Publishers

Linear TV as a distribution channel is splintering and the impact will be most felt in planning and buying around audience, said Forrester analyst and report author Jim Nail. In a survey of 3,166 adults in the Forrester report “Making Sense Of New Video Consumption,” released Friday, it’s estimated that only 46% of TV viewers […]

PubMatic has created an API that allows media buyers to find and buy private marketplace deals through their DSPs. The second phase will bring automated guaranteed deals into their platforms through the same API. Early DSP partners include DataXu, MediaMath, SiteScout, The Trade Desk and TURN. “We’re confident this will put us in a leadership […]

In April 2014 during its NewFront, Glam Media became Mode Media. The de-pinking of the company, President and CRO Dan Lagani said, “caught up the company name with where the business was.” The men’s site Brash.com, Foodie.com and parenting side Tend.com attracted audiences no longer overwhelmingly female. Hot pink walls in the office were painted […]

The three-year-old Brazilian music website Sua Musica attracts 3 million monthly unique visitors who listen to and download music from emerging local artists. With a user base focused on discovery and sharing finds, it’s become one of the most successful test publishers of Spot.IM, a chat overlay platform launched in 2012. Spot.IM looks like a […]

A year after AOL acquired Gravity, AOL-owned publication The Huffington Post has standardized the content personalization tool to power internal and external content recommendation links. This means it’s history for Taboola, HuffPost’s previous recommendation module. Gravity has powered the publisher’s “Suggested For You” internal module for the past six months, and it replaced the Taboola-powered external module […]

Can BitTorrent – often regarded as the de facto file sharing protocol for online content piracy –achieve the legitimacy to attract brand advertisers? While that remains to be seen, the company took a step toward improving its ad offering when it unveiled a partnership with Adzerk on Wednesday. Adzerk, which works with publications like social […]

The singles ad would read like this: Mobile native inventory seeks demand. In an effort to act as matchmaker, global mobile ad platform Opera Mediaworks launched Tuesday a private marketplace native extension of its mobile ad exchange, Opera Mediaworks Ad Exchange (OMAX), which until now had just focused on programmatic display and video. Because the […]

Publishers don’t just brag about their content anymore – they talk about their technology, which amplifies their voices in a world of social sharing, content recommendations and sorting algorithms. But what’s the balance between being a technology company and content creator? On the eve of the Industry Preview conference, AdExchanger asked three of the panelists […]

As the Financial Times reported last month, The Washington Post is making its content management system (CMS) available to partners, like universities and fellow newspapers. The University of Maryland, Yale and Columbia have already adopted the CMS. Additional users may come from the more than 200 newspaper partners with which the Post has established subscription-sharing […]

With its acquisition of Selectable Media this week, Meredith picked up two new ad products: one that requires users to choose a video to watch before viewing content, and another enabling native-style placements that link to a branded content page. The companies did not disclose the terms but said the exit made money for Selectable […]

Cord-cutting forecasts present a cautionary tale for linear TV’s $70 billion ad market. Interpublic Group’s media research and buying division, MAGNA Global, for instance, found live, DVR and video on-demand viewing decreased 14% year over year among the 18-24 demo set for the 2014-2015 season. Conversely, eMarketer expects the viewership for connected devices like set-top […]

Although programmatic direct solutions – which automate direct relationships between sellers and buyers – started cropping up around six years ago, growth has been slow. But that’s likely to change. eMarketer predicts automated direct deals will grow from $800 million this year to more than $8 billion in 2017, which would make programmatic direct 42% […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Peter Spande, chief revenue officer at Business Insider. Back in September, ahead of the banner ad’s 20th birthday, Mediasmith’s Marcus Pratt opined on its uncertain future and proclaimed that it has long passed its […]

If banner advertising has peaked, native advertising is still on its way up. Proponents of native cite better consumer engagement and higher rates for publishers. London-based market research firm Mintel pegged the current native advertising market at $1.8 billion, predicting it will rise to $9.4 billion by 2018. Of course, “native” is a broad term […]

General Electric is about to make its first foray into over-the-top devices and connected TVs, said Alexa Christon, the company’s global head of media innovation. Through a deal with music and entertainment platform Vevo, GE will serve as a paid distributor of an original and curated video bundle to connected devices such as Samsung, Roku, […]

