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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Better Safe Than Sorry  Brands are nervous about misinformation, especially as generative AI tools make it relatively easy to create convincing fake images, audio files and videos. General Mills is teaming up with verification company Zefr to measure misinformation around its social media […]

  The retargeting company NextRoll, which recently rebranded from AdRoll, laid off 30% of its 700 global staff at the beginning of April due to the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The remaining employees are taking 20% pay cuts, AdExchanger confirmed. The executive team are cutting their salaries by a greater, but unspecified, percentage. […]

When the market evolves, you’ve gotta roll with it. On Tuesday, AdRoll Group rebranded to NextRoll Inc. and launched a new business line called NextRoll Platform Services to help brands get more out of their marketing tech. NextRoll will serve as a holding company for three distinct but complementary business units, each with its own […]

AdRoll and Magento Commerce announced a partnership on Friday to combine the companies’ ecommerce platforms, incorporating AdRoll’s ad targeting and attribution directly into the Magento cloud management service for online sellers. Bay Alarm Medical, which sells medical alert systems, has been working with Magento for four years and with AdRoll for almost a decade, said […]

AdRoll reorganized on Tuesday by splitting its business into two parts: a new unit called RollWorks focused solely on B2B, and the legacy AdRoll business that services small to mid-size ecommerce companies. Each business division has its own P&L and sits under the newly formed parent holding company AdRoll Group. Toby Gabriner, current CEO of […]

Former Adap.tv CEO Toby Gabriner, who became AdRoll’s president in April, has been promoted to CEO, effective immediately. The company’s founding CEO, Aaron Bell, will transition to chief product officer. Gabriner has for the past year advised AdRoll, which wanted to evolve from an early retargeter focused mostly on Facebook to a mid-stage, cross-channel performance marketing […]

Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. Among early programmatic ad platforms, 10-year-old AdRoll is unique in the breadth of its customer base. With 35,000 mostly small-to-mid-sized companies in its roster, AdRoll claims to be the most widely adopted standalone performance-marketing platform. AdRoll is profitable, and it expects to surpass $300 […]

AdRoll has a new president: Toby Gabriner, former CEO of Adap.TV (now AOL/Oath) and an early CEO of [x+1], now owned by Rocket Fuel. Gabriner, who joined AdRoll as a strategic adviser in October, succeeds longtime president, CMO and founding team member Adam Berke, who will move into a strategic advisory role at AdRoll. Transitioning […]

In a bid to capitalize on digital ad growth in China, AdRoll has recruited a new adviser with lots of experience in the country and is developing a go-to-market strategy. Peter Cheng is Tencent’s former GM for ad platforms and products, as well as the former COO of AdChina (which sold to Alibaba in January […]

Retargeting, a word long associated with the cookie-based world of direct-response display advertising, is getting a refresh. With the explosion of mobile and subsequent deterioration of cookie matches, marketers are demanding upper-funnel features that go well beyond conversion and tracking pixels. “What we’re seeing across our portfolio with clients like Nike, for example, is they’re […]

AdRoll’s B2B data co-op IntentMap, unveiled eight months ago, has expanded its participating partners from 1,000 to 3,000 out of 20,000 overall clients. The prospecting co-op is a pool of shared advertiser data managed by AdRoll’s data science operation. “We think data co-ops will gain momentum over the course of the year,” said AdRoll President […]

AdRoll wants to be known as more than purely a retargeter with its rollout Wednesday of “Prospecting,” a pool of potential customers a brand can reach into to improve incremental reach. This pool is fed by a stream of anonymized advertiser data called IntentMap, culled from the vendor’s 20,000 advertiser clients who opt in. About […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Adam Berke, president at AdRoll. The new ways that marketers are leveraging customer relationship management (CRM) data is re-drawing traditional fault lines within the digital advertising industry. Historically, […]

