The Tracking Protection Working Group is meeting this week in Sunnyvale, Calif. in its latest attempt to create a tech spec for the Do Not Track browser feature. Progress has been excruciatingly slow for the group, which operates under the aegis of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Disparate interests have been unable to agree on even […]
With the World Cup and Olympics coming to Brazil in 2014 and 2016, all eyes are on the country’s preparations for the events, which include readying its digital infrastructure. Brands are waiting for the chance to be at the center of the worldwide stage, and several advertising technology companies have opened offices in Brazil. This […]
For all the glitz and glamour that surrounded Aol’s Newfronts programming preview on Tuesday, perhaps the most relevant news for advertisers came at the end of the showcase with a mention of the unsexiest of topics: back-office operations designed to support the thousands of hours of digital video, along with analytics. Following appearances by actors […]
The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) will make a formal case this week that Do Not Track should be set to “off” by default. Members of the group charged with creating the DNT browser spec heard details of the ad industry’s proposal during a Monday call meant to prepare for next week’s face-to-face meeting in Sunnyvale, […]
Google’s offering in the ad viewability space has scored third-party accreditation from the Media Ratings Council. Google joins others who have wended through the MRC’s approval process – the respective viewability products from comScore, Double Verify and RealVu have been approved – so Google does not stand alone. But given its expansive relationship with marketers, […]
Nielsen has steadily expanded its efforts to tie online and offline together and to build products around digital ad effectiveness. That push has required Nielsen to strike relationships with outside data providers such as Datalogix and Facebook. As social and mobile become more crucial for advertisers, Nielsen is under more pressure to come up with […]
Online display advertising is still undervalued when it comes to attribution based on last click data, but during the holiday season 2012, last click attribution was slightly more accurate, according to marketing intelligence company Visual IQ. The company analyzed cost per acquisitions for Visual IQ clients for the time period August to October 2012, and […]
Chartbeat recently announced that it has brought its “engaged time” metric to its growing web ad analytics offering. Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile and Product Manager Alex Carusillo discussed their company’s objectives in advertising and industry trends with AdExchanger… AdExchanger: Overall, where does the analysis of advertising fit in Chartbeat’s strategy? TONY HAILE: Our core has […]
Before taking the reins at DoubleVerify six months ago, Wayne Gattinella spent ten years at the helm of WebMD. When he signed up for that job, the consumer health publisher was three years old and had collapsed to some extent, like most web content providers in that era. Since then it has largely reversed course. Revenues for […]
After debuting its Media Metrix Multi-Platform in beta in November, comScore opened the offering to all US clients and released the top 50 web properties for February 2013, based on data from both desktop and mobile visitors. While the top multi-platform properties overall were similar to the top desktop properties, there were several companies that […]
“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 by Heather Pidgeon, VP of Services at iProspect. As most of us know, fear of the unknown often comes from a lack of understanding. Due to the many new and unfamiliar factors […]
“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 by Andrew Shebbeare, Founding Partner & Chief Strategist at Essence Digital. Ad viewability is technically and logistically bewildering. If you need proof, read Jeremy Stanley’s excellent two-part overview of the space on […]
The debate around multi-channel attribution is perhaps the essential marketing problem of this decade. Can you really optimize ad spend on a cross-channel basis, and at the impression level? Not yet. Will you be able to? A lot of smart money says yes, but it’s going to be a long and bumpy ride. The most […]
“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 Alex Calic, Chief Revenue Officer at The Media Trust. Based on the velocity of articles written on the topic last year, “viewable impressions” has displaced “ad verification” as the […]
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Dan Grigorovici is CEO at AdMobius. If brands and agencies are ever expected to invest significant dollars in mobile then it’s time for the industry to get serious about measurement. While it’s true that progress […]
Nielsen has for years sought ways to measure the interplay of social media activity and TV viewing. Its new “multi-year” deal with Twitter is a tacit acknowledgement that Nielsen can’t close the media measurement loop on its own. There’s a similar observation to made about this morning’s announcement that Nielsen is buying long-time audience measurement rival, Arbitron, […]