Native is a bit like awkward teenager – it’s still trying to figure itself out and it just wants to fit in. Sharethrough is looking to help native advertising blend in a little better with a new unit that takes a cue from the way players like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest display third-party content on […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Eva Smith, vice president of sales strategy at The Weather Company. A mild panic has come over our industry. Leaders are increasingly concerned that the complexity of sales is increasing at a faster clip than […]

Movie advertising timelines are rough. Over 80% of a campaign spend occurs within two weeks of a movie’s premiere. If something isn’t working, it’s usually too late to fix it. Moviepilot — part publisher, part platform, part agency – is helping them change that. The secret of its insight into moviegoers’ habits and intent: data. The […]

There’s a reason most publishers turn to partners like Outbrain or Taboola for content recommendation: simplicity. But conservative news publisher Newsmax Media saw the benefits of creating a content recommendation network in-house: more revenue, more control over the content and its partners and more flexibility to make the feeds look truly native. The main Newsmax […]

Goodreads’ 30 million members save books to their “want to read” shelves, write reviews and share recommendations with friends. Started as a place to help readers find books through real-life friends, it’s since become a social destination for people connecting with online and offline friends, attracting 45 million unique visitors a month. The trove of […]

Intel dove deep into content marketing to connect with millennials. For two and a half years, it’s used the IQ website to reach consumers through articles connecting technology to everyday life. In addition to using homegrown pieces, Intel places articles on sites like BuzzFeed and Mashable. All receive extra pushes to drive traffic. That’s where […]

Programmatic direct will go from 8% to 42% of all programmatic spending by 2016, according to eMarketer research. BuySellAds, founded in 2008 and which has 18 employees, followed a different path from iSocket and Shiny Ads, both of which were recently acquired by Rubicon Project. It focused on connecting smaller publishers with large brands like […]

Earlier this year, Yieldex – mostly known as a yield-management, forecasting and pricing tool for the largest publishers – expanded its focus with an automated guaranteed product. About a third of Yieldex’s customers use it. eMarketer has predicted programmatic direct will grow from $800 million this year to $8.57 billion by 2016. Two weeks ago, […]

Monetizing an app is never child’s play, but it becomes even more difficult if the app in question is aimed at children. Clark Stacey, CEO of game publisher WildWorks, knows about those challenges firsthand. Wildworks, which recently rebranded from Smart Bomb Interactive, has been working in close collaboration with the National Geographic Society since 2010 […]

As more networks like HBO and WWE Network develop a la carte streaming services, competing streaming video or TV providers (and some e-commerce companies, for that matter) are pressed to develop good content that resonates with subscribers. Hulu, which pulled in about $1 billion in revenue in 2013 and has over 6 million Hulu Plus members, airs […]

Although native advertising is typically used for branding, it can provide results for direct-response campaigns. That was the goal for Microsoft Store – the software giant’s answer to the Apple Store – when it launched a test in early July along with Seattle-based agency Point It and native ad-tech platform TripleLift. The native ad-tech company […]

From the start, foodie site Food52 planned to have two revenue streams: advertising and commerce. Today, commerce drives two-thirds of its revenue, with advertising accounting for the other third. The site now averages four million unique monthly visitors. After building up content, 98% of which is contributed by readers, Food52 had the audience to add […]

It’s been a busy week for Rubicon Project. It acquired programmatic direct players iSocket and Shiny Ads on Monday, adding guaranteed capabilities to its platform. It partnered with Apple’s iAd, ramping up its mobile supply. And last Friday, it hired Adam Chandler as SVP of revenue as the company builds out its buy side. Rubicon’s […]

Not every publisher sees selling drones as a natural extension of its business. But converting readers into customers is the next goal for The Next Web, an online tech magazine that has 6.6 million unique monthly visitors. For the past three months, the company has been using StackCommerce to power its e-commerce store, called TNW […]

For recipe sites, the days leading up to Thanksgiving bring a rush of users searching for turkey-basting tips and instructions for making stuffing and pumpkin pie. In the coming weeks, the winter holidays will bolster traffic even more. These audience surges represent an opportunity and challenge for publishers as they try to maximize yield. Sales […]