraged observers from attempting to group the analytics provider into the “ad effectiveness” category with comScore, Integral Ad Science (fka “AdSafe”), DoubleVerify and others, its acquisition this morning of MakeGood Software would appear to put the company in closer competition with those parties. In a post on Quantcast’s blog, CEO Konrad […]
Creative agencies, media agencies, PR agencies, “general” agencies. All have faced significant technology disruption in the form of shifting consumer behaviors, disintermediation by vendors, and relentless waves of “marketing tech” requiring evaluation and training. To understand the changes afoot in marketing services business models, we asked a number of senior execs who should know to […]
Having spent five years growing job marketplace Personforce along with a partner, Rohin Dhar and his co-founders are taking aim at the price of things with Priceonomics, a pricing search engine. The idea sounds straightforward enough: crawl through the web and figure out how much used things (e.g. your old iPhone 4) are worth based […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. RTB Embryo Satellite TV provider DISH may let advertisers see the analytics on what viewers are watching in real-time — and then hold “last minute” auctions for the ad slots in the hottest shows. DISH SVP Warren Schlichting tells Bloomberg’s Alex Sherman the “exchange”-like […]
Tel Aviv-based CPA network Matomy Media Group has purchased MediaWhiz, a U.S.-based direct response marketer that operates the second-ranked affiliate network. The acquisition brings together two big online direct marketing players, and expands Matomy’s U.S. footprint. Purchase price and other terms weren’t disclosed for the deal, which closed on December 31 For Matomy, the deal […]
Having just closed a new $7 million round of round of funding for his social ad platform company, Optim.al CEO Rob Leathern is expecting his 30-person operation to more than double in size in the coming year. But, don’t tell Leathern that Optim.al is a Facebook ads company. He says emphatically, “We think of ourselves […]
Skinected is a young company, and small, with just five employees. But the pain point that spawned the business goes back some 15 years, and has plagued legions of media brokers and buyers. Co-founders Chip Meyers and Stefan Kosel began trying to integrate non-standard ad formats into movie websites in the late ’90s, beginning with […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. ESPN’s Display Play With all the talk about “native ads” that resemble a site’s editorial content, ESPN is suggesting that maybe making better looking display units is the answer. In a look at its new wallpaper ads, paidContent’s Jeff John Roberts talks to Marc […]
As AOL and Yahoo struggle to keep pace with display ad gains from Google, Facebook and Amazon, the portals have placed much of their hopes on lucrative brand campaign-friendly homepage ads. Macquarie analyst Ben Schachter has been charting the progress of the portals’ homepage ad quality and quantity, and it looks like Q4 was a […]
The Saturday before Christmas came in as a top three December shopping day for many retailers, including Best Buy, Toys ‘R’ Us, and Walmart. Below we present final holiday 2012 data from location analytics company Placed, which analyzes in-store visits of consumers who have opted-in to a mobile location measuring app. Placed’s location-based network does […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Terence Kawaja is Founder and CEO at LUMA Partners, a boutique investment bank focused on the digital media sectors. In lieu of making the ubiquitous end of year Top 10 lists or predictions, […]
The word “repurposed” is often used disparagingly when discussing TV commercials being employed for digital video ads. After all, people accessing content on PCs, tablets, smartphones are in a different mindset from when they’re watching TV. Ads need to be “native” to their environments and merely cutting a 30-second spot into a 15-second one suitable […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. LOL! Buzzfeed Raises $19M Social media sharing site Buzzfeed, sometimes cute and trivial, sometimes tart and political, has raised a $19 million third round as it plans to scale up and take greater advantage of its enormous traffic growth. BuzzFeed will use the proceeds […]
With print revenues falling faster and online ad dollars failing to fill the void, publishers have increasingly turned to paywalls. As a Guardian UK piece noted this week, 11 of the top 20 U.S. newspapers are either currently asking users for cash to access content, or are about to embark on it. Enliken, a company […]
The six global ad holding companies (WPP, Publicis, Interpublic, Omnicom, Dentsu, and Havas) are basically legal roosting boxes for advertising agencies, but a few years hence we may see them very differently. Or, a few of them anyway. Speaking with AdExchanger today, CEO Martin Sorrell said, “I think our business has changed dramatically in the […]
WPP Group has taken a 20% stake in Globant, a fast growing Latin American marketing and software development firm. Buenos Aires-based Globant blends engineering and design-driven driven approaches. It employs 2,700 in six countries — including Brazil, Argentina, and Columbia — and offers its clients software development, data architecture, e-commerce applications, design, and mobile development […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Piracy And Ad Networks The University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg Innovation Lab released a new study yesterday which claims that ad networks are continuing to support piracy of digitized content. OpenX, Google, Yahoo (including Right Media), Quantcast and Infolinks are listed among the […]
Dan Salmon is an equity research analyst at BMO Capital Markets and covers advertising and marketing services. Salmon upgraded Facebook from “Underperform” with a $15 target to “Outperform” and $32 target and explored his outlook in a research note to investors on Monday. You can download it here (PDF). AdExchanger: Where are the ad dollars […]
It’s been nearly a year since ad sales workflow systems provider Mediaocean was given the regulatory green light to form the merger of Mediabank and Donovan Data Systems. While Mediaocean picked up the mantle of both entities’ attempts to bring online media buying methods to traditional TV, Mediaocean CEO Bill Wise tells AdExchanger that the […]
As a WPP Group agency, MediaCom works closely with the holding company’s Xaxis trading desk to execute data-driven media strategies. In such relationships between agencies and trading desks, it can be hard for a client to know where the desk stops and the operating agency begins. That creates a tricky problem, since first party data […]
