Publishers

While much of the focus on data has been on the way marketers and ad agencies employ it, there are a few companies who work primarily with the editorial side on how best to target their content (and the advertising that supports it) to readers. That space is shrinking a bit today, as content discovery […]

More than 5,000 people from 27 countries came together in Salt Lake City for the annual Adobe Digital Marketing Summit, where they have heard about Adobe’s latest news from top executives, seen how clients and brands from a wide range of industries leverage these tools, and discussed trends and challenges facing marketers today. The Last Millisecond: In Marketing […]

For the past decade, it had become a matter of when, not if. Time Warner, the entertainment conglomerate that took the first part of its name from the publishing empire that grew in the early 20th century, is spinning off its magazine division into a separate, publicly-traded entity. As a result, Laura Lang, the interactive […]

Christopher Reynolds, VP of marketing analytics at Condé Nast, spoke about how the publisher is improving its audience knowledge and helping advertisers better leverage its sites, at the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit this morning. “There is a lot of pressure from the buying side to focus more on the audiences,” Reynolds told Adobe’s Brad Rencher […]

There’s not much debate about the value of house ads. Maybe there never was. The house ad, like the TV promo, is just a way to fill some unsold inventory and promote the brand of a newspaper, magazine, or website. Or it could be an Ad Council placement. At a time when sites can fill […]

With over 50 magazine brands worldwide, including such niche “rag” legends as Popular Science and Field & Stream, Bonnier’s publishing arm has taken the long ride from print to digital. And as its digital strategy has expanded, so too has the company’s analysis of data for making the most of advertising yield. Peder Bonnier heads […]

Just two years after Federated Media Publishing founder John Battelle handed the reigns over to then president Deanna Brown so he could step back as executive chairman, Battelle is taking back the CEO position. In an official blog post, Battelle said that Brown told him that she planned to do something “smaller” and directly involving […]

Maybe the Interactive Advertising Bureau should have titled its Annual Leadership Meeting, “Data, Data Everywhere And Not A Terabyte To Think.” This year’s theme was how Big Data can complement or conflict with big advertising – i.e., creative ideas. The general takeaway was that yes, the two sides can inform and influence each other, but […]

The word “premium” is bandied about the advertising industry to – at a minimum – add a glow to digital ad inventory.  But, what does “premium” mean? AdExchanger reached out to executives in the online ad tech ecosystem for their thoughts on the following question: “What makes ‘premium’ premium?  Please share your top three attributes of […]

Both major publishers like Forbes and startups like Buzzfeed have found there’s little point in trying to replicate the traditional ad model when it comes to digital. And even programmatic has its limits, in their view. In what was billed as a “debate” on the value or hype of native advertising at the Interactive Advertising […]

QuadrantONE, a joint venture of newspaper companies that sought to pool inventory resources and capitalize on the programatic selling opportunity, has shut down. In a note posted to its website today, the company said its joint owners — The New York Times Co., Tribune Company, Hearst and Gannett – will pursue “different paths” for U.S. display […]

Tribune Digital, the interactive arm of the newspaper and broadcasting company, expects mobile traffic on its 36 WAP sites and 60 apps to exceed the PC-based usage it gets this year across its 50 websites. But the question facing it and other publishers looking to nudge ad spending to more closely match users’ smartphone and […]

“The Sell-Sider” is a column written by the sell-side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Jeremy Steinberg, SVP, Digital Ad Sales at The Weather Company.   I started writing this post from my iPad. I finished it on my iPhone. Then I wordsmithed it on my MacBook. And I did it […]

In the two months since tech publisher IDG finished a major redesign of its PCWorld, Macworld and TechHive sites, the company is ready to expand the centerpiece of that effort: the “Homepage Hero” box. The box is intended to serve as a front door for each site, displaying a large slot called the “Content Hero,” […]

Publishers, marketers and agency executives are still talking about native advertising, whether it’s to say it’s hype, hope, old wine in a new bottle, or some combination.  We spoke with interactive shop veteran Adam Kleinberg, CEO of San Francisco’s Traction, about the headaches and opportunities associated with native ads and whether this model can stand […]

