It’s a common refrain that last click attribution is broken, but what should replace it has yet to be resolved. Algorithmic attribution modeling is perhaps the leading candidate, and vendors such as Visual IQ, Convertro, and Adometry are competing to provide solutions in this area. But these attribution specialists still struggle to make fractional attribution […]
The Federal Trade Commission has settled “history sniffing” allegations with defunct online ad network Epic Marketplace Inc., whose parent company was Epic Media Group LLC. The agreement bans Epic from using the practice and requires it to destroy all data collected by that means. The FTC’s announcement makes no mention of Kinetic Social, a company […]
PubMatic is pushing a “multiple bid” process to spur more real-time bidding. In a white paper promoting the idea of multi-bid, the sell side platform outlines some of the frustrations that continue to hold back RTB usage by sellers. Those frustrations include volatile pricing, low CPMs, and weak liquidity. PubMatic argues the current programmatic bid process, […]
When David Williams bought Merkle in 1988, the first online display banner was still a few years away. But that doesn’t mean marketing tech wasn’t a part of his CRM agency from the get-go as Merkle ‘grew up’ building platforms for direct mail, and then the phone, and then email as the Internet made its […]
“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 by Jay Seideman, Director of Sales, Exchange and Targeting, Microsoft Advertising The holidays are upon us, and it is that time of year when we can reflect on the past 12 […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The AppNexus-Yahoo Deal That Wasn’t AppNexus nearly landed a big deal with Yahoo in the months prior to Marissa Mayer’s arrival as CEO, reports Business Insider. “The plan under consideration was for Yahoo to take a large stake in…AppNexus, and then hand over its […]
AOL has been promising a bigger effort on the programmatic side of the business all year and the company is ending 2012 with an acquisition that’s intended to both reflect and build on that focus. The company being acquired is Buysight, a retargeting and retail lead gen specialist. The four-year-old company will be folded into […]
Demand side platform MediaMath has scooped up Tap.Me and its roughly 11 employees for an undisclosed sum. The deal brings MediaMath a far more robust mobile and video ad serving capability than it had previously, according to CEO Joe Zawadzki. Tap.Me was previously focused on in-game ads (AdExchanger 2011 Q&A). But as sometimes happens in […]
Adelphic Mobile is one of a handful of companies trying to address the problem of poor audience segmentation in mobile. It hopes to get there faster with the help of a $10 million investment led by Google Ventures. The money is earmarked largely for marketing and other go-to-market spending. “We’ve been pretty heads down, working […]
Michael Ho thinks offline sales goals can be driven online. That’s why his company, Bering Media, which he founded in 2008, is working with Internet service providers to create what Ho believes is an accurate, scalable way to target consumers online, based on geography, CRM data, and custom offline data models. “We didn’t want to […]
“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 by Sid Shah, Director of Business Analytics for Advertising Solutions, Adobe. A combination of established trends and new technology innovations will cause 2013 to be an eventful year for digital marketing. Here […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL CMO Shuffle Reshuffle… – go! Five months after bringing in former Thomson Reuters marketing exec Jolie Hunt as its CMO, AOL has had a change of heart and will be eliminating the position. AOL says it will instead decentralize its marketing efforts to […]
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 […]
