At last weekend’s Association of National Advertisers (ANA) event, the presentation by IBM’s Jon Iwata, who is the company’s SVP of Marketing and Communications, wasn’t what one might expect from a 100-year old company known for international business machines. It was about character. Iwata (see his bio) is a lifer at IBM having started there […]
Rob Norman is CEO of of North American operations for GroupM, the parent organization for WPP Group media agencies Maxus, MediaCom, Mediaedge:cia and Mindshare. Norman sat down with AdExchanger.com during last weekend’s Association of National Advertisers annual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. AdExchanger.com: What is happening with the brand marketer and their digital strategy today in […]
Yesterday’s most highly-anticipated presentation of the day came and went like a dusty, desert breeze as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg offered what amounted to a sales pitch at the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) annual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. It appeared Facebook and Sandberg didn’t understand the audience: leading brand marketers from around the globe […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook Faces Facts Nick O’Neill on All Facebook says that Facebook is starting to take down certain ad networks from the social media juggernaut after posting a warning on the Facebook Developers blog (Read it.). O’Neill writes, “While we can’t be completely sure, it […]
“Strategic imperatives”, people. Get ’em. Dinosaur advertising and marketing organization, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), is dipping its big toe in the turgid waters of online video with its breakthrough YouTube video series from CEO, Bob Liodice, entitled “Marketing in a recession series # 1“. In the video on his ANA blog, Liodice calmly […]
It appears the advertising world is starting to get physical about the pending integration of Google and Yahoo advertising – a deal brokered amidst Yahoo!’s flirtation with Microsoft regarding acquisition of the struggling Sunnyvale company. As Erica Morphy details in her E-Commerce Times article, traditional advertisers, agencies and its lobbying arm, the Association of National […]
