It’s not the biggest surprise that Google, The Trade Desk and MediaMath were pegged as “leaders” in Gartner’s third Magic Quadrant for ad tech. Google is Google, while The Trade Desk and MediaMath have both been in the DSP space for a long time. But there are a few new entrants on the scene. Beeswax, […]
Local news consumption went through the roof during the height of the pandemic. Haystack News, an ad-supported video-on-demand platform for news content, experienced that surge in demand firsthand. The streaming service, which offers customized news packages aggregated across local, national and international sources with an emphasis on local, added roughly 3 million new users in […]
“On TV and Video” is a column written for the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Hamid Qayyum, SVP of Digital Sales at Stirista. Shelter-in-place policies have catapulted OTT and CTV consumption. Viewers stuck at home are binge-watching shows as quickly as Netflix, Hulu and Apple TV can drop […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Taking On The Giants Kroger is getting into the ecommerce game by launching an online marketplace open to third-party sellers. The grocer is working with ecommerce specialist group Mirakl to offer “tens of thousands of additional goods” outside of its usual grocery sales fare, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Brace For Streaming Just as NBCU plans to reorg to accommodate streaming, so too will WarnerMedia. The Information reports that the AT&T-owned entertainment company will soon unveil a “major reorganization” that will result in layoffs and the promotion of Andy Forssell, a streaming exec, […]
The Trade Desk’s stock was up nearly 5% in after-hour’s trading on Thursday, despite posting a 13% year-over-over dip in revenue in the second quarter. To what does TTD owe this optimism? Two words: connected TV. “We believe that the COVID pandemic has permanently accelerated the growth of CTV,” CEO Jeff Green told investors on […]
Brands are pumped about the connected TV opportunity. But without the ability to measure campaigns with the same level of granularity as they can on digital channels, “CTV is not quite as fun as we want it to be,” said Scott Symonds, a managing partner at WPP digital agency AKQA. “A high-attention platform like you […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let Us Track A who’s-who of industry trade groups, advertisers, ad tech companies, agencies and publishers has banded together to form the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media. The group wants to preserve methods of targeting and measuring consumers, which browsers and platforms have been […]
This article is sponsored by Xandr. Recent growth in streaming video viewership around the world has been stunning, leading many advertisers to question how and where to reallocate or complement linear TV budgets, or extend digital display and video into streaming video. But the landscape is rife with confusing acronyms, layers of opaque content licensing […]
“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jessica Hogue, general manager of measurement and analytics at Innovid. Even though connected TV (CTV) is growing rapidly, one challenge holding advertisers back from shifting even more dollars to the channel is the ability […]
