“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Melissa Parrish, Executive Director, AdExchanger Research. Over the last couple of weeks, most of the conversations I’ve been having with marketers and tech companies have in some way revolved around the lead up to our Programmatic […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Laura Koulet, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. Being a product manager taught me that building good product is complicated; one reason is that you have to evaluate not only where the industry is today, but where it will […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Catherine Oddenino, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. One of the common themes I hear in my current mobile products research: It’s someone else’s fault. The players and issues change in each conversation, but it feels like many spend […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Melissa Parrish, Executive Director, AdExchanger Research. Earlier this week there was an article in Ad Age about the “hidden” costs of programmatic. I don’t intend for the quotes to indicate that the fees don’t exist, just […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Catherine Oddenino, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. While working on publisher-focused research, there’s a common theme I hear from vendors and publishers alike: The transition to mobile is hurting their bottom lines. Just as some […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a weekly column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Joanna O’Connell, Lead Analyst forAdExchanger Research. As a research analyst, I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about the big challenges and opportunities we in the digital advertising industry face. But […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Ethan Van Auken, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. The Media Rating Council (MRC) released an official update to its viewability guidelines on Aug. 18. Dubbed “Version 2.0,” the update focuses on circumstantial “Well, what about …”- type questions, […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a weekly column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week, it is written by Melissa Parrish, executive director of AdExchanger Research. Google is rarely out of the news, but thanks to the coverage over the last couple of weeks I’ve found myself thinking about the behemoth more […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Catherine Oddenino, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. I’m currently working on a new piece of research focused on how marketers distribute the content they create. Content marketing is agrowing focus for many marketers, so the […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a weekly column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week, it is written by Melissa Parrish, executive director of AdExchanger Research, and research assistant Sam Spector. As data-driven marketing has exploded, we’re finding that marketers struggle a bit to get the right mix of talent and […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a weekly column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Joanna O’Connell, Lead Analyst forAdExchanger Research. I read this recent WSJ CMO Today piece, which explored the proud anti-ad tech stance a number of young digital publishers are taking, with a mix of […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Ethan Van Auken, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. Hello! I’m Ethan Van Auken, a freshly minted analyst here at AdExchanger Research. I’m thrilled to be a part of the power-to-the-people, consumer-centric shift in marketing philosophy that’s taking hold […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Melissa Parrish, Executive Director, AdExchanger Research. Reading about Reddit’s struggle to find its stride – both from a culture and advertising standpoint – left me feeling a little nostalgic and a little disappointed. Nostalgic because from […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Catherine Oddenino, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. I’m currently finalizing a report focused on the state of programmatic media from the publisher perspective. As part of the research I’ve been asking publishers what they see […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a weekly column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Joanna O’Connell, Lead Analyst for AdExchanger Research. For the second year in a row, when we run our State of Programmatic Media survey, I wait for the data with trepidation and excitement. What […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Melissa Parrish, Executive Director, AdExchanger Research. A handful of years ago, I moderated a panel about mobile technology and privacy for the Churchill Club. One of the panelists explained the data collection issue in a way […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Catherine Oddenino, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. In a few recent conversations, the challenge and importance of analytics has come up. For two different agencies that specialize in content marketing, the biggest and fastest-growing parts of their businesses […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Joanna O’Connell, Lead Analyst, AdExchanger Research. I was in a meeting with an ad tech company recently, listening to its executives pitch the company’s “multichannel” capabilities. Fair enough, I thought, their platform can execute buys […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Lizzie Komar, Associate Analyst, AdExchanger Research. If you’re like me, you use your mobile device primarily for two things: service, as a means to manage the many demands of your day-to-day life, and entertainment, as […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Melissa Parrish, Executive Director, AdExchanger Research. Last week I spoke at an event about video marketing, and I met a marketer there who was in a bit of a quandary about some content that his company […]
We’re breaking with Marketer’s Note tradition this week to bring you our collective thoughts on the biggest news of last week. While the press release and countless interviews focused on a “mobile-first” strategy, we think there’s far more to the story than a simple pairing of AOL’s digital advertising platforms – arguably No. 3 in […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Catherine Oddenino, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. In recent conversations with marketers and technology providers for an upcoming AdExchanger Research report on content marketing, several have emphasized the ability to quickly respond to cultural events as a top […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Lizzie Komar, Associate Analyst, AdExchanger Research. Last week, during an on-stage conversation at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O event in San Francisco, Omnicom Digital (OMD) chief Jonathan Nelson described the agency’s evolving approach to technology, data, partnerships, […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Lizzie Komar, Associate Analyst, AdExchanger Research. Over the past few weeks there’s been a good deal of news coverage on the growing trend of independent publishers banding together to form programmatic media selling coalitions. The […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Catherine Oddenino, Analyst, AdExchanger Research. With the heat around content marketing and native ad formats, it’s hard to escape the feeling that advertising has come full circle. Prior to joining AdExchanger Research last week as an […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Melissa Parrish, Executive Director, AdExchanger Research. Last week it was reported that Facebook is building out an ad exchange platform, powered by Live Rail. If true, it’s an indication that the social networking giant continues to […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Lizzie Komar, Associate Analyst, AdExchanger Research. Good news traveled fast last week when Facebook decreed its position on viewability [AdExchanger story]: The company plans to sell only in-view impressions, which it can do thanks to […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Melissa Parrish, Executive Director, AdExchanger Research. Like pretty much every other resident of my New Jersey town, I found myself in a home improvement store last Monday hoping to buy a couple of extra shovels […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Lizzie Komar, Associate Analyst, AdExchanger Research. When I recently kicked off a new research project about retargeting, many of the people I reached out to for interviews – marketers, agencies, and technology service providers – […]
“Marketer’s Note” is a regular column informing marketers about the rapidly evolving, digital marketing technology ecosystem. This week it is written by Joanna O’Connell, Director of Research, AdExchanger Research. When I think about the year ahead in digital marketing, I am excited…and a little impatient. Many of the most urgent opportunities – real measurement across channels, tackling […]
