Pure-play firms reign supreme in a new Forrester evaluation of attribution vendors, released this morning. After ranking eight vendors – a blend of specialized firms and large analytics companies with attribution on the menu – the researcher placed the one-note singers at the front of the choir. All five specialists – Visual iQ, Adometry, ClearSaleing, […]
Depending who you ask, momentum for an online GRP measurement standard is either the best answer the online video business has to unlocking billions of TV ad dollars or it’s a menacing hand from the past come to smother web video metrics in the cradle. The latest major player, and first publisher of size, to […]
Ilya Lichtenstein is Co-Founder of Mixrank, an online advertising, competitive data and analytics company. Lichtenstein discussed his company’s offering last week with AdExchanger as well as today’s release of a new API (read more) designed to “enable any enterprise customer complete access to our entire dataset of historical data going back nine months or so […]
For marketers, the ease of using a single buying metric – The Gross Rating Point (GRP) – across traditional and digital channels remains attractive, but whether it can be effectively extended to digital remains to be seen as this survey of industry executives indicated last year on AdExchanger. Last week, comScore stirred the GRP pot […]
Yesterday, comScore announced its Validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) product which marks the next evolution in integrating AdXpose into its product line devoted to ad effectiveness. AdXpose was acquired back in August for $22 million (AdExchanger Q&A). The release states that vCE provides a “view of campaign delivery and a verified assessment of ad-exposed audiences via […]
Randy Smith is President of ClearSaleing, an advertising analytics and attribution management platform company. As part of its “State of…” series of articles with industry executives, AdExchanger.com sat down with Smith to discuss his company, his views on the space, and the state of ClearSaleing today. Click below or scroll down for more: On Being […]
John Squire is Chief Strategy Officer of Coremetrics, an IBM company. He discussed his company’s new enterprise analytics product and digital data exchange as well as marketing challenges with data today. Click below or scroll down for more: Unica and Coremetrics Where SPSS Fits The Digital Data Exchange Agencies and IBM AdExchanger.com: Can you talk […]
Yesterday, media measurement firm comScore acquired ad verification firm AdXpose (formerly mPire) for $22 million. Read more. Anne Hunter, VP, Ad Effectiveness at comScore, discussed the acquisition and its implications. AdExchanger.com: This is a relatively small acquisition in terms of dollars. Why not build out versus buy AdXpose? AH: The products available via comScore AdEffx […]
Today, social media marketing company Buddy Media announced the acquisition of Spinback, a social commerce analytics and technology company. On Buddy Media’s company blog, Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow explains how attribution was at the center of the reason for buying Spinback: “By combining sharing and conversion tracking into one elegant technology solution, Spinback shows […]
Gamera, a media quality measurement startup for publishers, announced on Tuesday it raised $1.6 million to promote its service that combines data about a site’s ad experience with data about how its ads perform.
Ad industry experts call out trends to watch in 2026 and separate the real AI use cases having an impact today from the AI hype they heard at CES.
Fraud is eating into retail profits. A new startup called Pinch AI just launched with $5 million in funding to fight back.
On Wednesday, retail and CPG data company SPINS added a new piece with its acquisition of MikMak, a click-to-buy ad tech and analytics startup that helps optimize their commerce media.
Believe it or not, car oil change service company Valvoline is in the midst of a fascinating retail marketing transformation.
Agents, streamers and robots, oh my! Live from the C-Space campus at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas, our team breaks down the most interesting ad tech trends we saw at CES this year.
