Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Amazon Buying The Pipes It’s not ad technology “pipes” but it’s something similar for books. Yesterday, the company announced the acquisition of a social network for book lovers and authors called Goodreads. paidContent’s Laura Hazard Owen writes, “Goodreads is (…) likely to be less […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Addressable Products During a media day presentation earlier this week at Walmart’s eCommerce outpost in California, Neil Ashe, president and CEO of Walmart Global eCommerce, told reporters, “We aim to connect every product in the world with every customer, and let them decide how […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The Value of Mobile Google, one of the biggest players in mobile ads, takes another shot at persuading marketers to invest in ads for smartphones and tablets with its new “Full Value of Mobile Initiative.” Approximately “three of ten mobile searches result in visiting […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Yahoo Loves Mobile Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer continues to acquire companies with a mobile M.O. Last week, it was mobile recommendation startup Jybe and this week it’s mobile news aggregator Summly started two years ago by 15 year-old Nick D’Aloisio. Read more in Business […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cookies, Who Needs ‘Em (Cont.) The Online Publishers Association (OPA) is the latest ad group to dismiss worries about the “Corleone kiss of death” Mozilla has seemingly planted on the third party cookie. It said in a statement, “In spite of the doom-saying, Mozilla’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Behind The Bot The focus on fraudulent impressions driven by the “Chameleon” botnet discovered by London-based ad measurement and viewability firm Spider.io this week continues to evolve. Dr. Douglas de Jager, CEO of spider.io, writing in Adweek, investigates some possible (inadvertent?) sources for the […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Two Speeds For Ad Spend Globally With job growth in the US, new fears in Europe, and uncertainty in China, guessing global ad trends one year out may seem a fool’s game. Carat takes a stab anyway, projecting 5% spending growth worldwide. Digital ads […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Botsploitation Adweek’s Mike Shields pens a feature on “ghost publishers” who create inventory through botnets, invisible impressions, and other non-human means. Using background sources, he fingers a group of the “most suspect” site networks. An irony: the problem may be driven by brand marketers. […]
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Falling Video CPMs In a WSJ story last week, reporter Suzanne Vranica revisited the case of the falling video CPMs using new data from video ad network and exchange owner Bright Roll. The data fingers the usual suspect (programmatic buying). But there’s a silver […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AdBlock Blocked Google has booted a number of programs including AdBlock Plus, AdBlocker, AdFree and more from the Google Play Store. “After a regular review we have determined that your app interferes with or accesses another service or product in an unauthorized manner,” says […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Custom Audiences Ad Boost More than twice as many advertisers have flocked to Facebook’s custom audiences feature since January, reports Bloomberg’s Brian Womack. Released nearly six months ago, custom audiences, which lets companies apply data they’ve collected from outside the social network to their […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. SlideShare Gets a Makeover After snapping up the content sharing platform SlideShare for $119 million last year, LinkedIn today unveiled its new SlideShare Content Ads. “Similar to display ads, Content Ads reach a targeted audience of professionals on LinkedIn. However, they differ in that […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Business Intel Adobe Omniture founder Josh James continues to build his BI/data visualization business, Domo, and Amazon has a seat at the table. According to TechCrunch, Domo has raised $60 million in new financing from several firms including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ personal investment […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Mobile Vs. Desktop Pandora reported better than expected (but still a loss) fiscal fourth quarter earnings late Thursday as the company continues to concentrate on a mobile future. See the release (PDF). The Wall Street Journal digs into the details, “Mobile ads still aren’t […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic India IPG Mediabrand’s global CEO Matt Seiler talks to DNA’s Priyanka Sahay about his company’s plans for newly acquired India agency Interactive Avenues. Among the plans are to launch the Cadreon audience buying unit in India. “The next step up is securing campaigns, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Cox Chooses Collective As Cox Digital Solutions prepares to shut down its in-house ad serving system, which evolved from its $300 million acquisition of white label ad network Adify four years ago, what’s it planning to replace it with? The answer is Collective, which […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. The New Normal For Agencies As companies founded on a traditional ad network model fail faster (see AdBrite and Adify), one obvious factor is the dwindling of agency demand as budgets shift to programmatic. What does this look like from the inside? The Media […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Native Ad Clutter Riffing on a piece by NY Times writer Nick Bilton about declining engagement rates among his Facebook subscribers, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine wonders at the “skittish gift horse” that is the newsfeed. “The volume of advertising in the feed has increased dramatically […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Optimizing The Content Algo In The NY Times, David Carr recounts how movie streaming/DVD service Netflix used insights on its own “big data” to create a successful new television (wait, streaming) series called “House of Cards” with director David Fincher and actor Kevin Spacey. […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL’s Latest Shuffle AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has often talked about the company’s one constant: change and more of the same. Whether it’s rebranding business divisions or moving executives from one department to another, nothing at AOL stays the same for long. Artie Minson, […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. AOL’s Ad.com Gets ‘Friended’ As AOL Networks head Ned Brody plans to refine the company’s supply side offerings, its demand side, third party ad network is likely to see a boost now that it has access to inventory from the Facebook Exchange. As Brody […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Google’s Addressable Email On the Google Developer blog, the company announced it’s setting up Google+ single sign-on for apps, which dovetails with unifying its privacy policy across Google products and services. From the blog, “If you sign in to Gmail, YouTube or any other […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Changing The Ecosystem Map The Interactive Advertising Bureau has unveiled its answer to the famous (some say notorious) LUMA Partners’ ecosystem map. In the IAB’s version, the brand is at the center. See it now! Why? IAB CEO Randall Rothenberg said at his association’s […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Addressing Loyalty Facebook’s Custom Audiences product is being adopted by Epsilon and Acxiom in addition to the previously announced Datalogix says Ad Age’s Cotton Delo. Read more. How it works: consumers become addressable via ads on Facebook by matching a Facebook login email to […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Automating Twitter Twitter’s new API program opens a new front in the ”fight between humans and algorithms,” Mathew Ingram writes in a long riff on PaidContent. “In a nutshell, the API is a way for companies to automate more of their ad spending. At […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Chasing The Revenue Millennial Media’s Q4 revenue leaped an initially impressive 68%, but compared to previous quarter’s 88% surge, investors and observers are feeling a little disappointed at the growth prospects for the mobile ad network now that it appears to be facing stronger […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Adding UberTags Digital marketing hub [x+1] has acquired tag manager UberTags as it looks to expand its data management platform capabilities. David Skinner, SVP of business and corporate development at [x+1], said UberTags represents a natural extension for [x+1]’s business: “The company’s technology was […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Your China Plan Is? Mobile ad platform Flurry offers new data courtesy of its network that says China is the new king of smartphone and tablet devices. Seems like that means mobile ad inventory, too. Flurry’s Peter Farago reports, “China and the U.S. had […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign-up here. Pirate Attack We’ve been covering the infiltration of “pirates” and other bad actors using ad networks and open source ad serving to send malware to users, and the Annenberg Innovation Lab Transparency Report (which is a repurposing of Google’s Transparency Report – eMarketer eat […]
