General Motors’ Cadillac might be a nostalgic brand, but it’s trying to become more relevant to the modern car buyer. The brand is facing an ongoing sales slump as buyers steer toward the German luxury automakers like BMW and Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz. “We will not out-German the Germans,” said Uwe Ellinghaus, Cadillac’s chief marketing officer who, […]
Data-based buying requires data-based selling, a theme that ran through the Association of Magazine Media’s Programmania conference Thursday. Magazine publishers have an advantage over digital-only publishers. Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith and Bloomberg Media have all strengthened their first-party data by creating insights and segments within data-management platforms and offering them to advertisers. “Not only do […]
Viewability is stressing publishers out. Brands want more for less. Sites need to be redesigned. Every vendor brings different numbers to the equation. But some publishers, like Condé Nast and Tribune Media, are reaping the benefits of “embracing viewability.” “We’ve seen our yields increase,” said Brad Agens, SVP of digital sales for Tribune Media, who […]
To power native placements, Condé Nast’s Food Innovation Group selected TripleLift as a technology provider. It will sell native placements directly and through private native marketplaces. In-feed article previews for branded content, such as a recipe, will appear across the Food Innovation Group’s sites. The group reaches 50 million uniques a month across its portfolio, […]
When you put five magazine magnates in a room and ask them about the future of print, things get a little tense. “Fear is not a strategy,” said Condé Nast President Robert Sauerberg, asked if he was afraid of print going away. “I’m not afraid of anything. I have the greatest brand in the world.” […]
For recipe sites, the days leading up to Thanksgiving bring a rush of users searching for turkey-basting tips and instructions for making stuffing and pumpkin pie. In the coming weeks, the winter holidays will bolster traffic even more. These audience surges represent an opportunity and challenge for publishers as they try to maximize yield. Sales […]
The best marketing and advertising campaigns offer consistent content, optimized across devices. This might sound simple but, according to a number of media executives Tuesday at Tapad Unify Tech in New York, it’s easier said than done. Nevertheless, customers have certain expectations around consistency and optimization. According to “Tapad’s Path To Purchase Consumer Study,” a […]
A year after rolling out Catalyst, its audience targeting and insights tool, Condé Nast Digital is enhancing the product to unify its audiences across digital and mobile platforms. Like many publishers, Condé Nast has “seen massive growth in the last two years,” said Christopher Reynolds, VP of marketing analytics for Condé Nast. Last year, Reynolds […]
When The New York Times discontinued in February its director of programmatic advertising position, held by Matt Prohaska, partners and advertisers wondered how this would affect the publisher’s programmatic initiatives. Certainly the Times sought to alter its structure, saying in a statement it was “re-imagining and growing [its] programmatic organization and strategy with a focus […]
The distinction between an ad exchange and a supply-side platform (SSP) has become muddled as the once disparate but complementary technologies have merged. Rubicon Project’s description of its offering as an “Advertising Automation Cloud” in its S-1 filed Tuesday underscored that shift and showed how companies originating as SSPs have attempted to shed the label. […]
At a time when most of the established video-ad players are looking to serve as marketplaces catering to both buyers and sellers, LiveRail is strictly focused on publishers. The 6-year-old company, which began life as yield optimizer for publisher video inventory, now offers a broader set of supply-side platform tools. Sixty percent of the 4 […]
For major publishers that built their businesses on print and glossy magazine pages, there is a clear sense that programmatic ad sales methods are becoming mainstream. What’s less clear is how to address the problems that programmatic has forced on them, namely, the struggle over developing a common metric and how to define terms like […]
A collaboration between Condé Nast and social images aggregator Chute has led the startup to create its first advertising product, designed to use consumers’ photos as backgrounds for marketers’ messages. Chute Ads will make their first appearance on Condé Nast Traveler‘s site next month with an as-yet-unidentified marketer. While neither Condé Nast executives nor Chute […]
Condé Nast enjoyed a 3.3% growth in ad pages last quarter, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. While modest, this was the company’s highest Q1 ad page gain – typically a weak ad quarter following the heavy holiday spending period – in five years. Condé Nast Chief Revenue Officer Lou Cona and VP of Corporate Partnerships Josh […]
The old thinking: social media channels like Facebook and Twitter will be the death knell of traditional publishers. The new thinking: they need each other desperately. And just maybe, they can actually generate a worthwhile amount of ad dollars and audience engagement through mutual benefit. That was the consensus at the opening panel of the […]
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 […]
Traditional media companies like Condé Nast are learning to fit programmatic buying into their ad sales strategies. We spoke with Josh Stinchcomb, VP of corporate partnerships for Condé Nast about the company’s recent investment in cloud-based ad platform provider Flite and how the publisher of 18 magazines, 4 business-to-business titles, 27 websites, and more than […]
Sarah Chubb, widely respected as the person who helped form Condé Nast’s digital division over a decade ago, has joined online luxury deals site Gilt Groupe’s local site network Gilt City as its President. Read the release. A magazine vet through two decades, most of which was at Condé Nast, Chubb left the publisher after […]
Pat Connolly is Head of Strategy, Conde Nast Ideactive, an agency unit within publisher Condé Nast. Connolly discussed his views on industry trends recently with AdExchanger.com. Click below or scroll for more: Programmatic Buying and ‘Always On’ Success Metrics for Branded Content On Marrying Offline/Online, Print/Digital What’s Hot AdExchanger: How is programmatic buying affecting your […]
