Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Publicis Undesked The decentralization of Publicis Group’s programmatic buying activities away from its VivaKi trading desk hub to embed within operating agencies is a natural progression, SMG’s programmatic SVP, Mac Delaney, tells Beet.TV. “The operators … within AOD [will be] there to help inform […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Powering The Transaction Facebook has acquired, and shut down, personalized commerce search app TheFind. TheFind combines search data with longitudinal purchase data to refine product suggestions. Facebook needs smarter targeting for retail marketers. Could this be the bridge? TechCruch has more. “Facebook’s resources and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Nestlé Speaks On stage at the IAB’s conference in London, Gawain Owen, digital lead at Nestlé, offered brands some advice. “Ask your agency for log-ins,” he said. “I can log-in at any time and see how my campaigns are performing because [the agencies] have […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. PubMatic IPO In Doubt? Plenty can change in a year, which is how long it’s been since PubMatic started dreaming about a $1 billion IPO. Today? “There is no plan for IPO,” CEO Rajeev Goel tells Indian newspaper Business Standard. “We would like to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Twitter’s Live Video Bet Twitter dropped a little less than $100 million for Periscope, a startup that’s been developing a live-video streaming app, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal was first reported by Business Insider and was quietly finalized a month ago. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Exchange Part Deux Facebook may be getting into the ad exchange business beyond its huge and popular Facebook Exchange (FBX), which functions more like a private exchange targeting users on Facebook inventory only. Ad Age’s Tim Peterson says a new, open exchange will be […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Twitter Adds Shopper Segments Twitter added a bevy of new segments, including offline shopper, automotive and other in-market buyer data from Acxiom and Datalogix. Nestle’s Butterfinger used them to target regular buyers of peanut butter candy in-store, resulting in a 52% lift in engagement […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Two Buzzwords In One Rubicon Project and InMobi have teamed up on a native ad server for mobile. Publishers can direct sell mobile, native campaigns using the technology, and also backfill with programmatic demand. The announcement comes in the wake of new specs for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. App-quisition Sets Up Purch For Mobile Purch bought the price-comparison and barcode-scanning app Consumr on Tuesday. The mobile app adds to Purch’s portfolio of websites that target consumers with high intent to purchase (like review site Top Ten Reviews). “Consumr is an important piece […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Native And The SSP PubMatic has added support for “programmatic native.” The offering will at first be limited to RTB and private marketplace integration, with the eventual goal of enabling “automated guaranteed” transactions. PubMatic’s buy-side partners include Adelphic, Bidtellect, Digilant, Fiksu, MediaMath, PowerLinks, StrikeAd […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Comcast Shops For Advanced TV Comcast is in talks to buy TV ad-targeting firm Visible World, according to The Wall Street Journal’s sources. Visible World, parent company to AudienceXpress, has raised $33 million to date. “One of Visible World’s biggest strengths, marketing executives say, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. PulsePoint Eyes An Exit PulsePoint may be courting buyers, according to The Deal Pipeline’s sources, with an asking price of $400 million or more. PulsePoint was created through the merger of ContextWeb and Datran Media. Its current VC backers include SpaceX, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google’s Stronghold In an interview with Beet.TV, Jay Vanderzee, Google’s media platform sales head for the Americas, shed some light on DoubleClick’s scale, as well as Google’s future focus on TV. The number of transactions occurring on Google’s DoubleClick Ad Exchange now supersedes every […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Acxiom Reshuffles AOS Acxiom is ditching its Audience Operating System title and rolling the ad data tool and LiveRamp’s tech into a single offering. The new system, dubbed LiveRamp Connect, debuts on Thursday and will offer tools to onboard offline data into programmatic exchanges, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Calling Out Fraud Enablers… Or Not Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), a joint anti-fraud venture created by the IAB, the 4As and the ANA, has yet to put any fraud offenders in the “penalty box,” as promised in November. According to a study by the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. WPP’s Competitive Edge In an interview with Beet.TV, Xaxis Chairman David Moore once again defends the holding company’s media buying/selling model. Xaxis is not a trading desk, he insists, it’s a media company. “The time and materials model has become an antiquated way of […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Lenovo’s Superfish Fiasco Security researches uncovered that Lenovo has been selling PCs preinstalled with adware called Superfish, which hijacks encrypted web sessions and puts browsers at risk of man-in-the-middle attacks. Superfish forges certificate information, according to Ars Technica, and was purportedly being used to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Facebook, Viewability Sheriff Facebook is teaming up with the Media Rating Council, Nielsen, the IAB and a handful of brands and agencies to develop mobile and in-feed viewability standards, Ad Age reports. The coalition aims to have a working set of standards penned by […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Twitter Power Software developers use Twitter’s Answer analytics tool to power 5 billion sessions a day, Wired reports. The tool, which competes with Flurry and Google Analytics, allows developers to learn how consumers use the product and track audience growth. Though only seven months […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic B2B In a Q&A with Adweek, Dun & Bradstreet CEO Bob Carrigan reveals the company has programmatic media on the mind. While the company may be known primarily for supply chain management and cleaning up B2B lists and records for clients, “we’ve spent […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Time For Data Faced with a projected 3-6% dip in revenue this year, Time Inc. is bulking up on its data practices, The Wall Street Journal reports. Specifically, it wants to find ways to use big data practices to provide better ad targeting and […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. MCNs Eye Programmatic How will multichannel networks (MCNs) on YouTube, which have traditionally relied on branded content deals, survive in a programmatic world? Ad buyers are used to the efficiency and demographic targeting afforded by software-based buying, according to The Wall Street Journal. Many […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Automating Print Time Inc. is bringing more automation to its print sales. Its approach, developed in part by MediaMath, functions almost identically to Time’s digital ad sales process. Target is the first brand to trial the offering, Ad Age reports. “Our overall strategy is […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Content In The Age Of Efficiency Writing for AdWeek, IAB President Randall Rothenberg makes a case for “big content,” and reveals that creative will take center stage at the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting this week. Ad tech will help the industry through core impediments […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic TV, Pouring Concrete Speaking to Beet.TV, Adap.tv programmatic SVP Dan Ackerman said real-time targeting is not essential to making programmatic TV work. “If you can improve the accuracy of targeting and the accountability a year in advance, that’s a huge move. … Even […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Apple TV, The Next Generation Apple is in talks with TV programmers to debut an OTT pay-TV service, sources tell Re/code. The service would resemble Dish’s Sling TV product, or the similar service Sony is gearing up to launch. “The theory is that […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Heineken Grows Programmatic Spend Heineken’s programmatic ad spend will grow to 10% of its total digital ad budget through a partnership with TubeMogul, reports The Wall Street Journal. That’s a relatively modest share to spend on automation (remember AmEx and P&G’s 70 to 100%?), […]
Direct’s Not Fraud-Free White Ops President Eddie Schwartz says fraud concerns persist within automation of direct buys. While advertisers tend to trust that direct deals are less riddled by fraud, Schwartz says that’s not always the case. “We were surprised that programmatic-direct ad buys contained bot traffic, since direct buys should normally show low bot […]
The New York Times reported relatively modest fourth-quarter and full-year earnings on Tuesday, but chief Mark Thompson hailed it as “the most encouraging year-over-year trend” for total advertising revenue since 2005. To that end, he touted strong growth in digital advertising, sponsored content and subscription-based revenue. “We were particularly pleased with the strong growth in digital […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adblock Shakedown German startup Eyeo’s Adblock Plus is among the Internet’s most widely used free Internet ad blockers, but the company allows some companies to circumvent its filters – for a price. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Taboola have all signed confidential deals with Eyeo […]
