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“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 Yuchun Lee, VP and general manager of IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management. He was previously founder and CEO at Unica. I’ve talked a lot about the odd couple pairing of the CMO and […]

Social popularity metrics are losing fans on the client side, suggests a new survey of Association of National Advertisers members. In its “Digital/Social Media Survey” of 224 client-side marketers, the ANA notes “Facebook ‘likes’ or Twitter ‘re-tweets’ fell to the bottom of the list” of preferred metrics, with just 30 percent and 39 percent of […]

“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 […]

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 […]

Your retina is starting to make demands. As the display of your favorite device amps up its pixels per inch – such as Apple’s retina display for its iOS product line – so too are the visual requirements for content providers. And that means higher expectations and resolution for ads. This focus on content and […]

Last week, IBM released the results of its “State of Marketing 2012″ (on Slideshare) survey. The results dovetail with IBM’s own technology plans as it relates to marketing and media as the press release revealed: “The new survey of the marketing industry finds that chief marketing officers (CMO) and chief information officers (CIO) must join […]

Ad platforms are coming to Cannes in force this year, and AdExchanger will be there to observe how the ad tech ecosystem plays in the Cote d’Azur. Tremor Video, Mojiva, Turn, Velti, AppNexus, Simulmedia, and Vibrant Media are among those planning a presence at the Cannes Lions advertising festival (officially the “international festival of creativity”), […]

Bob Liodice, CEO of the Association of National Advertisers, is far from alone in being flummoxed by Microsoft’s decision to roll out IE 10 with Do Not Track “on” by default. But, as a key figure in privacy self-regulation, his confusion is poignant. “This came out of left field: no context, no rationale, no rumors […]

Setting aside for a moment the credibility gap inherent in any new Yahoo product launch – let alone a search product – you have to admire the company’s brazenness in talking up the ad potential for Axis, its new lightweight browser geared toward smartphones and tablets. Below are a few choice comments Ethan Batraski, director […]

Tim McAtee, Research Director, IPG Media Labs, and Brian Monahan, Managing Partner, MAGNA Global Intelligence Practice, recently worked on research for the IAB Rising Stars ad units and the expansion of the IAB’s standard ad unit portfolio. Read the release, and see the units. Monahan and McAtee discussed large format, display advertising with AdExchanger including […]

The “Newfronts” online advertising sales period that to be kicked off by Digitas and its outside partners next month is going to have some added competition apart from the traditional TV upfront marketplace. Adap.tv, the digital video sales platform, has formed its own Upfront Marketplace as it seeks to automate the entire process for securing […]

Wilson Raj is SAS Global Customer Intelligence Director. Yesterday, SAS acquired publisher ad server aiMatch. Terms were not disclosed. Read the release -and industry reaction. Raj discussed SAS’s acquisition of aiMatch yesterday and its implications with AdExchanger. AdExchanger: What is the opportunity that SAS sees in advertising and marketing, in general? Wilson Raj:  The CMO […]

Yuchun Lee is svp and general manager, Enterprise Marketing Management Group, IBM.  Lee co-founded Unica which was acquired by IBM in 2010. Lee discussed industry trends and his company’s positioning – especially as it relates the CMO. Click below or scroll for more: Unica: Then And Now The Problem Unica (IBM) Solves Where Advertising Fits […]

Last week, Kenshoo announced that travel search site, KAYAK, signed a multi-year agreement with Kenshoo, to use Kenshoo’s Enterprise platform for search engine marketing campaigns. Read the release. KAYAK had been with Marin Software previously. KAYAK CMO Robert Birge and Director of Marketing Emily Scott discussed the announcement. AdExchanger.com: Why do you need a platform […]

If you were a traditional retailer looking to ignite an ages-old marketing strategy, Rent The Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman and One Kings Lane CEO Doug Mack would probably be a good place to start. On Sunday, with the able moderation of Castanea Partners Jeffrey Rayport, Hyman and Mack discussed the shifting, tectonic plates of retail […]

