“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 Bitsy Bentley, Director of Data Visualization at GfK. Think graphic designer, and what comes to mind? PowerPoint decks? Infographics with cute cartoons? Yes, it all has its place, and […]
Earlier this week Facebook launched a new ad format geared to app developers, called Mobile App Install Ads (AdExchanger story). Its entry has the potential to disrupt the current field of companies that have sprouted up to drive app installs — including mobile ad networks and companies that incentivize downloads. But first it has to […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Paparo Departs AppNexus What’s up with AppNexus? Business Insider’s Nicholas Carlson offers one answer, describing a mixed bag of recent events at the company, the freshest of which is the exit of product guy Ari Paparo. AppNexus continues to grow, with a headcount numbering […]
Location-based marketing player Placecast has taken the wraps off a new card-linked offers program geared to credit card companies and retailers. With the program, called Card-Linked ShopAlerts, Placecast will compete with FreeMonee Network, Linkable Networks, and Cartera Commerce among other vendors. But it claims to have a leg up when it comes to analytics, since […]
For the past few years, Google’s quarterly earnings have tended to be a day of celebration for the search giant. But its Q3 report, which was released a few hours before the company intended, contained some slight signs of weakness as profits and revenues missed analysts’ bullish forecasts. Read the earnings release. The misfired earnings […]
Compared to the U.S., Japan’s programmatic buying space is in its infancy. But to Rocket Fuel, this is the perfect time to stake a claim for its demand-side platform in that country, as the ad tech firm has been working on building a bigger global presence this year. But instead of just opening up 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 written by Andrew Pancer, COO of Media6Degrees. Viewability – it’s a word of the moment. I’m pro-viewability (it’s hard to not be!) but there are issues with establishing it as a […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdSense Alternatives Google has long banked on small- to medium-sized businesses to boost revenues through AdWords and AdSense offerings. But the search giant can no longer take those dollars for granted, as the NYT’s Darren Dahl reports that small businesses are looking for alternatives. […]
Facebook has expanded a test of mobile ads for app developers who are looking to drive installs, a bright spot in the paid mobile media landscape. The beta program was announced in August, with a select group of developers including Kabam, Fab, TinyCo and Big Fish. As of today any developer can sign up to […]
Precision Health Media is one of a large number of ad tech companies that began life as a vertical ad network and have been trying to evolve into a broader “platform.” The New York-based company still has many of the attributes of an ad network — it was initially known as Good Health Media when […]
“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 Will Price, CEO of Flite. Brands are increasingly embracing content marketing, behaving like publishers for their owned and earned media in today’s digital world. Coca-Cola’s “Liquid and Linked” video […]
On yesterday’s Omnicom Q3 earnings call with CEO John Wren and CFO Randall J. Weisenburger, the ad agency’s digital media and analytics efforts through Annalect were highlighted…. -and that’s news in itself as trading desk-related business has rarely, if ever, made an appearance on a holding company earnings call. A trend to watch for the […]
There’s a lot of talk about the need for online advertising to be less “obtrusive.” (Okay, that view is mostly coming from Microsoft with regard to the default “Do Not Track” feature in its latest Internet Explorer web browser. But still.) When it comes to video, the notion of user control has been a big […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Barrett To Depart Yahoo The news that Yahoo Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett would be leaving the company has been hinted at since Ross Levinsohn departed in July as acting CEO and head of North American sales. Although no official word about the exiting […]
“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 Pete Sheinbaum, CEO of LinkSmart, which provides text-linking optimization solutions for web publishers. Millions of people are now pinning, tweeting, re-tweeting, hashtagging, liking, sharing, and commenting throughout the day. While […]
Targeting consumers according to their demographic profile is one area where online and offline media buying methods still closely resemble each other. While many ad tech companies have pitched alternatives, such as relying on the social graph to segment consumers, that approach is hindered by guesswork when it comes to drawing on offline behaviors. When […]
Navigation and mapping specialist Telenav has acquired ThinkNear (AdExchanger Q&A) just five months after the hyperlocal ads company launched. The $22.5 million deal ($18.5 million cash plus options) may come as good news to other mobile-local ad startups, suggesting strong demand and potential fits with companies in the fast-changing GPS and mapping arena. Telenav owns […]
Ask a random digital ad buyer how she feels about the shift to a Viewable Impression standard and you’re likely to get an upbeat response. But she may not realize the efficiency and cost savings that come from buying only in-view ads can mask a significant problem on the reporting side. The issue is this: […]
James Beriker has led two companies that ultimately became big acquisitions in the digital ad space. The first was Efficient Frontier, which was one of the pioneers of search and social media marketing. It was sold to Adobe in a deal completed this past January. About two years prior to that sale, Beriker had already […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Tablet Ad Network The shortcomings of mobile targeting continues to provide opportunities for the growth of ad networks. Mojiva announced yesterday that it has effectively re-branded the tablet audience of its ad network as another new ad network called Mojiva Tab. (Marketing, baby!) 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 Nishat Mehta, EVP Global Partners at Dunnhumby. When my family and I moved to New York City, one of the first items we purchased was a Sodastream home carbonation […]
Dave Zinman has seen his fair share of the display advertising business as recent stints at BlueLithium and then Yahoo! – where he was GM of Display – gave him a front row seat. Zinman says there are still plenty of things to “fix” in display and his latest role as chief executive looks to […]
Berlin-based Sociomantic Labs hit the U.S. in a big way last month with the hire of Jason Kelly, Admeld’s former chief revenue officer, as its new CEO (AdExchanger story). The company positions itself as a “performance DSP” with an e-commerce focus, competing with the likes of Criteo and traditional demand side platforms. It has global […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Moat Sues ComScore On PandoDaily, Erin Griffith reports on a counter suit by analytics firm Moat against comScore after comScore had sued Moat in July. Griffith writes, “Moat has also accused comScore of fraud. ComScore promoted a ‘viewable impression’ standardized form of measurement widely […]
While the media and tech press watch Facebook and Twitter minutely for their respective ad strategies to emerge in a more defined way, professional social network LinkedIn has been slowly growing its ad business through its Marketing Solutions unit. As the company pointed out in a research note released Friday, 72 percent of LinkedIn’s revenues […]
As often happens with ad industry events, the ANA’s Masters of Marketing conference in Orlando has a front channel and a back channel. On the front channel, speakers are tackling big creative and consumer themes like the rise of cause marketing, “social by design,” and brands as content creators. On the back channel digitally focused attendees […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. IAB: Another Historic Rise The first half of 2012 presented yet another record-breaking period for online ad spending, says the Interactive Advertising Bureau, as marketers lavished $17 billion on the web between January and the end of June. Things looked pretty good during Q2 […]
“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Cameron Hulett, who is Executive Head of Solution Strategy at Acceleration. Everyone in the digital marketing industry thinks buy vs sell side. Vendors are either helping buyers reach better inventory at […]