Retargeting and mobile. They’re not exactly peanut butter and jelly just yet, but AdRoll has plans. For the last 18 months, AdRoll, which began in 2008 focused exclusively on desktop retargeting, has been working to make its tech more relevant to advertisers looking for cross-screen opportunities. Case in point: the mobile app developer community. “[They’re] interested […]

Facebook has decertified more than half the seat holders on its Facebook Exchange (FBX) as part of a revamp of its marketing partner program, unveiled Tuesday. Among the partners no longer badge-certified to buy on FBX are some very big ad platform players, including Adobe, Advertising.com (AOL), Rocket Fuel, IgnitionOne and Dotomi/Conversant (Epsilon). In total, […]

Despite the amount of attention Facebook Exchange generated when it was released way back in 2012, today it’s mostly focused on retargeting desktop users. Consequently, some ad industry insiders are skeptical of its future. When asked directly about FBX’s future at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview conference, David Fischer, Facebook’s VP of business and marketing partnerships, said […]

Online advertising-management provider Marin Software has acquired retargeting platform Perfect Audience for $22.8 million. The deal adds to Marin’s social media and display advertising retargeting arsenal and to the flurry of funding rounds, IPOs and acquisitions in the retargeting space over the past year. San Francisco-based Perfect Audience was founded under the Y Combinator seed accelerator program […]

Retargeting platform AdRoll announced a $70 million funding round, led by Foundation Capital. The San Francisco-based company, which had previously raised $19 million, has expanded rapidly since launching in 2007 and become a leader in the retargeting space. AdRoll plans to use the investment to beef up its existing platform for mobile, and expand hiring at […]

Competitors are jockeying to capture customers from HasOffers and Kontagent in the wake of Facebook’s decision to drop the two companies from its mobile measurement partner (MMP) program. HasOffers is the larger of the two MMPs shown the door last week for violating Facebook’s data policies. It has some very large app customers representing significant […]

From 2010 to 2013, enterprise giants like Adobe, IBM, Oracle and Salesforce.com collectively spent close to $30 billion acquiring digital marketing technologies. Yet, enterprise platform companies will continue to invest to fill gaps in their marketing stacks in 2014, experts predict. Email, one of the oldest of digital channels, still remains an attractive target for […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Adam Berke, president at AdRoll. Whether you’re a brand marketer, an agency person or at an ad-tech provider, you’ve probably had several awkward conversations about attribution. Pundits, myself […]

The retargeted advertising space is becoming highly lucrative, finds retargeting platform AdRoll, which announced today that it had passed a $100 million run rate, up from $50 million last year. The 6-year-old company claims to have more than 10,000 customers across 100 countries and was one of the first platforms to become a Facebook Exchange […]

Given the recent IPO and M&A frenzy, it should come as no surprise that some ad-tech players saw strong revenue growth in 2012, as reported today in the Inc. 500/5000 list. But even keen observers might be impressed by the surges at some data-management providers, in particular DataXu (ranked No. 5 among the entire list with […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is a column written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Adam Berke, president at AdRoll. “We’re a technology company, but we provide managed services for large accounts.”  How many times have you heard something along those lines from […]

Retargeting specialist AdRoll began its life in 2007 as an ordinary ad network, looking to solve the problems of display advertising that still plague marketers and publishers. The company, which grew out of work with semantic advertising and a history of thinking deeply about artificial intelligence on the part of its founders, CEO Aaron Bell […]

AdRoll announced a new, self-service retargeting solution which it says has resulted in up to a 30% performance improvement when buying cross-platform. Read the release. AdRoll CEO Aaron Bell spoke with AdExchanger.com about the new product called Roundtrip and retargeting, in general. AdExchanger.com: You identify “cross-platform retargeting” (i.e. retargeting across multiple ad networks and exchanges) in […]

Aaron Bell is CEO of AdRoll, an online co-operative, advertising network. AdExchanger.com: What’s been happening at AdRoll lately? Recession effects? While we’ve dialed down some of our own costs (ahem – postponing the order for the office 72” plasma screen to showcase our world domination metrics), we’ve actually seen double-digit monthly growth despite the dour […]