Add “holistic yield management” to the list of buzzy terms content companies are sorting through in trying to determine what’s real and what’s hype when it comes to building audiences and ad revenue. Over the past few weeks, Visual Revenue, which bills itself as the operator of a “Bloomberg terminal” for editors, has expanded into […]

The Weather Channel may have taken some heat from meteorologists for naming this past weekend’s East Coast snowstorm “Nemo,” but doing so was certainly good for ratings and web/mobile traffic. The storm also highlights an issue that its owner The Weather Company has been trying to address since bringing on several digital ad heavy hitters […]

Vikram Somaya, GM of The Weather Company‘s marketing insights group, WeatherFX, began his Media6Degree’s AdsCON presentation about the importance of data by reciting a passage from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. In a stentorian voice, Somaya read lines about Caesar talking about “threatening clouds” to the attendees seated in a seminar classroom at NYU’s Stern School of […]

Last week’s news out of the Consumer Electronics Show that Time Warner Cable had struck a deal with streaming video delivery device Roku had ad industry attendees wondering whether “over-the-top” TV was near to having an advertising moment. So we put the question to a mix of video ad observers: “Given news such as this […]

Earlier this week, Thrillist Media Group, publisher of a young men’s local lifestyle guide network and e-commerce app, brought in digital ad sales vet Todd Anderman as the company’s president of sales, marketing and operations. Most recently the chief media and revenue officer of mobile ad targeter Jumptap, Anderman spent much of the past decade […]

Among the questions facing publishers last year: (1) What should be done about the rise of audience buying?, and (2) How do we make mobile advertising really pay off? Meredith Corp., the publisher of women’s magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle, has been focused on mobile for years, particularly through the […]

It’s been a little over a year since Anthony Katsur joined sell-side pricing and inventory manager Maxifier as COO from demand side platform MediaMath, and the former DoubleClick executive is moving up to the CEO seat. He replaces Jonathon Shaevitz, who steps down from the post just two years shy of taking it. The move […]

Last month, local TV broadcast operator Belo Corp. launched its attempt at a pure play digital marketing unit, ScreenShot Digital. The move is similar to ones taken by Time Inc., Gannett, Meredith Corp. and others the last three years. Unlike some of those integrated digital marketing units, ScreenShot isn’t being positioned as a way to leverage […]

In a sense, there’s nothing really new about “native advertising.” Advertorials have been around in some form since modern periodicals first began appearing over a century ago. And now, with Facebook and Twitter inserting “promotions” that are sometimes hard to distinguish from regular user posts, more traditional publishers are giving thought to going beyond sponsored posts […]

For the past seven years, Techmeme, the technology news aggregator, has relied heavily on algorithms to help it organize hundreds of breaking reports every day. While it has employed a growing team of editors to sift through and monitor the tweets, emails and other news items that come in from around the tech sector to […]

Among the many concerns ad sellers and ad agency staffers harbor about the rise of automated audience buying is that all these advancements will ultimately put people out of a job. The ethos of doing “more with less” is a general worry that happens anytime an industry finds itself in the throes of technological change. […]

J.T. Batson is leaving his post at media buying workflow systems provider Mediaocean to become chief revenue officer at Cumulus Media, which is primarily known for running the former ABC Radio Network. Meanwhile, Mediaocean, which was the resulting brand from last year’s merger between Mediabank and Donovan Data Systems, will not be replacing Batson directly, […]

Last month’s ad spending tally from the Interactive Advertising Bureau was another “record-breaker,” as marketers lavished $17 billion on web ads between January and the end of June 2012. Display revenues in the first half totaled almost $5.6 billion, up 4 percent from $5.3 billion in the first half of 2011. So everything should be […]

Over the past two years, Ziff Davis has transformed itself from a digital-only tech publisher primarily known for PCMag.com to a broader content/digital marketing play by adding audience ad targeting, e-commerce and enterprise IT functions. Now, after roughly five acquisitions since CEO Vivek Shah took over the media property with investment assistance from Great Hill Partners, […]

Content marketing tech company Outbrain has decided to make a change in its algos and how it delivers content links to publishers. In a move similar to what you might see with Google’s search product and its intriguingly-named “Panda” update, which sought to improve search results, Outbrain says it isn’t going to let just any […]