The 2012 version of the AdExchanger.com “predictions” piece comes with a twist as a selection of industry execs offer their thoughts on the following question: “What’s going to happen next year in advertising that hasn’t happened before? And why?” Bill Duggan, Group Executive Vice President of the Association Of National Advertisers (ANA), offers his views. […]

“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 Nikhil Sethi, who is co-founder/CEO Adaptly. As we look at the emergence of social as a serious contender within a typical media buy, the marketplace is noticing an evolution […]

[Cue the Star Trek music]  “Innovation, the final frontier…” “Innovation” was the buzzword of the day as marketers and their creative team members came together in NYC for Day 2 of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Creativity Conference. “Innovation” is a word that seems to get tossed around a lot lately – especially in […]

Bill Duggan is Group Executive Vice President at the Association of National Advertisers, a trade association for the marketer and which “leads the marketing community by providing its members insights, collaboration, and advocacy.” Duggan discussed the trade group’s latest whitepaper (read the release) which reviews on behalf of marketers the agency trading desk model. Download […]

Among several presentations from last week’s Association of National Advertisers that were particularly relevant to the data-driven, digital ad ecosystem, Adobe marketing SVP Ann Lewnes’ (see bio) presentation stood out as she said simply, “Marketing is the new finance” and described how important data is to driving her company’s marketing. Of course, there are selfish […]

At last weekend’s Association of National Advertisers (ANA) event, the presentation by IBM’s Jon Iwata, who is the company’s SVP of Marketing and Communications, wasn’t what one might expect from a 100-year old company known for international business machines. It was about character. Iwata (see his bio) is a lifer at IBM having started there […]

Rob Norman is CEO of of North American operations for GroupM, the parent organization for WPP Group media agencies Maxus, MediaCom, Mediaedge:cia and Mindshare. Norman sat down with AdExchanger.com during last weekend’s Association of National Advertisers annual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. AdExchanger.com: What is happening with the brand marketer and their digital strategy today in […]

Yesterday’s most highly-anticipated presentation of the day came and went like a dusty, desert breeze as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg offered what amounted to a sales pitch at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) annual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. It appeared Facebook and Sandberg didn’t understand the audience: leading brand marketers from around the globe […]

John Nardone is CEO of X+1, an online advertising technology company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Nardone to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of X+1 today. AdExchanger.com: What’s your take on consolidation in the ad tech industry right […]

Often, a question doesn’t have an easy answer in the digital advertising business. This is a column devoted to an answer to a single question or topic – and providing a bit of space for it. Today’s participant is Chris Lien, CEO of Marin Software, an advertising platform technology company. He recently answered a series […]

Matt Isaacs is founding partner of Essence, an independent, global digital agency based in the United Kingdom. AdExchanger.com: Please share a brief background on your agency. MI:  We’re six years old and have served many of the leading Internet companies, originally, on a UK basis, and then on a pan‑European basis, and now for some […]

Ben Kartzman is CEO of Spongecell, a creative ad technology company. Click below or scroll for more: Looking Back at the Past Year Success Metrics and Engagement Pricing Attribution Funding And The Future On Fragmentation and The Entrepreneur AdExchanger.com: How much has the company changed – or not – in the last year? BK: We’ve […]

Dan Salmon is an equity research analyst at BMO Capital Markets and covers advertising and marketing services. Salmon recently discussed with AdExchanger.com his latest analysis of the marketing ecosystem in a research piece titled, “The Race For The Digital Marketing Hub: Version 1.2.” Download it (PDF). AdExchanger.com: From your analyst point-of-view, what’s the biggest surprise […]

Jeff Hinz has been named Managing Partner, Digital Director, for GroupM agency MediaCom. Hinz has a wide range of agency experience which includes executive roles at ID Media and K2 Digital. Read the release. Hinz offered his thoughts on digital advertising today and some of the challenges ahead. Click below or scroll down for more: […]

Rob Lenderman is Co-Founder, CIO-CMO of BoostCTR, a crowdsourced marketplace the optimization and testing of online ad creative. AdExchanger.com: Where did the idea come for “BoostCTR”? RL: A few years ago I was working at a company that inherited an AdWords account for a multi-million dollar company. They had not had a single text ad […]