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  • Will The Real CMO Please Stand Up?; A Little Search Goes A Long Way

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Visionary, Vision Is Scary CMO tenures are shrinking. Confidence in CMO decision-making is down. Yet the demands on the CMO are expanding and growing more difficult.  “To add insult to injury, we’ve seen an overall lack of … competence, perhaps?” writes Chris Gadek, […]

  • Mike Welch Joins Captify As CEO As Third-Party Search Data Gears Up For A Major Change

    Third-party data companies have a bad rap lately, especially in Europe. But to be a successful programmatic player requires serious adaption skills, said incoming Captify CEO Mike Welch.

  • Matthew Papa, SVP of business and corporate development at Captify

    Brace Yourselves. More Consolidation Is Coming

    Ad tech saw almost 1,500 M&As between 2020 and 2021. So is this consolidation trend here to stay? It looks like it’s a resounding yes, writes Matthew Papa, SVP of business and corporate development at Captify.

  • How Old El Paso Is Using ‘Fajita Friday’ To Dish Out Brand Awareness

    Old El Paso launched an awareness campaign to reach new customers in the UK with personalized ad creative promoting “Fajita Friday” (because why stop at Taco Tuesday?). Specifically, the General Mills-owned brand saw an opportunity to reach incremental new households with more individualized messaging, said Aditi Hilgers, head of meals for General Mills in the UK, which is partnering with WPP-owned agency Mindshare and search intelligence company Captify on the campaign.

  • Streaming M&A Means New Monetization Opportunities And Measurement Tactics

    The emergence of the streaming era has led to a transformative shift in M&A activity in media and entertainment. Streaming platforms are about to look vastly different as consolidation continues, giving rise to new monetization models and measurement tactics, writes Matt Papa, SVP of business and corporate development at Captify.

  • Gartner’s Ad Spend Survey At Odds With Agency Consensus; Captify Finds A Buyer

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Boom Or Bust?  New forecasts from Dentsu, WARC and others indicate the ad business is in for a boom year in 2021. GroupM projects the US ad market to grow by 15%, and global growth forecasts range from 6.4% (Magna) up to 10.4% (Dentsu). […]

  • Entercom Buys Podcast Ad Net Podcorn; Tremor Overcomes Pandemic Slump

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Podcast Pie Entercom Communications is throwing its hat into the booming podcast space that is expected to generate more than a $1 billion in advertising revenue this year. The company is set to acquire podcast ad network Podcorn in a deal aimed at helping […]

  • If the ongoing pandemic has demonstrated anything, it’s that pre-packaged pre-COVID consumer data no longer applies.

    Search Data Is Becoming A Central Part Of UM’s Strategic Planning Process

    If the ongoing pandemic has demonstrated anything, it’s that pre-packaged pre-COVID consumer data no longer applies. “The world has completely changed and there are a lot of stale data sets out there,” said Dominic Joseph, CEO of search intelligence company Captify, which released a self-serve insights, planning and activation platform on Wednesday called Sense. Several […]