Jon Baron is CEO of tag management technology firm, TagMan. He recently spoke to AdExchanger about his business and industry trends. AdExchanger: Tag management versus data management platforms (DMPs) – what do you see as the difference today? Is Tagman in the DMP space? JON BARON: Whenever I talk to industry experts, they seem to […]
It’s a common refrain that last click attribution is broken, but what should replace it has yet to be resolved. Algorithmic attribution modeling is perhaps the leading candidate, and vendors such as Visual IQ, Convertro, and Adometry are competing to provide solutions in this area. But these attribution specialists still struggle to make fractional attribution […]
“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 the second installment in a two-part overview of the technology issues associated with ad viewability (Part I is here). It is by Jeremy Stanley, Chief Technology Officer, Collective & Co-Chair, IAB 3MS/Viewable Impressions […]
“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 part one of a two-part overview of the technology issues associated with ad viewability (Read part 2). It is by Jeremy Stanley, Chief Technology Officer, Collective & Co-Chair, IAB 3MS/Viewable Impressions Implementation […]
The Interactive Advertising Bureau, Media Ratings Council, and other associations recently completed a study of viewable impressions conducted with 17 advertisers across 12 agencies that encompassed roughly 3 billion impressions. The MRC aggregated and analyzed the data, and released a handful of nuggets publicly. Jessica Sanfilippo, Group Media Director with participating agency 360i, discussed some details of 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 Jessica Sanfilippo, group media director at 360i. Below the fold, partial ad loads, and other related (and unwanted) occurrences on the island of misfit banners are the digital equivalents […]
Online analytics provider Quantcast is unveiling a new self-service tool for its brand targeting solution, Quantcast Advertise for Branding. After months of beta, starting today publishers and advertisers can better manage deals directly based on specified audiences. Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman told AdExchanger the goal is to be viewed as the company that makes real-time bidding and […]
“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 […]
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 […]
“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 Peter Davies, SVP Sales & Marketing at Adconion Direct. The current definition of an “in-view” ad impression, according to the IAB’s Making Measurement Make Sense (3MS) initiative, is this: “Fifty […]
Nielsen and comScore are moving fast on cross-platform campaign verification. Both companies today recorded milestones in their ability to report on campaign reach and frequency across TV, the Internet, and connected video devices. Nielsen announced commercial availability of its Nielsen Cross-Platform Campaign Ratings product, which aims to measure the reach of video ad campaigns across […]
“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 Tom Shields, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Yieldex, an analytics tools provider for sell-side, yield optimization. Ever since my March column addressing viewable impressions, I’ve been tagged as “that […]
Even if TV ads aren’t available for real-time bidding — but that’s only a few years away, right? –Kantar Media is trying to interest agencies in using the kinds of instant readouts of viewing behavior that’s so much apart of online advertising right now. While Kantar is far from alone in trying to position itself […]
Getting so-called “pre-bid” data feeds from ad verification companies is becoming commonplace for ad networks and DSPs. As the name suggests, “pre-bid” verification screens out impressions at the server level prior to bidding, saving money on ad space that is either unacceptable to the buyer or not in view. So far agency trading desks don’t […]
Apple’s WebKit crackdown appears to extend well beyond The Trade Desk, putting hundreds of ad tech, data and identity vendors on a mysterious, dynamically updated block list.
Zoom has 99% unaided brand awareness, which sounds great on paper. But there’s a catch: Most people still think it’s just a video-call app.
Agencies are differentiating their tech stacks by building custom agentic AI tools for their clients. And they’re rethinking owning those AI tools – particularly since licensing them creates new revenue streams.
Agencies and marketers discussed the future of AI governance at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO NYC this week. The main takeaway? Expect insurers to play an increasingly important role in managing AI compliance.
The Trade Desk is unable to serve ads to the Safari browser for Apple device owners that have downloaded iOS 27. Apple has been investigating the issue since last week.
The open web is done, stick a fork in it. Banner blindness is near universal, search traffic has run dry and publishers are struggling for oxygen. But what if that’s … not true?
