When it comes to customer data, Alimama claims to have the mother lode. “Our data is bigger than Facebook plus Google plus eBay plus Amazon,” said Joanna Wang, CMO of Alimama, the marketing services and data arm of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba. Beyond the bravado, Wang is referring to Alimama’s potent combination of identity data […]
Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group is experiencing growing pains as it introduces mobile ad formats and weans itself from its pay-for-performance model toward one involving algorithmic-based advertising. On the company’s earnings call Thursday, COO Daniel Zhang called pay for performance a “great discovery mechanism,” but said focus on mobile monetization could have a short-term negative […]
While the majority of Alibaba’s revenue comes from advertising, most is direct-response or performance-based. Now the Chinese ecom juggernaut has its eye on brand dollars and is looking to digital ad company AdChina to get the ball rolling. Alibaba announced Wednesday that it’s claimed a majority stake in the company. Brands are part of AdChina’s DNA, […]
China is a market on the programmatic verge – Magna predicts that China and Japan will surpass the UK programmatic ad market by 2017 – and Alibaba seems more than ready to embrace it. The Chinese ecommerce giant revealed Wednesday that it’s become a majority shareholder in AdChina, a Shanghai-based digital ad platform that combines supply- and demand-side […]
What’s the hottest new digital toy? If you’re Facebook and Twitter, it’s the buy button. To recap: Facebook published a blog post explaining its experimentation with a buy button – currently with select small and medium-sized businesses – with which users can purchase goods directly through the Facebook platform. This announcement followed Twitter’s own dalliance with […]
Programmatic buying is becoming increasingly important to the China advertising industry. But in recent weeks, executives, including Publicis’ Maurice Levy, have shared how a dip in the luxury market in China has affected their business. We reached out to several industry executives in China with the following question: How is the slowdown in the China […]
Mobile and the rise of programmatic media buying are where two international priorities for publishers and marketers meet, according to global industry experts. During the “Marketing Tech Through the Global Lens” panel moderated by Constellation Research Analyst Ray Wang at Industry Preview 2014 on Tuesday, Jay Stevens, GM for international at online advertising technology company […]
A growing number of ad exchanges, trading desks, DSPs and agencies are emerging to occupy the Chinese programmatic market. AdChina, an advertising-technology company for both the supply and demand side, has been around since 2007 and its CEO, Alan Yan, has seen how the Chinese marketplace has evolved in recent years. “Our original goal, when […]
Alan Yan is CEO of AdChina, an online advertising platform company in China. Yan discussed his company and the Chinese online advertising market with AdExchanger. AdExchanger.com: What are some of the challenges with the Chinese market when it comes to online advertising? AY: There are several major challenges. First, the pricing model – the majority is […]
