Over the past two years, blog network Say Media has attempted to evolve from its origins as an ad network into something resembling a traditional media company. It has developed broad content brands like the female-focused XOJane and bought others, such as the generalist digital tech news site ReadWriteWeb. For those properties in its immediate portfolio, […]
“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 Ronald Paul, CEO at Quisma, a European performance marketing agency and a subsidiary of WPP Group’s GroupM. When working in online advertising, if you try and evaluate individual channels […]
As AKQA’s media team stares into the maw of WPP and its Xaxis audience buying unit, what does it see there? Scott Symonds, Managing Director of AKQA Media, is certainly aware of Xaxis’s reputation as the most controlling of the holding company trading desks – an entity that has been known to force its solution […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google, FTC Search For Settlement Google and the Federal Trade Commission are said to be hammering out an acceptable fine so they can end their dispute over whether the search giant misrepresented its privacy practices to consumers, the WSJ’s Julia Angwin reports. “The amount […]
It’s been over a year since ad verification company AdSafe Media brought former Aperture executive Scott Knoll to run the company. In that time, Knoll has tried to emphasize the company’s focus more on anticipating problems for ad placement, rather than reporting back on whether a campaign was successful or not. In the meantime, the […]
In a move partly intended to play down its history as a unit of Havas, independent trading desk AdNetik has rebranded itself as Digilant. Simultaneously the company has rolled out two products: AIM Audience Index and AIM Brand Network. The former is a lookalike finder for audience buying, ranking users by “positive and negative relevancy” […]
Ross Cohen has been tapped by Viacom as its first SVP of Digital Inventory Strategy, as the company that owns MTV Networks looks for better ways to manage advertisers’ and agencies’ growing demand for audience buying. Cohen, a former VP and business development exec at Worldnow, will report to Rich Eigendorff, Chief Operating Officer for […]
Describing itself as a Facebook Performance Advertising company, Nanigans has placed its future squarely on the results it can drive through the Facebook Ads API. Though Nanigans CEO and co-founder Ric Calvillo has collegiate ties to the founders of online game kingpin Zynga, he hails from the enterprise software business – not media. As he […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mapping the Yahoo Genome Goodbye Interclick, hello Genome. Yahoo has gone live with its integrated audience buying offering spawned from the purchase of Interclick late last year. The audience marketplace will bring to bear a range of first and third party data including Yahoo […]
In-image ad platform GumGum has spent the past year building up its sales team, following last October’s $7 million VC round, which brought the company a total of $11 million raised since opening its doors four years ago. Over the summer, Los Angeles-based GumGum brought in a new sales head: Robert Elder from Independent Television […]
“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 Marc Schwartz, who is EVP, Global Director of Performance Analytics at McCann Worldgroup. I recently left Cannes, where the majority of the Lions were awarded to creative agencies. Creative agencies […]
The steady collection of extreme tech skills over at real-time ad platform and app marketplace AppNexus is creating a growing opportunity around services. The company is actively recruiting for an AppNexus Global Services unit, according to a company website, including NYC and London “open positions” from its job board. Call it a high tech agency or […]
The ad tech ‘animal’ comes in different shapes and sizes. For co-founders Amit Shah and Scott Switzer, the ‘animal’ is analytical as their growing analytics startup, Jirafe, aims to provide merchant publishers a better view on their digital business – including ads, sales, conversions and more. So far the company has impressed 5,000 ecommerce clients […]
Sometimes, it’s time for “new.” And this summer is one of those times for AdExchanger. Make no mistake, AdExchanger will continue to celebrate the connection that you make with the site and your fellow readers – a human collaboration with purpose and creative energy that you have always generated. But, over the next week or […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Login Data And Ads According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook’s planning a new type of mobile ad targeting that will leverage its own first party data. The WSJ sees radioactivity: “The new ads could stoke privacy concerns because they let Facebook go a […]
Global distiller Diageo is known for marketing innovation on behalf of brands like Smirnoff, Tanqueray, Johnnie Walker, and Guinness. In its quest to drive consumer engagement, the company has set up a program to rapidly iterate across digital platforms, including smartphones, tablets, and Facebook. Part of its approach involves standardization of data collection among agencies […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo! CEO Race Yahoo! interim CEO Ross Levinsohn and Hulu CEO Jason Kilar are in the lead to be the permanent CEO of Yahoo! says Yahoo! ‘insider’ Kara Swisher on All Things D. She writes, “At this point, said sources, it appears to still […]
For agencies and marketers, there’s a pervasive lack of synthesis among available consumer data. It would seem particularly frustrating for Steve Plimsoll, chief technology officer, Mindshare Worldwide, but he sounds much too excited about the next eight years, when he believes that problem will be solved. Plimsoll is taking steps to position his media shop […]
Paul Rostkowski is President at Varick Media Management, an agency trading desk and part of agency holding company MDC Partners. As part of AdExchanger’s “State of” series, we spoke to Rostkowski last week about the state of Varick Media and industry trends. Click below or scroll for more: Differentiating Varick’s Trading Desk On Today’s Data Markets Media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mo’ Money Mobile It’s a ‘funding-a-day’ in ad tech! On Tuesday, mobile app marketing platform Fiksu announced it has added $10 million ($17.8 mil total) in new funds to its coffers. Read the release – which gives a pretty good sense of how Fiksu […]
The U.K. is rapidly catching up to the U.S. in programmatic media, with DSPs servicing about 30 percent of GroupM’s display ad spend this year compared with 20 percent in 2011. WPP’s global media arm issued its measured ad spending report for the country this week (press release), and while the overall picture is stagnant, […]
With close to 10 years of online ad experience, Jos Moore has seen different roles and roll-outs as part of the ads unit team at Microsoft. Today, she’s the GM in charge of “advertising incubations” at Microsoft which includes incubating the next ad ‘steps’ for online calling service Skype – formally acquired by Microsoft in […]
Welcome to “Brand Aware.” I’m Bob Arnold, Associate Director of Global Digital Strategy at Kellogg Company, and I have the privilege of penning this column. I’ve been in the digital marketing space for more than 12 years – 10 years at Procter & Gamble and two years at Kellogg. Having grown up in the “branding” […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Uncapture The Flag Microsoft has had enough, fiscally, of its aQuantive acquisition. As you may recall, it was the largest of a series of digital media acquisitions that year which included Google buying DoubleClick, Yahoo buying Right Media, WPP buying 24/7 and even Microsoft […]
The Weather Channel’s acquisition of meteorological data company The Weather Underground (see release) may not provide the cable network and app operator with any immediate abilities to better predict rain or shine, but it does give it access to a well-regarded tech company that can help it lay the groundwork for new products and a […]
The search for a better understanding of a digital ad’s effectiveness remains hot. And with today’s purchase of Vizu, announced this morning, Nielsen says its clients will be able to measure their online branding campaigns in something like real-time. Not only that, Nielsen says it wants to help them optimize their audience buying efforts by […]
Facebook has lately hinted at a more open approach to its ad platforms, and agencies are buoyant about the prospect of managing their Facebook buys alongside display, search, and other channels. But it’s early days. The Facebook Exchange is evidence of this open attitude, as is the porting of Facebook ad buys onto Zynga’s owned […]
There’s a battle raging in the aisles of your local big box retailer around “showrooming,” where the consumer comes to see the product in-store but buys it online for cheaper. Though some disagree, this digital efficiency is forcing brick-and-mortar retailers to re-consider the value proposition they provide consumers in comparison to their ecommerce competition. Today, […]
