With a growing array of platforms and channels competing for consumer attention, advertisers have been increasingly looking for ways to understand which ads and placements drive engagement and sales – not just engagement and sales that would have happened anyway but true incrementality.
In the affiliate marketing world, publishers pursued the same goal retailers are pursuing today: to convert online intent into a shopper journey. Affiliate nets work with performance marketers, so retailers should branch out to digital-native marketers, writes Michael Jacobi, co-founder and CEO of Button.
From AI technologies and machine learning to the growth of OTT video platforms, mobile games and more, ad tech continues to thrive as the world goes digital. It’s why programmatic media buying is going to push CTV out of the Wild West, writes Jeremy Fain, co-founder and CEO at Cognitiv.
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Seraj Bharwani, chief strategy officer at AcuityAds. Businesses thrive or die based on the economics of the channels that close the gap between awareness and consumption. In the past decade, direct-to-consumer […]
Facebook seems to exist within two alternate realities: The one in which it’s battered almost daily by a relentlessly negative news cycle, and the one in which advertisers, particularly performance marketers, never seem to put away their checkbooks. That second reality could be under threat. Facebook has been sounding the warning on privacy-related “ad targeting […]
Third-party cookies get stale. On Tuesday, ad tech startup Rockerbox launched a solution after a five-month beta to help advertisers freshen up their prospecting data based on a user’s last 60 minutes of browsing activity. A marketing platform centered on recency gets advertisers closer to the moment of intent, said Rockerbox CEO and co-founder Ron […]
FTD Companies, parent company of online floral delivery brands ProFlowers and Interflora, wants to get back to the basics of brand marketing. “Our company, like many brands, has been obsessed with directly attributable, perfectly measured marketing for the last five years,” said Jeff Severts, CMO of FTD Companies, who previously served as CMO of Ulta […]
Digital ad players from AOL to Facebook have given lead-gen ads a try, but one company built an entire business around it. Fluent has remained relatively quiet since it was acquired by information services company IDI, now Cogint, for $100 million in cash. The company was on a $140 million (gross revenue) run rate at […]
